The List

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee has chosen a List of sites around the world which are deserving of notice and preservation. "The World Heritage List includes 812 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.

These include 628 cultural, 160 natural and 24 mixed properties in 137 States Parties."

You can view it as the must-see list of real-life places, for the world traveler.