100 Places to See

Two great posts on the 50 (and 50 m0re) most famous landmarks on earth.

Here are the first 50.  I’ve bolded the 22 I’ve visited:

1.  Blue-domed Church in Santorini
2. St Basil Cathedral in Moscow
3. The Statue of Liberty in New York
4. Machu Picchu in Peru
5. The Taj Mahal in Agra ( India )
6. The Eiffel Tower in Paris
7. The Great Sphynx at Giza
8. The Chinese Wall in China
9. Uluru in the Northern Territory
10. The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen
11. Windmills at Kinderdijk ( Holland )
12. Agia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey
13. Acropolis of Athens
14. Mount Fuji in Japan
15. Stonehenge in the English county of Wiltshire
16. Big Ben in London
17. Neuschwanstein in Bavaria
18. Mount Eden crater in New Zealand
19. Loch Ness in Scotland
20. Easter Island in the Polynesian Triangle
21. Christo Redemptor in Rio de Janeiro
22. Capitol Hill in Washington DC
23. Tower of Pisa
24. Al Aqsa in Jerusalem
25. Niagara Falls at the border of Ontario ( Canada ) and New York ( USA )
26. Angkor Wat at Cambodia
27. The Burj in Dubai
28. Bran Castle in Romania
29. Manneke Pis in Brussels
30. Mount Everest on the border of Tibet and Nepal
31. Mecca in Saudi Arabia
32. Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
33. St Peters at Vatican City
34. Mont St Michel in France
35. Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
36. Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe
37. The Grand Canyon in Arizona
38. Nevado Mismi in Peru ( source of the Amazon River )
39. Auschwitz in Poland
40. The Great Buddha of Kamakura in Tokyo
41. Neptune and the Palace of Versailles in France
42. Cape of Good Hope in South Africa
43. Trevi Fountain in Rome
44. Petra in Jordan
45. Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
46. North Cape in Norway
47. Chichen Itza in Mexico
48. Inukshuk in Canada
49. Lascaux in France
50. Table Mountain in South Africa

1. The Colosseum in Rome
2. The Pyramids of Giza in Egypt
3. The Blue Mosque in Istanbul
4. Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
5. Sydney Opera House in Australia
6. Iguazu Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina
7. Kremlin in Moscow
8. Parc Guell in Barcelona
9. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
10. Waterloo in Belgium
11. The Empire State Building in New York
12. Newgrange in Ireland
13. Forbidden City in Beijing
14. Millau Bridge in France
15. The Sphinx in Romania
16. Faisal Mosque in Islamabad
17. Hermitage in Saint Petersburg
18. Konark Sun Temple in India
19. Dom in Berlin
20. Luxor Temple in Egypt
21. Pompeii in Italy
22. The Louvre in Paris
23. Angel Falls in Venezuela
24. Twyfelfontein in Namibia
25. The Prophets Mosque in Medina
26. Tower Bridge in London
27. American Cemetery in Normandy
28. Sacré Coeur in Paris
29. Abu Simbel in Egypt
30. Potala Palace in Llasa
31. Jin Mao and SWFC in Shanghai
32. Middle of the Earth in Ecuador
33. Carnac in France
34. The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
35. Tilicho Lake in Nepal
36. Sceilig Mhichil near the coast of Ireland
37. Temple of Besakih in Bali
38. Golden Temple in India
39. Atomium in Brussels
40. Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan
41. White Cliffs of Dover in Great Britain
42. Ephesus in Turkey
43. Vinson Massif in Antarctic
44. Lotus Temple in India
45. CN Tower in Canada
46. Piazza San Marco in Venice
47. Half Dome at Yosemite Valley in California
48. Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles
49. Twelve Apostles in Australia
50. Rock of Gibraltar