Results: 10 of the World's Most Beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Construction of the Taj Mahal, in India, began in 1632 by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, as a tomb for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Today, the Taj Mahal is considered one of the world's foremost examples of Muslim art and architecture. The scale of the tomb is so large and the attention to detail so precise, that the higher inscriptions are slightly larger than those below in order for them to appear the same size when viewed from below. Are you familiar with the Taj Mahal?

Stretching for 1,430 miles, the Great Barrier Reef, in Austrailia, is the world's largest coral reef system. Made up of 2,900 individual reefs, it is home to over 1,500 fish species and 5,000 species of mollusk. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981 and is now even more accessible after Google launched its Underwater Street View feature in 2014. Were you aware of the Great Barrier Reef before today's survey?

Thought to be between 4,000 and 5,000 years old, Stonehenge attracts more than 1.5 million visitors a year. How it was made is still up for debate – theories as to how the 25-ton stones were transported to the area from a quarry, thought to be 25 miles away, range from supernatural intervention to the use of sleighs greased with animal fat. Whatever the truth, it's by far the most accessible World Heritage site on this list for Britons – it's just off the A303 outside Amesbury, in Wiltshire. Have you ever been to Stonehenge?

The Plitvice Lakes National Park covers 73 acres of Croatian woodland and conceals 16 turquoise lakes, connected over five miles by a series of waterfalls. With more than 1 million annual visitors, the lakes are one of Croatia's most famous natural monuments. If given the opportunity to visit the Plitvice Lakes National Park, would you?

One of the largest religious monuments in the world, the Angkor Wat temple complex in northern Cambodia is an important Buddhist site of worship and an icon for the country itself – it even appears on the country's flag. Rediscovered by French explorer Henri Mouhot in the mid-19th-century, Angkor Wat is best seen at sunrise... just beware the crowds. Are you familiar with the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia?