Chile · Zone
Humberstone and Santa Laura — Ghost Town of the Nitrate Boom
In the driest desert on Earth, a town of 3,600 people once thrived on the extraction of sodium…
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Archaeological site
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Greenland · Monument
Hvalsey Church
The last standing Norse church in Greenland, and the site of the final recorded event in the five-century…
South Korea · Zone
Hwaseong Fortress
The masterpiece of late Joseon military architecture — a 5.7-km circuit of stone and brick walls encircling the…
Nigeria · Zone
Igbo-Ukwu
In a small town in southeastern Nigeria, excavations in 1939 and 1959 uncovered bronze objects of extraordinary intricacy…
Vietnam · Zone
Imperial Citadel of Thang Long
One thousand years of Vietnamese royal history compressed into a single archaeological site — the Imperial Citadel of…
Lazio · Area
Imperial Forums
The Imperial Forums are a complex of five monumental public squares built in Rome between 46 BCE and…
China · Area
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
UNESCO World Heritage designation encompassing imperial tomb complexes from the Ming and Qing dynasties, featuring exquisite stone carvings,…
Lombardia · Zone
Incisioni Rupestri della Valcamonica — 140.000 Petroglifi dal Mesolitico all’Età Romana (8000 a.C. – I sec. d.C.): il Più Grande Corpus di Arte Rupestre d’Europa (UNESCO 1979)
The rock carvings of Valcamonica are the largest single corpus of prehistoric rock art in Europe — over…
Bolivia · Area
Inkallaqta
A monumental Inca ceremonial centre in central Bolivia featuring the western hemisphere's largest pre-Columbian roofed hall and astronomical…
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