Magnificent memorial at whopping cost

With its huge reflecting pools ringed by waterfalls and skyscrapers and a cavernous underground museum still under construction, the World Trade Center is an awesome spectacle that moved and inspired some 4.5 million visitors in its first year.

But all that magnificence comes with a jaw-dropping price tag.

The foundation that runs the memorial estimates that once the roughly $700 million project is complete, the memorial and museum will together cost $60 million a year to operate.