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{{short description|Unofficial title sometimes given to places, buildings, structures, projects or designs}}
{{other uses|Wonders of the World (disambiguation)|Eighth Wonder (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
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'''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 [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World|the seven]] [[Wonders of the World]].

==Candidates for the Eighth Wonder of the World==
[[File:Canyon_River_Tree_(165872763).jpeg|thumb|right|The [[Colorado River]] flowing through the [[Grand Canyon]] in [[Arizona]]]]
[[File:Two_swaggers_boiling_a_billy_of_tea,_Milford_Sound_by_John_Gibb.jpg|thumb|right|1866 painting of [[Milford Sound]] by [[John Gibb (painter)|John Gibb]]]]
===Natural places===
* [[Burney Falls]] in California, United States; called so by [[Theodore Roosevelt]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.burney-falls.com/|title=Welcome to Burney Falls!|website=Burney-falls.com|access-date=4 November 2014}}</ref>
* [[Deadvlei]] Clay Pan in Namibia<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.safari365.com/blog/is-deadvlei-the-8th-wonder-of-the-world |title=Is Deadvlei the 8th Wonder of the World? |last= Lehmkuhl|first=Judd |date=11 June 2013 |website= www.safari365.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918072747/https://www.safari365.com/blog/is-deadvlei-the-8th-wonder-of-the-world |access-date=2020-11-01|archive-date=18 September 2020}}</ref>
* [[Giant's Causeway]] in County Antrim, Northern Ireland{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}
* [[Gros Morne National Park]] in Newfoundland, Canada<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/environment/geology.html |title=Geological Landscape: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage |website=Heritage.nf.ca |access-date=18 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[Grand Canyon]] in [[Arizona]], [[United States]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29243/11-things-billed-8th-wonder-world |title=11 Things Billed as the 8th Wonder of the World |last= Arminio|first=Mark |date=12 November 2011 |website= [[Mental Floss]]|access-date=2024-05-08}}</ref>
* [[Milford Sound]] in New Zealand; called so by [[Rudyard Kipling]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/galleries/travelnewzealand/ |date=19 June 2006 |work=National Geographic |title=Travel New Zealand |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619091040/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/galleries/travelnewzealand/ |archive-date=19 June 2006}}</ref>
* [[Natural Tunnel State Park|Natural Tunnel]], [[Virginia]], United States, so dubbed by [[William Jennings Bryan]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks/nat.shtml |title=Natural Tunnel State Park |website=Dcr.virginia.gov |date=December 2012|access-date=18 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[Niagara Falls]], between the province of Ontario, Canada and the state of New York, United States.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Niagara Mill-Seat|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1853/02/10/archives/the-niagara-millseat.html|access-date=31 January 2018|work=New York Times|date=10 February 1853|page=4}}</ref>
* [[Pink and White Terraces]] in New Zealand, prior to them being encrusted in 40 meters of rock during the [[1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10703655|title=Remains of Pink Terraces discovered|work=The New Zealand Herald|access-date=4 November 2014}}</ref>
* [[Plitvice Lakes National Park]] in Croatia, with a stunning series of [[tufa]] lakes that are connected by beautiful waterfalls, along with very deep caves.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gourmetroaming.com/plitvice-lakes-croatia|title=A NEW WONDER OF THE WORLD? PLITVICE LAKES: CROATIA|date=10 October 2017 |access-date=10 October 2017}}</ref>
* [[Torres del Paine National Park]], Chile.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.virtualtourist.com/8thwonder|title=8th Wonder of the World |access-date=1 November 2013 |date=1 November 2013 |website=www.virtualtourist.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.advfn.com/news_Chiles-Torres-del-Paine-National-Park-Selected-as_59836588.html |title=Chile's Torres del Paine National Park Selected as 8th Wonder of the World by VirtualTourist Voters |access-date=1 November 2013 |date=1 November 2013 |website=www.advfn.com}}</ref>
* The great [[wildebeest]] migration in the [[Maasai Mara]], Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iserengeti.com/wildebeest-great-migration.html |title=The Great Wildebeest Migration, Serengeti and Masai Mara |website=Iserengeti.com |access-date=18 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106210427/http://www.iserengeti.com/wildebeest-great-migration.html |archive-date=6 January 2013}}</ref>

===Pre-1900 creations===
[[File:Sigiriya.jpg|thumb|[[Sigiriya]] in [[Matale District]], [[Sri Lanka]]]]
[[File:Angkor Wat.jpg|thumb|[[Angkor Wat]] in [[Siem Reap]], [[Cambodia]]]]
[[File:Citadelle Laferrière Aerial View.jpg|thumb|The [[Citadelle Laferrière]] in Northern [[Haiti]]]]
[[File:Lalibela, san giorgio, esterno 24.jpg|thumb|[[Church of Saint George, Lalibela|Church of Saint George]] in [[Lalibela]], [[Ethiopia]]]]
[[File:Capilla del Rosario Puebla Diciembre 2015.jpg|thumb|[[Chapel of the Rosario, Puebla|Chapel of the Rosario]]]]
* [[Amber Room]] in the Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg, Russia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0802714242-5 |title=The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure (publisher's comments)|author= Scott-Clark, Catherine & Levy, Adrian |website=Powells.com}}</ref>
* [[Angkor Wat]], Cambodia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reisebilder.ch/en/ka/ka054.html|title=Angkor Wat, eighth wonder of the world|website=Reisebilder.ch|access-date=4 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104235814/http://www.reisebilder.ch/en/ka/ka054.html|archive-date=4 November 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Banaue Rice Terraces]], Philippines<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tourism.gov.ph/wow/wonder_of_wonders.asp |title=Wander Our Wonders |website=WowPhilippines, official tourism website of the Philippines |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060824111958/http://www.tourism.gov.ph/wow/wonder_of_wonders.asp |archive-date=24 August 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philpost.com/0302pages/rice0302.html |title=Planting rice is never fun: Modern life threatens Ifugao rice terraces|author=Abano, Imelda Visaya |website=Philippine Post|date= February 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filipinasoul.com/the-best-of-the-philippines-its-natural-wonders/ |title='The Best' of the Philippines – its natural wonders |website=Filipinasoul.com |date=18 July 2007 |access-date=18 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105023206/http://www.filipinasoul.com/the-best-of-the-philippines-its-natural-wonders/ |archive-date=5 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nscb.gov.ph/rucar/fnf_ifugao.htm |title= Facts & Figures, Ifugao province |website=Nscb.gov.ph |access-date=18 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113192746/http://www.nscb.gov.ph/rucar/fnf_ifugao.htm |archive-date=13 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visitbanaue.com/main.php?cat=1&subcatid1=10&subcatid2=0 |title=About Banaue Tourist Attractions |website=Visitbanaue.com |access-date=18 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192141/http://www.visitbanaue.com/main.php?cat=1&subcatid1=10&subcatid2=0 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Villadolid|first1=Alice C.|title=A Day's Trip To the Ifugao Rice Terraces|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/24/archives/a-days-trip-to-the-ifugao-rice-terraces-a-days-trip-to-the-ifugao.html|access-date=31 January 2018|work=New York Times|date=24 June 1979}}</ref>
* [[Borobudur]], in Magelang, Indonesia<ref>{{cite news|title=On NYTimes.com|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9B02E5DF1131F934A15751C1A96E9C8B63.html|access-date=31 January 2018|work=New York Times|date=27 December 2008}}</ref>
* The [[Citadelle Laferrière]], Haiti<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19780129&id=BN4hAAAAIBAJ&pg=5745,4456684|title=Reading Eagle |website=News.google.com|access-date=4 November 2014}}</ref>
* The [[Eads Bridge]], [[St. Louis]], Missouri, United States<ref>{{cite news|title=The St. Louis Bridge – Description of the Great Roadway Across the Father of Waters The World's Eighth Wonder|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1873/05/17/archives/the-st-louis-bridge-description-of-the-great-roadway-across-the.html|access-date=31 January 2018|work=New York Times|date=17 May 1873|page=4}}</ref>
* The [[Erie Canal]], New York, United States.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marking |first1=Tonja Koob |last2=Maygarden |first2=Benjamin |title=Documenting How "Clinton's Folly" Became the Eighth Wonder of the World: The Erie Canal and the Historic American Engineering Record |date=16 May 2019 |pages=15–25 |doi=10.1061/9780784482377.002 |isbn=9780784482377 |s2cid=181367117 |url=https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/9780784482377.002 |access-date=7 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[El Escorial|Monastery of El Escorial]], Spain.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05534c.htm|work=Catholic Encyclopedia|title= The Escorial|publisher=Newadvent.org|access-date=4 November 2014}}</ref>
* The [[Forth Railway Bridge]] in Scotland<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html|title=The Forth Bridge Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland|website=www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk}}</ref>
* [[Great Wall of China]], China<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/greatwall/overview.php |title=The Great Wall of China: Dynasties, Dragons, and Warriors Exhibit Summary|website= Powerhouse Museum}}</ref>
* The original 1882 [[Kinzua Viaduct]] (railway bridge) in Pennsylvania, United States.
* The [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]], Italy
* [[Machu Picchu]], Peru<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/getaways/052198/dest21.html|title=World still wonders about the origins of Machu Picchu|author=Lollar, Michael Lollar|website=[[The Commercial Appeal]]|date=21 May 1998}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
* The [[moai]] statues of Easter Island, Chile<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.impactlab.com/2007/07/12/the-eight-wonder-of-the-world-easter-island|title=Easter Island - Eighth Wonder of the World|website=Impactlab.com|date=13 July 2007|access-date=4 November 2014}}</ref>
* [[Newgrange]], Ireland<ref>{{Cite web |title=Newgrange - one of the seven wonders of the world |url=https://www.newgrange.com/stonelight13.htm |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=www.newgrange.com}}</ref>
* The [[Obelisk of Axum]], Ethiopia<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africaandindianocean/ethiopia/725695/Ethiopia-The-eighth-wonder-of-the-world.html |title=Ethiopia: The eighth wonder of the world |work=Telegraph |date=7 December 2002 |access-date=5 March 2010}}</ref>
* The [[Polhem dry dock]], Karlskrona, Sweden<ref>http://www.vhfk.se/polhemsdockan/ "Polhemsdockan kallas ibland världens åttonde underverk"</ref>
* The [[Church of Saint George, Lalibela|rock-hewn churches]] at Lalibela, Ethiopia<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/01/ethiopia-rock-churches-tourism-lalibela 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 (Amsterdam)|Royal Palace in Amsterdam]], Netherlands<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bma.amsterdam.nl/adam/uk/groot/paleis.html|title=Amsterdam Heritage: Town hall in the Dam Square (1648/65), now Royal Palace|website=Municipal Department for Preservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings and Sites of Amsterdam|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505121746/http://www.bma.amsterdam.nl/adam/uk/groot/paleis.html|archive-date=5 May 2006}}</ref>
* [[Sigiriya]], Sri Lanka<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030810/spectrum/travel.htm |title=Pearl of the Indian Ocean|author=Singh, Priyanka |location=Chandigarh|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|date= 10 August 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/01/01/fea15.html|title=Tourist miracles of Sri Lanka|author=Moin-ul-Haq|work=[[Daily News (Sri Lanka)|Daily News]]|location=Sri Lanka|date=1 January 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008192253/http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/01/01/fea15.html|archive-date=8 October 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/aug152004/sh4.asp|title=Breathtaking castle in the sky|author=Belliappa, C.P.|work=[[Deccan Herald]]|date=15 August 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524125745/http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/aug152004/sh4.asp|archive-date=24 May 2006}}</ref>
* [[Statue of Liberty]] (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), New York Harbor, United States<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=s&daterange=period&query=%22Statue+of+Liberty%22+%22wonder+of+the+world%22&srchst=p&hdlquery=&bylquery=&mon1=09&day1=18&year1=1851&mon2=12&day2=31&year2=1980&submit.x=14&submit.y=13 |title= Archive Search for 'Statue of Liberty wonder of the world' |work=New York Times |access-date=5 March 2010}}</ref>
* [[Stonehenge]], England<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.toluna.com/polls/15449/The_Eighth_Wonder_of_the_World%3F |title=The Eighth Wonder of the World? &#124; Toluna |website=Uk.toluna.com |access-date=5 March 2010}}</ref>
* The [[Taj Mahal]], India<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tajmahaltourism.com/about-tajmahal/index.html |date=1 December 2007 |website=Taj Majal Tourism |title=Index |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201131515/http://www.tajmahaltourism.com/about-tajmahal/index.html |archive-date=1 December 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.soygrowers.com/library/india/images4.htm |date=25 October 2007 |website=soygrowers.com |title=Images 4 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025041057/http://www.soygrowers.com/library/india/images4.htm |archive-date=25 October 2007}}</ref>
* [[Chapel of the Rosario, Puebla|Chapel of the Rosario]], Puebla City, Mexico<ref>{{cite book|last1=Philadelphia Museum of Art|title=Bulletin - Philadelphia Museum of Art|date=1908|publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKI7AQAAMAAJ&q=Capilla+del+Rosario+Puebla+eighth+wonder+of+the+world&pg=PA39|access-date=9 February 2017|language=en}}</ref>
* The [[Terracotta Army]], China<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dreamxian.com/tour-xian-2/introduction-of-terracotta-army-the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world.html |website=dreamxian.com |title=Introduction of the Terracotta Army, the Eighth Wonder of the World |date=6 September 2012 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120906041521/http://www.dreamxian.com/tour-xian-2/introduction-of-terracotta-army-the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world.html |archive-date=6 September 2012}}</ref>
* The original rail-only [[Victoria Bridge (Montreal)]], Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfb.ca/film/victoria_bridge_the_8th_wonder |title=''Victoria Bridge: The 8th Wonder'' – a National Film Board of Canada short|website=nfb.ca}}</ref>
* [[Thames Tunnel]], London, United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite web|title=What was Proclaimed the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' on Completion in 1843, but 'An Entire Failure' Just a Decade Later? {{!}} Historic England|url=http://historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/heritage-highlights/eighth-wonder-of-the-world/|access-date=2021-02-02|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}</ref>

===Post-1900 creations===
[[File:Hoover Dam HDR.jpg|thumb|[[Hoover Dam]], [[Nevada]], [[United States]]]]
* [[Aswan Dam]] in Egypt, called as such by [[Nikita Khrushchev]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Walz|first1=Jay|title=Khrushchev and Nasser Join In Diverting the Nile at Aswan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/15/khrushchev-and-nasser-join-in-diverting-the-nile-at-a-swan.html|access-date=31 January 2018|work=New York Times|date=15 May 1964|page=1}}</ref>
* [[Terraces (Bahá'í)|Bahá'í terraces]], on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel%20beyond%20the%20conflict/The%20Eighth%20Wonder%20of%20the%20World%20-%20In%20Haifa|date= July 2001 |title= The 'Eighth Wonder of the World' – in Haifa |website=Israel-mfa.gov.il |access-date=18 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[Delta Works]], the [[Netherlands|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 (Dutch magazine)|Quest]]'' magazine and the [[American Society of Civil Engineers]], and the "Eighth Wonder of the World" by several other sources.<ref>{{cite news | title=Deltawerken | date = 26 March 2011 | url=http://www.vvvzeeland.nl/en/about-zeeland/delta-works | work=VVVZeeland | access-date=20 November 2011}}</ref>
[[File:Sydney opera house side view.jpg|thumb|[[Sydney Opera House]], [[Sydney]], Australia]]
* [[Empire State Building]], New York City, United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.esbnyc.com/kids/index.cfm |title=Empire State Building official site |website=Esbnyc.com |access-date=18 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629064031/http://www.esbnyc.com/kids/index.cfm |archive-date=29 June 2013}}</ref><ref>[http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/ripples/feature_skaroff.html "Does Extra Security Make it Safe?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110013403/http://www.journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/ripples/feature_skaroff.html |date=10 January 2006}}
by Rebecca Skaroff, ''Ripples'', [[New York University]].</ref>
* [[George Washington Bridge]], New York City, United States<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/515580001|title=New Span To Be Lecture Subject|date=6 November 1931|work=The Montclair Times|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[Great Manmade River]] in Libya; given the title by Muammar Gaddafi.<ref>{{cite web|title=GMR (Great Man-made River) Water Supply Project|url=http://www.water-technology.net/projects/gmr/|website=Net Resources International|access-date=26 October 2011}}</ref>
* [[Hibernia Gravity Base Structure|Hibernia Oil Platform]], Newfoundland, Canada<ref>{{cite web|title=Interesting Facts about Oil and Gas|url=http://www.petrogenltd.com/2016/01/22/interesting-facts-about-oil-and-gas/|website=PetroGEN|access-date=15 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116074935/http://www.petrogenltd.com/2016/01/22/interesting-facts-about-oil-and-gas/|archive-date=16 November 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Hoover Dam]], [[Nevada]], [[United States]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/07/07/day-history-construction-began-hoover-dam |title=This Day in History: Construction Began on Hoover Dam |website=[[whitehouse.gov]] |date=7 July 2015 |access-date=8 May 2024}}</ref>
* [[Houston Astrodome]], [[Texas]], [[United States]]<ref>{{cite news | first=Chris | last=Duncan | title=Historic Astrodome sits empty, awaits future | date = 26 March 2011 | url=http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_17708291 | work=The Denver Post | access-date=20 November 2011}}</ref>
* [[Karakoram Highway]] in Pakistan, and China<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://againstthecompass.com/en/karakoram-highway/|title=A guide to the Karakoram Highway - from Pakistan to China - Against the Compass|date=17 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[Palm Islands]] of Dubai<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?ID=338&type=news |title=The lessons of Dubai? Let's build some more British isles |author=Blundell, John |website=[[Institute of Economic Affairs]] |date=9 April 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507085656/http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=news&ID=338 |archive-date=7 May 2006}}</ref>
* [[Panama Canal]], Panama<ref>{{cite book | last1=Soley | title=Culture and Customs of Panama | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cNEcEyZs254C&q=%22panama+canal%22+%22eighth+wonder%22&pg=PA86 | access-date=20 November 2011 | isbn=978-0-313-33667-6 | date=30 December 2008| publisher=Abc-Clio }}</ref>
* [[Pikeville Cut-Through]] in Pikeville, Kentucky, United States; given the title by ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tourpikecounty.com/index.php?n=2&id=2 |title=Pikeville Cut-Through|website= Pikeville-Pike County Tourism|access-date=25 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="open">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/11/archives/kentucky-town-awaiting-growth-through-22million-mountain-excavation.html?sq=Pikeville%2520Cut-Through&scp=1&st=cse|title=Kentucky Town Awaiting Growth Through $22-Million Mountain Excavation|last=Franklin|first=Ben A.|date=11 October 1970|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tourpikecounty.com/index.php?n=2&id=2|title= Pikeville Cut-Through|website= Virgin Space Travel|access-date= 25 November 2010}}</ref>
* [[Queensway Tunnel]], Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2006/12/04/local_history_queensway_tunnel_feature.shtml | title=Queensway Tunnel | access-date= 30 November 2019}}</ref>
* [[Rogers Centre]], originally named SkyDome, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-03-sp-982-story.html|title=Blue Jays Unveil the '8th Wonder of the World|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=3 June 1989|access-date=2 June 2020}}</ref>
* ''[[Statue of Unity]]'', Kevadia, India, given the title by [[Shanghai Cooperation Organisation|Shanghai Cooperation Organization]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://in.news.yahoo.com/statue-unity-named-eighth-wonder-145526821.html|title='Statue of Unity' named as eighth Wonder of World|website=in.news.yahoo.com|language=en-IN|access-date=2020-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/news/india/statue-of-unity-finds-place-in-8-wonders-of-sco-11578940098238.html|title=Statue of Unity finds place in '8 Wonders of SCO'|date=2020-01-14|website=Livemint|language=en|access-date=2020-01-14}}</ref>
* [[Sydney Opera House]] in Sydney, Australia;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.euphonix.com/news/news2002/070302_sydney_opera_house.htm |title=Sound Future for Sydney Opera House|website=[[Euphonix]]|date=3 July 2002}}</ref> the story of its construction was recounted in the opera ''[[The Eighth Wonder]]''
* [[Thames Barrier]], London, United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://travel2.nytimes.com/top/features/travel/destinations/europe/unitedkingdom/england/london/sight_details.html?vid=1124996111997 |title=Travel Section: Thames Barrier Visitors' Centre |work=[[The New York Times]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224122039/http://travel2.nytimes.com/top/features/travel/destinations/europe/unitedkingdom/england/london/sight_details.html?vid=1124996111997 |archive-date=24 December 2013}}</ref>
* [[Three Gorges Dam]] in Hubei, China<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070612134358.htm |title=NASA Satellites Watch As China Constructs Giant Dam |website=Science Daily|date=13 June 2007 |access-date=18 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[West Baden Springs Hotel]] in West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana, United States.<ref>{{Cite news | last=Curtis | first=Wayne | year=2007 | title=Back home in Indiana | periodical=Preservation | volume=59 | issue=3 | pages=40–47 | url=http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2007/may-june/back-home-in-indiana.html?log-event=sp2f-view-item&nid=171674586}}</ref>
* [[Leichhardt Oval|Leichhardt Oval,]] [[Lilyfield, New South Wales]], Australia - Ground of the [[Wests Tigers|West Tigers]] and [[Wests Tigers Women|West Tigers Women]] NRL teams.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inner West Council |url=https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/about/news/media-releases/2024-media-releases/leichhardt-oval-to-host-120-sporting-fixtures-in-2024 |url-status=live}}</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>{{cite web | url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2690/King-Kong/articles.html | title=King Kong (1933) | website= Turner Classic Movies | access-date=4 November 2014}}</ref>
* Similarly, [[Gorgo (film)|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>{{cite AV media | people=Lourié, Eugène (Director) | date=29 March 1961 | title=Gorgo | medium=Motion picture | publisher=King Brothers Productions}}</ref>

==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')

==References==
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[[Category:8 (number)]]
[[Category:Lists of buildings and structures]]
[[Category:Cultural lists]]
[[Category:Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]

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