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Can you imagine what it’s like to stand on the top of the tallest building in the world? To ride a rocket plane? Or to witness the biggest waves on the planet? From the highest mountains to the deepest canyons, from the most powerful engines to the fastest trains, this is your ultimate guide to : tallest buildings, terrifying storms; giant waves; exploding volcanoes; coolest creatures; tiniest machines; extraordinary feats; biggest earthquakes; incredible architecture; levitating trains; fabulous caves; hottest deserts; creepiest mummies... and much more! Each amazing entry includes an “awesome rating” and all the incredible details you need to picture being there yourself.Contents
Contents : introduction; awesome natural wonders : Mount Everest; Kilauea; Grand Canyon; Pulpit Rock; Cliffs of Kalaupapa; Mount Thor; Mariana Trench; Hydrothermal vents; Ox Bel Ha Cave; He Long Bay; Great Barrier Reef; Great Blue Hole; Lake Baikal; Antarctic Ice Sheet; Uyuni Salt Flat; Dead Sea; Amazon River; Okavango Delta; Angel Falls; Igacu Falls; Atacama Desert; Damib Desert; Cave of Crystals; Sarawak Chamber; Mammoth Cave; Glowworm Cave; Lava; pyroclastic flow; Yellowstone; Old Faithful; Amazon Rainforest; Sundarbans; Monarch Migrations; Emperor Penguin March; Masai Mara; Locust storms; blue whale; california redwood; tornado; hurrican; earthquake; tsunami; lightning; ball lighting; Aurora Borealis; mirage; solar eclipse; supernova; neutron star; black hole; Saturn’s rings; Jupiter’s great red spot; AWESOME HUMAN CREATIONS : Great Pyramid of Giza; Chichen Itza; Easter Island; Nazca Lines; Golden Rock Pagoda; Cappadocia Cave Houses; Colosseum; Taj Mahal; Ancient Alexandria; Mahabalipuram; Terracotta Army; Pompeii; Paris Catacombs; Ushiku Buddha; Mount Rushmore; Great Wall of China; Palm Islands; Burj Khalifa; Bingham Canyon Mine; Lake Pontchartrain Causeway; Millau Viaduct; Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge; Three Gorges Dam; Troll a Gas Platform; Cape Hatteras Lighthouse; Taisun Crane; Bagger 293; Kingda Ka Roller Coaster; Spirit of Australia; Knock News; Oasis Class Cruiser; Blackbird; Antonov AN-225; Lynx; ThrustSSC; Airbus A380; Rocket plane; Voyager 1; Hubble Space Telescope; Helios Spacecraft; International Space Station; Shanghai Maglev; Trans-Siberian Railway; Large Hadron Collider; Mauna Kea Observatory; ASIMO; nanomachines; acknowledgements;
