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The National Park Service invites you to visit the places featured in our World Heritage Sites in the United States Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary. Designated as World Heritage Sites under the World Heritage Convention to enhance worldwide understanding and appreciation of our shared heritage, this small number of exceptional cultural and natural sites have been formally determined to possess “outstanding universal value” to humanity. Most but not all U.S. World Heritage Sites are administered by the National Park Service, and all or parts of them are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, which the National Park Service expands and maintains for the nation.

The World Heritage Sites Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary is part of the Department of the Interior and National Park Service's strategy to promote public awareness of history and to encourage visits to historic places throughout the nation.