Travel

Spanish colonial towns and churches, rice terraces, and stunning nature reserves represent the Philippines on the list.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Peru's 12 sites include Machu Picchu and Chan Chan, capital of the pre-Incan Chimu Kingdom and a site in danger.

April 25, 2017 12:31

In the 1600s and 1700s, Jesuit missionaries peacefully converted most inhabitants of the Río de la Plata Basin to Catholicism.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Cuba's most notable colonial cities, coffee plantations, and national parks have found their places on the UNESCO list.

April 25, 2017 12:31

The Choirokoitia Neolithic settlement, the painted churches of Troodos, and the legendary birthplace of Aphrodite have all been inscribed by UNESCO in Cyprus.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Kuk's highland swamps are thought to have first been reclaimed for farming as long as ten millennia ago.

April 25, 2017 12:31

The Spanish Colonial fortifications at Portobelo-San Lorenzo, built to protect their Caribbean interests, are listed as endangered.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Czechia's dozen cultural sites tell the tale of its rich and vibrant customs and historical development.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Congo-Kinshasa's 5 sites represent some of the largest, most biodiverse, and most endangered nature reserves on earth.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Danish fossil sites, ice fields, marine reserves, traditional hunting grounds, old churches, and more have been inscribed within the country.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Oman's cultural heritage includes frankincense trees, irrigation channels, forts, and the ancient Bat settlements.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Norway's heritage is embodied by traditional Arctic island ways of life, old churches, mines, factories, and fjords.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Christopher Columbus took his famous first steps in the New World nearby present day Santo Domingo in 1492, and the city was founded 6 years thereafter.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Ecuador is home to historic colonial and indigenous infrastructure, and the Galapagos Islands, possibly the most biodiverse locale on earth.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Egypt's Pharaohs' monuments, Ancient Nubian kingdoms, Christian monasteries, and Islamic heritage sites are all included.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Long before the arrival of the Spanish in El Salvador, Joya de Cerén's agrarian people were buried under volcanic ash.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Tallinn was selected as the site for a castle along the Baltic Sea by Teutonic Knight Crusaders in the 1200s, and later became a key city in the Hanseatic League.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Ethiopia is home to some of the oldest human civilizations, and has interesting historical sites that reflect that.

April 25, 2017 12:31

The homes, palaces, temples, and burial grounds of Nan Madol date back to the 13th-16th Century Saudeleur Dynasty.

April 25, 2017 12:31

Niger's inscribed sites highlight its ecological richness and its historical role as the "Gateway to the Sahara."

April 25, 2017 12:31