Stonehenge

Egyptian Pyramids

Great Wall of China

Taj Mahal

White House

St. Louis Gateway Arch

Mount Rushmore

Machu Picchu

Colosseum

Golden Gate Bridge

Sydney Opera House

Mount Fuji

Statue of Liberty

Angkor Wat

Leaning Tower
of Pisa

Uluru

Washington
Monument

Empire State
Building

The Great Sphinx

Eiffel Tower

Forbidden City

Lincoln Memorial

The Louvre

Dome of the Rock

Niagara Falls

The Acropolis

Notre Dame

The Grand Canyon

St. Peter's Square

Willis Tower

Space Needle

Big Ben

CN Tower

St. Basil's
Cathedral

Hagia Sophia

Alcatraz

Fenway Park

Tower Bridge

Brandenburg Gate

US Capitol

Palace of Versailles

Pantheon

The Little Mermaid

Brooklyn Bridge

Hoover Dam

London Eye

Vietnam Veterans
Memorial

Devil's Tower

Bellagio Casino

Liberty Bell

Trafalgar Square

Hagia Sophia is a former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica (church),

later an imperial mosque, and now a museum (Ayasofya Mzesi) in Istanbul,
Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of
Byzantine architecture [3] and is said to have "changed the history of
architecture".[4] It remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand
years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520.
Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) offshore
from San Francisco, California, United States.[2] The small island was developed
with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison (1868),
and a federal prison from 1933 until 1963
Fenway Park is a baseball park located in Boston, Massachusetts, at 4 Yawkey
Way near Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has been the location for the Boston
Red Sox, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. It is the oldest
ballpark in MLB.[8]
Tower Bridge (built 18861894) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in
London. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and
has become an iconic symbol of London
The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is an 18th-century
neoclassical triumphal arch in Berlin, and one of the best-known landmarks of
Germany. It is built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the
road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel. It was commissioned
by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by architect
Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791.
The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles. Begun by Louis XIII in 1623, the
chteau began as a hunting lodge in brick and stone. It was enlarged into a royal
palace by Louis XIV. Two of the three treaties of the Peace of Paris (1783), in
which the United Kingdom recognized the independence of the United States,
were signed at Versailles.

After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, with the Siege of Paris
dragging on, the palace was the main headquarters of the Prussian army from 5
October 1870 until 13 March 1871. On 18 January 1871, Prussian King Wilhelm I
was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors, and the German Empire
was founded.[36]
The Pantheon (/pnin/ or US /pnin/;[1] Latin: Pantheon,[nb 1] from Greek
meaning "[temple] of every god") is a building in Rome, Italy, on the
site of an earlier building commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of
Augustus (27 BC 14 AD). The present building was completed by the emperor
Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD. He retained Agrippa's original
inscription, which has confused its date of construction
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the
Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of
Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the
Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving
thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. The dam was
controversially named after President Herbert Hoover. Hoover Dam impounds
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume.[5] The dam is
located near Boulder City, Nevada
After the First World War, it was the site of the opening of the Paris Peace
Conference in 1919, also on 18 January. Germany was blamed for causing the
First World War in the Treaty of Versailles, which was signed in the same room on
28 June 1919.
The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formerly placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania
State House (now renamed Independence Hall)
The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the
end of the Qing dynastythe years 1420 to 1912. It is located in the centre of
Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. It served as the home of
emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political centre of
Chinese government for almost 500 years.
The Little Mermaid is a bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen, depicting a mermaid.
The sculpture is displayed on a rock by the waterside at the Langelinie
promenade in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Dome of the Rock is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of
Jerusalem. It was initially completed in 691 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph
Abd al-Malik during the Second Fitna. The Dome of the Rock is now one of the
oldest works of Islamic architecture.[2] It has been called "Jerusalem's most
recognizable landmark".[3] Its architecture and mosaics were patterned after
nearby Byzantine churches and palaces.[4] The octagonal plan of the structure
may also have been influenced by the Byzantine Church of the Seat of Mary (also
known as Kathisma in Greek and al-Qadismu in Arabic) built between 451 and
458 on the road between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.[5]

Niagara Falls (/nar/) is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle
the international border between Canada and the United States; more
specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York. They
form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge.
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City
and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in
1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East
River.
From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls are the Horseshoe Falls, the
American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls. The Horseshoe Falls lie mostly on the
Canadian side and the American Falls entirely on the American side, separated
by Goat Island. The smaller Bridal Veil Falls are also located on the American
side, separated from the other waterfalls by Luna Island. The international
boundary line was originally drawn through Horseshoe Falls in 1819, but the
boundary has long been in dispute due to natural erosion and construction.[1]
Built in Paris for the World Fair in 1889 Eiffel Tower
Temple dedicated to Athena Parthenon
Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the
combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world, with a
vertical drop of more than 165 feet (50 m). Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful
waterfall in North America, as measured by vertical height and flow rate.[2] The
falls are located 17 miles (27 km) north-northwest of Buffalo, New York, and 75
miles (121 km) south-southeast of Toronto, between the twin cities of Niagara
Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York.
The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ;[1] Modern Greek:
Akrpoli Athinn) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop
above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of
great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the
Parthenon. The word acropolis comes from the Greek words (akron,
"highest point, extremity") and (polis, "city").[2] Although there are many
other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that
it is commonly known as "The Acropolis" without qualification.
Notre-Dame de Paris (IPA: [nt dam d pai](French About this sound
(helpinfo)) ; French for "Our Lady of Paris"), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral
or simply Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the
le de la Cit in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot (192 m) monument in St. Louis in the U.S. state
of Missouri. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of an inverted, weighted
catenary arch,[5] it is the world's tallest arch,[4] the tallest man-made
monument in the Western Hemisphere
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England
The Taj Mahal Persian for Crown of Palaces [4]) is an ivory-white marble
mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna River in the Indian city of Agra

Uttar Pradesh. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan
(reigned 16281658), to house the tomb of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President
of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington,
D.C. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800.
The house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban
Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century bce;[2] these, later
joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as
the Great Wall.[3] Especially famous is the wall built 220206 bce by Qin Shi
Huang, the first Emperor of China. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the
Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority
of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty. measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi)

The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and
attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).[2] Nearly two billion
years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and
its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the
Colorado Plateau was uplifted.[
The Willis Tower, built and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower, is a 108story, 1,451-foot (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United States.[3] At
completion in 1973, it surpassed the World Trade Center towers in New York to
become the tallest building in the world, a title it held for nearly 25 years. The
Willis Tower is the second-tallest building in the United States and the 14thtallest in the world.
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of
the Pacific Northwest, and an icon of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for
the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors, when nearly 20,000
people a day used its elevators.

Once the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River,[7] it is 605 ft (184 m)
high, 138 ft (42 m) wide, and weighs 9,550 tons. It is built to withstand winds of
up to 200 miles per hour (89 m/s) and earthquakes of up to 9.1 magnitude,[8] as
strong as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. It also has 25 lightning rods.
Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The
building, now a museum. It was built from 155561 on orders from Ivan the
Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. A world-famous
landmark,[6][7] it was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan
the Great Bell Tower in 1600.[8]
The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located
in Egypt. As of November 2008, there are sources citing both 118 and 138 as the
number of identified Egyptian pyramids.[1][2] Most were built as tombs for the
country's pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom
periods.[3][4][5]

The most famous Egyptian pyramids are those found at Giza, on the outskirts of
Cairo. Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among the largest structures
ever built.[7] The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It is
the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of
Mount Rushmore, a granite batholith formation in the Black Hills in Keystone,
South Dakota, United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and
his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of
the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (17321799),
Thomas Jefferson (17431826), Theodore Roosevelt (18581919), and Abraham
Lincoln (18091865)[2] The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (2.00 sq mi;
5.17 km2) [3] and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.[4]
Machu Picchu (in hispanicized spelling, Spanish pronunciation: [matu piktu]) or
Machu Pikchu (Quechua machu old, old person, pikchu peak; mountain or
prominence with a broad base which ends in sharp peaks,[1] "old peak",
pronunciation [mtu pixtu]) is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres
(7,970 ft) above sea level.[2][3] It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba
Province, Machupicchu District in Peru.[4]

It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Sacred Valley which is 80 kilometres

(50 mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Most
archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca
emperor Pachacuti (14381472). Often mistakenly referred to as the "Lost City of
the Incas" (a title more accurately applied to Vilcabamba), it is the most familiar
icon of Inca civilization.

The Incas built the estate around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the
time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was not known to the
Spanish during the colonial period and remained unknown to the outside world
before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian
Hiram Bingham. Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order
to give tourists a better idea of what the structures originally looked like.[5] By
1976, 30% of Machu Picchu had been restored;[5] restoration continues today.[6]

Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a

UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.[3] In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of
the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll.

Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls.
Its three primary structures are the Inti Watana, the Temple of the Sun, and the
Room of the Three Windows.
Hiram Bingham was an American historian and lecturer at Yale University

The Colosseum or Coliseum (/klsim/ kol--see-m), also known as the

Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium; Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio
[amfiteatro flavjo] or Colosseo [kolosso]), is an oval amphitheatre in the
centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and sand,[1] it is the largest
amphitheatre ever built. The Colosseum is situated just east of the Roman
Forum. Construction began under the emperor Vespasian in AD 72,[2] and was
completed in AD 80 under his successor and heir Titus.[3] Further modifications
were made during the reign of Domitian (8196).[4] These three emperors are
known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was named in Latin for its
association with their family name (Flavius).
The Golden Gate is the North American strait that connects San Francisco Bay to
the Pacific Ocean. It is defined by the headlands of the San Francisco Peninsula
and the Marin Peninsula, and, since 1937, has been spanned by the Golden Gate
Bridge.
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney,
Australia, identified as one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings.[3]

Designed by Danish architect Jrn Utzon, the building was formally opened on 20
October 1973[4] after a gestation beginning with Utzon's 1957 selection as
winner of an international design competition. The government of New South
Wales, led by the premier, Joseph Cahill, authorised work to begin in 1958 with
Utzon directing construction. The government's decision to build Utzon's design
is often overshadowed by circumstances that followed, including cost and
scheduling overruns as well as the architect's ultimate resignation.[5]
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Libert clairant
le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York
Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by
Frdric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and
dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people
of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the
Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the
law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of
Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon
of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants
arriving from abroad.

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician douard Ren de
Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to
American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and
American peoples. He may have been minded to honor the Union victory in the
American Civil War and the end of slavery. Due to the post-war instability in
France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875,
Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans
provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the
torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were
exhibited for publicity at international expositions.

The torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882.
Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on
the pedestal was threatened due to lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the
New York World started a drive for donations to complete the project that
attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar.
The statue was constructed in France, shipped overseas in crates, and
assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island.
The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a
dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.
The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington,
D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the
Continental Army and the first American president. Standing almost due east of
the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial,[2] the monument, made of marble,
granite, and bluestone gneiss,[3] is both the world's tallest stone structure and
the world's tallest obelisk, standing 554 feet 7 1132 inches (169.046 m) tall.[n 1]
It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their
pedestrian entrances, but two are taller when measured above ground, though
they are neither all stone nor true obelisks.[n 2]

Construction of the monument began in 1848, and was halted from 1854 to 1877
due to a lack of funds, a struggle for control over the Washington National
Monument Society, and the intervention of the American Civil War. Although the
stone structure was completed in 1884, internal ironwork, the knoll, and other
finishing touches were not completed until 1888. A difference in shading of the
marble, visible approximately 150 feet (46 m) or 27% up, shows where
construction was halted and later resumed with marble from a different source.
The original design was by Robert Mills, but he suspended his colonnade,
proceeding only with his obelisk, whose flat top was altered to a pointed marble
pyramidion in 1884. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the first stone was
laid atop the unfinished stump on August 7, 1880, the capstone was set on
December 6, 1884, and the completed monument was dedicated on February 21,
1885.[13] It officially opened October 9, 1888. Upon completion, it became the
world's tallest structure, a title previously held by the Cologne Cathedral. The
monument held this designation until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was completed
in Paris, France.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story[7][8][9][note 2] skyscraper located in
Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th
Streets. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 m), and with its antenna spire
included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443 m) high.[7] Its name is derived from
the nickname for New York, the Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest
building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931 until the topping
out of the original World Trade Center's North Tower in late 1970.[14] Following
the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the
tallest building in New York, until One World Trade Center reached a greater
height in April 2012.[15] The Empire State Building is currently the fifth-tallest

completed skyscraper in the United States and the 29th-tallest in the world. It is
also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas. When measured by
pinnacle height, it is the fourth-tallest building in the United States.

The Empire State Building is an American cultural icon. It is designed in the

distinctive Art Deco style and has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of
the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The building and its
street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks
Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City Board of Estimate.
[16] It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.[12][17][18] In
2007, it was ranked number one on the AIA's List of America's Favorite
Architecture.
The Eiffel Tower (/afl tar/ eye-fl towr; French: Tour Eiffel French
pronunciation: [tufl] About this sound listen) is a wrought iron lattice tower
on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave
Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

Constructed in 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially
criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it
has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable
structures in the world.[3] The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in
the world; 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015.

The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey
building, and the tallest structure in Paris. Its base is square, measuring 125
metres (410 ft) on each side. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed
the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the
world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was
finished in 1930. Due to the addition of a broadcasting aerial at the top of the
tower in 1957, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building by 5.2 metres (17 ft).
Excluding transmitters, the Eiffel Tower is the second-tallest structure in France
after the Millau Viaduct.
Angkor Wat (Khmer: or "Capital Temple") is a temple complex in Cambodia
and the largest religious monument in the world, with the site measuring 162.6
hectares (1,626,000 sq meters).[1] It was originally constructed as a Hindu
temple for the Khmer Empire, gradually transforming into a Buddhist temple
toward the end of the 12th century.[2] It was built by the Khmer King
Suryavarman II[3] in the early 12th century in Yaodharapura (Khmer:
, present-day Angkor), the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state
temple and eventual mausoleum.