8. Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer
– nearly 2 million visitors each year, according to AirPano.
This lifelike depiction of Jesus Christ is 30 meters tall, including an 8-meter pedestal. The arm span alone reaches 28 meters. A variety of artists collaborated to create it, including French sculptor Paul Landowski, Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, French engineer Albert Caquot and Romanian artist Gheorghe Leonida. It resides at the top of the Corcovado Mountain which overlooks Rio, Brazil. It first appeared in 1931 and has remained a powerful symbol of Christianity ever since.
