20 Jaw-Dropping Landmarks You Need to See Once in Your Life

Embrace Your Inner Explorer and Stumble Across These Magical Destinations

From ancient monuments to modern-day feats of engineering, the world has no shortage of jaw-dropping landmarks to explore. Every traveler needs to experience these twenty wonders at least once in their lifetime. Ready to tick off your bucket list?

1. The Great Wall of China

We couldn’t start a list like this without the significant feat of human ingenuity that is the Great Wall of China. Snaking through the countryside of northern China, it’s a landmark that will leave you in awe.

2. The Colosseum

Rome’s famous Colosseum has been standing since 80AD and still maintains its grandeur and power to this day. As one of the key symbols of ancient Rome, visiting this iconic sports arena is a must.

3. Machu Picchu

Hidden away in the Andean Mountains, the mystical city of Machu Picchu is an engineering marvel. It’s carefully placed amongst the mighty peaks and meandering rivers, illuminated by soft rays of sunlight that filter through the valleys.

4. The Petra Treasury

From hiking through sun-kissed canyons to walking through temples and treasury buildings, Petra’s ancient ruins hold significance to tales from every age, not to mention the sheer magnificence of its large facades, like the Treasury itself.

5. The Swiss Alps

The breathtaking Swiss Alps are nature at its finest – candy-colored wildflower-driven meadows, sparkling icy peaks, soul-stirring mountainous valleys, and fresh milk and cheese straight from the farmers themselves. What beats watching dawn rising across towering Alpine peaks?

6. The Parthenon

Stand atop Athens Acropolis and marvel at the enormous and timeless legacy of Ancient Greece. Much more than a simple tourist attraction, the Parthenon was a temple illustrating the invincibility and strength of Athena, daughter of Zeus.

7. Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls remains most known for its impressive scale and spectacular appearance which generates around 6 million cubic feet of water over the falls per minute, however there is a considerable scale of hiking paths, pristine wilderness spaces, photo-worthy outdoor-style adventures abound.

8. The Acropolis

The crowning jewel of Lisbon’s historic sites, the colorful wonder of the Acropolis overlooks the town. While walking among these ruins, imagine sounds of Roman legions and ancient chariots and bring yourself into a world of Greek myths.

9. The Golden Gate Bridge

The jaw-dropping vision that is San Francisco’s infamous Golden Gate Bridge lights up the sky in magnificent fashion come sunset. Share the magic of this grand architecture as you walk across her velvet pathway, jog or bike along the grade below, even sail into the setting sun beyond.

10. Machrie Moor Stone Circle

Inhabiting the heat and toughness of Scotland, people could first walk through these enchanted forests, along raised bog and earthy stumps before a collection of memorial cairns and towering, ages-old standing stones appears…

11. The Taj Mahal

Considered to be the zenith of Mughal art within their dynasty – the Taj Mahal and its luscious rolling parks achieve crystalline reflection in brilliant simplicity.

12. The Hill of Crosses

Speaking entirely outside that of conventional thought – the Hill of Crosses is a modern dedication transcending only the hope that Eastern Europe will not fall to forget itself beyond its haunting iron curtain.

13. The Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrief Reef is one of Australia’s golden treasures, little can prepare you for the visualisation steps deep into this seemingly unearthly spiritual longing filled with cruising home-grown luminaries rare in any other reef.

14. Stonehenge

A famously prehistoric heritage sight is described as sublime by worldly authorities represents a walking paradox – its simplicity or its complexity creates new and old understandings between cultures and blocks of political power.

15. The Grand Canyon

An incredible American wonder was forged in a river over 17 million years ago, and you’ll never forget the experience of walking along the edge of its jaw-dropping terrains, the sky-blues and orange sunsets can easily instigate epiphanies to relieve modern life with timeless knowledge.

16. The Pyramids of Giza

The roots of human culture circling 2580 – 2560 BC remain one of the world’s leading must-sees, in addition to installing deeper spiritual connections with long-standing cultures that preceded your own.

17. Angkor Wat Temple

A recent UNESCO Heritage site and evocatively eternalised through an exhibit at Cambodia’s National Museum in 2018, Angkor Wat remains a benchmark for stylistic variety, form, and general composition without effectually weighing on the surrounding contemporary architecture projects as derelict and dead-tile aesthetic items.

18. The Northern Lights

The miraculous sights of ripe and organic showcases are visible in northern Scandinavia. With night never showing signs of leaving, witness the northern light dances you wait in a barren spot that revels in generating novel tools/ideas to foresee what’s in front of you.

19. The Canal de Panama

The great canal’s monumental value is intertwined in human creation. Panama is full of wild wonder showcasing all sorts of styles contributing sustainer passageways – encompassing fruit bowls in the Caribbean, waterlogging Atlantic wells, carrying bargain brooks around the town, and fighting torrents in front of strange vulture visages.

20. The Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is one of Ancient China’s preserved, tangible expressions of ostentatiously constraining China’s indulgent elitism – celebrating largely Northern infrastructure under one healthy belt punctuating noble metropolis poise while confusing modern-day historic battles with present-day economic pointlessness and decadence.

The World’s Wonders are Calling

While researching the locations to finalize your next travel journey, do extensive research online from the numerous online resources available and get inspired, you could also gather first-hand advice both online and off at travel repair available in your local hostels. While documenting the annals of your adventures through sharing information can enlighten your surroundings you also can bring newfound information into your world creating evergreen travel memories built between you and the international world’s wonders and treasures. Embrace the great wide world!