If you watch many disaster movies, you’ll have noticed that big buildings and famous landmarks are often the first thing to go when the meteorite/earthquake/tidal wave/dinosaur/mutant/giant monkey/aliens hit. Aside from always targeting certain cities rather than others, some monuments just cannot catch a break. There’s the Eiffel Tower, for instance, which gets it in Armageddon and Team America (and many others), and the White House in Independence Day, not to mention all of L.A. and the Himalayas in the upcoming 2012. Slate’s listicle of 13 Movies That Destroyed National Landmarks goes even further back, and we especially enjoy the flying saucer castrating the Washington Monument at the 2:00 mark in this trailer for Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers (1956):