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Photo by Neil Martin on UnsplashBuckingham Palace
↗The royal palace in central London that serves as the monarch’s principal workplace and a ceremonial centre of the British monarchy.
Colosseum
↗The Colosseum is a first-century Roman amphitheatre built by the Flavian emperors for public spectacles in the center of Rome.
Eiffel Tower
↗An iron landmark in Paris built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle.
Grand Canyon
↗The Grand Canyon is a vast river-carved landscape in Arizona that exposes an unusually long and visible record of Earth's geologic history.
Great Barrier Reef
↗The world’s largest coral reef system, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
Great Wall of China
↗The Great Wall of China is an extensive network of fortifications built across northern China during many dynasties and historical periods.
Machu Picchu
↗Machu Picchu is a fifteenth-century Inca settlement set high in Peru's Andes within a protected mountain and tropical-forest landscape.
Mount Everest
↗Mount Everest is the Himalayan peak with the highest elevation above sea level, standing on the border between Nepal and China's Tibet region.
Statue of Liberty
↗The Statue of Liberty is a copper monument on Liberty Island, presented by France and dedicated in New York Harbor in 1886.
Taj Mahal
↗The Taj Mahal is a seventeenth-century white-marble mausoleum complex in Agra, India, commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.