The new Seven Wonders of the World: What's your choice?

It is breath-taking. Standing up there you can't imagine how people built it without modern technology, or even knowledge of the wheel. A benefit of both of my parents being from Peru is that I have been to MP three times. The altitude is brutal on the body, though. I went one time probably at the height of my physical capabilities. I was 18 years old, on the soccer team and I ran sub-six minutes miles. In Cuzco, I couldn't walk 10 feet without losing my breath.

 

Machu Picchu qualifies. So does the Great Wall, and Notre Dame, too. The idea of the ANCIENT wonders was they were the cutting edge technology of their day as far as construction was concerned, and everybody who had any idea there was an outside world knew it. As far as American wonders go, I'd put the skylines of New York and Chicago way ahead of the Statue of Liberty. The Golden Gate would count. The Sydney Opera House is a world's wonder of the modern variety. Maybe that Frank Lloyd Wright house in Wisconsin with the creek running through it. It's a good topic for discussion. In one way, if you were to pick the American structure that'll outlast us and was a marvel of construction that typifyed our society, it'd have to be be the Interstate.

 

I'd love to visit Machu Picchu.
South America, Antartica and Australia are still left on the travel list.


Mike, I think the Wright house you're think of is Falling Water. If so, it's in Pennsylvania.

 

The Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo.

 

Very cool place.

 

Yeah, as Cosmo would say, I spent a month there one night ...

 

Mrs. OTD and I stayed in the Caveman Room at the Madonna Inn one fine weekend. To call it kitsch might be understating it.

 

Being the movie nut I am, Machu Pichu is in The Motorcycle Diaries.

And the Cambodian temple is in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (the first one).

Not the same as seeing it in person, I know, but the flicks will still give you a feel for the sites.

 

I haven't seen either in person yet. I saw 'The Motorcycle Diaries' and the scene at Machu Picchu is great. I never saw 'Tomb Raider,' but I've seen plenty of images from both places.
I'll get there one day.

 

Sirs, Madames,

UND's hockey arena would be up there.

YHS, etc

 

I can't recommend 'Tomb Raider' as a movie, but the temple stuff was cool.

 

Solid points, however, (even though you said American structure) I would take the Autobahn over the interstate