Examines the amazing architectural achievements of the ancient world known as the Seven Wonders of the World, including the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and the Colossus of Rhodes.

Features seven wonders of the natural world including the Grand Canyon, the Great Barrier Reef, and Mount Everest, and shows how they were formed and why they are changing.

Discusses how the Grand Canyon was formed, its early exploration, and the plants and animals found there.

Describes what meteors are and how they are formed, where they come from, different types of meteors, and how they have been studied.

Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears-and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue. At...