Vlkolínec has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993, and is one of ten Slovak villages that have been given the status of a folk architecture reservations.

This status was granted because the village is an untouched and complex example of folk countryside architecture of the region of the Northern Carpathians.

Vlkolínec, situated in the centre of Slovakia, is a remarkably intact settlement with the traditional features of a Central European village.

It is the region’s most complete group of these kinds of traditional log houses, often found in mountainous areas.

16 and 17 have been turned into a folk museum with all the instruments of daily life and work.