The 1,000 Islands

We passed this on the way to New York State (it's just over the border in Canada) and I made Thomas promise that we'd go up it on the way back (he was tired and peevish at the time):



And so we did. We didn't climb the stairs (you're not allowed) but instead took an express elevator all 400 feet up. The view is of the "1,000 Islands" of the St. Lawrence River. I doubted that there were truly a thousand, but there are in fact even more, many of them privately owned. Now we know where the supervillains hang out.

Strange fauna can be viewed at this altitude:

It's a long way down to the car:

I'm pretty sure that's the border you can see below.  (Incidentally, apart from the first picture of the tower, all the pictures are acting weird - just click on them to get a sideshow so that you can actually see the whole picture. [EDIT: fixed now])