I'm boycotting being a tourist at all the wonders until the Space Elevator is available. That's where my bucket list will start.
So Which Wonders Have You Seen IRL?
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I'm boycotting being a tourist at all the wonders until the Space Elevator is available. That's where my bucket list will start.
Americans have an unfair advantage here. 
Apostolic Palace, Notre Dame, Stonehenge, Eiffel Tower, Hagia Sophia, Kremlin, Sistine Chapel and Versailles. Hopefully will make it to Angkor Wat in a few months.
Globe Theatre, Hermitage and Oxford for the national wonders.
Apostolic Palace, Notre Dame, Stonehenge, Eiffel Tower, Hagia Sophia, Kremlin, Sistine Chapel and Versailles. Hopefully will make it to Angkor Wat in a few months.Globe Theatre, Hermitage and Oxford for the national wonders.
Rusty Edge
Deity
Americans have an unfair advantage here.
Globe Theatre, Hermitage and Oxford for the national wonders.
Europeans have a pretty good starting location, also.
Let me know if and when you get over here.
I'm a Canadian, but have been fortunate enough to see all of these Civ4 and Civ5 wonders:
Apostolic Palace
Big Ben
Brandenburg Gate
Broadway
Chichen Itza
Eiffel Tower
Hollywood
Notre Dame
Pentagon
Rock N Roll
Sistine Chapel
Statue of Liberty
The Louvre
The United Nations
Versailles
Red Cross - if giving blood counts
Wall Street - if just walking on it counts, or losing money on it
Apostolic Palace
Big Ben
Brandenburg Gate
Broadway
Chichen Itza
Eiffel Tower
Hollywood
Notre Dame
Pentagon
Rock N Roll
Sistine Chapel
Statue of Liberty
The Louvre
The United Nations
Versailles
Red Cross - if giving blood counts
Wall Street - if just walking on it counts, or losing money on it
Ray Patterson
the dude is not in
Apostolic Palace - though it's not so easy to notice it apart from the Vatican Museum... the graphics are actually St. Peter's Cathedral
Notre Dame - tip: climb the towers (or the one that's in the tour XD), the gargoyles really are inspiring, Victor Hugo was on to something.
Stonehenge - sadly not during solstice, so I couldn't walk through it, just around.
Eiffel Tower - I actually once had a rendez-vous after half a year of absence with a French girl under the Eiffel Tower. Sounds better than it was though.
Hagia Sophia - amazing, notwithstanding the steep entry fee. Ironically the Turks preserved the Byzantine mozaics perfectly, by plastering them over.
Parthenon - ok, I guess. You can't go inside, it's kind of reconstructed, half the sculptures are in London... I'm quite into archeology but this place sort of tries to bridge the gap between archeological and reconstructed site and it doesn't really work imo.
Sistine Chapel - Probably my favorite from this list, that I've seen anyway. The Civilization II movie captures it perfectly, it really is a divine piece of art.
Notre Dame - tip: climb the towers (or the one that's in the tour XD), the gargoyles really are inspiring, Victor Hugo was on to something.
Stonehenge - sadly not during solstice, so I couldn't walk through it, just around.
Eiffel Tower - I actually once had a rendez-vous after half a year of absence with a French girl under the Eiffel Tower. Sounds better than it was though.
Hagia Sophia - amazing, notwithstanding the steep entry fee. Ironically the Turks preserved the Byzantine mozaics perfectly, by plastering them over.
Parthenon - ok, I guess. You can't go inside, it's kind of reconstructed, half the sculptures are in London... I'm quite into archeology but this place sort of tries to bridge the gap between archeological and reconstructed site and it doesn't really work imo.
Sistine Chapel - Probably my favorite from this list, that I've seen anyway. The Civilization II movie captures it perfectly, it really is a divine piece of art.
Manfred Belheim
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Not a sausage. I haven't even managed to see Stonehenge, the Globe Theatre or Oxford University, which is a bit lazy of me.
JesusOnEez
Emperor
Hmmm...
Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame on a day trip to Paris
Chichen Itza on an excursion while holidaying in Mexico in 2007.
Stonehenge on a drive past on the way to Devon.
Globe Theatre on a London day trip.
Oh, and bits of the Parthenon we stole from Greece that are sitting in the British Museum!
Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame on a day trip to Paris
Chichen Itza on an excursion while holidaying in Mexico in 2007.
Stonehenge on a drive past on the way to Devon.
Globe Theatre on a London day trip.
Oh, and bits of the Parthenon we stole from Greece that are sitting in the British Museum!
paladin_soul
Chieftain
Internet!!!!!
Alright, having never been abroad before, I only went to Beijing last year and had a vision of the Great Wall.
Alright, having never been abroad before, I only went to Beijing last year and had a vision of the Great Wall.
2metraninja
Defender of Nabaxica
Pics or it did not happened! It might become nice collection of civfanatics posing in front of world and national wonders
I'll start with my only visited - the Globe Theater. Which is a shame, as I live just few hours driving from half the ancient wonders
. But this will make nice challenge
And I think The Internet could be considered CERN in Switzerland.
I'll start with my only visited - the Globe Theater. Which is a shame, as I live just few hours driving from half the ancient wonders
. But this will make nice challenge And I think The Internet could be considered CERN in Switzerland.
Attachments
An mushroom cloud would be possible ^^.
Everyone who also has a Civ box on the image gets a big digital cookie from me.
Pics or it did not happened! It might become nice collection of civfanatics posing in front of world and national wonders
Everyone who also has a Civ box on the image gets a big digital cookie from me
.
r_rolo1
King of myself
The Internet technically is not a wonder
Same for Apollo ...Oh and @ Arnold_T : where the %#&&$ is Rock N Roll ? Graceland ?
Let me see my share ...
Versailles
Eiffel Tower
Notre Dame
Parthenon
Oracle ( or what's left of it :/ )
Palace ( My country has a boatload of them ... I live 5 Km of 3 Royal palaces, just for starters ( this one, this one and this one ( sorry , no english wiki in here :/ ) ) and I've been in all of the Palaces that are linked in the bottom of the wiki pages of the first two
)National Park ( the first royal palace in the previous item is on a National Park
That's something you don't see often in Civ IV )@The_J
I might get that done if I have the time ( for the Palace, though
)
Oh and @ Arnold_T : where the %#&&$ is Rock N Roll ? Graceland ?
Personally I'd say that counts
.Else the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.
@The_J
I might get that done if I have the time ( for the Palace, though
Sadly I don't think that will be very recognizable :/.
sydhe
King of Kongs
You should have dropped by the Forbidden City, which I believe is the Forbidden Palace in the game.
Still no luck
I actually have seen none of the wonders. I have rarely left Canada.
The7Sins
Hungry Burger
I assume seeing on TV does not count right?
Well for me I've seen 2. The Pentagon seen from a distance while driving through DC. And the Statue of Liberty seen from a distance while driving through NY. Both were seen a day apart from each other. (I was on a road trip from Georgia to extreme northern New Hampshire 500 feet from the Canadian border to visit my grandparents.)
Well for me I've seen 2. The Pentagon seen from a distance while driving through DC. And the Statue of Liberty seen from a distance while driving through NY. Both were seen a day apart from each other. (I was on a road trip from Georgia to extreme northern New Hampshire 500 feet from the Canadian border to visit my grandparents.)
Abegweit
Anarchist trader
Apostolic Palace
Broadway (once lived there)
Status of Liberty
Eiffel Tower
Notre Dame
Versailles (lived there too; well actually two blocks away)
Hollywood
UN
Civilized Jewellers (the Diamond district of NYC)
Despite being to DC several times, I don't recall seeing the Pentagon.
From other versions of civ: Hoover Dam and Big Ben.
Broadway (once lived there)
Status of Liberty
Eiffel Tower
Notre Dame
Versailles (lived there too; well actually two blocks away)
Hollywood
UN
Civilized Jewellers (the Diamond district of NYC)
Despite being to DC several times, I don't recall seeing the Pentagon.
From other versions of civ: Hoover Dam and Big Ben.
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