THE WADDEN SEA (Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark) This intertidal zone in the SE part of the North Sea lies between the coast of NW Europe ...

MONARCH BUTTERFLY BIOSPHERE RESERVE (Mexico) Every year in late-summer or autumn, monarch butterflies make a north-to-south migration. Hundr...

OLD KOTOR (Montenegro) The Montenegrin town of Kotor's Venetian period fortifications include city walls, gates, and ramparts which prot...

AAPRAVASI GHAT (Maritius) This "Immigration Depot" on the Indian Ocean island of Maritius was once a transshipment point for slave...

THE LAPONIAN AREA (Sweden) Located in northern Sweden's Arctic Circle region, home of the Saami people, this is the largest and one of t...

PEKING MAN SITE, ZHOUKOUDIAN (China) In 1921 Swedish geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson discovered a cave complex about 25 miles SW of Beijing...

WRITING-ON-STONE (AISINAI'PI) (ALBERTA, CANADA) Sacred to the Blackfoot and other tribes, the Writing-on-Stone (Aisinai'pi) area in ...

THREE SQUARES IN NANCY (France) Stanislaw I lived in the French city of Nancy when, after abdicating the throne of Poland, he became Duke of...

JOYA DE CEREN (El Salvador) Joya (Jewel) de Cerén in western El Salvador features a pre-Columbian Maya farming village. Located just over 30...

THE TOMB OF AHMED YASAWI (Turkestan, Kazakhstan) Sufi saint, poet, and mystic Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi died in Turkestan in 1166. Over 220 years...