flowing through the
Grand Canyon in
Arizona by
John Gibb 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 •
Grand Canyon in
Arizona, United States •
Milford Sound in New Zealand; called so by
Rudyard Kipling •
Natural Tunnel,
Virginia, United States, so dubbed by
William Jennings Bryan •
Niagara Falls, between the province of Ontario, Canada and the state of New York, United States. •
Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand, prior to their disappearance following the
1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. •
Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, with a series of
tufa lakes that are connected by waterfalls, along with very deep caves. •
Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. • The great
wildebeest migration in the
Maasai Mara, Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania •
Coatepeque Lake, Santa Ana, El Salvador.
Pre-1900 creations in
Matale District,
Sri Lanka in
Siem Reap,
Cambodia in Northern
Haiti in
Lalibela,
Ethiopia •
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 • The
Erie Canal, New York, United States. •
Monastery of El Escorial, Spain. • The
First transcontinental railroad, North America. • The
Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland •
Great Wall of China, China • The original 1882
Kinzua Viaduct (railway bridge) in Pennsylvania, United States. • The
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy •
Machu Picchu, Peru • The
moai statues of Easter Island, Chile •
Newgrange, Ireland • The
Obelisk of Axum, Ethiopia • The
Polhem dry dock, Karlskrona, Sweden • The
rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia (Church of Saint George, Lalibela) •
Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands •
Sigiriya, Sri Lanka •
Statue of Liberty (
Liberty Enlightening the World), New York Harbor, United States •
Stonehenge, England • The
Taj Mahal, India •
Chapel of the Rosario, Puebla City, Mexico • The
Terracotta Army, China • The original rail-only
Victoria Bridge (Montreal), Canada. •
Thames Tunnel, London, United Kingdom
Post-1900 creations ,
Nevada, United States •
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
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. ,
Sydney, Australia •
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. •
Grotto of the Redemption, West Bend, Iowa •
Hibernia Oil Platform, Newfoundland, Canada •
Hoover Dam,
Nevada,
United States •
Houston Astrodome,
Texas,
United States •
Karakoram Highway connecting Pakistan and China. Highest international highway in the world. •
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, Kevadia, 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.
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. ==See also==