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videos for this list we're looking at the most incredible man-made structures on earth
let us know in the comments which you think is the most amazing
the channel tunnel britain and france between england and france you'll find 30 miles of
extensive train tracks hundreds of feet below sea level the channel tunnel connects the uk to the
european continent and provides a quicker route across the english channel than taking a ferry
you can still take a ferry from dover to calais and back of course but the train means that the
high-speed eurostar is able to get from london to paris in two hours and 16 minutes it cost billions
going hugely over budget but projects like this frequently do cost more than estimated after years
of designing plans construction began in 1988 taking six years to complete and it still has
the world's longest underwater tunnel segment the golden gate bridge usa it's up there with empire
state building as one of america's most iconic and well-recognized landmark its architect was irving
morrow who was himself from the san francisco bay area and designed a few other california landmarks
it's over 700 feet high and 1.7 miles long and has stood tall for almost a century though over
the years it's had to be modified to withstand higher wind speeds and intense earthquakes and
yes it's definitely america's most famous bridge sorry pittsburgh malau viaduct france located in
the gorge valley in southern france the malau viaduct is the world's tallest bridge standing
over 1100 feet tall at its highest point from the ground that's extremely impressive but it's also
very long too more than 8 000 feet or 1.5 miles a viaduct designed for cars it's france's most
impressive architectural feat which is saying a lot when this is the same country that built both
the statue of liberty and the eiffel tower after years of competitions and debates over what form
the bridge should take construction ultimately began in the 2000s it's a visually striking design
that had to undergo many alterations to account for wind and now we have an engineering triumph
hoover dam usa straddling the colorado river is the hoover dam built on the authority of president
herbert hoover in 1931. it had a joint purpose not only of providing large amounts of power and
drinking water to the desert but also providing thousands of laborers with jobs at the height
of the great depression many of the construction projects were greenlit for this reason today lake
mead to the dams north remains america's largest reservoir and the hoover dam is one of the only
positive things president hoover has to his name it produces 3.3 terawatt hours of energy each year
and was able to kickstart las vegas growth into the popular tourist destination it is today and
in 2010 a massive bypass bridge was built across the canyon an engineering marvel in and of itself
great wall of china the absolutely huge great wall of china was built over the course of thousands of
years with various leaders of china building massive fortifications in various centuries
the most famous segment of the wall that you see in most pictures is the ming great wall
built by the ming dynasty in the 14th century and there were still hundreds of years left of
constructing various structures today the great wall of china stretches across the country's north
largely designed to protect the nation from the mongols because of all the different
sections nobody is sure exactly how long it is but it's definitely thousands of miles
it's visible from space and is widely agreed to be one of the wonders of the modern world
the trans-siberian railway russia by some margin russia is the world's largest country in terms
of its landmass covering over 10 million square miles russia's vast size makes it a difficult
country to manage with the far eastern cities like vladivostok and the western financial
centers moscow and saint petersburg separated not only by the euro mountains but by siberia
a huge ice-covered tundra in 1891 construction of the trans-siberian railway began an operation
that took a quarter of a century to complete even today it still takes an entire week to
traverse russia on the train from vladivostok to moscow making it the world's longest train journey
and it's always being extended the line might even be extended to japan new york subway system
usa the us's most popular city new york has one of the biggest busiest and most extensive subway
systems anywhere in the world any underground subway is impressive but new york's is possibly
the most amazing because it has to connect four of the city's major boroughs manhattan the bronx
brooklyn and queens crossing the hudson river and the east river numerous times construction began
in 1900 and it was grueling running into frequent problems and difficult building conditions
expansion began right away after opening the first line in 1904 and today there are 36 lines in over
400 stations the subway lines have also always been electrified in stark contrast to the world's
oldest system the london underground which was using steam-powered trains when it first opened
kansai international airport japan the solution to the major cities of osaka and kobe running
out of real estate was to build the much needed larger airport out in the bay osaka just couldn't
cope with the huge numbers of people coming into the city so in 1987 construction began
on the vast artificial island that would become kansai international airport upon its completion
in the 90s it took hundreds of millions of cubic yards of rock to build it not only did it have to
withstand the motion of the sea the wind and the threat of tropical storms but japan is
also situated on a fault line making it prone to earthquakes however the engineering was successful
enough that it's still standing today it was the first of many sea-dwelling artificial airports
palm jumeirah dubai more artificial islands next but these ones weren't designed to house
a huge international airport palm jumeirah is a luxury tourist destination up there with many
of dubai's famous locations including the world's tallest building the burj khalifa
laid out to look like a palm tree the palm islands archipelago isn't just home to exclusive resorts
thousands actually lived there on the man-made arms of the palm frond made of tens of millions
of cubic feet of sand and rock it's being eroded was built with awful labor practices
and has caused a lot of damage to local wildlife habitats but the palm islands are a symbol of
what humans are capable of with enough drive knowledge and money to find something so lavish
pyramid of giza egypt built around 5000 years ago the pyramids were up until recent history the
tallest man-made structures anywhere in the world the largest is the great pyramid or pyramid of
cafe a huge tomb but also in the complex are many smaller pyramids and the equally impressive great
sphinx archaeologists now know that the pyramids were built with a ramp and pulley system as
evidence of the ancient ramps has been found in nearby quarries just outside of the egyptian
capital cairo is where you'll find the complex and under construction since 2012 is the ambitious
grand egyptian museum also in the giza plateau which will teach people about egypt's history the
panama canal the first routes between the atlantic and pacific oceans were treacherous because the
americas are so large and continuous sailors had to either go around cape horn at the bottom
through the drake passage or through the even more treacherous northwest passage in the arctic circle
in the early 20th century the us wanted to circumvent this problem by excavating the
panama canal as panama has the thinnest stretch of land between the oceans twenty thousand people
died during the ruthless construction of the canal something that shouldn't be overlooked but
the operation was ultimately successful the panama canal is today one of the most important nautical
routes in the world connecting the east and the west the international space station of all the
buildings bridges roads and monuments on earth perhaps nothing is as impressive as the biggest
structure we've yet built in outer space the iss wasn't the first space station that honor goes
to cellular one but it is the largest and most expensive what's also impressive about the iss
is that it's always been a joint operation between many of the world's leading space agencies making
it a wholly cooperative endeavor that's why any astronauts heading to the iss need to be fluent
in both english and russian to speak with mission control in the us and moscow located in low earth
orbit it's been in use since 2000 after being constructed through many modules and outer space
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