Abstract: Abstract: World cultural routes heritage is a cultural type that appears late, with complicated contents and massive scales among the world heritage. On the basis of stating the elements of world cultural routes heritage and its criterion of judgment, space layout and classification for themes types of world cultural routes are discussed. Based on 13 world cultural routes heritage sites and 32 European cultural routes heritage sites, the universal values of cultural routes heritage are analyzed. Besides, the succession values represented by township landscapes, art design, and cultures and civilizations, and extra values represented by economic development are discussed as well and the tendency that extra values are gradually stressed in excess of succession values and the consequences are worked out. Finally, great expectations are made on domestic world cultural routes, and there is urgent need for more attention on the space organizations of cultural routes conducive to the domestic cultural routes to be listed on world heritage and relevant researches.