In the Queen Anne Victorian style, it took the form of a wooden turret with an octagonal base with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak, usually topped with a finial.

To my right were glaciers upon glaciers, and multiplied peaks, topped with light clouds of smoke.

They had climbed high above the shoulders of the valley and were perched on the flank of a rocky tor, its peak topped by twin pinnacles.

A 300-Acre Swath We chose to tour Casey Farm, built about 70 years after Smith's Castle, solely because of its good looks: the house is simply a large white clapboard box crowned by a seal-gray wood-shingled hip roof, the sides of which meet at a central peak topped by a chimney.

"Bull in a china shop," he says, sitting in his office at 536 Broadway behind a shoulder-high accumulation of papers, its peak topped by the identification card mandatory for accessing the downtown ghost town he calls home.

On either side of the bay are volcanic peaks topped with tropical foliage.

Soon we were crossing a jumble of sharp peaks, topped with snow.

A funicular at Ploutarchou and Aristippou Streets in Kolonaki runs to the observation deck on Athens's highest peak, Mount Lycabettus, topped by Agios Giorgios chapel.

Times Square got another landmark last week with the designation of the Paramount Building, whose stepped pyramidal peak, topped by a giant clock and globe, has defined that part of Broadway for 60 years.