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@culturaltutor: 14 alternative Wonders of the ...

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14 alternative Wonders of the World:
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Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz, Argentina

A cave filled with hundreds of stenciled handprints dating back to 7,000 BC. Remarkable not only because of its age, but because these prints bring our prehistoric ancestors to life in a thoroughly unique and deeply relatable way.
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Kailasha Temple, Maharashtra, India

The largest of the many Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain temples carved into the basalt cliffs at Ellora over 1,000 years ago.

This vast complex, filled with separate chambers, arcades, and reliefs, was all cut from a single, massive piece of rock.
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Doge's Palace & St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy

The two greatest buildings in what might just be Europe's greatest city — and certainly the most unusual.

They each represent the zenith of two styles, Byzantine & Gothic, and taken together are unmatched on the continent.
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Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali

Originally built in the 13th century and repaired over the centuries by the people of Djenné, this is a wonder of Sudano-Sahelian architecture and a lasting testament to the great Medieval civilisations of West Africa.
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Skara Brae, Orkney, Scotland

Not exactly monumental, but this cluster of stone houses at Skara Brae, hidden on an island in the far north of Scotland, are 1,000 years older than the Pyramids.

A genuinely unique relic of prehistoric humanity, complete with Neolithic toilets.
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Rock-cut Temples of Lalibela, Ethiopia

King Gebre Meskel of Ethiopia, because he couldn't go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, decided to build his own version of the city in the 13th century.

11 churches cut from the living rock, sacred to this day, and still awe-inspiring.
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Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, France

A miracle of Medieval architecture with original 13th century stained glass windows that have, somehow, survived centuries of French chaos.

Not as large as many of the great Gothic cathedrals, but surely unequalled in its perfection of the style.
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Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

A ruined city in the heart of Zimbabwe, believed to be the capital of a lost, mighty kingdom.

A fortified hilltop temple, a town, and a citadel, all breath-taking and all, still, shrouded in a great deal of mystery and speculation.
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The Art Deco Skyscrapers of New York, USA

More than one building, of course, but the skyscrapers of 1920s and 1930s New York feel like part of one large array.

Unique now and likely to be unique forever; the apotheosis of Art Deco and all that it represented.
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Rani Ki Vav, Gujarat, India

Of India's many great stepwells this is, perhaps, the very greatest. A place that still beggars belief, at once an important piece of public infrastructure and a subterranean temple, filled with colonnades and a cacophony of elaborate sculpture.
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Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet

The former residence of the Dalai Lamas, built nearly 4,000 metres high just to the north of the Hamalayas and towering over the city of Lhasa. A mythical fortress that feels more like something from fiction than real life.
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The Alhambra, Granada, Spain

A fortress-palace built by the Nasrids to be their royal paradise on earth. Though imposing from the outside, the interior of the Alhambra is a dreamlike procession of delightful and delicate courtyards, gardens, and hallways. Magical.
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Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, USA

Modern methods meet ancient style: this Gothic skyscraper was built with limestone and steel in the 1920s and 1930s, and is the second tallest university building in the world.

Surely a landmark and model for all educational architecture.
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Metropolitan Area Underground Discharge Channel, Saitama, Japan

Not "architecture" as we usually think about it, but this is a triumph of modern engineering — a vast subterranean cathedral of concrete designed to prevent flooding.

What will future archaeologists make of it?
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What else would you add to this list?
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