Year: 2012

Berlin Botanical Garden

Discover Berlin Botanical Garden in Berlin, Germany: Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Pergamon Museum

Discover Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany: The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Design Panoptikum

Discover Design Panoptikum in Berlin, Germany: A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Penis Fountain

Discover Penis Fountain in Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

Pinetum Blijdenstein

Discover Pinetum Blijdenstein in Hilversum, Netherlands: Most complete collection of Gymnosperms in the world.

Greccio Museum of Devotional Items

Discover Greccio Museum of Devotional Items in Leiden, Netherlands: This small museum collects the Christian remembrances which would otherwise be forgotten.

Hotel de Bilderberg

Discover Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands: An idyllic hotel that gave its name to a supposed shadow government.

Rozenburg Wind Wall

Discover Rozenburg Wind Wall in Europoort Rotterdam, Netherlands: The Rozenberg wind wall in South Holland makes for smooth sailing through the Calandbrug canal.

Lapin Botanique

Discover Lapin Botanique in 's-Graveland, Netherlands: The place where houses are born.

Radio Kootwijk

Discover Radio Kootwijk in Radio Kootwijk, Netherlands: This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.

Apparent Dead House in the Hague

Discover Apparent Dead House in the Hague in The Hague, Netherlands: A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

Capsule Hotel

Discover Capsule Hotel in The Hague, Netherlands: Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

Mozesbrug (Moses Bridge)

Discover Mozesbrug (Moses Bridge) in Halsteren, Netherlands: Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

Oude Kerk

Discover Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam's oldest church, and the center of Dutch prostitution.

Theater Tuschinski

Discover Theater Tuschinski in Amsterdam, Netherlands: A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

Labyrint Drielandenpunt

Discover Labyrint Drielandenpunt in Vaals, Netherlands: A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

Devil’s Island

Discover Devil's Island in French Guiana: An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

Terra Encantada (Enchanted Land)

Discover Terra Encantada (Enchanted Land) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 260 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 633 ix
To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 167 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 96 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 166

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