Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso
An important 19th-century port city that preserves its urban industrial architecture to this day.
An important 19th-century port city that preserves its urban industrial architecture to this day.
An unfinished mausoleum and mosque that allows an understanding of Timurid construction methods.
An excellent illustration of the traditions of Islamic architecture in Central Asia.
A massive and intricately-carved 9th-century Buddhist temple.
A unique example of urban planning from the Middle Ages that has developed over time while still respecting the original plan.
A colonial-period silver-mining center, with subterranean streets and Baroque architecture.
A summer retreat for China’s emperors, with extensive classical gardens, an artificial lake, and a collection of palace buildings.
A religious complex used by Ming and Qing dynasty emperors that is significant both symbolically and architecturally.
A charming traditional Chinese town that combines Naxi, Han, Bai and Tibetan influences.
Ruins of an ancient place of healing, with a huge and still intact Greek theater.
Former home to the powerful Habsburg emperors: an opulent Baroque castle and its gardens.
Nine traditional Chinese gardens that artfully mirror the natural world in very limited spaces.
An exquisite example of Portuguese Baroque architecture expressing a spiritual journey.
A picturesque little village surrounded by a breathtaking mountainous landscape.
A lovely city that illustrates Spanish colonial-era architecture, city planning, and culture.
The most famous remnant of ancient Greece, standing high above the city of Athens.
Four sets of pre-Columbian ruins that exemplify Mayan art and architecture when Mayan civilization was at its height.
Three properties that are central to the history of Spain’s “Golden Age.”
Famous Georgian-period spa town with surviving elements from its Roman-period history as well.
Mount Fuji and numerous natural and religious sites related to its spiritual importance.
A historic castle used as palace, fortress and prison since the days of William the Conquerer.
One of the most impressive baroque structures in all of Portugal.
Eleven separate locations that illustrate elements of the 19th-century British penal system of “transportation” to Australia.
A 16th-century tomb within a complex of tombs, the first garden tomb and the inspiration for the Taj Mahal.
An ancient port city with ruins from the Greek, Roman and early Christian periods.
A UNESCO site for its symbolism and the hope it represents.
A city with the traces of three thousand years of civilization.
An important example of military fortress architecture on a group of islands off Helsinki.
Three outstanding 11th-12th-century temples covered with carvings depicting elements of Hindu mythology.
Once the capital of a vast Mayan kingdom, now a large complex containing beautiful ruins of altars and stelae.
Three famous London buildings that represent the “intertwined history of church, monarchy and state.”
More than 1000 cave dwellings, churches and other rock-cut structures going back centuries.
An important port in the busy shipping routes between Europe, the Americas and Africa from the 15th-19th centuries.
A 2000-year-old Nabatean archeological site with hundreds of tombs and temples carved from sandstone cliffs.
An architectural element that, over centuries, has become an integral part of life in Bologna and around the world.
A small city with a rich collection of Medieval and Renaissance architecture.