Year: 2018

Bell Inn Caves

Discover Bell Inn Caves in Nottingham, England: There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

Dorasan Station

Discover Dorasan Station in Paju, South Korea: South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

Sugar Loaf Ski Lodge

Discover Sugar Loaf Ski Lodge in Cedar, Michigan: A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

The Underground Mosque

Discover Yeralti Camii (Underground Mosque) in Istanbul, Turkey: A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

Watermelon Rock

Discover Watermelon Rock in Oakland, California: A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

Bevin Boys Memorial

Discover Bevin Boys Memorial in Staffordshire, England: A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

Iceland’s Herring Era Museum

Discover Herring Era Museum in Siglufjörður, Iceland: This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike.".

Giant Sun Mirrors of Rjukan

Discover Giant Sun Mirrors of Rjukan in Rjukan, Norway: For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Crandon Park Zoo Ruins

Discover Crandon Park Zoo Ruins in Key Biscayne, Florida: It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

Miraflores

Discover Miraflores in San Antonio, Texas: An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

Dummett Sugar Mill Ruins

Discover Dummett Sugar Mill Ruins in Ormond Beach, Florida: The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

Black Madonna Shrine

Discover Black Madonna Shrine in Pacific, Missouri: This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

MPTA-098

Discover MPTA-098 in Huntsville, Alabama: A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

Burlington Earth Clock

Discover Burlington Earth Clock in Burlington, Vermont: Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Poço da Pedreira

Discover Poço da Pedreira in Santa Maria, Portugal: Rainwater transformed this old quarry into a peaceful pond you won't find in most tourist books.

Tower of the Winds

Discover Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece: An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

ALZHIR

Discover ALZHIR in Malinovka, Kazakhstan: A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

Dan Clancy Memorial Chair

Discover Dan Clancy Memorial Chair in Wicklow, Ireland: A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

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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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