Natural places[edit] Milford Sound, New Zealand; called so by Rudyard Kipling[1] Natural Bridge, in Virginia, so dubbed by William Jennings Bryan[2] Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom[3] Burney Falls in California; called so by Theodore Roosevelt[4] Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada[5] The great wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, Kenya[6] Uluru in Australia.[citation needed] Pre-1900 creations[edit] Sigiriya in Matale District, Sri Lanka The Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao, Philippines Angkor Wat in Angkor, Cambodia Kinzua Bridge near Kane, Pennsylvania (1882) holding the record of tallest railroad bridge in the world at the time.[citation needed] Great Wall of China, China[7] The Taj Mahal, India[8][9] Stonehenge, United Kingdom[10] Machu Picchu, Peru[11] Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines[12][13][14][15][16] Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg, Russia[17] The monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain.[18] The rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia[19] (Church of Saint George, Lalibela) The stelae of Axum, Ethiopia[20] Sigiriya, Sri Lanka[21][22][23] Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands[24] Statue of Liberty,[25] New York Harbor, United States Angkor Wat, Cambodia[26] The moai statues of Easter Island, Chile[27] The Terracotta Army, China[28] Post-1900 creations[edit] Delta Works, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland and Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands. The Delta Works have been officially elected as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by 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[29] Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia Houston Astrodome[30] Empire State Building, New York City[31][32] Palm Islands of Dubai[33] Panama Canal[34] Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia;[35] the story of its construction was recounted in the opera The Eighth Wonder Thames Barrier, London, England.[36] Baháí terraces, on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.[37] Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China[38] West Baden Springs Hotel[39] Pikeville Cut-Through in Pikeville, Kentucky; given the title by The New York Times.[40][41] International Space Station in Orbit around Earth; given the title by the Americans and Russians.[41][42] Great Manmade River, in Libya; given the title by Muammar Gaddafi.[43]
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