Eighth Wonder of the World

For other uses, see Wonders of the World (disambiguation) and Eighth Wonder (disambiguation).

Eighth Wonder of the World is an unofficial title sometimes given to new buildings, structures, projects, designs or even people that are deemed to be comparable to the seven Wonders of the World.

Candidates for the Eighth Wonder of the World

 

Mitre Peak, in Milford Sound, New Zealand

Natural places

• Burney Falls in California, United States; called so by Theodore Roosevelt^[1]
• Deadvlei Clay Pan in Namibia^[2]
• Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland^{[citation needed]}
• Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada^[3]
• Milford Sound in New Zealand; called so by Rudyard Kipling^[4]
• Natural Tunnel, Virginia, United States, so dubbed by William Jennings Bryan^[5]
• Niagara Falls, between the province of Ontario, Canada and the state of New York, United States.^[6]
• Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand, prior to them being encrusted in 40 meters of rock during the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.^[7]
• Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, with a stunning series of tufa lakes that are connected by beautiful waterfalls, along with very deep caves.^[8]
• Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.^[9][10]
• The great wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania^[11]

Pre-1900 creations

 

Sigiriya in Matale District, Sri Lanka

 

Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia

 

The Citadelle Laferrière in Northern Haiti

 

Church of Saint George in Lalibela, Ethiopia

 

Chapel of the Rosario

• Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg, Russia^[12]
• Angkor Wat, Cambodia^[13]
• Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines^{[14][15][16][17][18][19]}
• Borobudur, in Magelang, Indonesia^[20]
• The Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti^[21]
• The Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, United States^[22]
• The Erie Canal, New York, United States.^[23]
• Monastery of El Escorial, Spain.^[24]
• The Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland^[25]
• Great Wall of China, China^[26]
• The original 1882 Kinzua Viaduct (railway bridge) in Pennsylvania, United States.
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
• Machu Picchu, Peru^[27]
• The moai statues of Easter Island, Chile^[28]
• Newgrange, Ireland^[29]
• The Obelisk of Axum, Ethiopia^[30]
• The Polhem dry dock, Karlskrona, Sweden^[31]
• The rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia^[32] (Church of Saint George, Lalibela)
• Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands^[33]
• Sigiriya, Sri Lanka^[34][35][36]
• Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), New York Harbor, United States^[37]
• Stonehenge, England^[38]
• The Taj Mahal, India^[39][40]
• Chapel of the Rosario, Puebla City, Mexico^[41]
• The Terracotta Army, China^[42]
• The original rail-only Victoria Bridge (Montreal), Canada.^[43]
• Thames Tunnel, London, United Kingdom^[44]

Post-1900 creations

• Aswan Dam in Egypt, called as such by Nikita Khrushchev^[45]
• Bahá'í terraces, on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.^[46]
• Delta Works, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland and South Holland, the Netherlands. The Delta Works has been called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by Quest magazine and the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the "Eighth Wonder of the World" by several other sources.^[47]

 

Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

• Empire State Building, New York City, United States.^[48][49]
• George Washington Bridge, New York City, United States^[50]
• Great Manmade River in Libya; given the title by Muammar Gaddafi.^[51]
• Hibernia Oil Platform, Newfoundland, Canada^[52]
• Houston Astrodome, Texas, United States^[53]
• Karakoram Highway in Pakistan, and China^[54]
• Palm Islands of Dubai^[55]
• Panama Canal, Panama^[56]
• Pikeville Cut-Through in Pikeville, Kentucky, United States; given the title by The New York Times.^[57][58][59]
• Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom^[60]
• Rogers Centre, originally named SkyDome, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada^[61]
• Statue of Unity, Kevadia, India, given the title by Shanghai Cooperation Organization.^[62][63]
• Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia;^[64] the story of its construction was recounted in the opera The Eighth Wonder
• Thames Barrier, London, United Kingdom.^[65]
• Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China^[66]
• West Baden Springs Hotel in West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana, United States.^[67]

In fiction

• King Kong, a fictional giant movie monster resembling a colossal gorilla, that has appeared in several movies since 1933. His captor promotes public exhibitions of the caged Kong with the tagline: "Eighth Wonder of the World".^[68]
• Similarly, Gorgo, a fictional 65-foot tall dinosaur-like creature captured off the coast of the fictitious Irish isle of Nara Island from the British kaiju film of the same name is promoted as the "8th Wonder of the World" while on display at a circus in London.^[69]

See also

• New Seven Wonders of the World
• Wonders of the World
• Andre the Giant (a pro wrestler who was given the nickname 'The 8th Wonder of the world')

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