Landmarks
Landmarks include spectacular monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, Mount Rushmore, the Panama Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge. They can also include awe-inspiring natural structures including Mount Everest, the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls.
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A gold prospector dubbed the peak Mount McKinley in 1896, but Alaskans have historically championed Denali, a name rooted in its Native American history.
After her husband was incapacitated in an accident, Emily Warren Roebling took over supervising the complex construction of the landmark.
These remarkable feats of design and construction transformed the ways people travel, communicate and live.
A little-known chamber concealed behind the head of Abraham Lincoln was intended to contain a shrine to America.
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The Mariana Trench remained undiscovered until a crew from the HMS Challenger unsuspectingly lowered a weighted rope into its immense depths.
In 1852 the British-sponsored Great Trigonometrical Survey, which had been mapping the Indian subcontinent since the early 1800s, identified the highest mountain in the world straddling Nepal and Tibet in the Himalayas. The British initially referred to the 29,035-foot-tall pinnacle as Peak XV until Andrew Waugh, the surveyor general of India, proposed that it be […]
From boots to sleeping bags, see how equipment that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay used in the first ascent of Mount Everest compares to what climbers use today.
Explore some surprising facts about the highest mountain in the world.
This New Jersey landmark was built before the nation was founded.
The exact location of the ancient, gnarled bristlecone pine is kept secret for its protection.
The Pantheon’s famous oculus might have functioned as a giant solar calendar.
More people flock to the Great Smoky Mountains than any other national park.
Route 66 attractions, like the Kan-O-Tex Service Station and the first McDonald’s site, preserve the famous highway’s past.
The Washington, D.C., performing arts center has been one of the United States’ preeminent cultural institutions since the 1970s.
The dramatic interlocking stone walls at Machu Picchu have proven to be highly earthquake-resistant.
From details about its construction to a 1945 crash, get lesser-known facts about one of the world's most iconic skyscrapers.
Workers completed the 102-story, Art Deco-style landmark in an astonishing one year and 45 days.
Building the World’s Tallest Building Retailer Frank W. Woolworth commissioned his namesake building in 1910, a year after the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company moved into their 700-foot tower on Madison Square, just a block away from the triangle-sha...
The monument's colorful history includes a fraudulent bond election, a mistaken design competition winner—and a civil rights protest in the sky.
See the drastically different ideas that were considered for the St. Louis monument.
