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​The Amazon Rainforest
The rainforest, so vast is located within 9 nations; Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Represents the remaining rainforest.
The Amazon is the most specie-rich tropical rainforest in the world.
The Amazon river, located in the Amazon, is the largest river (in volume) in the world.
Halong Bay
Located in Quáng Ninh Vietnam.
Compiles of islands in various shapes and sizes and thousands of limestone karsts (rocks shaped by erosion).
One specific feature of Halong Bay is the lake within the huge limestone island.
Many of the islands are hollow and there are openings to enormous caves.
The caves have up to 200 species of fish and 450 species of mollusks.
Iguazu Falls
Located in the Iguazu river in between the borders of Argentine Missiones, and the Brazilian state of Paran á.
On of the largest waterfalls in the world with a top height of 82 metres.
The falls are formed by a group of 272 smaller falls.
The biggest attraction of the Iguazu falls is the Garganta del Diablo, or Devil's Throat where the largest volume of water passes causing an almighty roar. The sound of which can be heard several miles away.
Jeju Island
Jeju is a volcanic island.
It is both the smallest province and the largest island located 130km from the southern cost of Korea.
The surface area of the island is just 1846sqkm.
A central feature of Jeju is Hallasan is the tallest mountain and dormant volcano which rises 1950m above sea level.
There are 360 satellite volcanoes around the main volcano.
Komodo Island
Located in the National Park, Indonesia.
Komodo is one of three main islands that make up the national park. The other two are Rinca and Padar. There are also numerous other smaller islands orbiting.
The park was founded in 1980 to protect its inhabitants, the komodo dragon. Since then it is in place to also other species including marine animals.
The islands of the national park of of volcanic origin.
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River
Located in the Philippines about 50km north of the city centre of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, in a the St. Paul mountain range.
Also known as St. Paul's subterranean river due to its location.
Asia's longest subterranean river measuring 8.2km and the world's second longest.
The river comes out into a lagoon said to possess heavenly clear waters.
The caves on the river has carved has many stalactites and stalagmites, as well as many chambers.
Table Mountain
Located above Cape Town in South Africa.
It spans 57sqkm.
The highest point of the mountain is at Maclear's Beacon, standing at 1086m above sea level on the eastern side of the front of the mountain.
The level plateau is approximately 3km long.
Table mountain was named so in 1503 after Antonio Saldanha, the first european who landed in Table Bay, climbed it.
It is the only destination on Earth to have a constellation of stars named after it.
Chichen Itza
Located in Yukatan, Mexico.
Remains of the Mayan civilization who lived around 600 - 900 AD.
The site is made of hundreds of paved roads and dozens of stone buildings.
Several of the buildings have been restored.
The stone buildings have a large variety of archaeological styles, indicating that the city may have had the most diverse Mayan population in the world.
The site covers an area of at least 5sqkm.
Christ The Redeemer
Located in Tijuca Forest National Park in Rio de Jeniero.
It stands atop Corcovado mountain.
The tallest part stands at 130 feet tall. It weighs 635 tonnes.
The statue is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone.
Construction too place from 1922 to 1931.
Restoration has had to be carried out several times due to weather and occasionally vandalism. In 2008 the fingers, head and eyebrows were damaged after being struck by lightening during a ferocious electrical storm.
Colosseum
Located in the center of Rome, Italy.
It is an elliptical amphitheater and is the largest ever built in/by the Roman empire.
Construction started in 72 AD and was completed in 80 AD.
When opened it could seat 50,000 people.
It hosted gladiatorial contests, public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles and drama's based on classical mythology.
The majority of damage that has happened to the Colosseum is from earthquakes, however some is due to stone robbers.
The Great Wall of China
Located, as you may have thought, in China.
Has been around for nearly 2500 years.
The wall is around 3,460km long, with 2,860km of branches and spurs.
It is the longest man made structure in the world.
The wall was built by several Chinese dynasties to protect China's northern boundary.
The wall ranges from 15 - 30m wide. The highest point of the wall is in Beijing, at Heita mountain reaching 5,033 feet.
Machu Picchu
Located in the mountain range of the Urubamba valley, in Peru, 70km northwest of Cuzco the former capital of the Inca civilization.
It rest over 8,000 feet above see level. Believed to have been made in the 15th century. It was then rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911.
When Bingham rediscovered it the jungle had literally swallowed it up, hence the nickname, The Lost City.
Some of the building blocks weigh up to 50 tonnes. Despite the weight, the blocks are precisely slotted together with such precision that the mortarless joints will not even permit the insertion of a thin knife blade.
Petra
Located on the slopes of mount Hor, in the Arabah section of Jordan.
Petra means ''rock'' in Greek and Arabic.
It was discovered by a Swiss explorer, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812.
It's said to have been around from before 106 AD.
Being made mostly of red sandstone, and with it's beauty and age, Petra earned the title ''A rose red city half as old as time''.
Petra was once a thriving trading center and capital of the Nabataean empire.
Taj Mahal
Located in Agra, India.
It was built as a mausoleum where the Mughal Emperor known as Shah Jahan was to bury his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Construction began in 1632 and it was completed in 1653.
The architectural style is a combination of Persian, Islamic and Indian.
20,000 workers helped in the build. 28 varieties of semi-precious and precious stones were used to adorn the Taj for an exquisite finish.
During the Indian rebellion of 1857, many of these stones were ripped of its wall by the British.
The Great Pyramid of Giza
(​Honorary Candidate)
The particular pyramid is the the Great Pyramid of Giza, the largest of the three in the Giza Necropolis.
It is located in what is now El Giza, Egypt.
The pyramid is estimated to have some 2,300,000 stone blocks.
The blocks range in weight with most generally 2 - 30 tonnes, however a few weigh upwards of 70 tonnes.
The base of the pyramid cover 592,000 square feet. The average stone on the lowest level is 5 feet high, long and deep.
The four sides are indented to a very precise degree and was the only pyramid built this way, making it the only 8 sided pyramid. This effect is only visible from the air.
