Year: 2017

Ponta do Pargo Lighthouse

Discover Ponta do Pargo Lighthouse in Ponta do Pargo, Portugal: Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

Sweny’s Pharmacy

Discover Sweny's Pharmacy in Dublin, Ireland: The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

Taiyo Park

Discover Taiyo Park in Himeji, Japan: A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

Steamship Yavari

Discover Steamship Yavari in Qullaw pruwinsya, Peru: The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

Bob’s Crystal Cave

Discover Bob's Crystal Cave in Yucca Valley, California: A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Senate Corncob Capitals

Discover Senate Corncob Capitals in Washington, D.C.: Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim

Discover Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim in Sinsheim, Germany: It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

The Zone of Death

Discover Yellowstone's Zone of Death in Island Park, Idaho: A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Greenbelt Historic District

Discover Greenbelt Historic District in Greenbelt, Maryland: A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 261 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. 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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