No surprise here. 

Taj Mahal, a monument of love from Mughal king Shah Jahan to his late wife Arjumand Bano Begum (a.k.a. Mumtaz Mahal), was picked by online voters as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Construction of Taj Mahal started in 1632 and was completed in 1648.

Some twenty thousand laborers are estimated to have been employed to build the tomb.

Designed by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, the marble wonder and a symbol of love stands on a raised platform with four minarets at each of the corners. The minarets are 41.6 m high and have a slant outwards. It is believed that the minarets were designed to slant deliberately to prevent them from falling on the tomb in an unlikely event of an earthquake.

The central dome is 187 feet high.

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