Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca
A beautiful Spanish colonial city that shows successful blending of cultures.
A beautiful Spanish colonial city that shows successful blending of cultures.
A city that combines old and new: modern town planning that incorporates traditional cultural values.
Huge images and straight lines drawn in the desert by pre-Columbian people.
An historic port city of multiple cultural and architectural influences as a result of its importance in the slave trade.
Pre-Columbian Mayan ruins deep in the rainforest, important in terms of both archeology and biodiversity.
A unique natural environment of dramatic landscapes and ecosystems representing evolutionary history.
Old-growth laurel forests, important for hydrological balance and biodiversity.
A remote place of rugged beauty in its fringing reef and its arid mountains, gorges and canyons.
Where the best coffee in the world is produced: a stunning and culturally rich region set in the heart of Colombia.
Elegant and grand 17th-century royal residence and park, seat of the French monarchy from Louis XIV to Louis XVI.
Picture-perfect traditional rural villages, unchanged since the feudal period.
Underground burial chambers, some with bright wall paintings, that offer insight into Korea’s Korguryo kingdom.
A cathedral that mixed European and regional influences in a new Latin American society.
Testimony to civic autonomy and market freedoms of a Hanseatic League city.
Caves devoted to the Hindu deity Shiva, containing art dating to the 5th and 6th centuries.
Elegant timber-built church architecture, filled with bright vernacular religious imagery.
An exceptional example of Korean palace architecture and design in harmony with the surrounding landscape.
A perfectly-preserved example of a phenomenon unique to rural Sweden: a town shaped by religious and social necessity.
A very remote location with dramatic beehive rock formations.
A potent symbol for Americans and the world, representing freedom and democracy.
Evocative archeological site with 1000+ temples testifying to an exceptional civilization.
Beautiful home to the Komodo dragon and a richly biodiverse conservation area.
A collection of ancient petroglyphs dating back to the Bronze Age.
An island known for its biodiversity, prehistoric ruins, and ancient agrarian landscape.
Bedrock eroded by glaciers makes for an exceptionally beautiful natural environment of cliffs, sequoia groves, waterfalls and meadows.
An undisputed masterpiece of Gothic architecture.
An intact medieval fortified city.
A medieval cathedral in a unique mix of styles that inspired cathedrals throughout Northern Europe.
A symbol of Denmark’s former power as it guarded the narrow entrance to the Baltic Sea. Shakespeare’s inspiration for Elsinore.
The place where King Harald Bluetooth in 965 AD declared Denmark a unified country and announced its Christianization.
Remains of a copper mining area that influenced the mining industry worldwide.
Fancifully decorated farmhouses built for special occasions by prosperous farmers.
Considered the birthplace of the United States, where both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed.
The tallest memorial column in Czechia, a masterpiece of Moravian Baroque.
Evidence of a prehistoric transition from nomadic to sedentary societies around oases.
A complete and well-preserved village in the South Bohemian Folk Baroque style.