Year: 2021

House of Romeo

Discover House of Romeo in Verona, Italy: Not far from the more famous House of Juliet, visitors will find the supposed residence of her lover.

Miramont Castle Museum

Discover Miramont Castle Museum in Manitou Springs, Colorado: A beautiful and unusual building that features numerous architectural styles.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

Discover Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Montrose, Colorado: A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

Wheatland Ferry

Discover Wheatland Ferry in Salem, Oregon: This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

Onhoüa Chetek8e

Discover Onhoüa Chetek8e in Québec City, Québec: A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

Gömböc

Discover Gömböc in Budapest, Hungary: The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.

Rovereto Fertility Shrine

Discover Rovereto Fertility Shrine in Rovereto, Italy: An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

‘Svampen’

Discover 'Svampen' in Stockholm, Sweden: A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.

‘Dan the Miner’

Discover 'Dan the Miner' in Los Angeles, California: Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49.

Laogai Museum

Discover Laogai Museum in Washington, D.C.: The first museum in the U.S. to address human rights issues in China.

York Tyburn

Discover York Tyburn in York, England: After public executions took place at this location, attendants would also attend a local horse race.

Hollow Mountain

Discover Hollow Mountain in Hanksville, Utah: At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

Radium Springs Gardens

Discover Radium Springs Gardens in Albany, Georgia: The ruins of a resort and casino sit on the banks of this blue hole spring that pumps 70,000 gallons of warm, clear water every minute.

Kilcoe Castle

Discover Kilcoe Castle in Cork, Ireland: A stunning medieval castle owned and restored by the famed actor Jeremy Irons.

Khalil Gibran Memorial Monument

Discover Khalil Gibran Memorial Monument in Washington, D.C.: Surrounded by a verdant garden and a backdrop of ivy, a monument to beloved poet Khalil Gibran stands outside of the Lebanese embassy.

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 260 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. 474 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. 499 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. 633 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. 135 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. 167 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). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 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. 96 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. 166

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