UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United States

All 27 American sites on the World Heritage List.

The United States has 27 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — 13 cultural, 13 natural and one mixed — from Yellowstone and the Statue of Liberty to ancient earthworks in Louisiana and Ohio. The most recent, Georgia’s Okefenokee, was added in July 2026. The U.S. announced in July 2025 that it would withdraw from UNESCO at the end of 2026, but its sites remain on the World Heritage List. Listed in order of inscription.

#	Place	Why it's here
1	Mesa Verde National Park Montezuma County, southwestern Colorado	1978 · Cultural — Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings
2	Yellowstone National Park Wyoming, Montana, Idaho	1978 · Natural — the world’s first national park
3	Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Southcentral Alaska, along the Canadian border	1979 · Natural — shared with Glacier Bay and Canada’s Kluane and Tatshenshini-Alsek
4	Grand Canyon National Park Arizona	1979 · Natural
5	Everglades National Park Florida	1979 · Natural — on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger
6	Independence Hall Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1979 · Cultural — where the Declaration and Constitution were signed
7	Redwood National Park Humboldt and Del Norte counties, California	1980 · Natural — Redwood National and State Parks
8	Mammoth Cave National Park Edmonson, Hart and Barren counties, Kentucky	1981 · Natural — the world’s longest known cave system
9	Olympic National Park Washington	1981 · Natural
10	Cahokia Mounds Collinsville, Illinois	1982 · Cultural — largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico
11	Great Smoky Mountains National Park Tennessee, North Carolina	1983 · Natural
12	La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site Old San Juan, Puerto Rico	1983 · Cultural — Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
13	The Statue of Liberty Liberty Island, New York Harbor	1984 · Cultural
14	Yosemite National Park California	1984 · Natural
15	Chaco Culture National Historical Park San Juan County, New Mexico	1987 · Cultural — Chaco Canyon and related sites
16	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Hawaii	1987 · Natural
17	Monticello Charlottesville, Virginia	1987 · Cultural — with the University of Virginia
18	Taos Pueblo Taos, New Mexico	1992 · Cultural — the only inhabited U.S. World Heritage Site
19	Carlsbad Caverns National Park Guadalupe Mountains, Eddy County, New Mexico	1995 · Natural
20	Glacier National Park Montana	1995 · Natural — Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, shared with Canada
21	Papahānaumokuākea Northwestern Hawaiian Islands	2010 · Mixed — the only U.S. site listed for both nature and culture
22	Poverty Point West Carroll Parish, Louisiana	2014 · Cultural — 3,500-year-old earthworks
23	San Antonio Missions San Antonio, Texas	2015 · Cultural — including the Alamo
24	Fallingwater Stewart Township, Pennsylvania	2019 · Cultural — one of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
25	Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks Southern Ohio	2023 · Cultural — eight Ohio earthwork sites
26	Historic Moravian Bethlehem Bethlehem, Pennsylvania	2024 · Cultural — shared with Moravian settlements in Europe
27	Okefenokee Swamp Southeastern Georgia and northern Florida	2026 · Natural — the newest U.S. site

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