On some sites, you can also look at of the locale, watch videos about it and see photos of it, some of them gleaned from sources such as Getty Images and Ourplace.

A number of education guides for about a half-dozen of the sites in the project are also offered for students at World Wonders.

World Wonders was developed under the auspices of the Google Cultural Institute, which, in the past, has brought to the Internet such gems as the and the archives of Nelson Mandela.

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