We love watching cities being crushed, blown up and swept away — it happens in a lot of this summer's biggest movies. There's just something so viscerally thriling about structures coming down in flames. Here's some of our favorite concept art of cites getting totally smashed.

We've looked at the best on-screen and comic book destructions of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, and the Eiffel Tower. But some creators have set their destructive sights on something at once more remote and more universal: Earth's moon. So out of all the punches, explosions, and starship fire, who…

The Statue of Liberty stands for American hopes and dreams, an emblem of both New York City and the American gateway. That's precisely why so many film directors and video game creators love to smash Lady Liberty to bits. But who do you think did the best job of damaging or destroying the Statue of Liberty?

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge has suffered all manner of damage and destruction in television and on film. But out of all the earthquakes, sea monsters, and alien attacks, who caused the bridge its most impressive destruction?

It's official: The Large Hadron Collider helped to find a new particle, and it didn't turn the world inside out. Everybody relax! But history is full of strange experiments that people predicted might bring about the end of the human race... and in some cases, they might actually have had a point.

Some say the universe will end with a new Big Bang. Others say the cosmos will eventually succumb to entropy. But what if neither of those things happens? A recent theory says the universe will just tear itself apart.

This is the most fiery moment the Kirishima volcano group has experienced since 1959 — the eruption, starting yesterday, sent a plume of ash 1,500 feet into the air. More insane volcano footage below.

Lightning strikes near the tip of Anak Krakatoa, the "child" of the legendary volcano Krakatoa, whose eruption in 1883 killed an estimated 36,000 people. The volcano reawakened in 2007, then quieted down again... but now its fiery depths stir again.

Imagine spending months locked in this Latvian bomb shelter. The banner reads "Without Communciations, There Is No Authority. Without Authority, There Is No Victory!" The shelter, now a museum, has a nuclear-blast-absorbing wall and a huge facility for filtering radiation.

Nuclear weapons are, to date, humanity's most Earth-shattering weapon. They have more than enough destructive power to wipe out the human race for good. But could we actually use them to destroy the Earth itself?