The World Heritage list maintained by the UN’s Economic, Social and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has grown over its 50 years to 1,199 sites, and now you can spot them all on a map—complete with red dots for the 56 sites marked as “endangered.”
First created in 1972, with the first designations six years later, the list now has sites spread across 168 countries. The sites range from natural formations to buildings and neighborhoods and even intangible cultures.
Last year’s crop of 42 new sites was the largest group in over 20 years, and includes World War I memorials in France, sites along the Silk Road in three Central Asian countries and tea forests in China.
The whole list is searchable on the UNESCO World Heritage website.
