Each year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reviews nominations for and selects new sites of “outstanding universal value” to its World Heritage List.

UNESCO recently added a number of new listings of “outstanding universal value” to its vaunted World Heritage List ... (Here are 24 incredible photos of heritage sites in the U.S.) If a ...

Less than 9% of UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in Africa. Experts say the award is too Eurocentric. But in Africa, there's also a lack of structures and political will to preserve cultural and ...

And, as of last weekend, they are also a UNESCO World Heritage site. The latest UNESCO convention ... To find them on a map, look about 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) southeast of Hawaii and ...