World Heritage Sites: Exploring the World’s Greatest Places

[1] Paleolithic Cave Art of Spain and France [2] Taj Mahal of Agra [3] Australia’s Great Barrier Reef [4] Mogao Grottoes and Manuscripts [5] Persepolis, the Great Persian Capital [6] Easter Island and the Moai [7] Canada’s Rocky Mountains [8] Teotihuacán, Largest City of Mesoamerica [9] Samarkand, Crossroads of Central Asia [10] Ancient Egyptian Thebes [11] Forbidden City of Beijing [12] Mount Fuji, the Symbol of Japan [13] Timbuktu, Islam’s Center by the Sahara [14] Ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum [15] Virunga National Park, Gorilla Sanctuary [16] Angkor Wat, the Great Khmer Temple [17] Earliest China: Yinxu and the Oracle Bones [18] Inca Estate of Machu Picchu [19] Iceland’s Great Assembly at Thingvellir [20] Afghanistan’s Lost Bamiyan Buddhas [21] Acropolis of Athens [22] Tibet’s Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple [23] Palmyra, Oasis in the Syrian Desert [24] The Redwood Forests of California