Wonders Of The World

From wall paintings made in a European cave complex in the Stone Age to glass and steel skyscrapers erected in the desert of Arabia in the 21st century, humankind has created wonders in nearly every corner of the globe. This oversized album celebrates 88 such creations in dramatic two-page images (17? ? 13 inches) with sidebar captions. Here are megalithic monuments at Stonehenge and Carnac, memorials honoring divine rulers at Giza and Abu Simbel, triumphs of hydrology at Petra and M'zab, modern engineering marvels like the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge, national icons like the Sydney Opera House and Mount Rushmore, and citadels and castles from Essaouira's ramparts and Granada's Alhambra to Bavaria's Neuschwanstein.