Of the great wonders of humankind, which ones do you think are the most fantastic? Which would you be most likely or interested in visiting? Which ones deserve to be included on the list and which ones left off? Please feel free to include modern wonders...as the only ancient wonders left standing are the pyramids!

(Please limit your selections to human-made items and not natural wonders! Thanks!)

I just thought one of the seven ancient wonders: the library of Alexandreia (sorry for the spelling ) I love libraries and I would be delighted to visit it, if it still existed of course. So many works and books burnt, destroyed, what a pity! Ok, if I can't have this I'll turn to the library of the Vatican, must be interesting I suppose it's human made.

I think Angkor, especially Angkor Wat would be one of most fascinating man made wonders to visit. I have seen many pictures of the temple and its exotic beauty. I am not too familiar with the Khmer’s history in Cambodia and to really enjoy the site I would need to do a background study. Maybe by the time I learn about Angkor, Cambodia will be less politically unstable and have fewer land mines.

The modern day home computer is, to my mind, the most fantastic human-made wonder. It's easy for us to overlook this since it is so commonplace that we take it for granted.

Jazz! The computer may be a wonder of technology But What about all the wonderful Rock Art we've been left by our ancestors?? Think about it! All the geoglyphs of the Altacama-there's 5000 of them on the landscape! And the black and red bulls running across the cave walls of Lascaux! And the etchings discovered in 2000 of wild horses on the cave walls of Cussac? Aren't all the pictographs, etchings, sculptures, geoglyphs, and petroglyphs true wonders and monuments to the creativity from our prehistoric ancestors?

I think you're talking to Jim/Justawful there Linda my dear! lol

Anyhow, I like your suggestion about the cave paintings at Lascaux and elsewhere, we don't hear much about them. I have also seen graffiti rock (I believe it's called) in southern Utah, tons of Native American rock art. Vikan's suggestion is swell too, Angkor Wat is a fantastic wonder of architecture. The whole complex is surrounded by and ensconced in a very advanced water works system that would rival any modern irrigational contrivance. The Hindu art that can be found there probably is unsurpassed in brilliance and scale. Borobudur on the island of Java is another fantastic monumental complex of Southeast Asia. Created around 800 A.D., this structure is a giant mandela meant to resemble the mythological Hindu Mt. Meru. I haven't been there, but I'm dying to go...I had an professor who did such a lovely job describing it that I suggested afterward he apply for a position at the ministry of travel in Indonesia! I think in general people in the West aren't very aware of the wonderful monuments available to visit in Asia. I highly recommend that people go there and enjoy!

Sorry, Jazz! Please consider the sentence I aimed straight at Jazz to be aimed at you, OK? And Jazz can call me the moron, if he likes! You do have a good point on the computer, though. We'd not be in the Forum without it! Has anyone thought of starting the topic: What do you think is the greatest invention?