Candidates for the Eighth Wonder of the World[edit]

Mitre Peak, inMilford Sound, New Zealand.Natural places[edit] Milford SoundinNew Zealand; called so byRudyard Kipling[1] Natural BridgeinVirginia, so dubbed byWilliam Jennings Bryan[2] Giant's CausewayinNorthern Ireland,United Kingdom[3] Burney FallsinCalifornia; called so byTheodore Roosevelt[4] Gros Morne National ParkinNewfoundland,Canada[5] The greatwildebeestmigration in theMaasai Mara, Kenya andSerengeti, Tanzania[6] UluruinAustralia.[citation needed] Pink and White Terracesin New Zealand, prior to their destruction in the1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.[7]Pre-1900 creations[edit]

SigiriyainMatale District,Sri Lanka.

TheBanaue Rice TerracesinIfugao,Philippines.

Angkor WatinAngkor,Cambodia.

TheCitadelle Laferrirein NorthernHaiti.

Monolithic churchof Ethiopia inLalibela,Ethiopia. Great Wall of China,China[8] TheTaj Mahal,India[9][10] Stonehenge,United Kingdom[11] Machu Picchu,Peru[12] Banaue Rice Terraces,Philippines[13][14][15][16][17] TheCitadelle Laferrire,Haiti[18] Amber Roomin theCatherine PalacenearSaint Petersburg,Russia[19] The monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial,Spain.[20] Therock-hewn churchesatLalibela,Ethiopia[21](Church of Saint George, Lalibela) ThestelaeofAxum,Ethiopia[22] Sigiriya,Sri Lanka[23][24][25] Royal Palace in Amsterdam,Netherlands[26] Statue of Liberty,[27]New York Harbor,United States Angkor Wat,Cambodia[28] Themoaistatues ofEaster Island,Chile[29] TheTerracotta Army,China[30]Post-1900 creations[edit] Delta Works, theDutchprovinces ofZeelandandZuid-Holland, theNetherlands. The Delta Works have been officially elected as one of theSeven Wonders of the Modern Worldby both Quest magazine, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Delta Works have also been mentioned by several other sources as the "Eighth Wonder of the World"[31]

Sydney Opera House,Sydney, Australia. Houston Astrodome[32] Empire State Building,New York City, New York.[33][34] Palm IslandsofDubai[35] Panama Canal[36] Karakoram HighwayinPakistanandChina; Sydney Opera HouseinSydney,Australia;[37]the story of its construction was recounted in the operaThe Eighth Wonder Thames Barrier,London,United Kingdom.[38] Bah' terraces, onMount Carmel,Haifa,Israel.[39] Three Gorges DaminHubei,China[40] West Baden Springs Hotel[41] Pikeville Cut-ThroughinPikeville, Kentucky; given the title byThe New York Times.[42][43][44] International Space Stationin Orbit around Earth; given the title by the Americans and Russians.[citation needed] Great Manmade River, in Libya; given the title by Muammar Gaddafi.[45]