Winter Garden Theatre

Discover Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto, Ontario: A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Brixton Windmill

Discover Brixton Windmill in London, England: A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

WeirdStuff Warehouse

Discover WeirdStuff Warehouse in Sunnyvale, California: An Aladdin's cave of old Silicon Valley tech.

Phare de Gatteville

Discover Phare de Gatteville in Gatteville-le-Phare, France: A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

Seefin Passage Tomb

Discover Seefin Passage Tomb in Wicklow, Ireland: This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

Fort Delgrès Memorial

Discover Fort Delgrès Memorial in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe: A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

Heptapyrgion Fortress

Discover Heptapyrgion Fortress in Thessaloniki, Greece: An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

Waldorf Astoria Archives

Discover Waldorf Astoria Archives in New York, New York: Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

Wehrum Ghost Town

The ruined remains of the old coal mining are hidden within the woods.

The Ananuri Fortress

Discover Ananuri in Georgia: This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

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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.
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To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance.
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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.
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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.
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