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Wonders of the World
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Chichén Itzá
The great Maya city of the Yucatán, crowned by the Temple of Kukulcán
Christ the Redeemer
Rio de Janeiro's Art Deco Christ, arms spread above the city from Corcovado
Machu Picchu
The Inca royal estate on a mountain ridge high above the Urubamba River
Petra
The rose-red Nabataean city carved into the sandstone cliffs of southern Jordan
The Colosseum
Rome's Flavian Amphitheater, the largest arena of the ancient world
The Colossus of Rhodes
The bronze sun god that stood over a Greek harbor city for barely half a century
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The oldest of the ancient wonders and the only one still standing
The Great Wall of China
Two thousand years of frontier walls snaking across northern China
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The terraced gardens of ancient legend whose existence and location are still debated
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The towering Pharos that guided ships into Alexandria for some 1,500 years
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The tomb of a Carian ruler that gave the world the word mausoleum
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Pheidias' gold-and-ivory colossus of the king of the gods, lost in the 5th century CE
The Taj Mahal
Shah Jahan's white marble tomb for Mumtaz Mahal on the banks of the Yamuna
The Temple of Artemis
The great marble temple of Ephesus, now a single column in a marshy field