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Argentina: Buenos Aires Historic Center, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires
Armenia: Aghjots Monastery, Garni Village
Austria: Wiener Werkbundsiedlung, Vienna
Bahrain: Suq al-Qaysariya, Muharraq
Belgium: Sanatorium Joseph Lemaire, Tombeek
Bhutan: Phajoding, Thimphu
Bolivia: Santa Teresa Convent Museum, Cochabamba
Chile: Churches of Arica Parinacota
Colombia: San Fernando and San Jose Fortresses, Cartagena; Historic Center, Santa Fe de Antioquia.
Comoros: Ujumbe Palace, Mutsamudu
Cyprus: Historic Walled City of Famagusta
Ecuador: Todos Santos Complex, Cuenca
Egypt: New Gourna Village, Luxor, West Bank; Old Mosque of Shali Fortress, Siwa Oasis
France: Hotel de Monnaies, Villemagne l'Argentiere; Parish Church of Saint-Martin-des-Puits
Greece: Churches of Lesvos
Guatemala: Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala City
Haiti: Gingerbread Houses, Port-au-Prince
India: Chiktan Castle, Kargil; Dechen Namgyal Gonpa, Nyoma; Historic Civic Center of Shimla; Kothi, Qila Mahmudabad
Iraq: Al-Hadba' Minaret, Mosul
Ireland: Russborough, Blessington, County Wicklow
Israel: Old City of Lod; Cathedral of St. James, Old City of Jerusalem
Italy: Historic Center of Craco; Ponte Lucano, Tivoli; Villa of San Gilio, Oppido Lucano
Japan: Kyoto machiya townhouses
Jordan: Damiya Dolmen Field, Jordan Valley
Kazakhstan: Vernacular Architecture of the Kazakh Steppe, Sary-Arka
Laos: Hintang Archaeological Landscape, Houameuang District; Tam Ting, Nam Kong River at Ban Pak Ou
Mexico: Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque, Zempoala to Otumba; Las Pozas, Xilitla; Temple of San Bartolo Soyaltepec; Temple of San Felipe Tindaco, Tlaxiaco; Temple and Convent of Los Santos Reyes, Convent of La Communidad, Metztitlan
Moldova: Assumption of Our Lady Church, Causeni
Morocco: Lixus, Larache
Pakistan: Petroglyphs in the Diamer-Basha Dam Area, Northern Areas; Shikarpoor Historic City Center
Panama: Colon Historic Center; Corozal Cemetery, Panama City; Mount Hope Cemetery, Colon
Paraguay: La Santisima Trinidad del Parana, Trinidad
Peru: San Rafael District, Chankillo; Jesuit Churches of San Jose and San Javier, Nazca; Pachacamac Sanctuary, Lurin; Pikillaqta, Cuzco; Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, Cuzco; Tambo Colorado, Humay; San Francisco de Asis de Marcapata; Santa Cruz de Jerusalen de Juli
Philippines: Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Municipality of Santa Maria; Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, Ifugao; San Sebastian Basilica, Manila
Romania: Fortified Churches of Southern Transylvania, Sibiu
Russia: Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign, Podolsk District
Slovakia: Lietava Castle
South Africa: Wonderwerk Cave, Ga-Segonyana/Kuruman
Spain: Historic Landscape of Seville; Historic Landscape of Toledo; Numancia, Soria and Garray; Old Town of Avila; Route of Santiago de Compostela; Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
Sri Lanka:Dutch Fort in Batticaloa
Tanzania: Pangani Historic Town
Uganda: Wamala King's Tombs, Nansana, Wakiso District
United Kingdom: Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church, Belfast; Edinburgh Historic Graveyards; Sheerness Dockyard; St. John the Evangelist Parish Church, Shobdon; Tecton Buildings at Dudley Zoological Gardens
United States: Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library, Atlanta; Bridges of the Merritt Parkway, Connecticut; Cultural Landscape of Hadley, Mass.; Miami Marine Stadium, Florida; Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, New Orleans; St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, New Orleans; Taliesin, Spring Green, Wis.; Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Taos Pueblo, N.M.
Uzbekistan: Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm, Republic of Karakalpakstan
Venezuela: School of Architecture and Urbanism, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas; East Park, Caracas
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