The World Heritage List, now numbering 1,248 locations, includes "cultural and natural properties of outstanding universal value." Sites have been added almost every year since 1978.

Thirty-two historically and culturally significant sites have just joined the illustrious ranks of UNESCO World Heritage List.

Countries with World Heritage sites must commit to preserving them; countries with designated sites could also receive funding to help with that conservation. Here's a selection of some of the ...

The United Nation's cultural organisation announces its choice of sites for inclusion in its world heritage list this week, with pre-historic caves, former centres of repression, forests, marine ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by UNESCO to its World Heritage List.

UNESCO World Heritage site People visit the Petroglyph along the Bangucheon Stream, which was recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage list, in Ulsan, some 360 kilometers south of Seoul, on July ...

UNESCO has expanded its World Heritage list by 26 new sites. Among them is a location in Bavaria that attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists each year. Learn more about it at TRAVELBOOK.

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is pleased to announce the selected projects of the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) 2025 Campaign, under the theme of ‘World Heritage Volunteers 2025 - Working on the ...