Eighth Wonder of the World is an unofficial title sometimes given to those new buildings, structures, projects or even designs that are deemed to be comparable to the 7 World Wonders.
Milford Sound in New Zealand; called so by Rudyard Kipling
Natural Bridge in Virginia, so dubbed by William Jennings Bryan
Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Burney Falls in California; called so by Theodore Roosevelt
Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada
The great wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania
Uluru in Australia.
Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand, prior to their destruction in the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
Great Wall of China, China
The Taj Mahal, India
Stonehenge, United Kingdom
Machu Picchu, Peru
Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines
Capilla de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Puebla City, Mexico
The Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti
Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg, Russia
The monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain.
The rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia (Church of Saint George, Lalibela)
The stelae of Axum, Ethiopia
Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, United States
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
The moai statues of Easter Island, Chile
The Terracotta Army, China
Aswan Dam in Egypt, called as such by Nikita Krushchev
Bahá'í terraces, on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
Delta Works, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland and Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands. The Delta Works have been called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by Quest magazine, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and by several other sources as the "Eighth Wonder of the World"
Empire State Building, New York City, New York.
Great Manmade River, in Libya; given the title by Muammar Gaddafi.
Houston Astrodome
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
Pikeville Cut-Through in Pikeville, Kentucky; given the title by The New York Times.
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
André the Giant, a French professional wrestler for World Wrestling Federation in the 1970s and 1980s, was billed at a height of 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m) and weight of 520 pounds (240 kg; 37 st 2 lb). He called himself the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
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".
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