What Are the Eight Wonders of the World?
The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Temple of Artemis are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The eighth wonder is a term that describes other equally amazing phenomena.
The eighth wonder of the world is a category that includes different phenomena such as natural places, fiction, people, pre-1900 creations and post-1900 creations. Different organizations or people have their own opinions regarding the phenomena that deserve to be the eighth wonder of the world.
Under nature, the wildebeest migration in the Masaai Mara in Kenya, the Uluru in Australia, Burney Falls in California, and Milford Sound in New Zealand are sometimes cited as equal to the seven wonders of the world. Other proposals for the “eighth wonder of the world” under the pre-1900 category include the Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu of Peru, and the Taj Mahal of India. The most common post-1900 creation is the Empire State Building located in New York City.
Under the people category, Andre the Giant, a popular French wrestler, was frequently described as the eighth wonder of the world, due to his extraordinary gigantic physique. The famous King Kong is also considered the eighth wonder of the world under the fiction category, after appearing in different movies.
