Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates -- landed a spot Sunday on the UN ...

UNESCO has reviewed the applications of several new World Heritage sites, adding the Carnac Megaliths in France, the Palaces ...

Cambodia held ceremonies across the country on Sunday to celebrate UNESCO's recognition of three former Khmer Rouge sites as ...

Cambodia celebrated the transformation of three Khmer Rouge sites from oppression centers to World Heritage Sites, ...

Mount Kumgang in North Korea is officially a Unesco World Heritage site, the international agency announced Sunday.

Port Royal has officially been inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) ...

Bavaria's fairy-tale royal castles, including Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof, have been added to the UNESCO ...

The megaliths of Carnac are visited each year by close to 300,000 people. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Cameroon’s Mandara Mountains and Malawi’s Mount Mulanje were also added to the latest edition of the UNESCO World Heritage ...

From Yellowstone to the Garden of Eden, almost 75% of the world's heritage sites at risk of drought or flooding, U.N. warns.

Tamil Nadu's Gingee Fort, also known as the 'Troy of the East', has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.

A new analysis by UNESCO and World Resources Institute (WRI) reveals that 73% of World Heritage sites are highly exposed to ...