Year: 2017

Algae Growing Ponds

Discover Algae Growing Ponds in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii: Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

Crypt of the São Paulo Cathedral

Discover Crypt of the São Paulo Cathedral in São Paulo, Brazil: The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

Schoolhouse Cinema

Discover Schoolhouse Cinema in Out Skerries, Scotland: A remote island holds what claims to be Scotland's smallest cinema.

Oil Island

Discover Oil Island in Fagersta N, Sweden: Few would expect the world's oldest preserved oil refinery to be found in Sweden.

Casa Neverlandia in Austin

Discover Casa Neverlandia in Austin, Texas: This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

The Chicken Church

Discover The Church by the Sea in Madeira Beach, Florida: Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

Fairy Tale Museum of Cyprus

Discover Fairy Tale Museum in Nicosia, Cyprus: A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

Wilbur D. May Museum

Discover Wilbur D. May Museum in Reno, Nevada: An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

Former World’s Largest Jackalope

Discover Former World's Largest Jackalope in Douglas, Wyoming: This Wyoming town is clearly fascinated with the mythical creature it invented.

The Sistine Chapel of Rupestrian Art

Discover The Crypt of the Original Sin in Matera, Italy: A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

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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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