Seven Ancient Wonders

Only one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the world survives, the Great Pyramid of Giza. So this list of the ancient wonders is pretty useless if you want to visit the "seven wonders". The full list in order of their constructionas as per Wikipedia is:

Wonder	Date	Builder	Destroyed	Cause
Great Pyramid of Giza	2550 BC	Egyptians	n/a	n/a
Hanging Gardens of Babylon	600 BC	Babylonians	?	earthquake
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus	550 BC	Anatolians	356 BC	fire
Statue of Zeus at Olympia	435 BC	Greeks	?	fire
Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus	351 BC	Hellenized Carians	?	earthquake
Colossus of Rhodes	292-280 BC	Hellenistic civilization	224 BC	earthquake
Lighthouse of Alexandria	3rd century BC	Hellenistic civilization	?	earthquake

Also some remains of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus are in the British Museum, so you check them out also.

Number of wonders I've seen from this list: 0/7.

Seven Wonders of the World

Maybe this should be a website rather than a blog, but who cares. I just wanted somewhere to record my progress on visiting them.

Well, it seems there a several "categories" for the "seven wonders of the world", check out Seven Wonders at Wikipedia. Let's list each set of wonders in separate posts.