Things labeled as the Eighth Wonder of the World
[edit] Natural places
Grand Canyon, in Arizona, in the United States[1]
Halong Bay, in Vietnam
Milford Sound, New Zealand; called so by Rudyard Kipling[2]
Natural Bridge, in Virginia, so dubbed by William Jennings Bryan[3]
Pink and White Terraces near Rotorua, New Zealand, destroyed by volcanic eruption in 1886, re-discovered under 60m of water in 2011[4]
Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland[5]
Burney Falls in California; called so by Theodore Roosevelt.[6]
Pre-1900 creations
Great Wall of China, China[7]
The Taj Mahal, India[8][9]
Stonehenge, United Kingdom[10]
Machu Picchu, Peru[11]
Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines[12][13][14][15][16]
The Terracotta Army of Xi'an, China.[17][18]
Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg, Russia[19]
The monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain.[20]
The rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia[21] (Church of Saint George, Lalibela)
The stelae of Axum, Ethiopia[22]
Sigiriya, Sri Lanka[23][24][25]
Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands[26]
Statue of Liberty,[27] New York Harbor, United States
Angkor Wat, Cambodia[28]
The moai statues of Easter Island, Chile[29]
[edit] Post-1900 creations
Empire State Building, New York City[30][31]
Palm Islands of Dubai[32]
Panama Canal[33]
Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia;[34] the story of its construction was recounted in the opera The Eighth Wonder
Thames Barrier, London, England.[35]
Bahá'í terraces, on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.[36]
Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China[37]
Reliant Astrodome in Houston, Texas[38]
Akshardham Delhi [39]
West Baden Springs Hotel[40]
Pikeville Cut-Through in Pikeville, Kentucky; given the title by The New York Times.[41][42]
International Space Station in Orbit around Earth; given the title by the Americans and Russians.[43][42]
Forra di Tremosine Road, on the coast of Lake Garda, Italy; given the title by Winston Churchill [44]
Great Manmade River Project in Libya; title given by Muammar Gaddafi for the world's largest irrigation project
