Discover São Paulo Pedestrian Signal Lights in São Paulo, Brazil: The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.
Year: 2015
Bangu Statue of Liberty
Discover Bangu Statue of Liberty in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.
Fritz Müller Ecology Museum
Discover Fritz Müller Ecology Museum in Blumenau, Brazil: This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.
Itaipu Dam
Discover Itaipu Dam in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil: As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.
Encontro das Águas (Meeting of Waters)
Discover Encontro das Águas (Meeting of Waters) in Manaus, Brazil: This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.
Beco do Batman
Discover Beco do Batman in São Paulo, Brazil: One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.
Cemitério São João Batista
Discover Cemitério São João Batista in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.
Old Petrolandia Church
Discover Old Petrolandia Church in Pernambuco, Brazil: The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.
The Massive Abanonded Viaduct of Petrobras
Discover Viaduct Petrobras in Brazil: An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape
Located on land projecting into the Uruguay River west of the town of Fray Bentos, the industrial complex was built following the development of a factory founded in 1859 to process meat produced on the vast prairies nearby. The site illustrates the who…
San Antonio Missions
The site encompasses a group of five frontier mission complexes situated along a stretch of the San Antonio River basin in southern Texas, as well as a ranch located 37 kilometres to the south. It includes architectural and archaeological structures, fa…
Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia
This property includes two components situated in a desert landscape: Jabel Umm Sinman at Jubbah and the Jabal al-Manjor and Raat at Shuwaymis. A lake once situated at the foot of the Umm Sinman hill range that has now disappeared used to be a source o…
Ephesus
Located within what was once the estuary of the River Kaystros, Ephesus comprises successive Hellenistic and Roman settlements founded on new locations, which followed the coastline as it retreated westward. Excavations have revealed grand monuments of …
Singapore Botanic Gardens
Situated at the heart of the city of Singapore, the site demonstrates the evolution of a British tropical colonial botanic garden that has become a modern world-class scientific institution used for both conservation and education. The cultural landscap…
The Forth Bridge
This railway bridge, crossing the Forth estuary in Scotland, had the world’s longest spans (541 m) when it opened in 1890. It remains one of the greatest cantilever trussed bridges and continues to carry passengers and freight. Its distinctive industr…
Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape
Located on an escarpment of the Upper Tigris River Basin that is part of the so-called Fertile Crescent, the fortified city of Diyarbakır and the landscape around has been an important centre since the Hellenistic period, through the Roman, Sassanid, B…
Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site
Located in a dramatic landscape of mountains, waterfalls and river valleys, the site comprises hydroelectric power plants, transmission lines, factories, transport systems and towns. The complex was established by the Norsk-Hydro Company to manufacture …
Baekje Historic Areas
Located in the mountainous mid-western region of the Republic of Korea, this property comprises eight archaeological sites dating from 475 to 660 CE, including the Gongsanseong fortress and royal tombs at Songsan-ri related to the capital, Ungjin (prese…
Blue and John Crow Mountains
The site encompasses a rugged and extensively forested mountainous region in the south-east of Jamaica, which provided refuge first for the indigenous Tainos fleeing slavery and then for Maroons (former enslaved peoples). They resisted the European colo…
Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
The site encompasses a series of twenty three component parts, mainly located in the southwest of Japan. It bears testimony to the rapid industrialization of the country from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century, through the developm…