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Mount Rushmore is among the most photographed monuments in the United States: four presidential faces, each roughly 60 feet tall, carved into granite in the Black Hills of South…
Petra, in southern Jordan, is not an obscure site. It was the capital of the Nabataeans, a trading people who carved and built a city into rose-coloured sandstone at a…
The Colosseum is the most recognizable building surviving from the ancient world, and one specific claim about it has proved unusually durable: that the Romans filled it with water and…
The great railway stations were built to impress, at a moment when rail travel was new and cities were competing to announce their arrival. Most airports have never attempted anything…
The Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, and it has become the world's most recognizable monument to grief.…
Bridges are the most public form of engineering there is: you can see the whole argument at once, and you find out immediately whether it worked. These fourteen are worth…