F or the past 60 years, the conservation organization World Monuments Fund has campaigned to protect some of our most important international heritage sites. More than 700 culturally-significant ...

The World Monuments Fund has been publishing its World Monuments Watch every two years since 1996 to build awareness and concern for endangered places. To-date, it’s funded $120 million towards ...

Several beloved travel landmarks and destinations around the world are now at risk of danger due to previous natural disasters, conflicts, overtourism, or other causes, according to a new report ...

At the World Monuments Fund, staffers expect a future where space tourism is more common. “It is not so far away that there is going to be recreational visits to the moon,” said Jonathan Bell ...

The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

Five Endangered Cultural Monuments That Need Your Help. The World Monuments Fund has released its annual watch list of architectural and heritage sites desperately in need of preservation.

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Richard Barancik, last of ‘monuments men’ from World War II, dies at 98. His unit, tasked with safeguarding European art and culture amid the destruction and plunder of war, was dramatized in ...

FILE - A hiker watches a waterfall at Lower Calf Creek Falls at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Escalante, Utah. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) ...

Millions more will see the buildings and monuments lit red. “In a world increasingly marked by conflict, the persecution of Christians and the erosion of the universal right to religious freedom ...

Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied unit known as the Monuments Men and Women, which during and after World War II preserved a vast amount of European ...