Named for the Admi­ral who for­ti­fied the fort in 1779, safe­guard­ed St. John’s Har­bour dur­ing the eigh­teenth and ninete…

The Birth­place of Simón Bolí­var is a sev­en­teenth-cen­tu­ry house in the Venezue­lan cap­i­tal city Cara­cas where the hero …

The first cap­i­tal of Cote d‘Ivoire, the His­toric Town of Grand-Bas­sam, is an exam­ple of a late 19th- and ear­ly 20th‑c…

The site con­sists of sev­en­teen build­ings in Muhar­raq City, three off­shore oys­ter beds, part of the seashore and the Q…

Hall 1 is ded­i­cat­ed to post-inde­pen­dence Turk­menistan, Hall 2 (upstairs) has a focus on ancient his­to­ry with exhibits…

This site oper­at­ed as a female fac­to­ry between 1828 and 1856, which was intend­ed to reform female con­victs and seg­reg…

Robben Island was used at var­i­ous times between the 17th and 20th cen­turies as a prison, a hos­pi­tal for social­ly unac…

The largest under­ground city in the Cap­pado­cia val­ley. Served as a refuge for ear­ly Chris­tians flee­ing reli­gious pers…

In a spec­tac­u­lar land­scape, entire­ly sculpt­ed by ero­sion, the G&ouml,reme val­ley and its sur­round­ings con­tain rock-he…

Itchan Kala is the inner town (pro­tect­ed by brick walls some 10 m high) of the old Khi­va oasis, which was the last re…

Bukhara, which is sit­u­at­ed on the Silk Route, is more than 2,000 years old. It is the most com­plete exam­ple of a medi…

The his­toric town of Samarkand is a cross­road and melt­ing pot of the world‘s cul­tures. Found­ed in the 7th cen­tu­ry B.C…

The his­toric cen­tre of Shakhrisyabz con­tains a col­lec­tion of excep­tion­al mon­u­ments and ancient quar­ters which bear wi…

The cul­tur­al land­scape of Madriu-Per­afi­ta-Claror Val­ley offers a micro­cos­mic per­spec­tive of the way peo­ple have harve…

Prince Alexan­der Chavchavadze, the founder of the Geor­gian roman­ti­cism turned the estate in the vil­lage of Tsi­nan­dali…

Once home to a pros­per­ous fish­ing vil­lage, hous­ing a school, hos­pi­tal, airstrip, and chapel, the island is now noth­in…

Sim­ply breath­tak­ing, the gigan­tic stat­ue of Genghis Khan atop his horse glim­mers in the light as he impe­ri­ous­ly looks…

One of the most ancient Bukhara archi­tec­tur­al mon­u­ments — the Samanid mau­soleum — was erect­ed on a vast ter­ri­to­ry, wh…