# Vote for new seven wonders of the world. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813 "2006-10-17T18:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/1 "2006-10-17T18:39:59Z")
Ganked from a yahoo article. . . Vote for your new 7 wonders of the world, and do a write-in. > [@](#): > > Votes can be made online, at [www.new7wonders.com](http://www.new7wonders.com) > > The 21 finalists for the New Seven Wonders of the World, alphabetically: > > 1 Acropolis, Athens, Greece > > 2 Alhambra, Granada, Spain > > 3 Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia > > 4 Chichen Itza Aztec site, Yucatan, Mexico > > 5 Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > > 6 Colosseum, Rome > > 7 Easter Island Statues, Chile > > 8 Eiffel Tower, Paris > > 9 Great Wall, China > > 10 Hagia Sophia church, Istanbul, Turkey > > 11 Kyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan > > 12 Kremlin/St.Basil’s, Moscow > > 13 Machu Picchu, Peru > > 14 Neuschwanstein Castle, Fussen, Germany > > 15 Petra ancient city, Jordan > > 16 Pyramids of Giza, Egypt > > 17 Statue of Liberty, New York > > 18 Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom > > 19 Sydney Opera House, Australia > > 20 Taj Mahal, Agra, India > > 21 Timbuktu city, Mali My votes: Stonehenge Great Wall Easter Islands Colosseum Acropolis Pyraminds of Giza Statue of Liberty I guess I’m going Old School. Statue of Liberty holds significant 20th century value and reminds me of the Collossus at Rhodes. Write in candidate: Mall of America, United States ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/2 "2006-10-17T19:41:05Z")
Ooh, I’ve been to three of those. And there’s one more that I really want to see before I die. My votes (from what little I know of some of them): Stonehenge Great Wall of China Pyramids of Giza Christ the Redeemer Machu Picchu Hagia Sophia Eiffel Tower Write-in candidates: Roman Aqueducts, Hoover Dam, Mount Rushmore ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/3 "2006-10-17T21:38:53Z")
I vote for Aveeno model [Daniella van Graas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniella_van_Graas). ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/4 "2006-10-18T01:35:05Z")
As a Sydney resident born and bred, I can only hope that the Opera House _does not_ make it onto the list. It looks sort of cool, but really it’s just a moderately interesting modern building. I’m glad it’s there and all, but there are countless other buildings with unusual designs. I’ve never understood the hype. After a lifetime in this town, I still gaze in awe at the Harbour Bridge - all that majestic steel hanging in the sky, and the way the whole structure roars for miles around when a train passes over it - but the Opera House? Meh. There are a couple of others which also I didn’t even consider. Neuschwanstein? That place was designed to be kitsch, as I remember. It seems very contrived. Beyond that, it was tough. I voted: Angkor Wat Easter Island statues Great Wall Machu Picchu Petra Pyramids of Giza Stonehenge ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/5 "2006-10-18T01:41:05Z")
Dang. Now I wish I’d voted for the Hagia Sophia… ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/6 "2006-10-18T01:54:50Z")
Colosseum, Rome Great Wall, China Hagia Sophia church, Istanbul, Turkey Pyramids of Giza, Egypt Statue of Liberty, New York Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom Taj Mahal, Agra, India I had both Machu Picchu and Petra on my short list until I decided that a city couldn’t be a wonder; a wonder needs to be a particular item. My write-in is the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/7 "2006-10-18T02:00:53Z")
**The Hagia Sophia** **Pyramids at Giza** **Great Wall** - which, as I understand it, is NOT visable from outerspace but impressive nonetheless **Angkor** **Petra** **Stonehenge** **Machu Picchu** ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/8 "2006-10-18T13:47:50Z")
Any reason why it has to be a building? Because, imho, the internet, modern food processing, the Keck telescope, that big dam in China, printing, _etc_ are all far more worthy and, well, “wonderful” than a pile of blocks in the Egyptian desert or some faces in a remote island in the Pacific. You know what I think is a wonder? That I live in Knoxville TN and can name 15 restaurants that offer live lobster and crab. My kid can stack blocks, but can she get me a Pittsburgh-style porterhouse? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/9 "2006-10-18T14:34:39Z")
Easter Island Pyramids at Giza Great Wall Angkor Petra Stonehenge Machu Picchu Which is almost exactly **drm** ’s list (and which I copied and pasted and changed the first item). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/10 "2006-10-18T15:07:44Z")
Those are the 21 finalists from a much larger list of nominees (I saw the number somewhere, but can’t find it now). I’d like to see what was suggested but didn’t make the cut. It seems like there should be something really jaw-dropping on the list and there isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/11 "2006-10-18T16:08:16Z")
I’ve always thought the Moai were jaw dropping. I plan to make it to Easter Island before I die. They would be first on my list. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/12 "2006-10-18T22:34:19Z")
Petronas Towers, Spring Thomas and Las Vegas. And 4 others. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/13 "2006-10-18T22:51:23Z")
How about the Chicago River? After all, it’s the first time I ever heard of people making a river run backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/14 "2006-10-18T23:12:31Z")
Y’know, not many of the items on that list strike me as particularly _new_, strictly speaking. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/15 "2006-10-18T23:44:05Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Y’know, not many of the items on that list strike me as particularly _new_, strictly speaking. [/QUOTE] Agreed. A lot of the nominations are on the usual _ancient_-wonders-of-the-world lists. Were I involved, I’d automatically disqualify anything older than, say, 500 years. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/16 "2006-10-18T23:53:42Z")
Add: Venice Beach Boardwalk - Venice, California. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/17 "2006-10-18T23:56:15Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] Add: Venice Beach Boardwalk - Venice, California. [/QUOTE] How on Earth does that qualify as a “wonder of the world?” ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/18 "2006-10-19T00:00:12Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] How on Earth does that qualify as a “wonder of the world?” [/QUOTE] Hang out there for long enough, and you’ll understand. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/19 "2006-10-19T00:28:19Z")
I hereby nominate Walt Disney World. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813/20 "2006-10-19T01:26:20Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Y’know, not many of the items on that list strike me as particularly _new_, strictly speaking. [/QUOTE] It’s not for new wonders; it’s for a new list including wonders from all time. Least that’s my take. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-new-seven-wonders-of-the-world/376813.md?page=2)