Year: 2014

Palace Hotel Bussaco

Discover Palace Hotel Bussaco in Luso, Portugal: A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

Hotel Monte Palace

Discover Hotel Monte Palace in São Miguel, Portugal: This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

Ballhaus Riviera

Discover Ballhaus Riviera in Berlin, Germany: The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

Schwerin Lenin

Discover Schwerin Lenin in Schwerin, Germany: Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

Laboe Naval Memorial

Discover Laboe Naval Memorial in Laboe, Germany: This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

Hinterkaifeck Memorial

Discover Hinterkaifeck Memorial in Waidhofen, Germany: A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Brother Klaus Field Chapel

Discover Brother Klaus Field Chapel in Mechernich, Germany: This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

Wilhelm Bauer

Discover Wilhelm Bauer in Bremerhaven, Germany: The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

Rheinturm

Discover Rheinturm in Dusseldorf, Germany: This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Henkerhaus

Discover Henkerhaus in Nuremberg, Germany: Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

Dresden Panometer

Discover Dresden Panometer in Dresden, Germany: An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

Herbertstraße

Discover Herbertstraße in Hamburg, Germany: Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Tetrahedron in Bottrop

Discover Tetrahedron in Bottrop in Bottrop, Germany: This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

Spreuerhofstrasse

Discover Spreuerhofstrasse in Reutlingen, Germany: The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

Wälderhaus

Discover Wälderhaus in Hamburg, Germany: This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

Kindergarten Wolfartsweier

Discover Kindergarten Wolfartsweier in Karlsruhe, Germany: A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

Rote Flora

Discover Rote Flora in Hamburg, Germany: This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Filmtheater Sendlinger Tor

Discover Filmtheater Sendlinger Tor in Munich, Germany: This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Ordensburg Vogelsang

Discover Ordensburg Vogelsang in Schleiden, Germany: This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

Castle Werdenfels

Discover Castle Werdenfels in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany: The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

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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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