Places & Landmarks

The Colosseum is a first-century Roman amphitheatre built by the Flavian emperors for public spectacles in the center of Rome.

An iron landmark in Paris built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle.

The Grand Canyon is a vast river-carved landscape in Arizona that exposes an unusually long and visible record of Earth's geologic history.

The world’s largest coral reef system, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

The Great Wall of China is an extensive network of fortifications built across northern China during many dynasties and historical periods.

Machu Picchu is a fifteenth-century Inca settlement set high in Peru's Andes within a protected mountain and tropical-forest landscape.

Mount Everest is the Himalayan peak with the highest elevation above sea level, standing on the border between Nepal and China's Tibet region.

The Statue of Liberty is a copper monument on Liberty Island, presented by France and dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886.

The Taj Mahal is a seventeenth-century white-marble mausoleum complex in Agra, India, commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.