Travel

The Spanish Colonial fortifications at Portobelo-San Lorenzo, built to protect their Caribbean interests, are listed as endangered.

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Czechia's dozen cultural sites tell the tale of its rich and vibrant customs and historical development.

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Congo-Kinshasa's 5 sites represent some of the largest, most biodiverse, and most endangered nature reserves on earth.

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Danish fossil sites, ice fields, marine reserves, traditional hunting grounds, old churches, and more have been inscribed within the country.

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Oman's cultural heritage includes frankincense trees, irrigation channels, forts, and the ancient Bat settlements.

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Norway's heritage is embodied by traditional Arctic island ways of life, old churches, mines, factories, and fjords.

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Christopher Columbus took his famous first steps in the New World nearby present day Santo Domingo in 1492, and the city was founded 6 years thereafter.

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Ecuador is home to historic colonial and indigenous infrastructure, and the Galapagos Islands, possibly the most biodiverse locale on earth.

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Egypt's Pharaohs' monuments, Ancient Nubian kingdoms, Christian monasteries, and Islamic heritage sites are all included.

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Long before the arrival of the Spanish in El Salvador, Joya de Cerén's agrarian people were buried under volcanic ash.

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Tallinn was selected as the site for a castle along the Baltic Sea by Teutonic Knight Crusaders in the 1200s, and later became a key city in the Hanseatic League.

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Ethiopia is home to some of the oldest human civilizations, and has interesting historical sites that reflect that.

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The homes, palaces, temples, and burial grounds of Nan Madol date back to the 13th-16th Century Saudeleur Dynasty.

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Niger's inscribed sites highlight its ecological richness and its historical role as the "Gateway to the Sahara."

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Buddhist stupas are sacred Buddhist sites that attract large numbers of tourists due to their architectural beauty.

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Finland's inscribed sites include ancient burial grounds, fortresses, churches, and the Baltic Sea's natural beauty.

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France's 42 inscribed sites, one of the highest totals in the world, bear testament to its cultural and natural richness.

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Cities such as Hong Kong, London, Paris, Dubai, and New York have earned reputations for being top tourist destinations.

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Lopé-Okanda bears testament to West African culture, biodiversity, archaeology, and geology.

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New Zealand's landscapes prominently feature glaciation, volcanoes, Maori homelands, and Sub-Antarctic seabird habitats.

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