The Top UNESCO Natural Wonders

The planet's most extraordinary natural UNESCO World Heritage sites: volcanic landscapes, ancient forests, coral reefs, and geological formations. Appeals to eco-travel and adventure audiences.

Elephant crossing the Zambezi near Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Livingstone, Zambia. Victoria Falls Dead trees in the terraces of Canary Spring at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park grew during inactivity of the mineral-rich springs, and were killed when calcium carbonate carried by spr Yellowstone Common Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in their Magnificent Sea Anemone (Heteractis magnifica) home on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Great Barrier Reef Cataratas do Iguaçu - vista da plataforma de observação. Iguazu Falls
  1. Elephant crossing the Zambezi near Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Livingstone, Zambia.

    Victoria Falls

    Zambia/Zimbabwe

    The smoke that thunders
  2. TCDD DE 24 372 with Pamukkale Ekspresi 72013 Denizli - Eskişehir pictured between Dinar and Karakuyu, Turkey

    Pamukkale

    Turkey

    White terraces of petrified water cascading down a hillside
  3. Gaze of a juvenile leopard perched on a tree in the Serengeti National Park

    Serengeti

    Tanzania

    Two million animals chasing the rain across the plains
  4. Lake Louise in the Banff National Park, Alberta, CanadaBanff National Park in the Canadian province of Alberta was founded in 1885 and is Canada’s oldest national park. Its creation dates back to the

    Banff National Park

    Canada

    Turquoise lakes cradled between the Rockies
  5. Sandstone pillars of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Hunan, China.

    Zhangjiajie

    China

    The floating mountains that inspired Pandora
  6. Dead trees in the terraces of Canary Spring at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park grew during inactivity of the mineral-rich springs, and were killed when calcium carbonate carried by spr

    Yellowstone

    United States

    The caldera that powers half the world's geysers
  7. This true-color image of the Galapagos Islands was acquired on March 12, 2002, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra satellite. The Galapagos Islands

    Galapagos Islands

    Ecuador

    The laboratory of evolution where Darwin changed everything
  8. Doronicum orientale in Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

    Plitvice Lakes

    Croatia

    Sixteen lakes linked by waterfalls that build themselves
  9. Komodo dragon, Komodo Island, Indonesia

    Komodo National Park

    Indonesia

    Islands ruled by the last living dragons
  10. Milford Sound is a fiord in the southwest of New Zealand’s South Island. It’s known for towering Mitre Peak and rainforests and waterfalls like Stirling and Bowen Falls, which plummet down its sides.

    Fiordland

    New Zealand

    Where glaciers carved the edge of the world
  11. The Val Gardena Dolomites seen from the Secëda Mountain (2519 m) under August snow. Puez-Geisler Nature Park, Dolomites. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    Dolomites

    Italy

    Pale mountains that glow pink at sunset
  12. Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland. Hexagonal basalts.

    Giant's Causeway

    United Kingdom

    Forty thousand hexagonal columns left by an ancient eruption
  13. Moni Agios Triadas, Meteora, Greece

    Meteora

    Greece

    Monasteries balanced on sandstone towers above the clouds
  14. A beautifully-formed low-pressure system swirls off the southwestern coast of Iceland, illustrating the maxim that "nature abhors a vacuum." The vacuum in this case would be a region of low atmospheri

    Vatnajokull

    Iceland

    Fire and ice where glaciers cap active volcanoes
  15. Dracaena cinnabari or the Dragonblood tree of Socotra in the Dixam plateau, Yemen

    Socotra

    Yemen

    The most alien-looking place on Earth
  16. Aerial view of Cappadocia near Uçhisar, Turkey

    Cappadocia

    Turkey

    Fairy chimneys and underground cities carved from volcanic ash
  17. The Altiplano between the Lake Titicaca and the Salar de Uyuni. Picture taken by Terra-Satellite with Modis-Sensor. Original Text from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov: High in the Andes Mountains of Sou

    Salar de Uyuni

    Bolivia

    The world's largest mirror when the rains come
  18. Bai Chay beach, Ha Long, Vietnam

    Ha Long Bay

    Vietnam

    Two thousand limestone pillars rising from emerald water
  19. Scenic Walkway at Katoomba Scenic World, Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia

    Blue Mountains

    Australia

    A million hectares of eucalyptus haze and sandstone canyons
  20. Aerial view of the Grand Canyon north of Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, USA

    Grand Canyon

    United States

    Two billion years of Earth's history cut open by a river
  21. Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China: Actors in colourful costumes during a show in "Jiuzhaigou Tibetan Mysteri Theater"

    Jiuzhaigou Valley

    China

    Turquoise pools hidden in a Tibetan mountain valley
  22. Atlas of the geology of Venezuela, at scale 1:500,000

    Mount Roraima

    Venezuela/Brazil/Guyana

    The flat-topped mountain that inspired The Lost World
  23. Common Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in their Magnificent Sea Anemone (Heteractis magnifica) home on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

    Great Barrier Reef

    Australia

    Visible from space, vanishing before our eyes
  24. RToyota Land Cruisers in Wadi Rum, Jordania.

    Wadi Rum

    Jordan

    Mars on Earth where Lawrence rode to Aqaba
  25. Cataratas do Iguaçu - vista da plataforma de observação.

    Iguazu Falls

    Argentina/Brazil

    The devil's throat where a river becomes a wall of water
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