Which World and Natural Wonders have you visited in Real Life ?

[tedhebert]

Hi all,

I know we've had this kind of thread before, but... It's been over 2 years, thought we'd take another go at it, shall we ?

Myself, I've visited these:

World Wonders: Alhambra, Broadway, Chichen Itza, Colosseum, Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate, Mont St-Michel, Panama Canal, Statue of Liberty, and Sydney Opera House

Natural Wonders: Great Barrier Reef, Vesuvius (well, been at it's foot and visited Pompeii), Piopiotahi (altough without Civ, I'd have no idea that it's name isn't Milford Sounds ;-) ), and Uluru

Still a ways to go, heh ? But not too shabby either ;-)

What about you guys ?

 

[oninowon]

Broadway, Statue of Liberty, and Sydney Opera House

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Oxford, Big Ben, and Mato Tapila (close to where I was born).

 

[Sagax]

World Wonders: Statue of Liberty, Broadway, Golden Gate Bridge, St. Basil’s Cathedral, Bolshoi Theatre, Hermitage, Forbidden City, Orszaghaz.

Natural Wonders: Grand Cany- oh wait...

 

[DeutschDachs]

World Wonders: Big Ben, Broadway, Colosseum, Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, Országház, Statue of Liberty, Stonehenge, Venetian Arsenal

Natural Wonders: Yosemite, Vesuvius (if viewing from Pompeii counts)

 

[The googles do nothing]

World Wonders: Oracle, Colosseum, Golden Gate Bridge (I think as a child), Statue of Liberty (seen from the top of the Empire State Building)

Natural Wonders: Yosemite, Matterhorn

 

[iammaxhailme]

World Wonders (civ 5 and 6 included): Broadway, Statue of Liberty, Anything else in NYC that I'm forgetting (I'm from NYC so I've probably seen them all), Brandenburg Gate, Golden Gate Bridge

Natural Wonders: Giant's Causeway

Are there any in Denmark? I've been there too, but I don't think there are any wonders in the civ games! Oh well

 

[Phoenix1595]

World Wonders: Stonehenge, Broadway, Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Oxford, Golden Gate, Hagia Sofia, Mont St. Michel

Natural Wonders: Yosemite, Cliffs of Dover, Delicate Arch, Matterhorn

 

[durfal]

Been around the world for vacations so visited quite a few.
World Wonders from VI: Angkor Wat, Great Pyramids, Terracotta Army, Chichen Itza, Forbidden City/Palace, Huey Teocalli (the ruins that is), Ruhr Valley, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Broadway, Maracaña Stadium, Cristo Redentor, Sydney Opera House, Kotoku-In, Statue of Liberty, Taj Mahal, Golden Gate Bridge, Machu Picchu.
From V: Great Wall of China, Himeji Castle, Notre Dame, CN Tower, Louvre, Borobudur, Parthenon, Red Fort and UN.
From IV: Hollywood, Wall Street and Versailles. Also Cape Canaveral for the Apollo Program and Arc de Triomphe for the Great Epic.
From III: Hoover Dam.

Natural Wonders: Dead Sea, Great Barrier Reef, Mount Everest (from afar), Pantanal, Piopiotahi, Yosemite, Ha Long Bay, Uluru, Delicate Arch, Pamukkale, Ik-Kil (not sure, was named differently), Mato Tipila (from distance).
From V: Old Faithful, Mount Fuji (from afar), Barringer Crater, Grand Mesa, Krakatau, Cerro de Potosi and Mount Sinai.

 

[gozon]

Broadway, Statue of Liberty, Terracotta Army, Forbidden City, Golden Gate, St. Basil's Cathedral, Hermitage

Yosemite, Crater Lake

(Really want to visit west Europe sometime)

 

[bite]

I've been to

Golden Gate Bridge, Sydney Opera House, Great Barrier Reef & Mt. Fuji

 

[Uberfrog]

WW:

Big Ben (of course)
Oxford University (I grew up near there)
Stonehenge
Alhambra
Broadway
Statue of Liberty (at least from a boat tour)
Colosseum
Eiffel Tower
Golden Gate Bridge (from a distance)
Hagia Sophia
Sydney Opera House
Venetian Arsenal

NW:

Cliffs of Dover
Great Barrier Reef
Mt Vesuvius
Yosemite

I visited Seville as a child, so may have seen the Archive of the Casa de Contratación, but I wouldn’t have known what to look for. I’ve also been to the Cornish version of St Michael’s Mount

I really should get to Northern Ireland and the Giant’s Causeway one of these days.

 

[blackcatatonic]

World Wonders:
Stonehenge (pretty close to where I live!)
Big Ben
Oxford University (have lived and worked in Oxford although I didn't go to uni there)
Colosseum
Alhambra
Eiffel Tower
Mont St. Michel
Országház
Hagia Sophia
Pyramids
Chichen Itza (apparently - I was <1 year old at the time)
Forbidden City
Terracotta Army
Sydney Opera House

Natural Wonders:
Matterhorn
Cliffs of Dover
Mt. Vesuvius
Mt. Kilimanjaro (well, I've been close enough to see, if not actually scale it)
I've flown over Mt. Everest, does that count? Seeing as it's not like many of us are ever going to actually climb it...

I need to travel more. Not ever having been to the States (apart from a four-day visit to the University of Michigan for a conference years ago) really put a dent in my completionism

I really should get to Northern Ireland and the Giant’s Causeway one of these days.

Same! I also want to see the Dark Hedges before they all fall down

 

[AmazonQueen]

WW: Big Ben, Chichen Itza, Colosseum, Eiffel Tower, Hagia Sophia, Machu Piccu, Oxford, Petra, Pyramids, Stonehenge, Taj Mahal, Temple of Artemis, Venetian Arsenal (can't go in as its still a naval base but I've seen it)
NW: White Cliffs, Dead Sea, Mount Vesuvius

 

[Naeshar]

I was about to say none, but I have been to Athens on my honeymoons, soo Temple of Artemis, I guess? And even then I saw Parthenon only from the distance. So none.

Wonders happen to another world.

 

[Uberfrog]

I was about to say none, but I have been to Athens on my honeymoons, soo Temple of Artemis, I guess? And even then I saw Parthenon only from the distance. So none.

Wonders happen to another world.

What's left of the Temple of Artemis is in Ephesus (in what is now Turkey), so even if you'd made it to the Acropolis you'd still have missed out...

 

[Naeshar]

What's left of the Temple of Artemis is in Ephesus (in what is now Turkey), so even if you'd made it to the Acropolis you'd still have missed out...

Thanks for assuring me in my misery.
On the other hand I have seen much other wonderful stuff not considered to be a Wonder yet.

 

[Disgustipated]

Vesuvius maybe, our cab driver was lost when looking for our hotel, it was night, but I think we were on the side of the volcano.

Grand canyon, crater lake, Yosemite, and Delicate Arch. I'll check when I get home if I missed any. Hard on tablet.

Colosseum when I was in the Navy. Collossus . Okay I only visited the city Collosus was once in while I was in the Navy. Came close to golden gate bridge. All I can think of at the moment without seeing the list.

 

[UWHabs]

Natural Wonders: Vesuvius (Pompei), Devil's Tower (maybe? I know I did a driving tour through the US and went near there, don't remember if we passed by it or not), Matterhorn (from across the valley), Ik-Kil (well, not directly, but saw a bunch of Cenotes nearby), Yosemite (I guess the only one I know for sure I visited)
Wonders: Big Ben, Broadway, Chichen Itza, Colosseum, Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, Oracle, Orszaghaz, Oxford Uni, Statue of Liberty, Stonehenge, Taj Mahal, Venetian Arsenal

It was tempting to try to book in to visit the Giants Causeway in April, since I'll be in Dublin. But only there for 4 days, so I don't think it's worth a full day to visit. This will be one of my first trips in recent memory without actually hitting up a Civ wonder/natural wonder.

 

[shaglio]

Statue of Liberty, Broadway

Ho hum