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One of the most technically astounding live shows in the world, Cirque du Soleil's 'KA' opened in 2005 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. The main stage is the star acrobat of the show - it can raise 70 feet, tilt from horizontal to vertical and spin a full 360-degrees thanks to its muscle - an 80-foot gantry crane. All of the performers' movements are choreographed to be perfectly in-sync with the movement of the stage.

Fifty thousand people from all over North America descend on the iconic Las Vegas Motor Speedway to watch one of the most thrilling car races of the year - the IndyCar World Championships - which in 2012 tragically ended in a fatal crash.

Best known for its trademark brown trucks, vans and scooters, UPS delivers almost sixteen million packages in 220 countries around the globe every day.

The Channel Tunnel is one of the seven wonders of the modern world. Completed in 1994, it cost 21 billion dollars. The result was a fixed rail link running 100 meters below the English Channel.

Equivalent in size to the kingdom of Monaco, nearly half of the blooms that make up the 40-billion-dollar-a-year flower industry will be bought and sold at the "Aalsmeer Flower Auction" in The Netherlands.

With over 32 square kilometres of mountainous terrain, "Whistler Blackcomb" gets an average of 1,092cm of snowfall each season, the fresh powder is what joy riders are after... but this much snow can also be dangerous.