The Golden Gate Bridge is a 1.7 mile long suspension bridge in San Francisco, California that spans the Golden Gate Strait, the mile-wide channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The bridge’s signature color, known as “international orange”, was selected to complement its natural surroundings and enhance its visibility in fog.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport covers 4,700 acres (1,902 hectares) of land approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of central Atlanta, Georgia. It has 209 domestic and international gates and five parallel runways, which handle upwards of 900,000 flights per year. Hartsfield-Jackson has been the world’s busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998 — it serviced 103 million travelers in 2017.

Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, USA is the busiest airport in the world by total passengers and number of flights. In 2015, ATL accommodated more than 101 million passengers and 882,000 flights. Dozens of planes departing and arriving at concourses A-D are seen in this Overview.

A highway interchange connects Interstate 310 and U.S Route 61 outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Because the roadways in this area were built on top of environmentally sensitive wetlands, construction platforms were mounted on top of concrete piles to minimize disruption with the terrain below.

Hong Kong International Airport is located on Chek Lap Kok, an island in Hong Kong’s western waters. It is the world’s busiest cargo gateway and also one of the busiest passenger airports on Earth, handling upwards of 65 million passengers a year. Terminal 1, seen here, measures 570,000 square meters (6.1 million square feet), making it the third largest passenger terminal in the world.

Hundreds of abandoned cars that were damaged by Hurricane Harvey are seen at the Royal Purple Raceway in Houston, Texas, USA. It is estimated that 30,000 now fill the lot and more than a half a million cars were damaged by the storm’s floodwaters. The cars will remain here until insurance adjusters assess the damage and process claims for each vehicle.

Cars are parked next to the Hyundai production facility in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The plant has a capacity of 300,000 automobiles and also contains the production facility for their engines. In 2015, 17.5 million cars and light trucks were sold in the United States, raising the total number of registered vehicles in the country to roughly 253 million.

Incheon Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that stretches 21.4 kilometers (13.3 miles) from Yeongjong Island to the mainland of Incheon in South Korea. The structure’s central tower (what makes the bridge “cable-stayed”) was the most challenging part to construct with a height of 230.5 meters (756.2 ft) and a vertical clearance of 74 meters (243 ft). The entire project cost more than two billion dollars (three billion Korean won) to complete.

Incheon International Airport is located thirty miles west of Seoul, South Korea. The airport is one of the busiest in the world (23rd by annual passenger traffic at 47+ million) and also one of the most efficient. Airport authorities claim that the average departure and arrival at Incheon take only 19 minutes and 12 minutes, respectively. These times are significantly lower than the international average of 60 minutes for departures and 45 minutes for arrivals.

Freight train cars, casting long shadows, are seen in at Inman Yard in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The facility is operated by Norfolk Southern and serves as one of the major freight hubs on its network that extends for more than 36,000 miles in the United States.

An interchange is constructed around the Pagano Freeway in Avondale, Arizona, USA. On average, an American motorist will pay approximately $171/year in road maintenance taxes.

The Istanbul Shipyard offers facilities to build or repair fourteen large sea-faring vessels simultaneously. The complex contains cranes that have a lifting capacity of 550 tons as well as the largest drydock in Turkey - stretching more than one thousand feet (310 meters).

A turbine interchange connects the SR 9A and SR 202 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Also known as a whirlpool interchange, this structure consists of left-turning ramps sweeping around a center interchange, thereby creating a spiral pattern of right-hand traffic. This type of junction is rarely built, due to the vast amount land that is required to construct the sweeping roads.

The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange is a 130-foot-tall (40 m) stack interchange near the Athens and Watts communities of Los Angeles, California. It is formed by the intersection of Interstate 105 (Glenn M. Anderson Freeway) and Interstate 110 (Harbor Freeway). For a full weekend in 2015, one of the interchange ramps was closed for filming the opening musical number of “La La Land.”

The Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge is a steel and concrete structure that crosses Lake Paranoá in Brasília, Brazil. The main span has four supporting pillars submerged underwater, while the deck weight is supported by three 200-foot-tall (61 m) asymmetrical steel arches that crisscross diagonally over the bridge.

Kansai International Airport is located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, Japan. To create the island, a 30 meter (98-foot) layer of earth was created on top of the seafloor with 21 million cubic meters of landfill. The material was excavated from three separate mountains. As of 2008, the total cost of Kansai Airport was $20 billion USD, including land reclamation that has been necessary to prevent its continued sinkage (7.1 centimeters per year as of 2008) into the bay.

A bridge crosses the Kensico Reservoir in the town of Valhalla, New York. Located about 15 miles (24 km) north of New York City, the reservoir stores waters received from the Catskill Mountains and provides a site for fishing and boating recreation. With an average depth of nearly 44 feet (13.5 m) and a maximum depth of 120 feet (37 m), it can hold 30 billion gallons (113 billion liters) of water.

Large piles of coal await shipment on Kooragang Island, part of the Port of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1984 with a capacity of 15 million tonnes per annum, the island now has a capacity of at least 120 million tonnes per annum. In July 2013, a record 10.3 million tonnes of coal was processed through the Port of Newcastle, with 83 of 114 ships loaded at the Kooragang Island terminal.

L.F. Wade International Airport is the only airport in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. Due to the island's substantial distance from the nearest land mass, the airport only handles jets and long-range turboprops. The facility accommodates roughly one million passengers every year.

On Thursday, cyclists racing in the Tour de France completed Stage 12 of the race, passing through the 18 hairpin turns of the Lacets de Montvernier in Montvernier, France. This spectacular climb is 2.1 miles long (3.4 km) and contains a switchback turn every 450 feet (150 m). Welsh cyclist Geraint Thomas, racing for Team Sky, won this stage in just under five hours and 20 minutes.

The Lake Hood Seaplane Base, captured here during the frozen-over winter, is located in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Handling an average of 190 flights per day, the facility is the world's busiest airport for seaplanes.

Train cars filled with coal are stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. Operated by the Norfolk Southern corporation, Lamberts Point Pier 6 is the largest coal-loading station in the Northern Hemisphere and serves at the temporary depot for the company’s fleet of 23,000 coal cars.

Train cars filled with coal are stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. Operated by the Norfolk Southern corporation, Lamberts Point Pier 6 is the largest coal-loading station in the Northern Hemisphere and serves at the temporary depot for the company’s fleet of 23,000 coal cars.

Today marks the 46th anniversary of the moon landing by NASA's Apollo 11. A Saturn V rocket launched the mission from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, USA on July 16th, 1969. That specific site is scene here. After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19. The next day, at 10:56 p.m., Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the Lunar Module onto the moon’s surface and famously remarked “that’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Cars wind down the hill of Lombard Street, which runs from east to west in San Francisco, California. With eight hairpin turns dispersed over a one-block section in the Russian Hill neighborhood, Lombard is often referred to as “the most crooked street in the world.”

This morning I’m flying to Los Angeles for a couple of days through the city’s international airport, commonly referred to as LAX. Last year, the facility handled nearly 75 million passengers, making it the seventh busiest in the world.

The Tom Bradley International Terminal, sometimes called "Terminal B," is one of nine passenger terminals at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California. This terminal handles nearly all of LAX's international flights and can accommodate the Airbus A380 — the world's largest passenger airliner. In fact, LAX has more A380 services than any other North American city, with as many as 13 daily flights.

Los Caracoles Pass, or The Snails Pass, is a twisting mountain road located in a remote section of the Andes Mountains on the Chilean side of the border with Argentina. The path climbs to an elevation of 10,419 feet, has no roadside safety barriers, and is frequented by large trucks.

The Atocha Railway Station is the largest train station in Madrid, Spain. The facility serves as a hub for commuter trains, intercity and regional trains from the south, and AVE high-speed trains. In 1992, the station’s original terminal building was converted into a concourse with shops, a nightclub, and a 43,055 square foot tropical botanical garden.

Vehicles await auction on a large lot in Manheim, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1945, this facility is the world’s largest wholesale auto auction, handling around 8 million vehicles per year at more than 100 locations worldwide. The lot seen in this Overview is approximately 500 acres (200 hectares) in size.