# 100 Wonders to see before you die. How many have you seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197 "2010-03-03T22:59:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![nicole1912](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9de0a6/32.png) [@nicole1912](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nicole1912)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197/121 "2010-03-08T10:29:43Z")
1. I think. Mont St Michel Galapagos Islands Colosseum of Rome Machu Picchu St Peter’s Basilica Matterhorn New York Skyline Amazon Rain Forest Uffizi Gallery Eiffel Tower Sistine Chapel Delphi British Museum Alhambra Louvre Museum Canals of Venice St Mark’s Basilica Versailles Florence Cityscape Chambord Chateau Acropolis I hadn’t heard of several of the places on that list - but a lot of the ones I had heard of that I haven’t been to have been on my list of “Things I want to see” for a while… The remaining European ones should be easy; the others will take a bit more planning! ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197/122 "2010-03-08T12:24:02Z")
2 (Eiffel tower, and Stonehenge). ---
**Author:** ![NBYodo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@NBYodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NBYodo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197/123 "2010-03-08T12:40:02Z")
19.5 4, 31, 33, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 50, 53, 67, 68, 74, 77, 79, 86, 97, 98, 100 and 25 but, it turns out they were replicas on tour in Vienna NB ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197/124 "2010-03-08T13:23:04Z")
Not many - 8: 22 Acropolis (Well, I saw the Parthenon as a distant landmark, from Athens - didn’t have time to go there) 37 Hong Kong 42 Canals of Venice 75 Baalbek 76 Mont St Michel 79 Stonehenge 86 Eiffel Tower 89 British Museum ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197/125 "2010-03-08T14:23:12Z")
Kind of a dumb list, but whatever. Nineteen. Grand Canyon Teotihuacan Jerusalem Old City Chichen Itza Cappadocia Coliseum of Rome St. Peter’s Sistine Chapel The Louvre Venice Hagia Sofia St. Mark’s Florence Topkapi Palace Yellowstone New York skyline Eiffel Tower Yosemite San Francisco (my hometown) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197/126 "2010-03-08T14:31:39Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Some of these are really duplicates. Like, who visits Florence, but doesn’t go to the Uffuzi? Me. We went to the Accademia, where the David is, though. I can’t imagine there’s anything better at the Uffizi, and we were a bit museumed-out by the time we reached Florence. ETA: The more I think about it, the more annoyed I am by this list. I’ve been to nineteen countries on four continents, but most of my hits are from Western Europe. Lame. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197/127 "2010-03-08T15:21:39Z")
17: Stonehenge Grand Canyon Yellowstone NP Machu Picchu Santorini New York Skyline Amazon Rain Forest Eiffel Tower British Museum Louvre Museum Yosemite NP Versailles Carlsbad Caverns Acropolis \* Banff NP San Francisco Hagia Sofia - One thing; “Acropolis” actually means highest city. There are acropolises all over Greece and I suppose other countries (Italy, Turkey) in that they’re the buildings up on a hill usually constructed for defensive reasons. I assume for the purposes of this list they’re referring to the Acropolis of Athens where you’ll find the Parthenon. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197/128 "2010-03-08T15:41:35Z")
Rereading others’ lists I see I missed 2, so 19. Delphi Metropolitan Museum of Art ---
**Author:** ![CutterJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197/129 "2010-03-09T05:27:18Z")
I’ve seen the greatest wonder of the world already, that they failed to list… Space shuttle launch. Twice. Only seen a half dozen of the rest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-wonders-to-see-before-you-die-how-many-have-you-seen/531197.md?page=6)