The Kremlin is leveled in “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.” Credit: paramount pictures

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"They like to get the landmarks," scientist David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) says as the aliens begin another onslaught of Earth in "Independence Day: Resurgence."

He should know: He was one of the guys who figured out how to stop the interstellar nasties 20 years ago in Roland Emmerich's original "Independence Day."

In the sequel, opening Friday, they're back with a vengeance, as a second wave returns to finish the job the first one set out to do in 1996.

What landmarks will they lay waste to this time? Posters for the new movie show the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Big Ben, among others, getting blasted. (If it makes you feel any better, all three of the above have been obliterated on the big screen before — and, when last seen, are still open for business.)

Like the "Independence Day" aliens, the movies have always liked to get the landmarks. Here's a look at some of the screen's favorite monumental targets. (Note: Spoilers abound.)

The White House

"Independence Day" (1996): The meaning behind the aliens' mysterious arrival over many of Earth's biggest cities was revealed when their spaceships beamed a destructive ray into the White House, obliterating it. (When the trailers showed in theaters 20 years ago, some people cheered the scene.)

"White House Down" and "Olympus Has Fallen" (2013): In dueling action movies, gunmen — revenge- and war-seeking Americans in "Down," North Korean terrorists in "Fallen" — attack the White House, with bombs bursting in air and other locations at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

"2012" (2009): Among the end of the world's many casualties — as depicted in Roland Emmerich's Götterdämmerung-fest — is the presidential residence, when a giant tidal wave tosses an aircraft carrier on top of it.

"Superman II" (1980): Without Superman around to stop them, General Zod (Terence Stamp) and his Kryptonian sidekicks jump through the skylight and rip the roof off the White House in pursuit of the president (E.G. Marshall).

Statue of Liberty

"Planet of the Apes" (1968): In one of the best movie endings ever, Charlton Heston learns humanity's true fate when he runs into the remnants of Lady Liberty on a stretch of isolated beachfront property. "You maniacs! You blew it up!"

"Cloverfield" (2008): J.J. Abrams' cellphone-video-style horror/monster movie shows you how serious things really are when the severed head of the Statue of Liberty comes bounding down the street.

"Deep Impact" (1998): A tsunami resulting from a part of a comet hitting Earth swamps the East Coast and wipes out New York City, taking its most famous statue along for the ride. (Later, the statue's head is seen floating down a submerged street.)

Washington Monument

"Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" (1956): In this 1950s sci-fi classic, dish-shaped flying saucers "fly" over Washington, D.C., in attack formation, firing on the Supreme Court Building (!) and other structures while being targeted by anti-aircraft fire. One damaged ship cuts the Washington Monument in two; another crashes into the dome of the U.S. Capitol, blowing it up.

"Mars Attacks!" (1998): In what seems like an homage to "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers," a Martian ship takes a slice out of the monument, then tosses the toppling edifice back and forth before letting it crash to the ground.

"2012" (2009): A 9.4-magnitude earthquake hits the D.C. area — it is the end of the world as we know it, after all — and the rumbles bring down the Washington Monument, as the president (Danny Glover) looks on.

Big Ben

"V for Vendetta" (2006): In the climactic scene, the shackles of an oppressed alternate-world Britain are shaken off when the friends of V (Hugo Weaving) set off the blasts that take down London's classic timepiece — and the Palace of Westminster with it.

"Reign of Fire" (2002): In a future world where mankind is nearly extinct as it fights against a dragon onslaught, the winged, fire-breathing creatures set fire to the landmark clock and adjacent Parliament buildings.

"Mars Attacks!" (1998): In Tim Burton's cartoonish adaptation of the 1950s sci-fi/horror trading-card set, Big Ben is one of several landmarks to get a quick dose of the Martians' destructive ray. Also on the aliens' to-destroy list: the Taj Mahal and pretty much all of Las Vegas.

"London Has Fallen" (2016): In the action sequel, terrorists target the leaders of the Western world, all of whom are in London for a state funeral — and all of them at key landmarks, including Big Ben, where a bomb blast takes out the French prime minister.

Golden Gate Bridge

"X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006): In a battle royale between mutants who want to take on the world and mutants who want peaceful co-existence, Magneto (Ian McKellen) turns the bridge by the bay into a weapon, yanking it from its moorings and sending it crashing into a facility.

"San Andreas" (2015): A tsunami resulting from "the big one" hitting California sends a giant container ship end over end — and crashing over the Golden Gate Bridge, just missing Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in the process (but not the movie's bad guy, Ioan Gruffudd).

Mount Rushmore

"Superman II" (1980): The three renegade Kryptonians use their heat vision to carve their own faces into the South Dakota landmark.

"Mars Attacks!" (1998): See above, only with the faces of malevolent little green men instead of former residents of Krypton.

Eiffel Tower

"G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" (2009): The bad guys have a nanobot technology that eats away metal, which they use to bring Paris' signature structure to the ground, despite Channing Tatum's best efforts.

"Armageddon" (1998): The Eiffel Tower and the rest of the City of Lights are destroyed by a chip off the old asteroid.

Capitol Records Building

"The Day After Tomorrow" (2004) and "Independence Day" (1996): Roland Emmerich twice took out the Los Angeles landmark that was built to look like a stack of records: in "Tomorrow" with a pack of tornadoes, and in "Independence Day" with an alien death ray.

Lincoln Memorial

"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (2011): The evil Megatron blows away the statue of America's 16th president and uses the statue's seat as his throne.

Hollywood Sign

"The Day After Tomorrow" (2004): Those climate-change-induced twisters rip through the movie capital sign en route to destroying the rest of the city.

Times Square

"Watchmen" (2009): A very different kind of countdown happens in Times Square when a high-energy orb lowers to Earth and sends a series of nuclear-bomb-level shock waves through Manhattan — one of six world centers obliterated in a supposed bid to stave off World War III.

Great Pyramid of Giza

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (2009): The Decepticon Devastator destroys the Great Pyramid to get to the chewy inside — something called a Sun Harvester, a machine that'll eat a star (including the one our planet revolves around).

Brooklyn Bridge

"Godzilla" (1998): The big, largely unloved lizard (at least in this version) dodges a bullet (that manages to take down the Chrysler Building) and races down the Brooklyn Bridge, getting caught in its suspension cables but ripping up the landmark in the process.

Kremlin

"Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol" (2011): After pulling off a tricky mission inside the symbol of Russian/Soviet authority in Moscow, Tom Cruise watches as somebody else sets off a massive explosion that levels the place — and leaves him framed for the deed.

Sydney Opera House

"X-Men: Apocalypse" (2016): Magneto (Michael Fassbender) obeys the will of the "first mutant" Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) and pulls metallic matter from the world, shredding the shell-shaped Sydney landmark.