Year: 2018

Miami Jai-Alai

Discover Miami Jai-Alai in Miami, Florida: The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

PEZ Visitor Center

Discover PEZ Visitor Center in Orange, Connecticut: The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

Maeklong Railway Market

Discover Maeklong Railway Market in Mae Klong, Thailand: Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Amalgam Gallery of Art

Discover Amalgam Gallery of Art in Caledonia, Missouri: This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

Princess Theatre

Discover Princess Theatre in Melbourne, Australia: One of the oldest theaters in Australia, it's also said to be haunted by a performer who died on stage.

Family Tree Gravestones

Discover Family Tree Gravestones in Lafayette, Indiana: Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

The Musician

Discover The Musician in Bahamas: A full-scale sculpture of a mermaid and baby grand piano hidden underwater by David Copperfield.

Schepenzaal

Discover Schepenzaal in Kampen, Netherlands: This stately council chamber hasn't changed since 1545.

Miami City Cemetery

Discover Miami City Cemetery in Miami, Florida: Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

Steinberg Sculpture Garden

Discover Steinberg Sculpture Garden in Brooklyn, New York: A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Bures Dragon

Discover Bures Dragon in Suffolk, England: A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

The Mysterious Shop

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

The Lorenbahn

Discover The Lorenbahn in Nordstrand, Germany: A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

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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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