The Hanging Gardens, because The Cure never wrote a song about the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
I think the Colossus beats out the Hanging Gardens for me, but just barely. Don’t know what either of them looked like. I suppose we know less about the Gardens (don’t even know where they were!) but I think the Colossus could be more impressive-looking.
The library could probably be rebuilt using the late fees from books which were never returned.
What library?
Jayne Mansfield.
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The OP as phrased doesn’t preclude “All of them”, so that’s my choice.
Didn’t I read somewhere recently that the Colossus of Rhodes may never have been built? It was planned but wasn’t completed, or something.
I thought some archaeologist figured out the Hanging Gardens, starting with the fact that they weren’t in Babylon nor built by King Nebuchadnezzar but in Nineveh built by King Sennacherib. :smack: Still in Iraq, though, so not going to be a major tourist site either way. 
[Googles.] This is her. And here’s the television documentary on her theory and research, including going to Iraq. Seems pretty convincing to me, admittedly a layman as to archaeology.
There’s only the barest remains at the site, though, so it would still be cool to have the Hanging Gardens restored. Just not necessary (IMHO) for learning more or less what they looked like.
My understanding is that it was built, but toppled over in an earthquake, and the remains - much later - hauled away for scrap.
Heel to head, though it seems both statues were about the same size. Liberty just has a big ol pedestal under her.
if you have not seen Game of Thrones, they have a city with a big statue at the entrance of the harbor. picture here:
Braavos | Game of Thrones Wiki | Fandom
Most likely inspired by Rhodes
The statue at the harbor of Braavos was undoubtedly inspired by the Colossuis of Rhodes. There was a medieval notion that the statue spanned the harbor with its legs – a feat beyond ancient engineering. The statue’s pose was probably much more like the Statue of Liberty, as I stated. Its core likely consisted on a stone tower with projecting rods that supported the thin copper sheathing. The statue “stood” on two legs together (maybe covered by a robe), possibly with one hand (close in to the body, no doubt) shielding its eyes as it looked out to sea.
Trying to build two inward-leaning pillars to support legs over a space large enough to accommodate a ship would realy be pushing it. Nevertheless, the image is arresting, as the image of Braavos shows. The Italian 1960s epoic the Colossus of Rhodes (Directed by Sergio Leone, long before his Clint Eastwood westerns) depicts it thus. The statue was even depicted holding a bowl, from which, if desired, the rulers of Rhodes could drop fire onto a passing ship.
Ray Harryhausen was similarly inspired, in his Jason and the Argonauts, to have his bronze giant Talos assume a Colossus-like pose bestriding the harbor entrance, and pick up Jason’s passing Argo
I wonder why filmmakers feel the need to have the Colossus take it out on ships?
IF the Hanging Gardens were really as spectacular as reputed, I’d love to have seen them.
I agree about the Colossus, but the Hanging Gardens may be mythical.
The “mythical” part of the Colossus is that some thought it straddled the harbor, which is rather unlikely.
See my post, two above yours.
This. It was certainly by far and away the leading choice in that other thread.
Can we bundle the Lighthouse and the Library together and get a package deal on them? Hey, they were in the same neighborhood!
Yes.
Oh, I know that the Colossus didn’t straddle the harbor. But even with legs together, that’s still plenty phenomenal.
“The real engineering feat was not making the Colossus straddle the harbor - the real engineering feat was how they managed to redirect the city’s sewers all the way up there!”
"Well, however it was done, the ‘Squatting Colossus’ certainly has discouraged invaders … "