UNESCO World Heritage

Aachen Cathedral

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

In the octagonal chapel that Charlemagne built as the heart of his empire, 32 Holy Roman Emperors ascended a marble throne to receive their crowns....

Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel (Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey)

Mont-Saint-Michel, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandie (Manche), France

The record concerns a living church and pilgrimage site within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Abu Mena

Izbat Muhammad Farid, Alexandria, Egypt

In the desert southwest of Alexandria, a Roman soldier's martyrdom gave rise to one of Christianity's earliest and greatest pilgrimage centers....

Agiou Panteleimonos Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Its inclusion on Monastic Resident body of Mount Athos is supported by the reviewed route, religious, heritage, and structured-canonical subject consulted records....

Agiou Pavlou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Agiou Pavlou Monastery is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, not as a route label or nearby...

Ajanta caves, Maharashtra

Phardapur, Maharashtra, India

In a horseshoe gorge of the Deccan Plateau, Buddhist monks spent seven centuries carving thirty caves from the basalt cliffs....

Ajina-Tepa Buddhist Monastery

Kizilsoy / Vakhsh District, Khatlon Region, Tajikistan

Ajina-Tepa Buddhist Monastery is a documented monastery in Kizilsoy / Vakhsh District, Khatlon Region, Tajikistan, connected with Buddhism....

Altai Tavan Bogd

Tsengel, Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia

Within Bayan-Ölgii, Altai Tavan Bogd is recorded as a sacred natural site connected to Mongolian traditional religion and sacred-land stewardship....

Ancient City of Damascus

Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syria

The Ancient City of Damascus is the historic walled core of Syria's capital and UNESCO World Heritage property 20bis....

Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan

Jericho, Jericho Governorate, Palestinian Territories

Tell es-Sultan rises from the Jordan Valley as one of humanity's oldest continuously inhabited places....

Antequera, Dolmen de Menga

Antequera, Málaga, Spain

In the Andalusian landscape near Antequera, three megalithic tombs demonstrate that 5,500 years ago, humans were already creating monuments of extraordinary ambition and...

Aphrodisias

Karacasu, Aydın, Turkey

Aphrodisias existed because of Aphrodite. The city took her name, lived under her protection, and created the sculptors who gave divine form to marble across the Roman...

Arles

Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Arles preserves the full arc of Western sacred history within a single city. Roman amphitheatre and theatre gave way to a necropolis where Christians sought burial near...

Askhab Mausoleums

Ancient Merv / Bayramaly, Mary Region, Turkmenistan

Askhab Mausoleums is a documented sacred site in Ancient Merv / Bayramaly, Mary Region, Turkmenistan, connected with Islam....

Avebury

Avebury, England, United Kingdom

Avebury surrounds you rather than keeping you at a distance. Unlike its famous neighbor Stonehenge, this vast Neolithic monument invites you to walk among its massive...

Axum

Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia

Axum is the holiest city in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity—claimed resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, coronation site of emperors, and origin point of a faith that...

Ayers Rock (Uluru)

Macdonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Uluru rises 348 meters from the red desert of central Australia—a sandstone monolith that changes color with the light, from grey to orange to deep blood-red....

Bagan

Nyaung-U, Mandalay, Myanmar

Bagan spreads across the central plain of Myanmar: over two thousand Buddhist temples, stupas, and monasteries surviving from a time when more than ten thousand were built....

Bagrati Cathedral, Kutaisi

Kutaisi, Imereti, Georgia

Rising from Ukimerioni Hill above Kutaisi, Bagrati Cathedral has witnessed the unification of Georgia, the coronation of its greatest king, and centuries of destruction...

Ban Chiang Archaeological Site

Nong Han, Udon Thani, Thailand

Ban Chiang is a prehistoric habitation and burial mound in Udon Thani, inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage property 575 in 1992....

Bangudae Petroglyphs

Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea

Bangudae Petroglyphs preserve a dense prehistoric rock-art panel beside the Daegokcheon stream near Ulsan....

Banská Stiavnica, Calvary

Banská Štiavnica, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

On a hill above the ancient silver mines of Banská Štiavnica, the wealthy mining community built Europe's most elaborate Baroque Calvary....

Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna

Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna is a consecrated basilica and protected early Christian monument in Ravenna, Italy....

Basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Marian Hill in Levoča, Slovakia

Levoča, Prešov, Slovakia

Each July, over half a million pilgrims climb Marianska Hora to the Basilica of the Visitation outside Levoca, Slovakia....

Beopjusa Temple

Boeun-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

Beopjusa Temple occupies a broad monastic precinct beneath Songnisan's peaks. Its living Buddhist community, Maitreya devotion, Palsangjeon wooden pagoda, and protected...

Biertan Fortified Church and Village Ensemble

Biertan, Sibiu County, Romania

Biertan’s fortified church and village form one component of UNESCO’s serial Transylvanian property. The church belongs to the Evangelical Church A.B....

Biete Abba Libanos

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Abba Libanos, known as the House of Abbot Libanos, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO....

Biete Amanuel

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Amanuel, known as the House of Emmanuel, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO. It belongs to the southern group....

Biete Denagel

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Denagel, known as the House of Virgins, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO. It belongs to the northern group....

Biete Gabriel Raphael

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Gabriel Raphael, known as the House of Gabriel Raphael, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO....

Biete Ghiorgis

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Ghiorgis, known as the House of Saint George, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO....

Biete Golgotha Mikael

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Golgotha Mikael, known as the House of Golgotha Mikael, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO....

Biete Lehem

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Lehem, known as the House of Holy Bread, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO. It belongs to the southern group....

Biete Mariam

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Mariam, known as the House of Mary, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO. It belongs to the northern group....

Biete Medhane Alem

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Medhane Alem, known as the House of the Saviour of the World, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO....

Biete Meskel

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Meskel, known as the House of the Cross, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO. It belongs to the northern group....

Biete Qeddus Mercoreus

Inside Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Biete Qeddus Mercoreus, known as the House of Saint Mercoreos, is one of the eleven medieval rock-hewn churches of Lalibela recognized by UNESCO....

Bilbao Cathedral (Catedral de Santiago)

Bilbao, Bilbao, Basque Country (Bizkaia), Spain

The record concerns a living church and pilgrimage site within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Bongjeongsa Temple

Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Bongjeongsa rests below Mount Cheondeung near Andong, its compact courts holding both monastic life and some of Korea’s earliest surviving wooden architecture....

Borobudur

Desa Borobudur, Central Java, Indonesia

Rising from the Kedu Plain of Central Java, Borobudur is the world's largest Buddhist monument—a three-dimensional mandala carved in volcanic stone....

Boudhnath (Boudha)

Gokarneshwar Municipality, Bagmati Province, Nepal

Rising 36 meters above Kathmandu's northeastern sprawl, Boudhanath Stupa is one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world and the most sacred Tibetan Buddhist site...

Bourges Cathedral

Bourges, Cher, France

Bourges Cathedral rises from one of the earliest Christian communities in Gaul, its five naves flowing without interruption toward the altar....

Boyana Church

Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria

Boyana Church is a three-part medieval church ensemble on Sofia’s outskirts and a UNESCO World Heritage property....

Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu

Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India

In 1010 CE, the Chola emperor Rajaraja I completed a temple so vast that its tower rises 216 feet and its capstone weighs 80 tons....

Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi

Amkhera, Madhya Pradesh, India

The Great Stupa at Sanchi rises from a hilltop in central India—a hemisphere of stone that has held sacred meaning for over 2,300 years....

Bulguksa Temple

Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Bulguksa Temple rises on the slopes of Mount Tohamsan as a physical theology—Korean Buddhism made visible in stone....

Burgos Cathedral

Burgos, Burgos, Spain

Burgos Cathedral rises in the heart of Castile, Spain's first Gothic church and the only Spanish cathedral designated as a standalone World Heritage Site....

Buseoksa Temple

Yeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Buseoksa Temple rises in measured terraces on Bonghwangsan above Yeongju. Founded in the Silla period and closely associated with the monk Uisang, the active monastery...

Byeongsan Seowon

Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Byeongsan Seowon joins the veneration of Ryu Seong-ryong and his son Ryu Jin with a durable tradition of Neo-Confucian study....

Byōdō-in

Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Amida’s Pure Land reflected in the waters before Phoenix Hall. Byōdō-in remains an active Pure Land Buddhism temple....

Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois

Collinsville, Illinois, United States

Eight miles from downtown St. Louis, across the Mississippi, 70 earthen mounds mark what was once the largest city north of Mexico....

Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Canterbury Cathedral stands at the end of the Pilgrim's Way as the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the site of Thomas Becket's martyrdom in 1170....

Cantonese Assembly Hall

Hội An, Da Nang, Vietnam

Hội An's Cantonese Assembly Hall was built as a community and worship space. The municipal heritage record dates it to 1885 and notes that its dedications changed: Thiên...

Căpâlna Dacian Fortress

Căpâlna, Alba County, Romania

Căpâlna is one of the six Dacian fortress components inscribed by UNESCO in the Orăștie Mountains property....

Carcassonne

Carcassonne, Aude, France

Carcassonne rises above the Aude River as Europe's largest surviving medieval fortified city....

Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

San Juan County, New Mexico, United States

In the high desert of New Mexico, the ruins of Chaco Canyon stand as testimony to a civilization that achieved extraordinary things....

Changu Narayan Temple

Bhaktapur, Bagmati Province, Nepal

On a forested hilltop east of Kathmandu, Nepal's oldest Hindu temple has watched over the valley for over 1,600 years....

Chartres Cathedral

Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France

Chartres Cathedral rises from the wheat fields of France as medieval Christianity's most complete surviving statement....

Chavín de Huántar

Chavín de Huantar, Ancash, Peru

Rising from a high Andean valley at the confluence of two rivers, Chavin de Huantar served as the Americas' earliest pilgrimage center for over five hundred years....

Cheonjeon-ri Petroglyphs

Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea

Cheonjeon-ri is the northern rock panel of UNESCO’s two-component Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream property. Ulsan documents a main face about 9.8 metres wide and 2....

Chichen Itza

Pisté, Yucatán, Mexico

Chichen Itza rises from the Yucatan jungle as one of the most powerful sacred sites in the Americas....

Chikatsuyu-oji

Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Chikatsuyu-oji (近露王子) is an old oji beside the Hiki River where historical pilgrims performed cold-water purification on the Nakahechi section of the Kumano Kodo....

Church of St George at St John the New Monastery

Inside St. John the New Monastery, Romania

Suceava, Suceava County, Romania

The Church of Saint George at Saint John the New Monastery is an exact component of UNESCO’s Churches of Moldavia....

Church of St Nicholas at Probota Monastery

Probota / Dolhasca, Suceava County, Romania

The Church of Saint Nicholas at Probota Monastery is an exact component of UNESCO’s Churches of Moldavia....

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin at Humor Monastery

Mănăstirea Humorului, Suceava County, Romania

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin at Humor Monastery is an exact component of UNESCO’s Churches of Moldavia....

Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist of Arbore

Arbore, Suceava County, Romania

The Church of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist at Arbore is an exact component of UNESCO’s Churches of Moldavia....

Church of the Holy Cross at Pătrăuți

Pătrăuți, Suceava County, Romania

The Church of the Holy Cross at Pătrăuți is an exact component of UNESCO’s Churches of Moldavia....

Chuson-ji

Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Chuson-ji, stands in Hiraizumi. At Chuson-ji, Tendai Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Chuson-ji addresses Shaka Nyorai, Amida Nyorai, and the Lotus Sutra....

Co-Cathedral of Santa María, Cáceres

Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain

Co-Cathedral of Santa María, Cáceres is a living co-cathedral and historic pilgrimage church in Cáceres, Spain....

Cologne Cathedral

Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne Cathedral rises from the Rhine plain in twin spires that took six centuries to complete....

Costești-Blidaru Dacian Fortress

Costești, Hunedoara County, Romania

Costești-Blidaru is one of six components in UNESCO’s Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains....

Daeheungsa Temple

Haenam, Jeollanam-do, South Korea

Daeheungsa spreads across a broad basin on Duryunsan rather than gathering into one tight axis....

Daimon Gate

Koyasan, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Daimon Gate (大門) is the monumental western gate of Koyasan and a dramatic arrival threshold from Choishi-michi.

Danjo Garan

Koyasan, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Danjo Garan (壇上伽藍) is Koyasan's central monastic complex, associated with Kobo Daishi's establishment of the mountaintop center.

Delos

Municipality of Mykonos, South Aegean, Greece

Delos stands where light entered the world. According to Greek myth, this tiny island was floating and rootless until Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis here, and the...

Delphi

Municipal Unit of Delphi, Central Greece, Greece

Delphi stands where the Greeks placed the center of the world. Zeus sent eagles from the ends of the earth; where they crossed, he set the omphalos, the navel stone....

Dionysiou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Access is restricted: Mount Athos requires a diamonitirion, and the avaton bars women from entry....

Docheiariou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Docheiariou Monastery is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, not as a route label or nearby...

Dodong Seowon

Daegu, Daegu, South Korea

Dodong Seowon does not hide rupture. Scholars founded its predecessor in 1568; war destroyed it; a new academy rose at the current site in 1605 and received the name...

Donam Seowon

Nonsan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea

Donam Seowon is a center of yehak, the Korean Neo-Confucian study of propriety associated above all with Kim Jang-saeng....

Dosan Seowon

Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Dosan Seowon contains two chronologies that should be walked separately. Yi Hwang designed Dosanseodang in 1561 as a modest place to study and teach....

Durham Cathedral

Durham, England, United Kingdom

For 120 years, monks fleeing Vikings carried the body of St. Cuthbert across northern England....

Easter Island

Easter Island, Valparaíso, Chile

At the most isolated inhabited place on Earth, a Polynesian people carved nearly a thousand stone figures to embody their ancestors....

Egami Church

Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Egami Church, stands in Goto. At Egami Church, Roman Catholicism guides custody. Prayer at Egami Church addresses Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary within Catholic....

Ellora caves, Maharashtra

Khuldabad, Maharashtra, India

Over four centuries, Buddhist monks, Hindu devotees, and Jain ascetics carved 34 temples and monasteries into a basalt cliff in western India—side by side, in the same...

Ephesus

Selçuk, İzmir, Turkey

For three millennia, the hills above Ephesus have been sacred to feminine divinity—first Cybele, then Artemis whose temple was one of the Seven Wonders, and now Mary,...

Epidauros

Municipal Unit of Epidavros, Peloponnese, Greece

Epidauros was the most important healing sanctuary in the ancient Greek world. Here, in an intimate valley of the Peloponnese, patients came to sleep in the sacred...

Erdene Zuu Monastery

Kharkhorin, Övörkhangai, Mongolia

Rising from the ruins of Genghis Khan's capital on the endless Mongolian steppe, Erdene Zuu Monastery marks the place where an empire of conquest transformed into a...

Esphigmenou Monastery

Mount Athos, monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece

Esphigmenou is an Eastern Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Ascension of Christ at the northern end of Mount Athos....

Etchmiadzin Cathedral

Vagharshapat, Armavir, Armenia

Built in the early 4th century on the site where Gregory the Illuminator saw Christ descend from heaven, Etchmiadzin stands as the spiritual heart of the Armenian...

Fanjingshan mountain and temple, Tongren

Tongren, Guizhou, China

Rising from the primordial forests of Guizhou, Fanjingshan is China's Fifth Sacred Buddhist Mountain and the earthly throne of Maitreya, the Buddha yet to come....

Filotheou Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

The record concerns a living Athonite monastery within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Fujian Assembly Hall

Hội An, Da Nang, Vietnam

The Fujian Assembly Hall in Hội An is both a communal institution and a temple. Its principal devotional field centers Thiên Hậu, known as Mazu, alongside protective...

Ganghwa Dolmen Site

Ganghwa-gun, Incheon, South Korea

Ganghwa Dolmen Sites form the island component of UNESCO serial property 977. The famous Bugeun-ri table dolmen is one representative monument, not the entire component....

Gango-ji

Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Gango-ji, stands in Nara. At Gango-ji, Shingon Ritsu Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Gango-ji addresses Chikō Mandala Amida imagery, Kannon, and Jizō....

Geghard Monastery

Goght, Kotayk, Armenia

Carved into the cliffs of the Azat River gorge, Geghard Monastery has held Armenian Christian worship since the 4th century....

Göbekli Tepe

Haliliye, Şanlıurfa, Turkey

Göbekli Tepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic hilltop sanctuary in southeastern Turkey, built approximately 12,000 years ago by mobile hunter-gatherer communities who carved...

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

Gobustan, Gobustan District, Azerbaijan

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape is a documented sacred site in Gobustan, Gobustan District, Azerbaijan, connected with Regional religious heritage....

Gochang Dolmen Site

Kochang, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea

Gochang holds the largest and most varied component of UNESCO’s serial Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites....

Gračanica Monastery

Gračanica, Gračanica, Kosovo

Consecrated in 1321, Gracanica Monastery rises in the heart of Kosovo as the finest achievement of Serbian medieval art....

Great Lavra Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....

Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği

Divriği, Sivas, Turkey

The Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği in Sivas, Türkiye, brings Islamic worship and charitable care into one medieval complex....

Great Mosque of Djenné

Djenné, Mopti, Mali

Rising from the floodplain of the Bani River, the Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud-brick building in the world....

Great Pyramid of Giza

Inside Giza Necropolis

Giza, Giza, Egypt

The Great Pyramid rises from the Giza Plateau like a geometric mountain, its proportions so precise that modern engineers struggle to explain how 4,500-year-old technology...

Great Zimbabwe

Nemanwa Growth Point, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

The largest stone structure in precolonial sub-Saharan Africa, Great Zimbabwe stands as testimony to a sophisticated Shona kingdom that flourished from the 11th to 15th...

Group of Monuments at Hampi

Hampi, Karnataka, India

Hampi sprawls across a boulder-strewn landscape in Karnataka, its sixteen hundred monuments testifying to the Vijayanagara Empire's golden age....

Gyeongju Historic Area

Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

For nearly a millennium, Gyeongju served as the capital of the Silla kingdom and the center of Korean Buddhism's golden age....

Haghpat Monastery

Haghpat, Lori, Armenia

Haghpat Monastery is a documented monastery in Haghpat, Lori, Armenia, connected with Armenian Apostolic Christianity....

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

Paola, Paola, Malta

Carved into living rock over 5,000 years ago, the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum descends three levels into the earth where Malta's Temple Builders interred their dead and,...

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Fort Macleod, Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a documented archaeological site in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, connected with Indigenous....

Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town

Hebron, Hebron Governorate, Palestinian Territories

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth, Hebron holds the Cave of Machpelah—the burial place of the patriarchs and matriarchs venerated by Judaism,...

Hierapolis Plutonion and the Cleopatra Pool

Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkey

Hierapolis was built on a karstic fault that exhales both deadly carbon-dioxide and warm mineral water....

Hilandar Monastery

Mount Athos, Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

The record concerns a living Athonite monastery within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....

Hokki-ji

Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hokki-ji, stands in Ikaruga. At Hokki-ji, Shōtoku-shū Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Hokki-ji addresses the Buddhist teaching transmitted through Prince Shōtoku's...

Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron

Kalabaka, Thessaly, Greece

Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron is a living Orthodox monastery on a Meteora rock pillar in Kalabaka, Greece....

Holy Trinity Monastery, Meteora

Kalambaka, Thessaly, Greece

Holy Trinity Monastery, or Agia Triada, occupies an isolated Meteora rock above Kalambaka....

Horyuji

Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan

The pagoda and main hall of Hōryū-ji have stood for over 1,300 years—the oldest surviving wooden structures on earth....

Hosshinmon-oji

Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Hosshinmon-oji (発心門王子) is a major threshold marking entry into the divine precincts of Kumano Hongu Taisha on the Nakahechi section of the Kumano Kodo....

Hurezi (Horezu) Monastery

Romanii de Jos, Vâlcea, Romania

Founded in the 1690s by Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu and now home to a community of Orthodox nuns, Horezu Monastery stands as the supreme achievement of the Brâncovenesc...

Hwasun Dolmen Site

Hwasun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea

Hwasun Dolmen Site is one component of UNESCO property 977, not a separate World Heritage inscription....