the eighth wonder of the world

“I knew that SoFi Stadium would become the Eighth Wonder of the World,” said Anthony Noto, chief executive of SoFi, the online personal finances company.

Located in rugged Shasta County, Burney Falls — a 129-foot wall of water that President Theodore Roosevelt once dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World” — has been a local secret for much of its history.

The court stood in the middle of the Astrodome, which touted itself as the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” and even the fans who shelled out the big bucks for the best seats in the house needed binoculars to see the action 40 yards away.

To see a group of engineers gush over the blimp hangars at the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station, you would think the giant structures were the eighth wonder of the world.

Thousands flocked to watch his shows, while the press labelled him "the wonder of the century" and the "eighth wonder of the world", magician Bill Larsen notes in an article in magic magazine Genii.