Making UNESCO's World Heritage List means protection and prestige for some of the world's most famous sites—and some of the not-so-famous. See how much you know about these special places.
There are 1,223 UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the globe, from the Great Pyramids of Giza to Easter Island to Independence Hall in Philadelphia. These landmarks have cultural, historical or ...
It's a site of significant industrial heritage, where slate was extracted ... "The quarry is private property and as such none of us has a right to be there. Short of the place disappearing ...
The decision brings the total number of World Heritage sites in Japan to 26, of which 21 are designated as cultural and five as natural. Although the world’s mines were mechanized during the ...