Who Owns Hagia Sophia?
The world's most iconic monuments, each with exactly one holder. Pay more and it's yours — until someone pays more than you.
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92Hagia Sophia
A cathedral, then a mosque, then a museum, then a mosque again, all under one dome.
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Pyramids Of Giza
The only one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world still standing.
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Taj Mahal
Its four minarets lean outward on purpose, so an earthquake would drop them away from the tomb.
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Great Wall Of China
Ming builders mixed sticky rice into the mortar, and it is part of why the bricks still hold.
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Petra
A city carved into rock, whose most famous facade is a tomb with nothing inside.
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Angkor Wat
The largest religious building on earth faces the wrong way, and nobody is sure why.
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Stonehenge
Bought at auction for £6,600 in 1915, then given away three years later.
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Statue Of Liberty
Her torch has been closed to visitors since a 1916 explosion damaged her arm.
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Notre-Dame De Paris
Twenty-one of its beheaded kings turned up under a Paris bank in 1977.
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Saint Basil's Cathedral
Nine churches on one foundation, named after a barefoot man who heckled the Tsar.
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Moai Of Easter Island
Nearly a thousand stone giants on the loneliest inhabited island on Earth, all facing inland.
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Borobudur
A hill dressed in two million stones, forgotten under ash and jungle for centuries.
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Himeji Castle
Japan's largest surviving castle was built for war and never once attacked.
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Persepolis
Alexander burned it in one night; the world forgot its name for centuries.
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Rock-Hewn Churches Of Lalibela
Eleven churches carved downward out of a single volcanic rock, still in daily use.
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Selimiye Mosque
The building Sinan called his masterpiece, finished when he was nearly eighty.
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Temples Of Bagan
More than two thousand brick temples on one plain, raised in 250 years.
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Bulguksa Temple
Korea's most celebrated Buddhist temple was burned in a Japanese invasion and rebuilt centuries later.
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Cologne Cathedral
Construction began in the Middle Ages, stalled for centuries, and was only finished in 1880.
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Ayutthaya
The Siamese capital was sacked and burned by a Burmese army in 1767; its ruins still stand.
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Badshahi Mosque
Built by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, for nearly three centuries among the largest mosques in the world.
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Waiting To Open
15Ten more monuments are on the register but cannot be claimed yet. Each one opens when the total volume on the register crosses its threshold — and starts at $1.
Mohenjo-Daro
A city with planned streets and covered drains, built more than four thousand years ago.
Gyeongbokgung Palace
The main palace of the Joseon dynasty was destroyed twice and is still being rebuilt in central Seoul.
Babylon
Its gate stands in Berlin, and not one Babylonian text mentions the hanging gardens.
Newgrange
Once a year, for seventeen minutes, the sun reaches the floor of a five-thousand-year-old room.
Cueva De Las Manos
Two thousand hand stencils, nine thousand years old, and almost every one is a left hand.
Hegra
The second city of the people who built Petra; most of its hundred and eleven tombs say who lies inside.
On The Register
32Monuments recorded but not yet open for claiming. Each one opens when total spending on that country's monuments crosses its threshold.
Mont-Saint-Michel
An abbey on a rock that the tide turns into an island and back again, twice a day.
Chartres Cathedral
Most of its stained glass is medieval, and it was taken down and hidden through two wars.
Carcassonne
A double-walled medieval city that was on a demolition list as recently as the 1800s.
Aqueduct Of Segovia
A Roman engineering masterpiece standing without a single drop of mortar, held together by gravity and perfect balance.
Edinburgh Castle
A room was bricked shut for over a century, and the Scottish crown was still inside it.
Göbeklitepe
Massive stone pillars erected by hunter-gatherers, thousands of years before agriculture and settled life.
Cappadocia
A landscape soft enough to carve, so people carved churches and whole cities into it.
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