Eighth Wonder of the World

Candidates for the Eighth Wonder of the World

Natural places

• Burney Falls in California, United States; called so by Theodore Roosevelt
• Deadvlei Clay Pan in Namibia
• Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
• Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada
• Milford Sound in New Zealand; called so by Rudyard Kipling
• Natural Bridge, United States, so dubbed by William Jennings Bryan
• Niagara Falls, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York, United States.
• Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand, prior to their wrongly assumed destruction in the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. In 2017 researchers using a lost 1959 survey finally mapped the Pink and White terrace locations.
• Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
• The great wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania

  Pre-1900 creations

• Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Angkor Wat, Cambodia
• Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines
• Borobudur, in Magelang, Indonesia,
• The Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti
• The Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
• Monastery of El Escorial, Spain.
• The Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland
• Great Wall of China, China
• The original 1882 Kinzua Viaduct in Pennsylvania, United States.
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
• Machu Picchu, Peru
• The moai statues of Easter Island, Chile
• The Obelisk of Axum, Ethiopia
• The Polhem dry dock, Karlskrona, Sweden
• The rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia
• Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
• Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, United States
• Stonehenge, United Kingdom
• The Taj Mahal, India
• Chapel of the Rosario, Puebla City, Mexico
• The Terracotta Army, China
• The original rail-only Victoria Bridge, Canada.

  Post-1900 creations

• Aswan Dam in Egypt, called as such by Nikita Khrushchev
• Bahá'í terraces, on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
• Delta Works, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland and Zuid-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.

• Empire State Building, New York City, United States.
• George Washington Bridge, New York City, United States
• Great Manmade River in Libya; given the title by Muammar Gaddafi.
• Hibernia Oil Platform, Newfoundland, Canada
• Houston Astrodome, Texas, United States
• International Space Station in Orbit around Earth; title given by the Americans and Russians.
• Karakoram Highway in Pakistan, and China
• Palm Islands of Dubai
• Panama Canal, Panama
• Pikeville Cut-Through in Pikeville, Kentucky, United States; given the title by The New York Times.
• Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
• Rogers Centre, originally named SkyDome, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Statue of Unity, Kevadiya, India, given the title by Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
• Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia; the story of its construction was recounted in the opera The Eighth Wonder
• Thames Barrier, London, United Kingdom.
• Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China
• West Baden Springs Hotel in West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana, United States.
• West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  People

• André the Giant, a French professional wrestler and actor in the 1970s and 1980s, who was billed as being 7 ft 4 in and 500 lb, was regularly referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World by the World Wrestling Federation.

  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".
• 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.