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

A Polynesian volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle, Easter Island is a special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888.

Between 1570 and the middle of the seventeenth century, the port of Arica was the main commercial shipping port for mercury and silver to and from Potosi, Bolivia.

Restoration of Valparaíso’s historic funiculars jump-started several other conservation projects in the historic seaport.

At least 150 wooden churches once stood on the Chiloé archipelago, a group of islands off the coast of central Chile.

Bafut Palace is located in the heart of the Bafut kingdom in northwest Cameroon.

The Churning of the Ocean of Milk Gallery displays a spectacular 49 meters of intricately sculpted bas-reliefs that are part of a larger ensemble of many battle scenes from across the region.

The Khmer temple of Ta Som, located at the eastern end of the Northern Baray at Angkor, was built at the end of the twelfth century during the reign of the powerful Buddhist King Jayavarman VII.

Spanning lands that cross the modern borders of Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Ghana, the Loropeni ruins are part of the larger Lobi Ruins, a 120-mile-by-60-mile cultural landscape.

Drametse Lhakhang, a sixteenth-century monastery straddling a steep and narrow mountain ridge in the verdant slopes of the eastern Himalayas, today houses a community of 80 monks.

Since the mid-seventeenth century, in eastern Bhutan at the confluence of the Gamri and Drangme rivers, Trashigang Dzong has served as a regional administrative and religious center.

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 kilometers.