The Colossus of Rhodes.

   The Colossus of Rhodes was a great bronze statue, erected in about 280 BC by 
   the citizens of Rhodes, capital of the Greek island of the same name. It 
   represented their sun-god Helios and was said to be 105 feet high. According 
   to legend, it straddled the harbor entrance, but it is more likely that it 
   stood to one side. The statue was overthrown by an earthquake in 224 BC but 
   its huge fragments long were regarded with wonder. Nearly a thousand years 
   later, in AD 656, a Muslim dealer bought the fragments as old metal and 
   carried them away to be melted down.