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An elegant building with a triangular portico and columns on the front and a round cupola above.

Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara

A 19th-century charitable institution in Neoclassical style, with magnificent 20th-century murals by José Clemente Orozco.

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A rough cliff and a rocky beach below it, with a group of people listening to a guide.

Miguasha National Park

A cliff-side location with many well-preserved fossils from the period when species moved from sea to land.

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Brick building with neoclassical portico on the front and a dome on top.

Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville

Two early and fine examples of Neoclassical architecture, designed by Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the US.

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A view over a forest, with a huge pyramid sticking up above the level of the treetops.

Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche

Extensive ruins of a Maya city inside a huge biosphere reserve.

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A view across a lake at a snow-capped mountain with a glacier down its side.

Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek

A huge trans-national site, significant in terms of geological processes, ecological zones, biodiversity and beauty.

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Adobe houses all attached together, some on a second story and accessed by ladder. Brightly-painted doors and small windows.

Taos Pueblo

A centuries-old Puebloan community that still practices the traditional ways, living in distinctive adobe houses.

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A narrow street lined with houses painted in a range of colors, a church tower in the distance.

Protective Town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco

A colorful colonial-era town of Baroque architecture and its church complex with Mexican Baroque murals.

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A very big view over a vast flat landscape.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

A site used for 6,000 years by Plains people to hunt buffalo by driving them over a cliff.

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Looking down at sharks in blue water.

Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System

An area of coral reefs, cays, atolls and other features supporting a huge variety of flora and fauna.

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Several bright red wooden buildings in a row, one of which reads "Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic."

Old Town Lunenburg

A charming 18th-19th-century British colonial fishing settlement with colorful wooden buildings.

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Trees in fall colors around an earthen mound.

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks

Two-thousand-year-old earthworks that demonstrate the Hopewell people’s knowledge of geometry and astronomy.

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View of several grass-covered mounds at Poverty Point.

Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point

A remarkable achievement in earthen construction by hunter-gatherers more than 3000 years ago.

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Three bottles on top of a metal tank. They're labeled "Ordinario", "Mosto Muerto" and "Tequila".

Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila

Home to a centuries-old culture of agave cultivation for production of Tequila.

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A balloon high above one of the pyramids.

Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan

A city of magnificent pyramids and temples left by an ancient civilization.

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Two people stand, backs to camera, looking at the dome and bell tower of San Jose Mission

San Antonio Missions

Five historical mission churches from the Spanish colonial period in Texas.

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view of Mammoth Cave with the stalactites and stalagmites glowing with an orangy light.

Mammoth Cave National Park

An enormous cave system containing intricate rock formations that demonstrate. millions of years of geological processes.

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A big landscape with ruined walls in the foreground and a mesa in the background.

Chaco Culture

Well-preserved prehistoric architecture that also demonstrates ancient Puebloans’ knowledge of astronomy.

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The ancient pyramid made of stone.

Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán

A vibrant Spanish colonial city and an ancient pre-Columbian city.

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A big view from a mountain toward a ridge of mountains, which have snow near the tops.

Olympic National Park

A large and beautiful park containing mountains, old-growth forests, temperate rainforests and beaches.

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A view of mountains, fading to bluish in the background.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

A large protected area of great scenic beauty and species diversity.

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An evening shot on the town square, which is partly visible with some trees on the right. Facing the square is the cathedral, brightly lit up with two tall towers.

Historic Fortified Town of Campeche

A colorful Spanish colonial town surrounded by fortifications.

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A whale breaching the water almost vertically, quite high so both flippers are above the water too.

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaíno

Two Baja California lagoons used by gray whales for giving birth and mating.

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A flat grassy field with, at a distance, a large grass-covered mound, flat on its top.

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

The largest and earliest pre-Columbian city in North America.

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A large and ornate gateway.

Historic Centre of Puebla

An intact Renaissance city full of Spanish-colonial baroque architecture.

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View of a large cliff dwelling tucked into a large cave: many ruined walls with gaps for windows.

Mesa Verde National Park

Ruins of ancient cliff dwellings used over a thousand years ago by Ancestral Pueblo people.

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Looking down where a neat trail zigzags back and forth down toward the cave entrance farther down.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

A natural cave complex with extensive and varied rock formations.

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A view of the cliffs, which show distinct layers, each set back from the one below it.

Mistaken Point

A site containing fossils of the earliest complex organisms, marking an important turning point in evolutionary history.

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A view between trees down a path to a small church with a steeple.

Landscape of Grand Pré

An agricultural area that commemorates the history of the Acadians and their expulsion from Canada.

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A massive tree fills most of the picture, forming a neat ceiling of a sort over a pedestrian area.

Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines

A colonial-period silver-mining center, with subterranean streets and Baroque architecture.

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View over the city. In the foreground, a large monument with a cross. Below, the city, with its grid of streets, and in the background, the volcano, its peak surrounded by clouds.

Antigua Guatemala

A lovely city that illustrates Spanish colonial-era architecture, city planning, and culture.

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A very tall and very steep stone pyramid with a flat top.

Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal

Four sets of pre-Columbian ruins that exemplify Mayan art and architecture when Mayan civilization was at its height.

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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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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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Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks: Peyto Lake in Banff National Park is a bluish-grey color surrounded by snow-capped mountains.

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

Seven parks encompassing all the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies with magnificent mountain scenery.

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Rue St Louis, lined with colorful buildings a few stories tall.

Historic District of Old Québec

North America’s only fortified colonial city, with an intact core, some of which dates back to the 17th century.

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The sign marking the site reading "Redwood National and State Park" carved in wood.

Redwood National and State Parks

Four nature reserves that combine to protect the oldest and tallest trees in the world.

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