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Looking up at the facade of the building, with a 2-storey high rounded section with long rectangles of glass and decorative pillars.

Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)

Four pioneering works of architecture in Art Nouveau style.

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View of the Tower of London from one of its corners: stone walls, crenellations, towers.

Tower of London

A historic castle used as palace, fortress and prison since the days of William the Conquerer.

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Seen across a broad flat area, a large palace, white and symmetrical.

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy

A series of palaces and estates in and around Turin that exemplify baroque architecture.

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View over granite pinnacles.

Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve

A stunning landscape of granite pinnacles in a nature reserve protecting endemic species.

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A distant view of Sydney Opera House, with its white rounded shapes.

Sydney Opera House

A landmark of 20th-century architecture on Sydney Harbor.

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An orange and white clown fish in an anemone.

Great Barrier Reef

An enormous biologically-diverse coral reef along Australia’s east coast.

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View over mountains.

Greater Blue Mountains

Several nature reserves that are home to a huge diversity of flora, representing species important to the evolution of plant life.

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The red rock stands out from a perfectly flat green and brown landscape.

Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park

An awe-inspiring rock formation that is sacred to the local indigenous people, and similar red-rock domes not far away.

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Looking at the building of Mafra from an angle: a very baroque design. Trees are flowering pink nearby.

Royal Building of Mafra

One of the most impressive baroque structures in all of Portugal.

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A very detailed bas-relief depiction in Ellora Caves of human-like figures, with a man and a woman prominent in the center.

Ellora Caves

34 stunning stone-cut caves with carved and painted images from three different religions.

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Seen from the water, several houses on a gentle slope, some intact, some ruins, at Port Arthur Historic Site, one of the Australian Convict Sites.

Australian Convict Sites

Eleven separate locations that illustrate elements of the 19th-century British penal system of “transportation” to Australia.

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View of Humayun's tomb from an angle: the ground floor is much larger than the upper floors, which rise from the center, with a central dome.

Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi

A 16th-century tomb within a complex of tombs, the first garden tomb and the inspiration for the Taj Mahal.

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The Library of Celsus seen from close by: columns frame 4 doorways on the ground floor and 3 on the upper floor. Each set of pillars holds a square pediment over the door.

Ephesus

An ancient port city with ruins from the Greek, Roman and early Christian periods.

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Entranceway into a shrine, with detailed carvings over the doorway, mostly painted gold, with a white carved dragon right in the center.

Shrines and Temples of Nikko

A complex of ornate and colorful religious buildings in a lovely forest setting.

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Paper cranes made of bright paper, strung in long garlands.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)

A UNESCO site for its symbolism and the hope it represents.

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A view down a street of pretty 2-story buildings.

Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica

A city with the traces of three thousand years of civilization.

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Seen from a bridge over a body of water, the fortress walls are visible.

Fortress of Suomenlinna

An important example of military fortress architecture on a group of islands off Helsinki.

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A temple with a tall pyramid-shaped roof, covered in carvings.

Great Living Chola Temples

Three outstanding 11th-12th-century temples covered with carvings depicting elements of Hindu mythology.

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View from a high point looking down on one of the temple ruins at Copan.

Maya Site of Copan

Once the capital of a vast Mayan kingdom, now a large complex containing beautiful ruins of altars and stelae.

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An nighttime view of the ornate Houses of Parliament, lit up against the night sky as seen from across the Thames River.

Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including St Margaret’s Church

Three famous London buildings that represent the “intertwined history of church, monarchy and state.”

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A view of Matera from a hill above it.

The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera

More than 1000 cave dwellings, churches and other rock-cut structures going back centuries.

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A view over the city of Angra do Heroismo in Terceira, Azores, with the sea beyond it.

Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroísmo

An important port in the busy shipping routes between Europe, the Americas and Africa from the 15th-19th centuries.

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An extremely large burial mound with 2 entrances in the middle. The sides are a story tall and in a round shape, the top is grass-covered and dome-shaped.

Brú na Bóinne – Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne

The largest concentration of prehistoric Neolithic tombs in Europe.

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Tombs cut into a cliff: several stories tall, with just a doorway in each, and decorative carving around doors and top of each.

Petra

A 2000-year-old Nabatean archeological site with hundreds of tombs and temples carved from sandstone cliffs.

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Looking toward the altar in the Pilgrimage Church of Wies: richly decorated with gold and paint on white walls. The decorations cover the ceiling as well, and the altar is predominantly gold.

Pilgrimage Church of Wies

A magnificent rococo church with a legend that draws the faithful to visit.

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A long portico stretching ahead, the end point not visible. Just a couple of people walk on it in the distance.

The Porticoes of Bologna

An architectural element that, over centuries, has become an integral part of life in Bologna and around the world.

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Across a small lake, a mountain looms gray. Its face it cut in large steps until almost the very top of the mountain.

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales

A region visibly shaped by its long-standing slate quarry industry.

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A view from up a mountain of a hilly landscape covered with low grasses, and a lake in a mountain valley in the English Lake District.

The English Lake District

A breathtakingly beautiful landscape of mountains, lakes and agriculture.

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The Albi cathedral: a rather plain red-brick exterior, with simple walls and rounded towers not much higher than the main body of the cathedral. Tall narrow windows.

Episcopal City of Albi

A small city with a rich collection of Medieval and Renaissance architecture.

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Panama Viejo fortification ruins: stone walls and a tall square tower.

Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá

A Spanish colonial city: the first permanent European settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

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Four huge sitting statues, with a doorway - about 3x higher than a person and reaching to knee height on the statues - in the center. At Ramses Temple, Nubian Monuments

Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae

Magnificent temples demonstrating the power of Ancient Egyptian civilization.

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Looking down a narrow street in the Old City of Acre, a partial column over the street, old stone walls on either side.

Old City of Acre

An ancient walled city where Ottoman structures were built on top of a Crusader-era fortress.

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A view along the coastline of white cliffs with flat grassy fields on top and the sea below.

Dorset and East Devon Coast

A coastline with 185 million years of interesting rock formations, invaluable for our understanding of geology and related sciences.

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A view across the river in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley: a town clustered on the river with a hill behind it covered in terraced vineyards and a castle on top.

Upper Middle Rhine Valley

A beautiful portion of the Rhine River with centuries of history evident in its vineyards, castles and villages.

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Full front view of the Wurzburg Residence: a massive palace, several stories tall and extremely wide. A symmetrical design with a round dome above the entrance and smaller domes at each end.

Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square

A magnificent 18th-century baroque palace and accompanying garden.

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The wall of the Medina of Essaouira's fortification: an opening shows a cannon pointed outward, and a guard post rises next to it. In front of the wall on the water's edge are blue-painted fishing boats.

Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)

An 18th-century fortified city incorporating both African and European architectural forms.

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