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 ...

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 ...

The United States is withdrawing from UNECSO, a longstanding United Nations organization promoting peace that several California sites have earned sought-after designations from. U.S. Department of ...

The United States stunned international observers Tuesday by announcing its departure from UNESCO, marking the third time America has walked away from the United Nations cultural organization in a ...

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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 ...

The Trump Administration announced on Tuesday that the United States will once again withdraw from UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency that preserves World Heritage sites and promotes ...

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 ...

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 ...