A United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site is a place (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed by UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance. The list includes 962 properties-- 745 cultural, 188 natural and 29 mixed properties in 157 Countries.
The US list is as follows:
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The US list is as follows:
Cultural
Natural
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park (1995)
- Everglades National Park (1979)
- Grand Canyon National Park (1979)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (1983)
- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (1987)
- Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek (1979)
- Mammoth Cave National Park (1981)
- Olympic National Park (1981)
- Redwood National and State Parks (1980)
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park (1995)
- Yellowstone National Park (1978)
- Yosemite National Park (1984)
Mixed
- Papahānaumokuākea (2010)
Properties submitted on the Tentative List (13)
- Civil Rights Movement Sites (2008)
- Dayton Aviation Sites (2008)
- Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks (2008)
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings (2008)
- Mount Vernon (2008)
- Poverty Point State Historic Site (2008)
- San Antonio Franciscan Missions (2008)
- Serpent Mound (2008)
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings (2008)
- Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary (2008)
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (2008)
- Petrified Forest National Park (2008)
- White Sands National Monument (2008)
- More info from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site
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