What are the seven man-made wonders of the world?
The United Nations’ World Heritage Convention (part of UNESCO) has compiled an inventory of the world’s wonders that it plans to preserve and protect. To qualify, a site must be judged to have outstanding universal value, either natural, like Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, or cultural, like Haiti’s Citadel and Sans Souci and France’s Chartres Cathedral. Among the hundreds of sites listed by the World Heritage Convention are the ancient city of Cuzco in Peru, Virunga National Park in Zaire, the U.S.’s Statue of Liberty, Altamira Cave in Spain, and Sri Lanka’s sacred city of Anuradhapura. You can read more about some of the World Heritage Sites in the Society’s book Our World’s Heritage, published in 1987.
