World Heritage Sites

There are just over 500 World Heritage Sites spread through most countries in the world. They include famous places such as the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, and the Galapagos Islands, as well as lesser known but equally significant sites such as Great Zimbabwe Ruins or the Kakadu National Park in Australia. What they all have in common is that they are inscribed by UNESCO on the Register of World Heritage Sites and are thereby recognised as being of universal significance to all humanity. World Heritage Sites can be inscribed because of either their cultural or their natural significance.
Below are links directly to the UNESCO pages of the World Heritage sites in the UK.

Properties inscribed on the World Heritage List
   Cultural

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (2000)
Blenheim Palace (1987)
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church (1988)
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (1986)
City of Bath (1987)
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (2006)
Derwent Valley Mills (2001)
Durham Castle and Cathedral (1986)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987)
Heart of Neolithic Orkney (1999)
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda (2000)
Ironbridge Gorge (1986)
Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (2004)
Maritime Greenwich (1997)
New Lanark (2001)
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh (1995)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2003)
Saltaire (2001)
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (1986)
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey (1986)
Tower of London (1988)
Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church (1987)

   Natural

Dorset and East Devon Coast (2001)
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast (1986)
Gough and Inaccessible Islands (1995)
Henderson Island (1988)

   Mixed

St Kilda (1986)