Architecture

About 3.5 to 4 million tourists visit the Statue of Liberty annually.

The bridge is frequently partially covered by fog, called Karl the Fog.

On July 7, 2007, the Great Wall of China was declared one of the world's seven new wonders.

Under the arch is the Unknown Soldier's tomb, where the symbolic flame of remembrance is lit every evening.

Between 1638 and 1643, a palace was built as the residence of Eleonora Gonzaga.

The bridge's two lifting bascules are huge. Each weighs 1,000 tons.

Between the columns of the building’s front façade are gilded galvanoplastic bronze busts.

Most coronations of French kings were held in Reims. Only two - Henry VI and Napoleon Bonaparte - were crowned at Notre-Dame de Paris.

The ruins of Petra are the backdrop in Agatha Christie's crime story "Appointment with Death."

It could host up to 50,000 people, although, according to the Chronograph of 354—the first illustrated codex, created by Roman scribe and stone engraver Furius Dionysius Filocalus in 354 AD—it could actually host up to 87,000 viewers.