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BUTRINT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Archaeological evidence indicates that Corfiot traders founded Butrint in the eighth century B.C. (Learn More)

TIPASA ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK

TOUR AND TAXIS (TRANSPORT HUB)

Beginning in the early 20th century, Belgian railroad, customs, and maritime interests converged at Tour and Taxis, a model transportation hub designed by architect Van Humbeek. (Learn More)

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)

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)

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)

VUKOVAR CITY CENTER

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)

PUERTO PLATA LIGHTHOUSE

Built in 1879 by R. Deeley & Co., a New York firm, the Puerto Plata Lighthouse once served as a beacon for ships traversing the Atlantic. (Learn More)

SUCHITOTO CITY

MENTEWAB-QWESQWAM BANQUETING HALL

The buildings at this archaeological site date to the 17th and 18th centuries when the court of Gondar was the capital of Christian Ethiopia beginning in 1632. (Learn More)

KAHAL SHALOM SYNAGOGUE

Synagogue Kahal Kadosh Shalom (Holy Congregation of Peace), better known as the New Synagogue, is the only Sephardic temple remaining on the Greek island of Rhodes and the oldest surviving synagogu (Learn More)

USUMACINTA RIVER CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

Today, the Usumacinta River defines the border between Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas, but in antiquity its waters lay between the rival Maya cities of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilán. The two settlements were founded in the 1st millennium B.C., separated by 25 miles (40 kilometers) of dense jungle and the white rapids of the Usumacinta. (Learn More)

ERBIL CITADEL

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)

FALMOUTH HISTORIC TOWN

PETRA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

The magnificent ruins of ancient Petra occupy a high plateau that rises out of Wadi Mousa, the Valley of Moses, in southwest Jordan. (Learn More)

THIMLICH OHINGA CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

Built in the 14th century on a hill, Thimlich Ohinga is a complex surrounded by stone walls now partially covered under Savannah bush land. (Learn More)

ENFEH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

MNAJDRA PREHISTORIC TEMPLES

The Mnajdra Prehistoric Temples lie along the southern coast of Malta amidst the blue waters of the central Mediterranean. (Learn More)

BOGD KHAN PALACE MUSEUM

In 1911, at the time of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China, the independence of Outer Mongolia was proclaimed. (Learn More)

GIRAFFE ROCK ART SITE

The engravings of Agadez, on the edge of the Aïr Natural World Heritage Site, is one of the most extraordinary rock art sites in the region, consisting of over 800 prehistoric images drawn on (Learn More)

UCH MONUMENT COMPLEX

The ancient city of Uch, located west of Lahore on the edge of the Cholistan Desert, was one of several metropolises founded by Alexander the Great on his crusade through Central Asia in the late 4 (Learn More)

RICE TERRACES OF THE PHILIPPINE CORDILLERAS

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)

BÁNFFY CASTLE

From the 14th century through 1944, Bánffy Castle was occupied by members of the aristocratic Bánffy family, whose ranks included the first governor of Transylvania under the Hapsburg (Learn More)

SUBOTICA SYNAGOGUE

Designed in the late 1890s and built in 1902, Subotica Synagogue is among the most impressive examples of Art Nouveau ecclesiastical architecture in the region. (Learn More)

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)

GEBEL BARKAL

JODENSAVANNE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Jodensavanne (Jewish Savannah) was settled by a population of Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition on mainland Europe in the mid-seventeenth century. (Learn More)

ANCIENT MERV ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

The oasis of Merv is strategically sited in the Karakum desert and formed an essential military headquarters and staging post on major east-west trade routes. (Learn More)

ABDULAZIZKHAN

SAN FRANCISCO CHURCH IN CORO

Among the first churches that the Franciscan Order founded in Venezuela, the original church at Coro was part of the Convent of Nuestra Señora de la Salceda, founded in 1614. (Learn More)

TARIM

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)