Lately, Japan’s Aikawa Folk Museum, a small structure of creamy clapboards and baked roof tiles, has become a household name among South Koreans. It is located on Sado Island, the subject of much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italy is raising a glass and saying "salute" after becoming the first country in history to have an entire cuisine added to UNESCO ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia is one out of four places in the United States that is included on the inaugural UNESCO list. The UNESCO’s Network of ...

Lunenburg is the oldest town in Canada, and one of the very few UNESCO-listed urban communities in the country (another is Quebec City). This colonial port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia is a ...

A fairytale-like castle, a sunken port city in the Caribbean, and mysterious cave paintings: Which of these places will be named as the latest entries to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list? In just a ...

The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization works to preserve significant and inspirational places worldwide. Designated World Heritage sites, they are as diverse as Yellowstone ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — The UNESCO World Heritage ...

The UNESCO World Heritage committee on Saturday decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit of its dark ...