Year: 2017

The Strange Cemetery of Crespi d’Adda

Discover Crespi d’Adda Cemetery in Capriate San Gervasio, Italy: A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village.".

The Oldest Mosque in the United States

Discover Oldest Mosque in the U.S. in Ross, North Dakota: The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

Ninja Restaurant in Tokyo

Discover Ninja Akasaka in Tokyo, Japan: A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Hamilton Ghost Town

Discover Hamilton Ghost Town in White Pine County, Nevada: A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Cranmer Park Sundial

Discover Cranmer Park Sundial in Denver, Colorado: This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

Pentagon Cable Crossing Sign

Discover Pentagon Cable Crossing Sign in Arlington, Virginia: Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

Bowling Ball Yard Art

Discover Bowling Ball Yard Art in Nowata, Oklahoma: To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

The Drive-Thru Museum

Discover The Drive-Thru Museum in Seale, Alabama: A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

Last Lenin Museum In the World

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the museum underwent a complete renovation to show a more complete picture of Soviet rule.

Gothic Line Fortifications

Discover Gothic Line Fortifications in Borgo a Mozzano, Italy: The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

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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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