Humans have made tall buildings, huge dams, and bridges extending between continents and countries, but what if one of those huge man-made structures collapsed, what would happen if the Burj Khalifa collapsed, for example, or the three gorges dam in China, and is such disasters possible in our modern age? .
On January 4, 2010, Dubai's Burj Khalifa became the tallest skyscraper in the world. Rising to a dizzying height of 2,716.5 feet from the desert floor, the building outgrew the previous record-holder, Taipei 101 in Taiwan, by over 1,000 feet. It boasts over 160 floors — another world record — as well as five other records, including the world's tallest free-standing structure, the world's highest occupied floor, and the world's longest elevator ride.

But like China's Three Gorges Dam and other impressive feats of gargantuan engineering, there is always the possibility that human error or ignorance will bring the overgrown hunk of metal crumbling to the ground.

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