It's time for a world tour with a twist! Scroll on to be whisked around the globe, and use the arrows and the click-and-drag feature to explore each UNESCO Heritage location. Can you guess where you've landed at each stop?

Made up of a collection of colorful villages clinging precariously to the cliff edge, this sun-drenched UNESCO site is one of the world’s most glamorous destinations. Take a good look around to see if you can spot the location of this beautiful place. 

Located on Italy’s Ligurian Coast, between Genoa and Pisa, Cinque Terra is a collection of 5 villages that are connected by boats, rocky paths and winding mountain roads. The brightly colored houses and dramatic landscape have been attracting visitors for centuries.

With trees and vines encroaching on the columns and steps, it can be hard to tell where nature ends and this UNESCO listed structure begins. Dating from the 12th century, the site is one of the most famous in the world. Explore a little to see if you can work out where we’ve landed.

The largest religious monument by land area in the world, Angkor Wat is located close to Siem Reap in northeast Cambodia. Originally constructed as a Hindu temple, it became a Buddhist site at the end of the 1100s. At its peak, it’s thought that Angkor Wat was home to up to three-quarters of a million people. 

This UNESCO site may be a little harder to pinpoint. In fact, it was once so remote that its name has become a by-word for somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Once an important center of learning, the city enjoyed its heyday from the 13th to the 16th century. Do you know where this sun-drenched city is?

Located in central Mali, around 20km north of the Niger River, Timbuktu was first settled in the 5th century BC. During the city’s golden age, it had a 25,000-strong student population, grew rich on the trade of gold, ivory, and slaves, and was one of the most important scholastic centers in the world.  

One of the only purpose-designed cities in the world, this UNESCO site was conceived and built in the 1950s. In fact, it’s the city’s modern architecture and innovative design that prompted UNESCO to add it to the world heritage list. So where is this futuristic metropolis?

Now the capital of Brazil, Brasilia was planned and developed by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Joaquim Cardozo. It was officially founded by then president Juscelino Kubitschek in 1960 and has since grown to become the 3^rd largest city in Brazil. 

Built on the remains of Roman fortifications, the original structure that makes up this site dates from the 9th century. However, it wasn’t until the mid-13th century, when it was rebuilt and embellished, that the incredible building we know today was created. So where would you find these beautiful tiles and intricate patterns?

This impressive structure towers over the city of Granada in southern Spain. It was built towards the end of Muslim rule in the country and was home to the last emirs of the Nasrid dynasty. The huge complex is made up of palaces, formal gardens, and a number of religious structures. Wander the gardens and view the palace, here.

The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests. It is one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation.  

In previous years the family of the Ptolemies had lost control of certain parts of the country. It had taken their armies some time to put down opposition in the Delta, and parts of southern Upper Egypt, particularly Thebes, were not yet back under the government's control.

Before the Ptolemaic era (that is before about 332 BC), decrees in hieroglyphs such as this were usually set up by the king. It shows how much things had changed from Pharaonic times that the priests, the only people who had kept the knowledge of writing hieroglyphs, were now issuing such decrees. The list of good deeds done by the king for the temples hints at the way in which the support of the priests was ensured.    

The decree is inscribed on the stone three times. In hieroglyphic, suitable for a priestly decree.

Egyptian script used for non-religious texts.  

The language of the administration. 
The importance of this to Egyptology is immense.  

Soon after the end of the fourth century AD, when hieroglyphs had gone out of use, the knowledge of how to read and write them disappeared. 

In the early years of the nineteenth century, some 1400 years later, scholars were able to use the Greek inscription on this stone as the key to decipher them.  

Thomas Young, an English physicist, was the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, that of Ptolemy. The French scholar Jean-François Champollion then realized that hieroglyphs recorded the sound of the Egyptian language and laid the foundations of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian language and culture.  

Soldiers in Napoleon's army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). On Napoleon's defeat, the stone became the property of the British under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found.  

The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, with only one break. Towards the end of the First World War, in 1917, when the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London, they moved it to safety along with other, portable, 'important' objects.