Nineteen times taller than Niagara Falls, Angel Falls in Venezuela tumbles over the table top mountain of Auyantepui, falling into a swirl of mist and water 3,212 feet below. The falls wasn't known to the wider world until American aviator Jimmie Angel flew over it in 1933 while looking for gold ore for a mining company. While trying to land atop the falls in 1937 his plane crashed, no one was hurt, and the wreckage remained there until 1970. It was reassembled and now is on display at the Cuidad Bolivar Airport.
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