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- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 171 World Heritage Sites in Western Europe (including international dependencies). These sites are located in 9 countries (also called "state parties"); Germany and France are home to the most with 46 and 45, while Liechtenstein, Monaco and the British Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey have no sites. There are twelve sites which are shared between state parties both in and out of Western Europe. The first site from the region to be included on the list was the Aachen Cathedral in Germany in 1978, the year of the list's conception. Each year, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee may inscribe new sites on the list, or delist sites that no longer meet the criteria. Selection is based on ten criteria: six for cultural heritage (i–vi) and four for natural heritage (vii–x). Some sites, designated "mixed sites," represent both cultural and natural heritage. In Western Europe, there are 151 cultural, 18 natural, and 2 mixed sites. The World Heritage Committee may also specify that a site is endangered, citing "conditions which threaten the very characteristics for which a property was inscribed on the World Heritage List." Presently, none of the sites in Western Europe are currently listed as endangered, though two German sites and an English site were previously listed: the Cologne Cathedral was marked as endangered in 2004 due to the construction of several high-rise buildings around it, but it was removed from the list in 2006. The Dresden Elbe Valley site was listed in 2006 in hopes of halting the construction of the four lane Waldschlösschen Bridge through the valley. When construction continued as planned, it became the second site to be delisted as a World Heritage in 2009, the first being Oman's Arabian Oryx Sanctuary two years earlier. Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City was listed in 2004, marked as endangered in 2012 due to planned developments in the protected area, and removed from the list in 2021 when development plans went ahead. (en)
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- Aachen Cathedral (en)
- Abbey of Saint Gall (en)
- Albi (en)
- Avignon (en)
- Bath, Somerset (en)
- Bauhaus (en)
- Blaenavon (en)
- Bordeaux (en)
- Bruges (en)
- Canal du Midi (en)
- Canterbury Cathedral (en)
- Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (en)
- Chartres Cathedral (en)
- Cologne Cathedral (en)
- Eisleben (en)
- Glarus thrust (en)
- Graz (en)
- Greenwich (en)
- Heart of Neolithic Orkney (en)
- Ironbridge Gorge (en)
- Jurassic Coast (en)
- La Chaux-de-Fonds (en)
- Lake District (en)
- Le Havre (en)
- Luxembourg (en)
- Lyon (en)
- Lübeck (en)
- Museum Island (en)
- Old Town, Edinburgh (en)
- Palace of Versailles (en)
- Palace of Westminster (en)
- Quedlinburg (en)
- Regensburg (en)
- Rhaetian Railway (en)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (en)
- Salzburg (en)
- Schönbrunn Palace (en)
- St Kilda, Scotland (en)
- Stelling van Amsterdam (en)
- Stralsund (en)
- Tower of London (en)
- Trier (en)
- Vienna (en)
- Wadden Sea (en)
- Giant's Causeway (en)
- Lavaux (en)
- Amiens Cathedral (en)
- Pont du Gard (en)
- Provins (en)
- Beemster (en)
- Bourges Cathedral (en)
- Brú na Bóinne (en)
- Saint-Émilion (en)
- The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes (en)
- Danevirke (en)
- Blenheim Palace (en)
- Derwent Valley Mills (en)
- Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm (en)
- Durham Castle (en)
- Forth Bridge (en)
- Fortifications of Vauban (en)
- Classical Weimar (en)
- Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (en)
- Abbey of Fontenay (en)
- Saltaire (en)
- Studley Royal Park (en)
- Grand-Place (en)
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (en)
- Grande Île, Strasbourg (en)
- Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments (en)
- Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl (en)
- Belfries of Belgium and France (en)
- Benedictine Convent of Saint John (en)
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe (en)
- Béguinage (en)
- Calanche of Piana (en)
- Canals of Amsterdam (en)
- Causses (en)
- Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura (en)
- Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars (en)
- Chauvet Cave (en)
- Cité de Carcassonne (en)
- Climats, terroirs of Burgundy (en)
- Speyer Cathedral (en)
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (en)
- Reims Cathedral (en)
- Fagus Factory (en)
- Imperial Abbey of Corvey (en)
- Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (en)
- Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area (en)
- Kinderdijk (en)
- Lake Neusiedl (en)
- Lascaux (en)
- Lifts on the old Canal du Centre (en)
- Limes (en)
- List of Le Corbusier buildings (en)
- Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City (en)
- Lorsch Abbey (en)
- Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (en)
- Maulbronn Monastery (en)
- Messel Pit (en)
- Mines of Rammelsberg (en)
- Modernist Housing Estates (en)
- Mont Saint-Michel (en)
- Monte Perdido (en)
- Monte San Giorgio (en)
- Muskau Park (en)
- Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes (en)
- New Lanark (en)
- Old City of Bern (en)
- Palace of Fontainebleau (en)
- Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (en)
- Place Stanislas (en)
- Plantin-Moretus Museum (en)
- Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps (en)
- Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (en)
- Reichenau Island (en)
- Rhine Gorge (en)
- Rietveld Schröder House (en)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France (en)
- Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans (en)
- Salzkammergut (en)
- Schokland (en)
- Semmering railway (en)
- Skellig Michael (en)
- Speicherstadt (en)
- St. Mary's Cathedral, Hildesheim (en)
- Stoclet Palace (en)
- Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (en)
- Three Castles of Bellinzona (en)
- Théâtre antique d'Orange (en)
- Tournai Cathedral (en)
- Town Hall of Bremen (en)
- Town of Bamberg (en)
- Paris#Culture (en)
- Van Nelle Factory (en)
- Vézelay Abbey (en)
- Völklingen Ironworks (en)
- Wachau (en)
- Wartburg Castle (en)
- Wies Church (en)
- Würzburg Residence (en)
- Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (en)
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