World Landmarks Jigsaw

Pictures in this puzzle

Every picture here was made for Trivio — 11 of them, and each one is a separate round. Assemble it and the game asks you what it is.

• Eiffel TowerOn hot days the sun-facing iron expands enough that the tower stands about 15 centimetres taller, and its top leans as much as 18 centimetres away from the sun.
• Taj MahalThe building is otherwise rigorously symmetrical, but Shah Jahan's own cenotaph was added off-centre beside his wife's, the single element that breaks the symmetry.
• Pyramids of GizaAt about 146 metres when completed, it remained the tallest human-made structure on Earth for more than 3,700 years, until the great medieval cathedral spires of England finally overtook it.
• Machu PicchuHiram Bingham, who brought the site to world attention in 1911, was actually hunting for Vilcabamba, the last refuge of the Inca, and wrongly concluded he had found it.
• Sydney Opera HouseIts shells are clad in 1,056,006 tiles laid in a subtle chevron pattern, custom-developed over three years with Swedish maker Hoganas in two finishes - glossy white and matte cream - so the roof shimmers rather than glares.
• Statue of LibertyIts copper skin is only about 2.4 millimetres thick, roughly two stacked pennies, and the green colour is a patina that formed over some three decades of weathering.
• Al-Khazneh (The Treasury), PetraIts Arabic name means 'the Treasury' because locals believed a pharaoh's gold was hidden in the stone urn at the top, which is pocked with bullet marks from generations of people shooting at it to break it open.
• El Castillo (Temple of Kukulcán), Chichén ItzáThe pyramid is nested like a Russian doll — archaeologists found an earlier pyramid inside it containing a red-painted jaguar throne, and in 2016 electrical-resistivity scans indicated a third, still smaller structure at the core.
• Sagrada FamíliaConstruction began in 1882 and ran for more than 130 years with no valid building permit — Barcelona finally issued one on 7 June 2019, after the basilica's trustees agreed in October 2018 to pay the city 36 million euros.
• Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor)The 30-metre figure — 38 metres including its pedestal — is clad in a mosaic of thousands of small triangular soapstone tiles, and its face was modelled by the Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida, working under the French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski.
• Great Mosque of DjennéThe largest mud-brick building in the world is replastered by hand every year by the whole town in a festival called the crépissage, when people climb the bundles of palm wood projecting from the walls — the torons — which double as permanent built-in scaffolding.