If you think of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, you might conjure an image of Michelangelo's famous ceiling.

But what does that famous place, or any place for that matter, sound like?

A new project, timed to World Heritage Day, asks us to experience the world in a different way, through its sounds.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

The Call of Ravens in the Tower of London,

part of the legend of an historic place.

He's playing music at Angor Wat in Cambodia.

There are two among 7,000 recordings from 130 countries and territories around the world.

Now part of a sound map.

The project called Cities and Memory was created by sound artist Stuart Foux.

It's about trying to create, in some ways, a new way of listening to the world.

So I'm hoping that when people come to the sound map and listen to some of the sounds on cities of memory,

then maybe the next day when they're heading off into the metro or for a walk in the woods,

maybe they take their headphones off and they just listen to the world,

the world around them a little bit more close than they might have done the day before. Foukes based in Oxford, England, collects his own audio recordings in the field

and solicit sounds recorded by people all over the world.

This is a part-time labor of love for him, his day job is head of communications with a human rights group.

When we listen to the world, as you're trying to get us to do, in what way is that different from seeing the world?

I think the thing about sound is it is enormously transformative.

It places you into a moment and into an experience in a way that almost no other sense does.

It places you into the experience. in a way that almost no other sense does.

It places you into the experience of being in that place in a way that looking at a photograph

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