Year: 2017

Kaluakauka (Doctor’s Pit)

Discover Kaluakauka (Doctor's Pit) in Laupahoehoe, Hawaii: The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

B612 Foundation

Discover B612 Foundation in Mill Valley, California: Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

Mister Ed’s Grave

Discover Mister Ed's Grave in Tahlequah, Oklahoma: The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

Cats Museum

Discover Cats Museum in Kotor, Montenegro: A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Super PACyderm

Discover Super PACyderm in Silver Spring, Maryland: An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

Union Park

Discover Union Park in Dubuque, Iowa: The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

The Devil’s Wall in Germany

Discover Teufelsmauer (The Devil's Wall) in Blankenburg (Harz), Germany: A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

Eros Bendato

Discover Eros Bendato in St. Louis, Missouri: A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

The Blue Lake

Discover The Blue Lake in Gwynedd, Wales: A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

Shipwrecked Doritos

Discover Shipwrecked Doritos in Hatteras, North Carolina: The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

Captain Cook’s Cottage

Discover Captain Cook's Cottage in East Melbourne, Australia: The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

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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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