Year: 2013

Baan Dam – Black House

Discover Baan Dam – Black House in Nang Lae, Thailand: An entire elephant skeleton, snake skin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art in Thailand's Black House.

Cabbages & Condoms

Discover Cabbages & Condoms in Bangkok, Thailand: A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

Wat Samphran Temple

Discover Wat Samphran Temple in Khlong Mai, Thailand: An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Red Lotus Lake

Discover Red Lotus Lake in Tambon Chiang Haeo, Thailand: Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Talking Lamp

Discover Talking Lamp in Malmö, Sweden: 20-foot tall lamp mumbles Swedish to celebrate the holidays.

High Chaparral Wild West Theme Park

Discover High Chaparral Wild West Theme Park in Gnosjö S, Sweden: The lost American era of gunfighters, bandits, Indians and steam trains is recreated in Sweden.

Lenin Spa

Discover Lenin Spa in Varberg, Sweden: Take a schvitz just like an infamous Soviet dictator while his unblinking eye looks on.

Feskekôrka – The “Fish Church”

Discover Feskekôrka – The "Fish Church" in Gothenburg, Sweden: A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

The Flogsta Scream

Discover The Flogsta Scream in Uppsala, Sweden: A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

Gothenburg Medical History Museum

Discover Gothenburg Medical History Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden: A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

Li Grave Stones

Discover Li Grave Stones in Kungsbacka, Sweden: Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

Gotland

Discover Gotland in Sweden: Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

Stockholm Metro Art Gallery

Discover Stockholm Metro Art Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Beit Jimal

Discover Beit Jimal in Bet Shemesh, Israel: Located within one of Israel's most picturesque monasteries is also the country's first meteorological research station.

Yiftah’el Winery Cabin

Discover Yiftah'el Winery Cabin in Alon HaGalil, Israel: This wooden home was built in West Virginia by a Scottish immigrant before being moved to an Israeli winery.

Machon Ayalon

Discover Machon Ayalon in Rehovot, Israel: Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

Tisch Family Zoological Park

Discover Tisch Family Zoological Park in Jerusalem, Israel: Biblical beasts and endangered animal preservation come together in this Israeli zoo.

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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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