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
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
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 them being encrusted in 40 meters of rock during the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, with a stunning series of tufa lakes that are connected by beautiful waterfalls, along with very deep caves.
Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
The great wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania
Pre-1900 creations
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 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
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
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.
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.
Hibernia Oil Platform, Newfoundland, Canada
Houston Astrodome, Texas, United States
Karakoram Highway in Pakistan, and China
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
New Seven Wonders of the World
Wonders of the World
Andre the Giant (a pro wrestler who was given the nickname 'The 8th Wonder of the world')
Aishwarya Rai (pageant winner and actress was dubbed as '8th Wonder of the world')
References
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Lists of buildings and structures
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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World