Discover Stromboli Island in Stromboli, Italy: A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.
Year: 2008
Musée de la Contrefaçon
Discover Musée de la Contrefaçon in Paris, France: An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.
Musee de la Magie
Discover Musee de la Magie in Paris, France: A museum of magic with a Sadist past.
Butantan Snake Institute
Discover Butantan Snake Institute in São Paulo, Brazil: A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum
Discover Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden, Germany: Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.
C. und O. Vogt Institue of Brain Research Collection
Discover C. und O. Vogt Institue of Brain Research Collection in Dusseldorf, Germany: A varied collection of brains in alcohol.
Butantã Snake Institute
Discover Butantã Snake Institute in São Paulo, Brazil: A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.
Casa da Flor
Discover Casa da Flor in São Pedro da Aldeia, Brazil: A self built castle built by a salt worker in Brazil.
Socotra Archipelago
Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden, is 250 km long and comprises four islands and two rocky islets which appear as a prolongation of the Horn of Africa. The site is of universal importance because of its biodiversit…
Chief Roi Mata’s Domain
Chief Roi Mata’s Domain is the first site to be inscribed in Vanuatu. It consists of three early 17th century AD sites on the islands of Efate, Lelepa and Artok associated with the life and death of the last paramount chief, or Roi Mata, of what is no…
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
The Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona in the north-eastern part of the country covers a mountainous area of 32,850 ha which features seven peaks that rise above 3,000 m. The area displays an exceptional example of mountain building through continental collis…
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area
The Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area inscribed on the World Heritage List consist of two Roman Catholic, three Protestant and three Greek Orthodox churches built between the 16th and 18th centuries. The property presen…
Hegra Archaeological Site (al-Hijr / Madā ͐ in Ṣāliḥ)
The Archaeological Site of Al-Hijr (Madâin Sâlih) is the first World Heritage property to be inscribed in Saudi Arabia. Formerly known as Hegra it is the largest conserved site of the civilization of the Nabataeans south of Petra in Jordan. It feature…
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano covers 55 ha, including Mount Titano and the historic centre of the city which dates back to the foundation of the republic as a city-state in the 13th century. San Marino is inscribed as a testimony to the co…
Kuk Early Agricultural Site
Kuk Early Agricultural Site consists of 116 ha of swamps in the western highlands of New Guinea 1,500 metres above sea-level. Archaeological excavation has revealed the landscape to be one of wetland reclamation worked almost continuously for 7,000, and…
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
The 56,259 ha biosphere lies within rugged forested mountains about 100 km northwest of Mexico City. Every autumn, millions, perhaps a billion, butterflies from wide areas of North America return to the site and cluster on small areas of the forest rese…
Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco
The fortified town, first established in the 16th century to protect the Royal Route inland, reached its apogee in the 18th century when many of its outstanding religious and civic buildings were built in the style of the Mexican Baroque. Some of these …
Le Morne Cultural Landscape
Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a rugged mountain that juts into the Indian Ocean in the southwest of Mauritius was used as a shelter by runaway slaves, maroons, through the 18th and early years of the 19th centuries. Protected by the mountain’s isolated…
Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca
Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the towns with a specific m…
Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
The Mijikenda Kaya Forests consist of 11 separate forest sites spread over some 200 km along the coast containing the remains of numerous fortified villages, known as kayas, of the Mijikenda people. The kayas, created as of the 16th century but abandone…