Places
Mann's Chinese Theater is Hollywood's most celebrated
and visited landmark, and was declared a historic-cultural monument
by the city of Los Angeles in 1968. Prestigious for actors and film
industry members to be chosen to immortalize their hand and
footprints in cement in front of the palacial theater; thousands of
tourists visit the site annually
Britain's Buckingham Palace consists of 600 rooms.
Visible for miles, the original Hollywood sign read "Hollywoodland"
and was lit up by 4,000 lights. A 400-foot-high (120 m) replacement
was erected in 1978, Hollywood's 75th anniversary
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top
of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
It takes an average person 15 to 20 minutes to walk once around the Pentagon
The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete
in it
will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
The huge marble dome on top of the State Capitol of Rhode
Island
was the first of its kind in the United States
The Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, has nearly
68,000 miles of telephone lines.
Most roofs in the Washington, D.C. area are designed to
withstand at least 15 to 20 pounds of snow per square foot.
It took 214 crates to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to New York in 1885.
More than 5,600 men died while building the Panama Canal. Today, it takes more than 8,000 workers to run and maintain the canal. It takes a ship an average of 33 hours to travel the length of the canal
New York City has the most skyscrapers of any city in the
world with 140. Chicago is a distant second at 68. The term "skyscraper"
technically describes all habitable buildings with a height of more than 500
feet (152 m).
The height of the 984-foot-tall Eiffel Tower varies,
depending on the temperature, by as much as 6 inches
The only McDonald''s restaurant in the world built on a
horse-racing course is in Hong Kong
On a clear day, you can see five states from atop the Empire
State Building in New York City: New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
The only roller skating museum in the world is in Lincoln, Nebraska
Originally a palace, the Louvre was made into a museum after the French Revolution.
