Year: 2017

Bir Zekreet

Discover Bir Zekreet in Zekreet, Qatar: Some of the ancient-looking huts among these strange rock formations aren't ancient at all, but built as part of a movie set.

The Masque

Discover The Masque in Los Angeles, California: The remains of LA's first punk club.

L-Bird Flying Museum

Discover L-Bird Flying Museum in San Antonio, Texas: A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.

The KGB’s Secret Poison Factory

Discover The Kamera (The Chamber) in Leninskiy rayon, Russia: The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

Lawnswood Cemetery

Discover Lawnswood Cemetery in Leeds, England: This Victorian graveyard in Leeds is a macabre collection of beautiful tombs and memorials.

Oberhafen-Kantine

Discover Oberhafen-Kantine in Hamburg, Germany: This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

NASA Goddard Rocket Garden

Discover NASA Goddard Rocket Garden in Lanham, Maryland: A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

Cardiff Tower

Discover Cardiff Tower in Los Angeles, California: This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

Pooh’s House

Discover Pooh's House in Cambridge, Massachusetts: This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Lake Lappajärvi

Discover Lake Lappajärvi in Lappajärvi, Finland: Nuclear waste experts study this prehistoric crater lake to envision landscapes one million years in the future.

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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. 480 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. 514 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. 642 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. 137 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. 172 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). 256 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 151 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. 98 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. 168

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