The area exhibits a profusion of distinctive rock landforms rising above the granite shield that covers much of Zimbabwe. The large boulders provide [...]

These are among the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The Zambezi River, which is more than 2 km wide at this point, [...]

On the banks of the Zambezi, great cliffs overhang the river and the floodplains. The area is home to a remarkable concentration of [...]

These are among the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The Zambezi River, which is more than 2 km wide at this point, [...]

Between the 4th and 13th centuries a unique culture which owed its spiritual origins to Indian Hinduism developed on the coast of contemporary [...]

owes its name to a 19th-century plantation close to the site, which is in the Lower Mississippi Valley on a slightly elevated and [...]

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), author of the American Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, was also a talented architect of [...]

, located in the state of Kentucky, has the world’s largest network of natural caves and underground passageways, which are characteristic examples of [...]

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde [...]

The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set, symbolize English artistic and [...]

Sousse was an important commercial and military port during the Aghlabid period (800–909) and is a typical example of a town dating from [...]

Under the Almohads and the Hafsids, from the 12th to the 16th century, Tunis was considered one of the greatest and wealthiest cities [...]

The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of beside Lake Lugano is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245–230 [...]

The enormous mining excavation known as the Great Pit at Falun is the most striking feature of a landscape that illustrates the activity [...]

The development in the 12th century of Mudejar art in Aragon resulted from the particular political, social and cultural conditions that prevailed in [...]

In the 9th century the flame of Christianity was kept alive in the Iberian peninsula in the tiny Kingdom of the Asturias. Here [...]

Built at the end of the 16th century on a plan in the form of a grill, the instrument of the martyrdom of [...]

Mapungubwe is set hard against the northern border of South Africa, joining Zimbabwe and Botswana. It is an open, expansive savannah landscape at [...]

The is a transnational property composed of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg National Park in South Africa and the Sehlathebe National Park in Lesotho. The [...]

The four edifices of the site reflect the high points of the Byzantine-Romanesque ecclesiastical culture, with its distinct style of wall painting, which [...]