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Surprising UNESCO Heritage Sites in the United States

For most of us, when we hear of a United Nations World Heritage (UNESCO) site, we mistakenly think they’re all overseas.

 

Surprisingly, there are many UNESCO sites located in the United States.

 

There’s the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which actually spans the border between Montana and Canada. It’s the world’s first bi-national peace park.

 

Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky was actually designated a UNESCO site back in 1981, and we’re talking over 400 miles of caves.

 

Another UNESCO site is the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois. It’s the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. And at one point, the Cahokia settlement was larger than London.