Burana Tower (Balasagun) – Virtual Tour 360°
A weathered brick minaret rising from the Chuy Valley steppe, Burana Tower is the last upstanding monument of Balasagun, once capital of the Karakhanid…
Kizil Caves
West of the ancient oasis city of Kucha, 236 rock-cut Buddhist caves line a river cliff — among the earliest surviving Buddhist grottoes in China, painted…
Maijishan Grottoes – Virtual Tour 360°
Carved into a freestanding sandstone cliff near Tianshui, the Maijishan Grottoes hold roughly 7,200 Buddhist sculptures and about 1,000 square metres of…
Sangha Trinational – Congo Basin Rainforest, Central Africa
At the point where Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and the Republic of Congo converge, the Sangha River flows south through one of the most…
Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars – UNESCO Landscape, Épernay
The Champagne wine region of northeastern France is, at first sight, an unremarkable landscape: low chalk hills rolling under wide skies, covered with rows…
La Lonja de la Seda – Gothic Silk Exchange of Valencia, Spain
In the centre of Valencia’s old city, between the central market and the cathedral, stands the building that expressed — more vividly than any other — the…
Jurisdiction of Saint-Émilion – Medieval Wine Landscape, Gironde
Saint-Émilion occupies a hillside of Jurassic limestone in the Gironde, 40 km east of Bordeaux — and it is as much underground as above it. The entire…
Uushigiin Ovor – Bronze Age Deer Stones, Mongolia
On the rolling grasslands near the town of Moron in northern Mongolia, 14 granite monoliths stand in a field, their surfaces engraved with images of stylised…
Macquarie Island – Sub-Antarctic Wilderness, Australia
Macquarie Island — 1,500 km south of Tasmania, 1,000 km north of Antarctica, in the most isolated stretch of the Southern Ocean — is geologically unique. It…
Pachacámac – Sacred City of the Pre-Inca Coast, Lima
Fifteen kilometres south of central Lima, where the Lurín River meets the Pacific, a complex of adobe pyramids, plazas, and temples rises from the coastal…