The Royal Domain of Drottningholm stands on an island in Lake Mälar in a suburb of Stockholm. With its castle, perfectly ...
The Birka archaeological site is located on Björkö Island in Lake Mälar and was occupied in the 9th and 10th centuries. ...
Sweden's production of superior grades of iron made it a leader in this field in the 17th and 18th centuries. This ...
Seven timber houses are listed in this site located in the east of Sweden, representing the zenith of a regional timber ...
The enormous mining excavation known as the Great Pit at Falun is the most striking feature of a landscape that illustrates ...
Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, this was Scandinavia's first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick and it encouraged ...
The southern part of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings ...
Karlskrona is an outstanding example of a late-17th-century European planned naval city. The original plan and many of the buildings have ...
The rock carvings in Tanum, in the north of Bohuslän, are a unique artistic achievement not only for their rich and ...
Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a 'church village', a unique kind of ...
Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, is a reminder of the town’s importance as part of the Hanseatic League’s trading empire ...
The wooden church of Urnes (the stavkirke) stands in the natural setting of Sogn og Fjordane. It was built in the ...
Peaks of the Southern Atlantic submarine ridge form the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago and Rocas Atoll off the coast of Brazil. ...
Many of the numerous rock shelters in the Serra da Capivara National Park are decorated with cave paintings, some more than ...
Founded in the 16th century by the Portuguese, the town’s history is linked to the sugar-cane industry. Rebuilt after being looted ...
Redwood National Park comprises a region of coastal mountains bordering the Pacific Ocean north of San Francisco. It is covered with ...
Papahānaumokuākea is a vast and isolated linear cluster of small, low lying islands and atolls, with their surrounding ocean, roughly 250 ...
This site contains two of the most active volcanoes in the world, Mauna Loa (4,170 m high) and Kilauea (1,250 m ...
Located in the north-west of Washington State, Olympic National Park is renowned for the diversity of its ecosystems. Glacier-clad peaks interspersed ...