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Travel > Kansas Destinations Top five tourist attractions in the USA: 6 of 67

After a recent reading of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" I began thinking of the greatest American feats of engineering and architecture and their place on the list of great tourist attractions. I will present to you a list of tourist attractions made, not by nature, but by the people of Howard Roark's ilk who need to tear down, bull-doze, cut and clear then rebuild not only monuments representing the ambition of the human spirit, but also as an homage to the surrounding natural beauty. 1. The Hoover Dam. This work of pure, driven human ingenuity may have been surpassed in size and scope si...
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