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The most epic World Heritage Sites

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Curated selection of points

UNESCO’s World Heritage list is a beacon for curious travellers and a boon for the site itself.

These 5 stand tallest in both splendour & cultural oomph.

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1
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania (natural site, 1981)
Is home to two million wildebeests and hundreds of thousands of gazelles and zebras.
2
Old Town of Lijiang, China (cultural site, 1997)
Was an important trading centre in the 12th century as it is where the Silk Road joined with the ancient Tea Horse Road.
3
Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland (natural site, 2004)
On the west coast, 250 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the Ilulissat Icefjord is around the same size of 66,000 football fields.
4
Wadi Rum Protected Area, Jordan – (cultural and natural site, 2011)
Located near the border of Saudi Arabia, this 74,000-hectare site represents millions of years of desert landscape evolution.
5
Auschwitz Birkenau, Poland (cultural site, inscribed 1979)
The two concentration and extermination camps were the biggest and most notorious established by Nazi Germany.
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