Year: 2018

Kawazu Sakura Festival

Discover Kawazu Sakura Festival in Kawazu, Japan: Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

The House of Stones

Discover La Casa de las Piedritas in Envigado, Colombia: This exceptional home was a 32-year labor of love by a man determined to build his wife the most beautiful stone house in the world.

Cobweb Bridge

Discover Cobweb Bridge in Sheffield, England: The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral

Discover Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral in New York, New York: A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

Rye Water House

Discover Rye Water House in Rye, England: An ancient water supply dating back almost 500 years can still be found standing in East Sussex.

Schilthorn Piz Gloria

Discover Schilthorn Piz Gloria in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland: A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

Ilana Goor Museum

Discover Ilana Goor Museum in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel: A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.

‘How’s It Going?’ Phone Booth

Discover 'How's It Going?' Phone Booth in Seydisfjordur, Iceland: An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Cross of the Captive

Discover Cross of the Captive in Córdoba, Spain: A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Ciudad Real Ghost Airport

Discover Ciudad Real Central Airport in Villar del Pozo, Spain: An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.

Levashovo Memorial Cemetery

Discover Levashovo Memorial Cemetery in Levashovo, Russia: Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

Platform 16 Holocaust Deportation Memorials

Discover Platform 16 Holocaust Deportation Memorials in Florence, Italy: Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Agrasen ki Baoli Stepwell

Discover Agrasen ki Baoli in New Delhi, India: A startling, centuries-old subterranean marvel hides in plain sight.

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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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