Year: 2021

Lincoln Highway Bridge

Discover Lincoln Highway Bridge in Dugway, Utah: The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.

Nensi the Leganés Monster

Discover Nensi the Leganés Monster in Leganés, Spain: Many miles south of Loch Ness, a similarly-named sea monster stands at the center of a roundabout.

Montsalvat

Discover Montsalvat in Eltham, Australia: Australia's oldest artists' colony.

Breckenridge Troll

Discover Breckenridge Troll in Breckenridge, Colorado: Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

Wapping Hydraulic Power Station

Discover Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in London, England: This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.

Jerrassic Park – Metal Dinosaur Park

Discover Jerrassic Park – Metal Dinosaur Park in Virginia Beach, Virginia: Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

Audiorama Parque España

Discover Audiorama Parque España in Mexico City, Mexico: This tiny garden was built specifically to provide a place of peace and serenity away from the busy city streets.

Galeria Atotonilco

Discover Galeria Atotonilco in Atotonilco, Mexico: Inside this gallery is amazing folk art from across Mexico.

Edificio Celanese

Discover Edificio Celanese in Mexico City, Mexico: This striking building appears to defy gravity, a tower balancing atop a much smaller cube.

Tusher Tunnel

Discover Tusher Tunnel in Moab, Utah: A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

Soda Lakes

Discover Soda Lakes in Fallon, Nevada: Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

The Owl Bar

Discover The Owl Bar in Baltimore, Maryland: At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

Indios Verdes (Green Indians Monument)

Discover Indios Verdes (Green Indians Monument) in Mexico City, Mexico: After several moves across Mexico City, these two statues found a home in Mestizaje Park.

Museum of Ceramics

Discover Museum of Ceramics in East Liverpool, Ohio: Housing the history of a small Ohio town that is known to some as the pottery capital of the United States.

O’Fallon Historical Museum

Discover O'Fallon Historical Museum in Baker, Montana: This six-building complex is the home of the world's largest steer.

‘Heavier Mountain’

Discover 'Heavier Mountain' in Seydisfjordur, Iceland: The only structure in a remote mountain pass, these colorful cubes are visible from miles away.

Vrouwekerk

Discover Vrouwekerk in Leiden, Netherlands: The remains of the last church of the pilgrims before they sailed west due to being 'too accepted'.

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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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