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It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

USA Last Update 07.03.20 206 WHS Visited 154 Reviews 154 WHS Rated 60 TWHS Visited

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Olympic National Park

Jay T USA - 21-May-20

Olympic National Park

Olympic National Park has everything I love in a national park: mountains, lakes, great trails, and wildlife. It even borders the coast, with amazing scenery where the Pacific Ocean laps against rocky shorelines and coniferous-covered bluffs. The park is home to one of the best places to see a temperate rainforest in the United States, with moss covering tree trunks and stumps, and ferns lining the forest floor. But the beauty comes with a price; this area receives a lot of rain, and visitors may find their views limited by mist and fog.

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Machu Picchu

Jay T USA - 13-May-20

Machu Picchu

There's a good reason Machu Picchu remains one of the highest rated World Heritage Sites -- this Inca city is spectacularly and photogenically set atop a mountain ridge in the Andes northwest of Cusco. Machu Picchu symbolizes adventure and discovery of the unknown, and it has become a mecca for intrepid travelers from around the world.

I arrived at Machu Picchu in the fall of 2018 at the end of a four day hike along the Inca Trail. Not only is hiking the Inca Trail a great introduction to the network of Inca fortresses and settlements remaining in the Andes, but it also makes Machu Picchu that much more memorable when first viewed from the Temple of the Sun at the end of a trek. And what a sight it is from the temple -- the emerald lawns, the terraced buildings, and the backdrop of Huayna Picchu's peak are absolutely stunning. If your afternoon is clear and sunny like ours was, this is where you can find some iconic views of Machu Picchu

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Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

Jay T USA - 06-May-20

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum is definitely worth the planning it requires to visit this underground tomb complex. Hypogeum literally means underground, and this site lay dormant and forgotten below the surface in Malta for almost 4,500 years, when it was rediscovered by construction workers in 1902. The complex became a site of great interest to archaeologists studying neolithic cultures in Malta, and within a few years it was also opened to visitors. The humidity and lighting they used caused damage to the hypogeum over time, so between 1991 and 2017 the site was closed twice in order to install systems to regulate the temperature and humidity of the underground complex

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Etruscan Necropolises

Jay T USA - 29-Apr-20

Etruscan Necropolises

The Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia were one of the more challenging World Heritage Sites for me to visit because of the irregular bus schedule serving Cerveteri and the limited time I had before I had to catch a train in the afternoon. In the end, I was able to navigate the bus from Ladispoli to Cerveteri, and the walk to the necropolises, but I had to arrange for a taxi to pick me up to return me to Ladispoli in time to catch my train. Also, I learned that technically one is not allowed to walk up the road from the center of Cerveteri to the Banditaccia Necropolis, although no one stopped me.

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Carlsbad Caverns

Jay T USA - 15-Apr-20

Carlsbad Caverns

Deep in southern New Mexico, not far from the Texan border, a subterranean paradise extends for miles under the desert landscape. The United States established a park to protect the spectacular Carlsbad Caverns, as well as other nearby caves, including the famed Lechuguilla Cave, in 1930. Sixty-five years later these fantastic caverns were insribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site for their natural beauty and the abundant and accessible mineral deposits known as speleothems which have given researchers insights into long-standing geologic processes.

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    Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5
    Edinburgh 5
    Grand Canyon 5
    Great Barrier Reef 5
    Iguacu 5
    Iguazu National Park 5
    Istanbul 5
    Machu Picchu 5
    Mesa Verde 5
    Old City of Jerusalem 5
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 5
    Petra 5
    Rome 5
    St. Petersburg 5
    Uluru 5
    Venice and its Lagoon 5
    Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 5
    Yosemite National Park 5
    Acropolis 4.5
    Everglades 4.5
    Galapagos Islands 4.5
    Gros Morne National Park 4.5
    Göreme NP 4.5
    Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5
    Lake Baikal 4.5
    Mont-Saint-Michel 4.5
    Nikko 4.5
    Pompei 4.5
    Toledo 4.5
    Valletta 4.5
    Vatican City 4.5
    Versailles 4.5
    Wadi Rum 4.5
    Yellowstone 4.5
    Amsterdam Canal Ring 4
    Bamberg 4
    Brugge 4
    Budapest 4
    Burgos Cathedral 4
    Carlsbad Caverns 4
    Costiera Amalfitana 4
    Dinosaur Provincial Park 4
    Dorset and East Devon Coast 4
    Ephesus 4
    Etruscan Necropolises 4
    Florence 4
    Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4
    Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4
    Huascaran National Park 4
    Independence Hall 4
    Ironbridge Gorge 4
    Kinderdijk 4
    Kremlin and Red Square 4
    L'Anse aux Meadows 4
    La Fortaleza 4
    Olympic National Park 4
    Plantin-Moretus Museum 4
    Quito 4
    Québec 4
    Rietveld Schröderhuis 4
    Route of Santiago de Compostela 4
    Salzburg 4
    Schönbrunn 4
    Siena 4
    Singapore Botanic Gardens 4
    Sintra 4
    Skocjan Caves 4
    Statue of Liberty 4
    Thingvellir 4
    Tongariro National Park 4
    Tower of London 4
    Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4
    Vienna 4
    Westminster 4
    White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4
    Works of Antoni Gaudí 4
    Australian Convict Sites 3.5
    Brú na Bóinne 3.5
    Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
    Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
    Gulf of Porto 3.5
    Historic Cairo 3.5
    Ibiza 3.5
    Kew Gardens 3.5
    Las Medulas 3.5
    Neolithic Orkney 3.5
    Olympia 3.5
    Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5
    San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
    Speyer Cathedral 3.5
    Split 3.5
    Vicenza 3.5
    Würzburg Residence 3.5
    Al Ain 3
    Ayutthaya 3
    Belem 3
    Botanical Garden, Padua 3
    Camino Real 3
    El Escurial 3
    Flemish Béguinages 3
    Grand Pré 3
    Great Smoky Mountains 3
    Greater Blue Mountains 3
    Gwynedd Castles 3
    Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3
    Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3
    Monticello 3
    Morne Trois Pitons 3
    Mount Etna 3
    Naples 3
    New Lanark 3
    Pitons Management Area 3
    Potsdam 3
    Roman Walls of Lugo 3
    San Antonio Missions 3
    Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3
    Santiago de Compostela 3
    Wet Tropics of Queensland 3
    Antigua Naval Dockyard 2.5
    Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
    Biblical Tells 2.5
    Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
    Blenheim Palace 2.5
    Cahokia Mounds 2.5
    Colonia del Sacramento 2.5
    Defence Line of Amsterdam 2.5
    Forth Bridge 2.5
    Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
    Kotor 2.5
    Lima 2.5
    Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
    Novodevichy Convent 2.5
    Old Town Lunenburg 2.5
    Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
    Poverty Point 2.5
    Quseir Amra 2.5
    Rideau Canal 2.5
    Royal Exhibition Building 2.5
    Sangay National Park 2.5
    Tombs of Buganda Kings 2.5
    Turaif Quarter 2.5
    Um er-Rasas 2.5
    Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
    Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5
    Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
    White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5
    Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2
    Aranjuez 2
    Belfries 2
    Evora 2
    Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2
    Miguasha Park 2
    Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2
    Altamira Cave
    Ancient Thebes
    Archaeological Site of Delphi
    Asturian Monuments
    Avila
    Canterbury
    Caral-Supe
    Central University City Campus of the UNAM
    Chaco Culture
    Chavin
    Churches of Chiloé
    City of Bath
    City of Luxembourg
    Cuzco
    Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
    Dubrovnik
    Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
    Giant's Causeway
    Major Town Houses
    Mammoth Cave
    Margravial Opera House
    Maritime Greenwich
    Masada
    Maulbronn Monastery
    Medici Villas and Gardens
    Megalithic Temples of Malta
    Melaka and George Town
    Mexico City and Xochimilco
    Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
    Nubian Monuments
    Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
    Primeval Beech Forests
    Puebla
    Pyramids (Memphis)
    Qhapaq Ñan
    Rapa Nui
    Redwood
    Regensburg
    Rhodes
    Segovia
    Sewell Mining Town
    Stoclet House
    Stonehenge
    Strasbourg
    Sydney Opera House
    Taos Pueblo
    Teotihuacan
    Tower of Hercules
    Trogir
    Valparaiso
    Villa d'Este
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    1. Olympic National Park
    2. Machu Picchu
    3. Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
    4. Etruscan Necropolises
    5. Carlsbad Caverns
    6. Bamberg
    7. Würzburg Residence
    8. Valletta
    9. St. Petersburg
    10. Roman Walls of Lugo
    11. Popocatepetl monasteries
    12. Mount Etna
    13. Luis Barragán House and Studio
    14. Gulf of Porto
    15. El Escurial
    16. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
    17. Aranjuez
    18. Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
    19. Toledo
    20. Santiago de Compostela
    21. Potsdam
    22. Neolithic Orkney
    23. Lima
    24. Gwynedd Castles
    25. Dorset and East Devon Coast
    26. Burgos Cathedral
    27. Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
    28. Vizcaya Bridge
    29. Statue of Liberty
    30. Route of Santiago de Compostela
    31. Pompei
    32. Las Medulas
    33. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
    34. Flemish Béguinages
    35. Camino Real
    36. Works of Antoni Gaudí
    37. Speyer Cathedral
    38. Plantin-Moretus Museum
    39. Lake Baikal
    40. Gros Morne National Park
    41. Dinosaur Provincial Park
    42. Brugge
    43. White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
    44. Thingvellir
    45. Huascaran National Park
    46. Poverty Point
    47. Pitons Management Area
    48. Mesa Verde
    49. Joggins Fossil Cliffs
    50. Grand Place, Brussels
    51. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
    52. Belfries
    53. Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
    54. Split
    55. Quito
    56. Greater Blue Mountains
    57. Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
    58. Vicenza
    59. Skocjan Caves
    60. Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
    61. La Fortaleza
    62. Grand Pré
    63. Botanical Garden, Padua
    64. White City of Tel-Aviv
    65. Tombs of Buganda Kings
    66. San Antonio Missions
    67. Olympia
    68. Kotor
    69. Great Smoky Mountains
    70. Colonia del Sacramento
    71. Antigua Naval Dockyard
    72. Venetian Works of Defence
    73. Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
    74. Petra
    75. Kinderdijk
    76. Galapagos Islands
    77. Budapest
    78. Wet Tropics of Queensland
    79. Sangay National Park
    80. Paris, Banks of the Seine
    81. Kremlin and Red Square
    82. Great Barrier Reef
    83. Brú na Bóinne
    84. Westminster
    85. Sintra
    86. Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
    87. Kew Gardens
    88. Göreme NP
    89. Blenheim Palace
    90. Wadi Rum
    91. Singapore Botanic Gardens
    92. Old City of Jerusalem
    93. Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
    94. Giant's Causeway
    95. Biblical Tells
    96. Vienna
    97. Schönbrunn
    98. Morne Trois Pitons
    99. Ironbridge Gorge
    100. Fortifications of Vauban
    101. Belem
    102. Versailles
    103. Siena
    104. Old Town Lunenburg
    105. L'Anse aux Meadows
    106. Forth Bridge
    107. Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
    108. Venice and its Lagoon
    109. San Marino and Mount Titano
    110. Nubian Monuments
    111. Independence Hall
    112. Florence
    113. Ayutthaya
    114. Vatican City
    115. Salzburg
    116. Novodevichy Convent
    117. Iguazu National Park
    118. Evora
    119. Ancient Thebes
    120. Um er-Rasas
    121. Rome
    122. New Lanark
    123. Iguacu
    124. Everglades
    125. Australian Convict Sites
    126. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
    127. Royal Exhibition Building
    128. Nikko
    129. Istanbul
    130. Frontiers of the Roman Empire
    131. Amsterdam Canal Ring
    132. Uluru
    133. Rietveld Schröderhuis
    134. Naples
    135. Ibiza
    136. Edinburgh
    137. Al Ain
    138. Turaif Quarter
    139. Rideau Canal
    140. Ephesus
    141. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
    142. Historic Cairo
    143. Acropolis
    144. Tower of London
    145. Quseir Amra
    146. Mont-Saint-Michel
    147. Hawaii Volcanoes
    148. Costiera Amalfitana
    149. Yosemite National Park
    150. Tongariro National Park
    151. Québec
    152. Monticello
    153. Hierapolis-Pamukkale
    154. Defence Line of Amsterdam
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    2. Arbel (arbel, nebe shueb, horns of hittim) (T)
    3. Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
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    5. Brooklyn Bridge (T)
    6. Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration (T)
    7. Caesarea (T)
    8. California Current Conservation Complex (T)
    9. Central Park (T)
    10. Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
    11. Dahshour archaeological area (T)
    12. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
    13. Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
    14. Early Medieval Monastic Sites (T)
    15. Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
    16. Ellis Island (T)
    17. Flow Country (T)
    18. Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Germany) (T)
    19. Great Spas of Europe (Germany) (T)
    20. Great Spas of Europe (UK) (T)
    21. Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
    22. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
    23. Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
    24. Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
    25. Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
    26. Khor Dubai (T)
    27. Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
    28. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
    29. Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
    30. Minoan Palatial Centres (Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Kydonia) (T)
    31. Mount Vernon (T)
    32. Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
    33. Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
    34. Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
    35. Pombaline Lisbon (T)
    36. QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
    37. Rade de Marseille (T)
    38. Route of Magellan. First around the World (T)
    39. Salt Mines of Maras (T)
    40. Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
    41. Seoul City Wall (T)
    42. ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
    43. Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (T)
    44. Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
    45. Slate Industry of North Wales (T)
    46. Soufriere-Scott’s Head Marine Reserve (T)
    47. St. George Fortified System (T)
    48. St. George Historic District (T)
    49. The Burren (T)
    50. The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
    51. The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
    52. The Historic City of Dublin (T)
    53. The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
    54. The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
    55. Thingvellir National Park (T)
    56. Thomas Jefferson Buildings (T)
    57. Triple-arch Gate at Dan & Sources of the Jordan (T)
    58. VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
    59. Waitangi Treaty Grounds historic precinct (T)
    60. White Sands National Monument (T)

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    Top 200 WHS

    1. Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
    2. Koutammakou
    3. Timbuktu
    4. Alto Douro
    5. Olympia
    6. Acropolis
    7. Ephesus
    8. Pompei
    9. Baalbek
    10. Leptis Magna
    11. Syracuse
    12. Aleppo
    13. Medina of Marrakesh
    14. Medina of Fez
    15. Samarkand
    16. Hué
    17. Potala Palace
    18. Borobudur
    19. Bamiyan Valley
    20. Taj Mahal
    21. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
    22. Aachen Cathedral
    23. Lalibela
    24. Meteora
    25. Vatican City
    26. Saint Catherine Area
    27. Mont-Saint-Michel
    28. Route of Santiago de Compostela
    29. Qadisha Valley
    30. Chartres Cathedral
    31. Luther Memorials
    32. Abbey of St Gall
    33. Westminster
    34. Sydney Opera House
    35. Kremlin and Red Square
    36. Kinderdijk
    37. Cliff of Bandiagara
    38. Great Zimbabwe Ruins
    39. Meroe
    40. Ouro Preto
    41. Québec
    42. Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
    43. Santo Domingo
    44. Old Havana
    45. Coffee Cultural Landscape
    46. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
    47. Tequila
    48. Costiera Amalfitana
    49. Loire Valley
    50. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
    51. Rio de Janeiro
    52. Grand Pré
    53. Air and Téneré
    54. El Pinacate
    55. Wadi Rum
    56. Namib Sand Sea
    57. Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
    58. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
    59. Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
    60. Pyramids (Memphis)
    61. Nubian Monuments
    62. Göreme NP
    63. Grand Canyon
    64. Uluru
    65. Ironbridge Gorge
    66. Ancient Kyoto
    67. Gyeongju
    68. Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
    69. Virunga National Park
    70. Galapagos Islands
    71. Banc d'Arguin
    72. Ngorongoro
    73. Serengeti
    74. Keoladeo National Park
    75. Cape Floral Region
    76. Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
    77. Rainforests of the Atsinanana
    78. Dja Faunal Reserve
    79. Glacier parks
    80. Yosemite National Park
    81. Los Glaciares
    82. Laponian Area
    83. Gros Morne National Park
    84. Chola Temples
    85. Fujisan
    86. Sub-Antarctic Islands
    87. Meidan Emam, Esfahan
    88. Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
    89. South China Karst
    90. Gunung Mulu
    91. Ha Long Bay
    92. Skocjan Caves
    93. Carlsbad Caverns
    94. Cuzco
    95. West Norwegian Fjords
    96. Gulf of California
    97. Te Wahipounamu
    98. Great Barrier Reef
    99. Socotra Archipelago
    100. Brazilian Atlantic Islands
    101. Maritime Greenwich
    102. Valparaiso
    103. Granada
    104. Cracow
    105. Brugge
    106. Seville
    107. Strasbourg
    108. Auschwitz Birkenau
    109. Genbaku Dome
    110. Statue of Liberty
    111. Bikini Atoll
    112. Independence Hall
    113. Gwynedd Castles
    114. Himeji-jo
    115. Great Wall
    116. Masada
    117. Forts and Castles Gold Coast
    118. Red Fort
    119. Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
    120. Potosi
    121. Guanajuato
    122. Sewell Mining Town
    123. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
    124. Sagarmatha National Park
    125. Kilimanjaro National Park
    126. Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
    127. Western Ghats
    128. Huascaran National Park
    129. Samarra
    130. Persepolis
    131. Petra
    132. Al Ain
    133. Rapa Nui
    134. Imperial Palace
    135. Versailles
    136. Changdeokgung Palace Complex
    137. Wartburg Castle
    138. Dorset and East Devon Coast
    139. Classical Gardens of Suzhou
    140. Potsdam
    141. Site of Carthage
    142. Tyre
    143. Amsterdam Canal Ring
    144. Florence
    145. St. Petersburg
    146. Dubrovnik
    147. Paris, Banks of the Seine
    148. Budapest
    149. Vienna
    150. Valletta
    151. SGang Gwaay
    152. Mesa Verde
    153. Machu Picchu
    154. Chan Chan
    155. Teotihuacan
    156. Tikal National Park
    157. Chichen-Itza
    158. Cahokia Mounds
    159. Stonehenge
    160. Nasca Lines
    161. Tasmanian Wilderness
    162. Works of Antoni Gaudí
    163. Kenya Lake System
    164. Pantanal
    165. Victoria Falls
    166. Lake Baikal
    167. Okavango Delta
    168. Iguazu National Park
    169. Plitvice Lakes
    170. Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
    171. Everglades
    172. Angkor
    173. Ayutthaya
    174. Silk Roads
    175. Qhapaq Ñan
    176. Island of Gorée
    177. Venice and its Lagoon
    178. Istanbul
    179. Rome
    180. Mexico City and Xochimilco
    181. Damascus
    182. Old City of Jerusalem
    183. Prague
    184. Stone Town of Zanzibar
    185. Edinburgh
    186. Salzburg
    187. Old City of Acre
    188. Walled City of Baku
    189. Cordoba
    190. Shibam
    191. Brasilia
    192. Thingvellir
    193. L'Anse aux Meadows
    194. Isole Eolie
    195. Hawaii Volcanoes
    196. Yellowstone
    197. Volcanoes of Kamchatka
    198. Giant's Causeway
    199. Tongariro National Park
    200. Pitons Management Area