Year: 2017

Madison Buffalo Jump State Park

Discover Madison Buffalo Jump State Park in Three Forks, Montana: For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

Prehistoric Cave Art of Maros Pangkep

Discover Prehistoric Cave Art of Maros Pangkep in Bantimurung, Indonesia: These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Cavnic Gravity Hill

Discover Cavnic Gravity Hill in Comuna Budești, Romania: A spooky spot along the road where things mysteriously seem to move uphill by themselves.

Caja Madrid Obelisk

Discover Caja Madrid Obelisk in Madrid, Spain: A towering monument in Spain has proven to be more labor-intensive than initially planned.

Washington Monument Access Hatch

Discover Washington Monument Access Hatch in Washington, D.C.: Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

Museum im Lagerhaus

Discover Museum im Lagerhaus in St. Gallen, Switzerland: A unique collection of Swiss art brut and naïve art displayed in an old warehouse.

Seattle’s Pac Man Park

Discover Pac Man Park in Seattle, Washington: This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

World’s Largest Pecan

Discover World's Largest Pecan in Seguin, Texas: The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

The Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles

Discover The Adventurers' Club of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California: Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Menu

i
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

PP ToS