Eighth Wonder of the World

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

The Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon in Arizona

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1866 painting of Milford Sound by John Gibb

Natural places

• Burney Falls in California, United States; called so by Theodore Roosevelt<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Deadvlei Clay Pan in Namibia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Milford Sound in New Zealand; called so by Rudyard Kipling<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Natural Tunnel, Virginia, United States, so dubbed by William Jennings Bryan<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Niagara Falls, between the province of Ontario, Canada and the state of New York, United States.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand, prior to their disappearance following the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, with a series of tufa lakes that are connected by waterfalls, along with very deep caves.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The great wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Angkor Wat, Cambodia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Borobudur, in Magelang, Indonesia<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• The Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, United States<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• The Erie Canal, New York, United States.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Monastery of El Escorial, Spain.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• The First transcontinental railroad, North America.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Great Wall of China, China<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The original 1882 Kinzua Viaduct (railway bridge) in Pennsylvania, United States.
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
• Machu Picchu, Peru<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref>
• The moai statues of Easter Island, Chile<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Newgrange, Ireland<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Obelisk of Axum, Ethiopia<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• The Polhem dry dock, Karlskrona, Sweden<ref>http://www.vhfk.se/polhemsdockan/ "Polhemsdockan kallas ibland världens åttonde underverk"</ref>
• The rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia<ref>Ancient rock churches put Ethiopia back on tourist map by David Smith, The Guardian, 1 September 2014.</ref> (Church of Saint George, Lalibela)
• Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sigiriya, Sri Lanka<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), New York Harbor, United States<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Stonehenge, England<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Taj Mahal, India<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Chapel of the Rosario, Puebla City, Mexico<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• The Terracotta Army, China<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The original rail-only Victoria Bridge (Montreal), Canada.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Thames Tunnel, London, United Kingdom<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Post-1900 creations

Hoover Dam, Nevada, United States

• Aswan Dam in Egypt, called as such by Nikita Khrushchev<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Bahá'í terraces, on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

• Empire State Building, New York City, United States.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>"Does Extra Security Make it Safe?" Template:Webarchive

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• George Washington Bridge, New York City, United States<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Great Manmade River in Libya; given the title by Muammar Gaddafi.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Grotto of the Redemption, West Bend, Iowa<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Hibernia Oil Platform, Newfoundland, Canada<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Hoover Dam, Nevada, United States<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Houston Astrodome, Texas, United States<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Karakoram Highway connecting Pakistan and China.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Highest international highway in the world.
• Palm Islands of Dubai<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Panama Canal, Panama<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Pikeville Cut-Through in Pikeville, Kentucky, United States; given the title by The New York Times.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="open">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Rogers Centre, originally named SkyDome, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Statue of Unity, Kevadia, India, given the title by Shanghai Cooperation Organization.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia;<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the story of its construction was recounted in the opera The Eighth Wonder
• Thames Barrier, London, United Kingdom<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• West Baden Springs Hotel in West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana, United States.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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.<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>

See also

• New Seven Wonders of the World
• Wonders of the World
• André the Giant (a professional wrestler who was given the nickname "The Eighth Wonder of the world")
• Jerry Springer – a daytime tv host whose show entry dubbed him as "The eighth wonder of the world!"