Historic Railroad Trail This easy 4.1-mile gravel path near Boulder City features five massive tunnels carved for Hoover Dam’s construction in 1931. Along this preserved railway route ...

Hoover Dam Powerplant: Located 530 feet below Black Canyon's surface, this power plant is where you'll find the dam's 17 generators, plus a tunnel drilled in the 1930s and a platform that sits on ...

like Three Gorges or the Hoover Dam. Instead, four 12.4-mile (20-kilometer) tunnels will be blasted and excavated through a mountain called Namcha Barwa to divert the river. The water flowing through ...

6.This is what a typical day of air travel over Europe looks like: 7.This is what a "9 out of 10 difficulty level" puzzle looks like: 8.This is what a Hoover Dam spillway tunnel looks like.

Discover the hidden natural wonders of Nevada beyond Las Vegas. Explore the majestic Sierra Nevada mountains and vast deserts ...

Since 1925, people have turned to Caterpillar equipment to shape our world—moving earth, digging tunnels, building roads and creating ... equipment for iconic hydropower projects—from the Hoover Dam ...

The Great Depression doesn’t need too much of an introduction since we all learned about it extensively during history class ...

Even if I never make it back to the islands, I will forever have the memories of being a tanly-challenged kid from Boulder City who got to live the tropical dream. A dream that now in my mind does not ...

The Hoover Dam straddles Arizona and Nevada and is an impressive manmade ... marine species by employing qualified wildlife biologists. The aquarium’s Shark Tunnel is a fun way to experience this ...

The excursion is along the Colorado River's Black Canyon National Water Trail— crossing the widest single-arch concrete ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam is one of the world's largest ... through six 12-mile-long tunnels drilled into the solid rock of the Himalayan mountain range. An intervention of this magnitude ...