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GHAZNI MINARETS

MURAD KHANE

BUENOS AIRES HISTORIC CENTER

The first permanent European settlement on the site of modern-day Buenos Aires was founded in 1580 by Spanish conquistador Juan de Garay. (Learn More)

CITY OF LA PLATA

NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA MERCED BASILICA

Construction of the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Merced in the center of Buenos Aires began in 1733 and was completed in 1779 by Andrés Bianchi. (Learn More)

SAN IGNACIO MINÍ

In the midst of the Argentine rainforest stand the ruins of San Ignacio Miní, a 17th-century Jesuit mission complex. (Learn More)

BASILICA OF EREROUK

The Basilica of Ererouk, which occupies a sparsely settled site near the Turkish-Armenian border, was once one of the region’s largest and most important churches located within ten kilometer (Learn More)

BELVEDERE PALACE & GARDENS

At the turn of the 18th century, famed military commander Prince Eugene of Savoy purchased a tract of land in Vienna and commissioned Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt to design the Belvedere, a complex (Learn More)

FRANCISCAN CHURCH

SLONIM SYNAGOGUE

Slonim Synagogue, a baroque structure that has overlooked the Slonim city marketplace since 1642, remains the best preserved synagogue in Belarus, despite decades of neglect and vandalism. (Learn More)

SANATORIUM JOSEPH LEMAIRE

PHAJODING

CONVENTO-MUSEO SANTA TERESA

MISIONES JESUÍTICAS DE CHIQUITOS (JESUIT MISSIONS OF CHIQUITOS)

MOSTAR HISTORIC CENTER

The Ottomans conquered Mostar in 1463 and brought Islamic influences and urban growth to the small town straddling the banks of the Nerevta River. (Learn More)

HISTORIC CENTER OF SALVADOR DE BAHIA

Founded in 1549 as Brazil’s first capital, and the seat of the Portuguese government for more than two centuries, today Salvador de Bahia is a metropolis with over three million inhabitants. (Learn More)

PORANGATU HISTORIC DISTRICT

SANTO ANTONIO DO PARAGUAÇU

SERRA DA CAPIVARA NATIONAL PARK

IVANOVO ROCK CHAPELS

Founded in the first half of the 13th century, the rock chapels near the village of Ivanovo constitute a remarkable Eastern Orthodox Hesychastic monastic complex. (Learn More)

NOVAE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

SAINT STEPHEN'S CHURCH

Positioned on a rocky peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, the ancient city of Nessebar was originally a Thracian settlement called Menebria. (Learn More)

BANTEAY CHHMAR TEMPLE OF JAYAVARMAN VII

A complex of eight temples deep in the Cambodian jungle, Banteay Chhmar was commissioned by the twelfth-century Khmer ruler Jayavarman VII in honor of five heroes, including his son, who died defen (Learn More)

PHNOM BAKHENG

Phnom Bakheng is one of Angkor’s oldest temples. It was built as a state temple between the late 9th and early 10th centuries, when King Yasovarman constructed it as the centerpiece of his new capital, Yasodharapura, later absorbed into Angkor. (Learn More)

HERSCHEL ISLAND

CERROS PINTADOS

EASTER ISLAND (RAPA NUI)—MOAI CONSERVATION PROJECT

A Polynesian volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle, Easter Island—known locally as Rapa Nui—is a special territory of Chile that was annexe (Learn More)

EASTER ISLAND (RAPA NUI)—RANO RARAKU

Easter Island, one of the world’s most remote inhabited places, some 3,700 kilometers off the coast of South America, is home to an extraordinary archaeological heritage that spans over a thousand (Learn More)

HUMBERSTONE AND SANTA LAURA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

MONTEMAR INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY

COCKCROW POST TOWN

DULAN COUNTY TIBETAN ROYAL TOMB GROUP

JUANQINZHAI IN THE QIANLONG GARDEN

The Qianlong Emperor, fifth of China’s Qing Dynasty, reigned from 1735 to 1796 and was the longest-serving ruler in China. (Learn More)

LU MANSION

NAMSELING MANOR

PALPUNG MONASTERY

QIANLONG GARDEN CONSERVATION PROJECT

Occupying almost two acres in the northeast quadrant of the Forbidden City, the Qianlong Garden was built by the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to serve as a part of his planned ret (Learn More)

SAN XING DUI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

In 1984, following the discovery of a few bits of jade in an irrigation ditch, excavations near Guang Han City in Sichuan Province uncovered the earthen outer walls of an ancient city dating from t (Learn More)

STONE TOWERS OF SOUTHWEST CHINA

Spread throughout Sichuan Province and the Tibet Autonomous Region, 250 stone towers rise above the trees of southwest China. (Learn More)

TIANTAI AN

XIANNONGTAN (TEMPLE OF AGRICULTURE)

The temple complex dedicated to Xiannong, the father of agriculture, was built in 1420 below the Forbidden City and adjacent to the famed Temple of Heaven in Beijing. (Learn More)

PAECES CHAPELS OF TIERRADENTRO

SAN IGNACIO CHURCH

San Ignacio Church, located in the Bogotá historic district of La Candelaria, was begun in the early seventeenth century under the supervision of Juan Bautista Coluccini, a Jesuit priest who (Learn More)

DUBROVNIK OLD CITY HARBOR

FRANCISCAN MONASTERY LIBRARY

Founded in 1235, the Franciscan monastery in Dubrovnik was an essential visit for pilgrims traveling between Europe and the Holy Land. (Learn More)

MARITIME QUARANTINE-LAZARETI

Between the 14th and 16th centuries, Dubrovnik was a key hub in the trade between the Ottoman Empire and the West, and its lazaret, or quarantine station, was built in 1627 to isolate the ill and p (Learn More)

SPLIT HISTORIC CENTER

CONVENT OF SANTA CLARA OF ASSISI

NATIONAL ART SCHOOLS

REINA CEMETERY

CÁSLAV SYNAGOGUE

Cáslav Synagogue in the central Czech Republic was constructed in 1899 to serve the town’s Jewish population. The building was designed by Wilhelm Stiassny, an architect from Vienna. (Learn More)

CHOTESOV MONASTERY

HEAVENLY FATHER CHAPEL

KUKS FOREST SCULPTURES

In the New Forest bordering the town of Kuks in the Czech Republic, Mary Magdalene reclines amidst the fallen leaves while the three Magi perform their act of adoration nearby. (Learn More)

MONASTARY OF KLADRUBY

PINKAS SYNAGOGUE

Pinkas Synagogue, the second oldest site in the Prague ghetto, was originally a private house of prayer for the prominent Horowitz family. (Learn More)

ST. ANN'S CHURCH

Built in 1316, St. Ann’s Church stands at the foot of the Charles Bridge in the Old Town of Prague. (Learn More)

TEREZIN FORTRESS

Terezin Fortress, a vast military complex with a perimeter of over 12 miles (20 kilometers), guards the confluence of the Elbe and Eger rivers in the northwest Czech Republic. (Learn More)

LA COMPAÑIA CHURCH

CEREMONIAL ENCLOSURE OF KHASEKHEMWY AT HIERAKONPOLIS

Hierakonpolis was the Predynastic capital of Upper Egypt, and grew to prominence in the mid-third millennium BC. (Learn More)

KARNAK TEMPLE

The Karnak temple complex at Luxor developed over more than 1,000 years, principally between the Twelfth and Twentieth Dynasties. (Learn More)

NEW GOURNA VILLAGE

New Gourna Village, an experimental earthen village on the West Bank of the Nile, is a testament to how the relationship between heritage and society is often fraught with multiple meanings and con (Learn More)

SABIL RUQAYYA DUDU

SULTAN AL-MUAYYAD HOSPITAL

TARABAY AL-SHARIFY

The monumental complex of Tarabay al-Sharify stands at the southern end of Al-Azhar Park. (Learn More)

VALLEY OF THE KINGS

Thebes, now the modern city of Luxor in central Egypt, was the royal capital of the Ancient Egyptian civilization during the New Kingdom (1539-1075 B.C.). (Learn More)

DARBUSH TOMB

MOHAMMAD ALI HOUSE

ALBI CATHEDRAL

Sainte-Cécile Cathedral in Albi was built in the thirteenth century following the suppression of the Albigensian Heresy, centered in Albi, to convey the power of the Church to the populace. (Learn More)

CARPENTRAS SYNAGOGUE

Built in 1367, Carpentras Synagogue is one of the oldest synagogues in France, located in the capital of what was once called the Comtat Venaissin, the area surrounding Avignon in southeastern Fran (Learn More)

CHÂTEAU AQUEDUCT

CHÂTEAU DE COMMARQUE

The Chateau de Commarque, in the Dordogne region of southwest France, was founded during the 12th century by the abbot of Sarlat, who established a simple wooden tower there near the meeting of two (Learn More)

COUVENT DE LA VISITATION, CHAPELLE SAINT-JOSEPH, CHŒUR DES RELIGIEUSES

Started in 1648 and completed nine years later, the Couvent de la Visitation functioned as a base for the religious order of the Visitation until it was abandoned in 1792, following the French Revo (Learn More)

EGLISE PAROISSIALE DE SAINT-MARTIN-DES-PUITS

HÔTEL DE MONNAIES

HÔTEL DES INVALIDES

Built from 1676 to 1706 at the direction of Louis XIV as a veterans’ hospital, the Hôtel des Invalides boasts an elegant classical façade and impressive dome. (Learn More)

OPÉRA COMIQUE

Founded in 1714, the Opéra Comique is one of the oldest French dramatic institutions. (Learn More)

POTAGER DU ROI

The Potager du Roi, also known as the Kitchen Garden of the King, was commissioned by Louis XIV and built near the Palace of Versailles. (Learn More)

SAINT-EMILION MONOLITHIC CHURCH

In the 8th century, a Breton monk named Emilion fled to southern France to escape persecution by the Benedictine order and adopted an eremitic existence, living in a cave. (Learn More)

BODBE CATHEDRAL

GELATI MONASTERY AND ACADEMY

JVARI MONASTERY

According to local history, in the early fourth century a wooden cross was erected over a pagan sanctuary on a rocky mountaintop overlooking Mtskehta, the former capital of the Georgian Kingdom of (Learn More)

CASTLE HARTENFELS

Castle Hartenfels was constructed in Torgau, a town on the banks of the River Elbe, in the late 15th through mid-16th centuries. (Learn More)

FUGGERHOUSE

The grand Fuggerhouse in Augsburg was the home of several generations of the Fugger banking families, one of the richest and most powerful European banking families of the sixteenth and seventeenth (Learn More)

GOETHE GALLERY IN THE RESIDENZSCHLOSS

The Residenzschloss, or Residential Palace, of the Dukes of Saxe-Weimar was first constructed in the Middle Ages and was expanded and renovated until 1774, when a fire destroyed it. (Learn More)

LITTLE PHEASANT CASTLE OF MORITZBURG

The Little Pheasant Castle, known locally as Fasanenschlösschen, is an eigteenth-century hunting lodge located on the grounds of the Moritzburg estate, outside Dresden, Germany. (Learn More)

ORANIENBAUM WÖRLITZ

Oranienbaum Wörlitz, a royal estate near Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt, was built for Princess Henriette Catharina von Nassau-Oranien and her husband, Johann Georg II von Anhalt-Dessau, beginning in (Learn More)

THOMASKIRCHE

Constructed in Leipzig, Germany, in the early 13th century by the Augustinian monastic order, Thomaskirche, or St. (Learn More)

LARABANGA MOSQUE

Dating from the 17th century, Larabanga Mosque is the oldest mosque in Ghana, and one of the country’s most revered religious sites. (Learn More)

ETZ HAYIM SYNAGOGUE

In the 17th century, the Jewish community of Hania acquired a vacant Venetian church, the 15th-century Church of St. (Learn More)

HELIKE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

PALAIKASTRO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

CAPITANES GENERALES PALACE

The city of Antigua was founded in 1543 in the valley of Panchoy, surrounded by the Agua, Fuego, and Acatenago volcanoes. (Learn More)

EL ZOTZ

NARANJO

Naranjo, the second largest Maya city in Guatemala after Tikal, developed between 500 B.C. and A.D. 950, although the main period of construction took place during the Late Classic period (A.D. (Learn More)

GINGERBREAD NEIGHBORHOOD

In October 2009, the gingerbread houses of Port-au-Prince were included on the 2010 World Monuments Watch in order to raise international awareness about this unique architectural heritage. (Learn More)

MÁD SYNAGOGUE

Mád Synagogue, situated on top of a hill overlooking the majestic vineyards of the Tokaj Hegyalja region, is one of the oldest standing synagogues in Hungary. (Learn More)

PÉCS SYNAGOGUE

The Synagogue of Pécs, consecrated in 1869, was an early structure built by the Jewish Neolog community, whose principles were articulated at the 1868 Hungarian Jewish Congress. (Learn More)

SPA CENTER HISTORIC ENSEMBLE

AMBER TOWN

Once the capital city of the Kachwahas—one of the legendary Rajput clans that rose to power during the Middle Ages in what is now the northern Indian state of Rajasthan—Amber Town was first occupie (Learn More)

BAGH-I-HAFIZ RAKHNA

BASGO GOMPA (MAITREYA TEMPLES)

The mud-brick fortress of Basgo Gompa is perched high in the hills of Ladakh, between the Himalaya and Karakoram mountain ranges in northern India. (Learn More)

CHAMPANER-PAVAGADH

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the city of Champaner was an important post along the trade route linking the states of Malwa and Gujarat in western India. (Learn More)

CHIKTAN CASTLE

DECHEN NAMGYAL GONPA

DHANGKAR GOMPA

GURU LHAKHANG AND SUMDA CHUN TEMPLES

HISTORIC HAVELIS OF BIKANER

JAISALMER FORT

Built in 1156 by King Rawal Jaisal, Jaisalmer Fort dominates the countryside in the far northwestern corner of Rajasthan, near the border of India and Pakistan. (Learn More)

KENESETH ELIYAHOO SYNAGOGUE

Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue is the second oldest Sephardic synagogue in Mumbai. (Learn More)

KRISHNA TEMPLE COMPLEX, HAMPI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

From the mid-14th century to 1565, Hampi was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire, a powerful military state and an influential Hindu kingdom that ruled much of the southern half of the Indian su (Learn More)

LUTYENS BUNGALOW ZONE

METROPOLITAN BUILDING

PARADESI SYNAGOGUE

Paradesi Synagogue, in the southern Indian port city of Kochi, is the oldest synagogue in India as well as the entire British Commonwealth. (Learn More)

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

SRINAGAR HERITAGE ZONE

TAJ MAHAL

The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum built by Emperor Shah Jahan for his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in childbirth in 1631. (Learn More)

DESA LINGGA

Located in the Karo district west of Lake Toba in North Sumatra, the village of Desa Lingga is emblematic of the challenges of maintaining local culture and vernacular practices in a rapidly changi (Learn More)

OMO HADA

Omo Hada is a rare surviving 18th-century traditional Indonesian village. (Learn More)

TAMANSARI WATER CASTLE

Tamansari, meaning perfumed garden, is the name for the gardens and associated structures built in 1765 for Hamengku Buwono I, the Sultan of the kingdom of Yogyakarta. (Learn More)

CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES OF IRAQ

NINEVEH AND NIMRUD PALACES

More than 2,700 years ago, two Assyrian kings, Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) and Assurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), recorded their successful military campaigns on the walls of their palaces at the anci (Learn More)

ATHASSEL ABBEY

DAMER HOUSE

Built in the eighteenth-century for the wealthy Damer family, Damer House was constructed in the courtyard of the thirteenth-century Roscrea Castle. (Learn More)

HILL OF TARA

SAINT BRENDAN'S CATHEDRAL

Clonfert Cathedral, also known as St. Brendan’s Cathedral, is a 12th-century Hiberno-Romanesque structure on the site of Saint Brendan’s 6th-century monastery in Clonfert, Ireland. (Learn More)

BET SHE'ARIM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

OLD CITY OF LOD

ACADEMY OF HADRIAN'S VILLA

ARCH OF TRAJAN

BIBLIOTECA MARCIANA

Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana stands as a symbol of the city’s wealth and its long tradition of civic investment in intellectual and artistic pursuits. (Learn More)

CA' D'ORO

Ca’ d’Oro, also known as the Palazzo Santa Sofia, may be the best known example of residential Venetian gothic architecture in the city. (Learn More)

CARRACCI GALLERY AT THE PALAZZO FARNESE

The Palazzo Farnese was commissioned by Alessandro Farnese (1468-1549), later Pope Paul III (r. 1534-1549) around 1513. (Learn More)

CHAINS BRIDGE

Il Ponte della Catene, or the Chains Bridge, spans the Lima River in Tuscany, connecting the towns of Fomoli and Chifenti. (Learn More)

CINQUE TERRE

Cinque Terre describes the Mediterranean coastline between Genoa and Tuscany, where the hills are carved into green terraces that descend toward the water. (Learn More)

DOMUS AUREA

ETRUSCAN PAINTED TOMBS OF TARQUINIA

GROTTOES OF SAN MICHELE

Along a narrow valley in the Picentini Mountains, the flowing water of the Tusiano River gradually excavated a deep natural cavern on the western slopes of Monte Raione. (Learn More)

HOUSE OF AUGUSTUS

The home of Rome’s first emperor sits atop the Palatine Hill in the heart of the ancient city. (Learn More)

LIMONAIA AT BOBOLI GARDENS AND GARDEN OF VILLA MEDICI AT CASTELLO

Design and construction of the Boboli Gardens behind the Palazzo Pitti began in 1549 under Cosimo I de Medici. (Learn More)

NEOPITAGORICA BASILICA

PALAZZO DORIA PAMPHILI

PARMA CATHEDRAL

The original Parma Cathedral was consecrated in 1106 but was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake that struck northern Italy in 1117. (Learn More)

PONTE LUCANO

PORTICI ROYAL PALACE

REAL ALBERGO DEI POVERI

Naples was a thriving city in the early 18th century, both larger and wealthier than Rome, but it also had a significant impoverished population. (Learn More)

RUINS ON THE RIVER CENTA

SAN GIACOMO MAGGIORE PORTICO

SAN PIETRO DI CASTELLO CHURCH

From the ninth century until 1807, when Saint Mark’s Basilica became Venice’s official cathedral, the Church of San Pietro di Castello functioned as the spiritual and administrative rel (Learn More)

SANTA MARIA ASSUNTA IN TORCELLO

Torcello, an island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon, is home to the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, established in 639 according to the wishes of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and th (Learn More)

SANTA MARIA DELLA VISITAZIONE (CHURCH OF THE PIETÀ)

The Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione, also known as the Church of the Pietà, was designed by the architect Giorgio Massari and built between 1745 and 1760. (Learn More)

SANTI QUATTRO CORONATI CLOISTER

Within the fortress-like Basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati complex is an early-13th-century cloister that is possibly the earliest structure in Rome in the Cosmatesque style, which is characterize (Learn More)

SCUOLA GRANDE DEI CARMINI (SCUOLA GRANDE DI SANTA MARIA DEL CARMELO)

Though not officially founded until the year 1594, the Scuola Grande dei Carmini traces its roots to 1286, when the institution was established as one of the earliest civic and charitable confrater (Learn More)

SCUOLA GRANDE DI SAN ROCCO

Founded in 1478, the Scuola Grande di San Rocco became the richest and largest of the Venetian scuole, religious confraternities that functioned simultaneously as charitable organizations, (Learn More)

TEMPLE OF PORTUNUS

The Temple of Portunus, dating to the first century B.C., is a rare survivor of Roman Republican architecture and a reminder of the magnificence of the Forum Boarium in Antiquity, once a major comm (Learn More)

THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE OF FLORENCE

The Jewish community in Florence is one of the oldest continuous congregations in Europe, with origins dating to the early fourteenth century. (Learn More)

TUFF TOWNS AND VIE CAVE

The towns of Pitigliano, Sorano, Manciano, and Civita di Bagnoregio lie balanced on the crests of steep Italian hills, built into the tufa (or tuff) bedrock, a soft stone formed from volcanic ash. (Learn More)

VILLA OF SAN GILIO

EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE HERITAGE SITES

On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake struck the northeast coast of Japan. (Learn More)

MACHIYA TOWNHOUSES

The machiya of Kyoto are traditional townhouses dating from the Edo period (1603–1867). Born out of the city’s growing merchant class, they functioned as both residences and workspaces. (Learn More)

AIN GHAZAL

JORDAN RIVER CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

MIDDLE EASTERN GEODATABASE FOR ANTIQUITIES (MEGA)

In collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute, WMF, the Jordanian Department of Antiquities and the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, a modern, web-based inventory for archaeol (Learn More)

TAM TING

CHEHABI CITADEL

INTERNATIONAL FAIRGROUND

STOBI

DJENNÉ-DJENO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Although the archaeological site of Djenné-Djeno is located just three kilometers southeast of the modern village of Djenné, the site was unknown until the 1970s. (Learn More)

ANTIGUA CIUDAD GUERRERO (GUERRERO VIEJO)

Jose de Escandón, future governor of Nuevo Santander, founded Guerrero in 1750 on the Salado River near the Rio Grande. (Learn More)

CAROLINA HACIENDA

CHIHUAHUA MISSIONS

CONFERENCE ON THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN FORTIFICATIONS

Through the World Monuments Watch, WMF became increasingly aware of the conservation challenges facing the heritage of historic fortifications throughout the Americas. (Learn More)

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON ARCHITECTURAL COVERS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS

Archaeological sites around the world are specially threatened by exposure to the elements. (Learn More)

LA TERCENA

MADERA CAVE DWELLINGS

The Madera Cave dwellings are pre-Colombian sculpted clay structures nestled in the natural caves and cliffs in Chihuahua’s western Sierra Madre. (Learn More)

MEXICO CITY HISTORIC CENTER

Seven centuries of Mexican history are recorded in the architectural landscape of the Centro Histórico, or Historic Center, of Mexico City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Learn More)

MONASTERIES OF SAN JUAN BAUTISTA IN TETELA DEL VOLCÁN AND TLAYACAPAN

OXTOTITLAN

PALAFOXIANA LIBRARY

The origins of Palafoxiana Library date to 1646 when a personal collection of approximately 5,000 volumes was contributed to the Colegio de San Juan y San Pedro by Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza. (Learn More)

RUTA DE LA AMISTAD

Ruta de la Amistad, or the Route of Friendship, consists of twenty-two large-scale sculptures that were commissioned ahead of the 1968 Summer Olympics to serve as permanent markers of the event in (Learn More)

SAN FRANCISCO DE TZINTZUNZAN CONVENT

San Francisco de Tzintzuntzan Convent was the first foundation of the Franciscan Order in New Spain created for the conversion of the indigenous population to Christianity. (Learn More)

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA DE COIXTLAHUACA

San Juan Bautista de Coixtlahuaca Convent was built by the Dominicans between 1545 and 1596 in the highly-ornate Plateresque style, a design popular in Spain and its colonies in the 15th and 16th c (Learn More)

SAN JUAN DE ULÚA FORT

For nearly 350 years, the San Juan de Ulúa Fort in Veracruz served as the primary military stronghold of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. (Learn More)

SAN NICOLÁS OBISPO

SANTO DOMINGO DE GUZMÁN

Santo Domingo de Guzmán was built in the 16th century and the complex consists of a masonry church and convent constructed out of stone in the Renaissance style. (Learn More)

TEMPLO DE SAN FELIPE TINDACO (Church of San Felipe Tindaco)

TEOTIHUACAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE—QUETZALCOATL TEMPLE

For the first half of the first millennium, A.D, Teotihuacán was the dominant civilization in Mesoamerica and one of the great cities of the ancient world. (Learn More)

VEGA DE LA PEÑA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

LIXUS

SAHRIJ AND SBAIYIN MADRASSA COMPLEX

A sacred city of Islam, Fez is the oldest of Morocco’s four imperial cities and the country’s third-largest. (Learn More)

ITUM BAHA MONASTERY

Kathmandu Valley, a fertile bowl nestled among peaks of the Himalayan mountain range, has been a base of religious activity for centuries. (Learn More)

VÅGÅ OLD CHURCH

Set in the landlocked mountains north of Jotunheimen, Vågå Old Church represents a singular case among the renowned stave- or timber-framed churches of Norway. (Learn More)

PETROGLYPHS IN THE DIAMER-BASHA DAM AREA

Meandering through gorges of the Indus River valley and across high mountain passes, ancient arteries of the fabled Silk Road cut through the Diamer District of Northern Pakistan. (Learn More)

TAMBA WARI

CHURCH OF THE HOLY NATIVITY

HISTORIC CENTER OF COLÓN

Colón, originally a low-lying coral island, lies at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal. (Learn More)

PANAMA CANAL AREA

In the late nineteenth century, a French company began building what would come to be considered one of the greatest engineering achievements in human history. (Learn More)

SAN LORENZO CASTLE

The first fortifications of San Lorenzo castle were built by prominent military engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli in 1595. (Learn More)

ANGASMARCA TEMPLE

CAJAMARCA HISTORIC CENTER

Located in the northern mountains of Peru, Cajamarca was settled by pre-Inca cultures as early as 5000 B.C. (Learn More)

CARAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

HISTORIC TOWNS OF THE COLCA VALLEY

The churches of the Colca Valley were built in the 17th century and have not been modified much since. (Learn More)

JESUIT CHURCHES OF SAN JOSÉ AND SAN JAVIER

LARAOS TERRACES

The andenería, or terraced landscape of Laraos, is believed to date to the pre-Inca period and is a defining feature of the steep slopes of the Peruvian Andes. (Learn More)

LINES AND GEOGLYPHS OF NASCA

MACUSANI-CORANI ROCK ART

OYÓN VALLEY MISSIONARY CHAPELS

The 40 surviving chapels in the Oyón Valley were built in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as part of a Spanish program to convert Peru’s indigenous population to Christianity. (Learn More)

PARQUE ARQUEOLÓGICO DE PIKILLAQTA

QUINTA DE PRESA

RANSOM ROOM

SAN CRISTÓBAL DE RAPAZ CHURCH

In the 16th and 17th centuries colonial Catholic missions were established in the Oyón Valley in Peru and built in a style described as Rural Andean Baroque. (Learn More)

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA OF HUARO CHURCH

San Juan Bautista was built by Jesuits in the sixteenth century in the town of Huaro, strategically located on an Inca road system 35 miles south of Cusco. (Learn More)

SAN PEDRO DE MÓRROPE CHAPEL

The chapel of San Pedro de Mórrope was constructed in the 16th century during the Colonial period in Peru in an effort to convert the indigenous Mochica people to Christianity. (Learn More)

SANTUARIO HISTÓRICO MACHU PICCHU

TEMPLO SANTA CRUZ DE JERUSALÉN DE JULI (Church of Santa Cruz of Jerusalem)

KABAYAN MUMMY CAVES

When industrial activity began in the forests north of Manila, loggers discovered ancient burial caves hewn out of the rock containing mummified remains and hundreds of coffins and skulls. (Learn More)

RICE TERRACES OF THE PHILIPPINE CORDILLERAS

JERUSALEM HOSPITAL OF THE TEUTONIC ORDER

OLD LUBLIN THEATER

PIŃCZÓW SYNAGOGUE

Pińczów Synagogue, built at the turn of the 17th century, is the last surviving Jewish monument in the city of Pińczów, once a thriving economic and cultural Jewish center. (Learn More)

ST. PARASKEWA CHURCH

VISTULAMOUTH FORTRESS

The origins of Vistulamouth Fortress probably date to the early medieval period, when a lighthouse and watchtower guarding the mouth of the Vistula River occupied the site of the current structures (Learn More)

CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ÉVORA

The organ of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Évora, a masterpiece of design by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, benefits from the wonderful acoustics of the building. (Learn More)

CONSERVATION PROJECT FOR THE CLOISTER OF THE JERONIMOS MONASTERY

King Manuel I erected a large monastery close to the site where Henry the Navigator had built a church dedicated to Santa Maria de Belém in the fifteenth century. (Learn More)

FUNCHAL CATHEDRAL

Construction on the Funchal church on the island of Madeira began around 1500 after the arrival of the first Portuguese colonists. (Learn More)

QUELUZ PALACE GARDEN

The 18th-century Queluz Palace Garden, built by King Pedro III, is renowned for its ornate fountains and waterfalls. (Learn More)

SHAARÉ TIKVA SYNAGOGUE

In 1871, 50 years after the Portuguese Inquisition ended, the Jews of Lisbon were granted permission to build a synagogue. (Learn More)

BRANCUSI’S ENDLESS COLUMN ENSEMBLE

Erected in 1934, the Endless Column by famed Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) has been hailed as one of the great works of twentieth-century outdoor sculpture. (Learn More)

ORADEA FORTRESS

ROMANO CATHOLIC CHURCH

The Romano Catholic Church of Saint Emeric was built in the thirteenth century by the first Christian settlers in present day Ghelinta. (Learn More)

ARKHANGELSKOYE STATE MUSEUM

In the 18th century, Prince Nikolai Golitsyn commissioned French architects to craft an elaborate palace and grounds on the outskirts of Moscow. (Learn More)

CHINESE PALACE AT ORANIENBAUM STATE MUSEUM

The Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum, an addition to Prince Alexander Menshikov’s estate at Oranienbaum, was the first palace commissioned by Russian empress Catherine the Great following her se (Learn More)

CHURCH OF THE ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD OF THE SIGN

IRKUTSK HISTORIC CENTER

KIZHI POGOST

Kizhi Pogost is located on one of the many hundreds of islands on tranquil Lake Onega in the northern region of Karelia. (Learn More)

MENDELEEV TOWER

NEW JERUSALEM MONASTERY

Founded under Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century in Istra on the outskirts of Moscow, the New Jerusalem Monastery was meant to evoke the Holy Land and serve as a pilgrimage site. (Learn More)

PAANAJÄRVI VILLAGE

Located on the Russian-Finnish border, Paanajärvi is the last intact village in the district of Viena Karelia along the Kemi River. (Learn More)

RUSAKOV CLUB

The avant-garde architect Konstatin Melnikov designed the Rusakov Club as a theater for workers who labored in nearby printing factories. (Learn More)

ST. PETERSBURG HISTORIC SKYLINE

BASIL THE GREAT CHURCH

Basil the Great Church belongs to a small and precious collection of wooden churches in the rural Carpathian mountain region of Slovakia, a significant border between Eastern and Western Christian (Learn More)

LEDNICKÉ-ROVNE HISTORICAL PARK

SAINTS COSMOS AND DAMIAN

The distinctive wooden architecture of the Church of Saints Cosmos and Damian reflects the unique cultural and religious traditions the Greek Orthodox Church maintained in Slovakia in the seventeen (Learn More)

AQUEDUCT OF SEGOVIA

The Aqueduct of Segovia was built during the second half of the 1st century A.D. under the rule of the Roman Empire and supplied water from the Frío River to the city into the 20th century. (Learn More)

BERROCAL DE TRUJILLO

CONVENTO DE LA CORIA

Trujillo lies about 170 miles west of Madrid in a rugged and barren area of Spain known as Extremadura. (Learn More)

HISTORIC LANDSCAPE OF SEVILLA

JOAN MIRÓ FOUNDATION

MÁLAGA ROMAN THEATER

The Roman theater in the southern Spanish city of Málaga is thought to have been built early in the first century A.D. during the reign of Augustus. (Learn More)

NUMANCIA

PAZO DE SAN MIGUEL DAS PENAS

Twelve centuries of art and architecture are chronicled in the buildings found in the hills of northwestern Spain. (Learn More)

ROYAL MONASTERY OF GUADALUPE

Constructed in 1389 to commemorate the miraculous appearance of the Virgin the previous year, the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe sits at an altitude of 660 meters in the Villuerca Mountains of southw (Learn More)

SANTA MARIA DE VITORIA CATHEDRAL

Santa María de Vitoria Cathedral was built by King Alfonso VIII of Castile after the conquest of Vitoria in the second half of the 12th century. (Learn More)

SANTO DOMINGO EL ANTIGUO

Founded by Alfonso VI, Santo Domingo el Antiguo de Silos is the oldest monastery in Toledo, dating to 1085. (Learn More)

THE SALÓN RICO OF THE PALACE OF THE MEDINA AL-ZAHRA

Abd-el-Rahman III commissioned the Medina Al-Zahra after elevating himself to Caliph of Córdoba and to secure his supremacy in Al-Andalus in the middle of the tenth century. (Learn More)

HISTORIC GALLE

Seized by the Portuguese from the Sinhala kings in 1587, the historic city of Galle was the most important port in Sri Lanka for centuries. (Learn More)

AYYUBID PALACE COMPLEX IN THE CITADEL OF ALEPPO

Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited centers of human settlement and has flourished for millennia. (Learn More)

CITADEL OF ALEPPO

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Aleppo preserves remnants of more than four millennia of Near Eastern history. (Learn More)

DAMASCUS OLD CITY & SADDLE SOUK

TELL MOZAN

Tell Mozan, located in northeast Syria in the Khabur River plain, is the site of ancient Urkesh, a place associated with the Hurrians, a Bronze Age people of Upper Mesopotamia. (Learn More)

HISTORIC SITES OF KILWA

The island of Kilwa Kisiwani is located in the south of Tanzania, a short boat ride from the mainland. (Learn More)

APHRODISIAS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Aphrodisias, named after its patron goddess Aphrodite, was founded in the 2nd century B.C. on the site of a rural sanctuary of Aphrodite. (Learn More)

CHURCH OF THE HOLY SAVIOR

Located in modern-day eastern Turkey, Surp Amenap’rkitch, or the Church of the Holy Savior, is one of the few structures still standing at Ani from the prosperous Armenian Bagratid period in (Learn More)

ÇUKUR HAN

HAGIA SOPHIA

Justinian I, one of the earliest Byzantine rulers, ordered the architects Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus to design Hagia Sophia in the heart of what was then Constantinople. (Learn More)

HAYDARPAŞA RAILWAY STATION

KARIYE MUSEUM

MOUNT NEMRUT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Antiochus I, an Armenian king whose lineage connected him to the Seleucids, Ptolemies, and Macedonians, ruled the small territory of Commagene in Asia Minor in the 1st century B.C. (Learn More)

PATARA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Wide, protective sandy beaches and a deep Mediterranean bay helped make Patara the wealthy capital of the Lycian-Pamphylian province during the Roman Empire. (Learn More)

RUM ORPHANAGE

OLD NISA

MASAKA CATHEDRAL

In 1909, a small church was built in the Ugandan village of Kituvo. (Learn More)

GREAT CHORAL SYNAGOGUE

The Great Choral Synagogue of Odessa, built in 1840 after a fire destroyed an earlier structure dating from 1790, is one of two surviving synagogues in what was once a thriving center of Jewish cul (Learn More)

PANTICAPAEUM ANCIENT CITY

BATTERSEA POWER STATION

BRITISH BRUTALISM

CASTLE SINCLAIR GIRNIGOE

Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is a complex of ruined stone structures built and modified over a 200-year period by the Sinclair earls of Caithness, historically one of northern Scotland’s most pow (Learn More)

EDINBURGH HISTORIC GRAVEYARDS

Five historical burial grounds are scattered around Edinburgh’s city center, oases amid the dense urban surroundings often full of students and tourists. (Learn More)

HADLOW TOWER

MAVISBANK HOUSE

MUSSENDEN TEMPLE

The Downhill estate was constructed in the late eighteenth century for Frederick Hervey, the Bishop of Derry and Earl of Bristol. (Learn More)

QUARR ABBEY

RUINS OF THE FORMER CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL, COVENTRY

After Coventry Cathedral was gutted by incendiary bombs during World War II, a conscious and collective decision was taken to build a new cathedral and to preserve the ruins as a constant reminder (Learn More)

SAINT MARY'S STOW CHURCH

St. Mary’s Church in Stow is one of the oldest parish churches in England. Founded in the seventh century in what had been the Roman town of Sidnacester, St. (Learn More)

SAINT VINCENT STREET CHURCH

Saint Vincent Street Church is the sole survivor of three churches designed for the city of Glasgow by the influential and renowned Scottish architect Alexander Thomson. (Learn More)

SHEERNESS DOCKYARD

Since Roman times, the strategic location of Sheerness—on the western tip of the Isle of Sheppey, where the Thames and Medway Rivers converge and spill into the North Sea—has enabled it to serve as (Learn More)

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH CHURCH, SHOBDON

Standing within an idyllic, pastoral landscape in Shobdon, the stone exterior of St. (Learn More)

STOWE HOUSE

Stowe House was originally the country seat of the Temple-Grenville family. The first house on its footprint was built between 1677 and 1683 for the third baronet, Sir Richard Temple. (Learn More)

TECTON BUILDINGS AT DUDLEY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

WENTWORTH CASTLE

In 1695, when Thomas Wentworth, third Baron Raby (later first Earl of Strafford), did not inherit Woodhouse estate, which he regarded as his ancestral home and birthright, he began a life-long und (Learn More)

510 FIFTH AVENUE

ADOBE MISSIONS OF NEW MEXICO

The adobe churches of New Mexico were built as part of the Franciscan missionary campaign in the New World. (Learn More)

ATLANTA-FULTON CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY

BODIE STATE HISTORIC PARK

CHARLESTON HISTORIC DISTRICT

Charleston was founded in 1670 by English colonists and relocated in 1680 to its present location, where the Ashley and Cooper rivers meet the Atlantic Ocean. (Learn More)

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS

EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY

ENNIS HOUSE

FORT APACHE

Established by President Grant in 1871, the 7,500-acre Fort Apache Reservation served as operations base from which the U.S. (Learn More)

HANGING FLUME

HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS OF NEW ORLEANS

HOLY ASCENSION RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Built in 1896 on the site of an earlier church, Holy Ascension Russian Orthodox Church in Unalaska is a reminder of the sizeable Russian community that once thrived in Alaska. (Learn More)

LANCASTER COUNTY

The green fields of Lancaster County in southeastern Pennsylvania constitute a historic cultural landscape representing the founding ideals of the United States of America. (Learn More)

MAIN STREET MODERN: GROSSE POINTE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Grosse Pointe Public Library was built by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer in 1953. (Learn More)

MANITOGA

MIAMI MARINE STADIUM

Commodore Ralph Middleton Munroe Miami Marine Stadium was the first purpose-built venue for powerboat racing in the United States. (Learn More)

NEW YORK STATE PAVILION

OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE

Olana, the famed home of Frederic Edwin Church, the nineteenth-century American landscape painter and a central figure in the Hudson River School. (Learn More)

PHILLIS WHEATLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PRESERVATION ARTS TRAINING WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL

As part of a long term commitment to preservation training in the United States, WMF initiated a high school preservation arts training curriculum, launched as a result of a 1993 workshop for educa (Learn More)

SALK INSTITUTE

SAN JOSE CHURCH

The San José Church, originally known as the Iglesia de Santo Tomás de Aquino, is considered by many scholars to be one of the finest and oldest examples of Gothic-influenced religiou (Learn More)

SCHINDLER KINGS ROAD HOUSE AND STUDIO

SOUTH PASS CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

ST. LOUIS CEMETERY NO. 2

TALIESIN WEST

THE BRIDGES OF THE MERRITT PARKWAY

TUTUVENI PETROGLYPH SITE

The Tutuveni Petroglyph site boasts more than 5,000 Hopi clan symbols that were inscribed during the ceremonial pilgrimage to Ongtupqa, or the Grand Canyon, which is for many Hopi the point of thei (Learn More)

WALPI VILLAGE

Perched on a narrow edge of the First Mesa, Walpi is the foundation for eleven Hopi settlements in the United States. (Learn More)

AYAZ KALA

LA GUAIRA HISTORIC CENTER

The historic city of La Guaira was founded in the 16th century on the Caribbean Sea and served as the chief port for Venezuela’s future inland capital Caracas. (Learn More)

REAL FUERZA DE SANTIAGO DE ARROYO

MINH MANG TOMB

King Minh Mang, the second ruler of the Nguyen Dynasty, governed southern and central Vietnam from 1820 to 1840. (Learn More)

SHIBAM

KHAMI NATIONAL MONUMENT

Khami, a settlement founded in the mid-15th century, became the capital city of Great Zimbabwe in the mid-16th century and thus became the center of the kingdom’s political and economic power (Learn More)