While traveling around with my peers and family, it seemed like everywhere we went was considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I found myself curios as to what the even means. Upon further research, the UNESCO site states,”There are ten criteria for a historical site to be deemed important enough to make the list. These ten criteria are, to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius, to exhibit important interchange of human values, to bear a unique testimony to culture or tradition,to be an outstanding example of architecture, to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, to be directly associated with events or living traditions or universal significance, to contain superlative natural phenomena, to be an outstanding example of ecological or biological processes, or contain the most important significant natural habitat of conservation.” Reading through these criteria made me feel very connected to the sites deemed important enough to make the list. The UNESCO world heritage sites criteria are formed on the importance of conserving all that is human. It makes me feel at home in a way, that the things we are seeing have been decided to be so human that they join a list of other things that are just as human, and they are still being enjoyed by humans today.