The Seven Most Photographed Landmarks in the World

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  03.26.10 | 11:07 AM ET

Photo by Al Ianni, via Flickr (Creative Commons)

As determined by a Cornell University study (pdf), they are:

1) The Eiffel Tower
2) Trafalgar Square
3) The Tate Modern
4) Big Ben
5) Notre Dame Cathedral
6) The London Eye
7) The Empire State Building

As far as I can tell, students at Cornell’s Department of Computer Science used data from Flickr to determine the images. I gave up all hope of trying to totally comprehend the analysis, though, when I came across this in the study’s text: