Famous Landmarks - Facts for Kids

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Each giant letter of the Hollywood Sign weighs so much — around 20,000 pounds (9 ton) — that you’d need two or three elephants standing on it to match the weight!

Mount Fuji sometimes wears a “hat” of clouds called a lenticular (lens-shaped) cloud, which looks like a UFO hovering over the peak (top)!

The clock faces of Big Ben are so big that each one is 23 feet (7 meters) across — wider than most kids’ bedrooms!

Some of Mount Fuji’s caves have underground lakes that never freeze — nature’s own refrigerator (cold box)!

St. Basil’s Cathedral isn’t just one church — it actually has eight smaller churches built around a central church, making it nine churches in one!