Town of Luang Prabang
Former capital city with an interesting fusion of traditional Lao architecture with European colonial styles.
Former capital city with an interesting fusion of traditional Lao architecture with European colonial styles.
Remains of a town and other monuments dating to the Dvaravati Empire, origin of the Si Thep School of Art.
Ruins of a Neolithic settlement 6000-9000 years old.
Four churches built in a uniquely Filipino form of Baroque architecture.
An area of extraordinary natural beauty with distinctive karst formations and cave ecosystems.
46 charming traditional villages connected by a network of cobbled paths, arched bridges and stone staircases.
Archeological sites showing evidence of 1.83 million years of continuous hominid habitation.
A 12th-century cathedral with a mix of Romanesque and Gothic elements.
A beautiful vineyard-covered landscape of terraced hillsides, almost a thousand years old.
Ruins of an ancient town, much of it Roman-era, and birthplace of the cult of Venus.
A strategically-important port city dominated by two Venetian fortresses and showing influences from later French, British and Greek rule.
A group of 6th-7th-century Hindu temples where the capital of the Chenla Empire once stood.
An 11th-century Hindu temple complex in an isolated and dramatic location, with remarkably well-preserved architecture and art.
10th-century temples from a short-lived capital city, origin of the Koh Ker style of sculpture.
A huge trans-national site, significant in terms of geological processes, ecological zones, biodiversity and beauty.
A centuries-old Puebloan community that still practices the traditional ways, living in distinctive adobe houses.
A charming medieval town known for its tall towers and Sienese Gothic artworks.
A monument of religious architecture from the Carolingian period of European unification under Charlemagne.
A small city where influences from three different world religions are visible in its architecture and art.
A beautiful park of volcanoes, lakes and waterfalls, perfect for hiking.
A 9th-century complex of hundreds of Hindu and Buddhist temples with stone carvings that are masterpieces of Siva art.
A beautiful subtropical nature reserve that is home to hundreds of species, including endangered animals like the Bengal tiger and the one-horned rhinoceros.
A monastery complex from the Bulgarian Renaissance, important to the spiritual and social life of Bulgaria.
A geologically complex volcano and the otherworldly landscape around it.
A site used for 6,000 years by Plains people to hunt buffalo by driving them over a cliff.
A picturesque segment of the Danube Valley with beautiful scenery and charming towns and villages.
An area of coral reefs, cays, atolls and other features supporting a huge variety of flora and fauna.
A museum city of architecture of the Portuguese golden age.
A stunning example of Mughal architecture in the form of a fortress containing palaces, audience halls and mosques.
Thirty ancient caves carved into a cliff wall, many of them filled with Buddhist paintings and sculpture.
A river valley landscape shaped by centuries of Port wine cultivation and production.
Five cave temples decorated with Buddhist paintings and sculpture, a place of pilgrimage for 2000 years.
An elegant ensemble of architecturally important buildings from the 17th and early 18th century.
A stunningly beautiful park with mountains, lakes and forests, and the second-oldest trees in the world.
Hundreds of ruins of temples and other structures of the vanished Vijayanagara kingdom.
Peter the Great’s planned city of stunning Baroque architecture.