United States

The Original 100 · A vast cross-section of the Earth, changing with every hour of light.

The Original 100 · Red-rock country, deep time and the ancestral places of the American Southwest.

The Original 100 · Geysers, hot springs and wildlife on a restless volcanic plateau.

The Original 100 · Islands still being shaped by volcanoes, ocean and living culture.

The Original 100 · A skyline that opens into a thousand different neighbourhood stories.

The Original 100 · Glaciers, mountain country and a scale that demands a selective journey.

Honourable Mentions · Granite walls, falling water and a valley on a monumental scale.

Honourable Mentions · A subterranean landscape built drop by drop.

Honourable Mentions · Coastal forests in which height is only part of the story.

Honourable Mentions · A great waterfall system experienced from several changing perspectives.

Extraordinary Discoveries · A desert landscape whose extremes are visible in its forms.

Extraordinary Discoveries · Gypsum dunes whose colour makes every trace more visible.

Extraordinary Discoveries · A vast cave system whose significance lies in connected passages.

Extraordinary Discoveries · An earthen city that changes the familiar map of ancient North America.

Further Horizons · Temperate rainforest, a mountain interior and a wild Pacific shoreline make three different landscapes part of one remarkable park.

Further Horizons · A glacier-clad volcano above forests and seasonal meadows gives an unusually clear view of a mountain shaping everything around it.

Further Horizons · A steep mountain front rising over lakes and the Snake River creates a landscape whose structure is visible at a glance.

Further Horizons · Ancient mountain slopes, extraordinary forest variety and traces of human settlement reward a slower kind of mountain journey.

Further Horizons · Granite summits, wooded lakes and the Atlantic shore fit together in a compact landscape of sea and stone.

Further Horizons · A very shallow, moving sheet of water supports an intricate meeting of freshwater marsh, mangrove coast and wildlife.

Further Horizons · An intensely blue lake inside the remains of a collapsed volcano turns a vast geological event into a legible landscape.

Further Horizons · Volcanic landforms, steaming ground and mountain lakes reveal several faces of a restless landscape.

Further Horizons · Isolated islands off California preserve distinctive habitats and a strong sense of separation from the mainland.

Further Horizons · Desert, mountains and the Rio Grande meet in a landscape best understood through its contrasts in height and water.

Further Horizons · Desert plants and sculptural granite create an extraordinary landscape at both the scale of a horizon and a single boulder.

Further Horizons · A canyon landscape with continuing Diné connections asks visitors to recognise both deep history and a living homeland.

Further Horizons · The inhabited earthen buildings embody a living community and an architectural tradition whose meaning exceeds its appearance.

Further Horizons · Great houses, carefully organised spaces and their desert setting invite close attention to architecture, society and connection.

Further Horizons · Monumental earthworks show how geometry, ceremony and landscape could be brought together without stone-built monuments.

Further Horizons · Architecture, music, food and the Mississippi setting make the city's continuing cultural life central to its appeal.