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Pompei

Jay T USA - 12-Jun-19

Pompei is an awesome site to visit if you want to see a relatively well-preserved Roman city from the 1st century AD. That said, a visit can also be sobering, as you may also run into casts of the victims of the eruption of neighboring Vesuvius in 79 A.D. I visited Pompei as part of a tour from Naples in the spring of 2013, and had a few hours to wander the ruins. There were finely paved streets still intact, and an amphitheater for culture. On one street you can find ovens from a kitchen on display, while on another you can find surviving artwork on the walls of a brothel. Private residences and temples and bathhouses lie partially in ruins, but enough remains to get a good feeling of what life must have been like in this city

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Las Medulas

Jay T USA - 05-Jun-19

"There's gold in them thar hills", and that's exactly what brought Rome to Las Médulas in northwest Spain. The UNESCO World Heritage Site inscription is what brought me to Las Médulas some 19 centuries later, and I'm glad I made the visit, since it helped provide context to the Roman presence still visible in ruins throughout neighboring Galicia. Las Médulas was one of the most important sources of gold for the Roman empire, which used the gold in coins and jewelry. Unfortunately, the extraction came at a price to the landscape, as eroded red rocks are now ruggedly visible against the abundant vegetation in the valley below

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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Jay T USA - 15-May-19

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a strong contender for the oddest named World Heritage Site I've visited, though its name makes sense after learning its history. On a cliff in western Alberta, this site was historically used by the Blackfoot Nation, who lived a nomadic life on North America's Great Plains, to secure food, clothing, and tools for their people by driving buffalo en masse over the cliff's edge to fall to their death. In today's world, buffalo jumps seem rather cruel, but the Blackfoot (like most other Indians) used every part of the buffalo that died. I visited Head-Smashed-In at the end of June 2018, and as I walked up to the visitor center, I took note of the prairie grasses below the cliff's edge where many buffalo must have met their unfortunate end

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Flemish Béguinages

Jay T USA - 08-May-19

One of the things I love about World Heritage Sites is how they can expose you to places, or in the case of the Flemish Béguinages, concepts, that I had not known before. History tends to be rather male-focused, and while I was aware women often had limited options in life in medieval times (with marriage or religious orders being some of the more common choices), I had never learned about the béguinages in northern Europe. These religious societies offered single women an option to live together in a community while retaining independence to come and go at will. When I visited the city of Bruges last August, I made sure to stop by the Begijnhof, tucked away in a quiet corner of the city

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Camino Real

Jay T USA - 01-May-19

I first traveled Mexico's Royal Road, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, in 1998 as part of a church mission trip which took me from El Paso by road to Durango. It's a shame I wasn't particularly aware of the significance of the route at the time, and I didn't pay much attention to the historic center of Durango. I corrected this oversight on a visit to Mexico City almost 20 years later in January 2017. I wasn't content to count the Zócalo as the only representation of this World Heritage Site, which includes 60 different sites related to the historic road, so I took a day trip out to Tepotzotlán, a small, charming city just north of the capital

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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

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

Vatican City 4.5

Versailles 4.5

Wadi Rum 4.5

Yellowstone 4.5

Amsterdam Canal Ring 4

Brugge 4

Budapest 4

Costiera Amalfitana 4

Dinosaur Provincial Park 4

Ephesus 4

Florence 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

Plantin-Moretus Museum 4

Quito 4

Québec 4

Rietveld Schröderhuis 4

Salzburg 4

Schönbrunn 4

Siena 4

Singapore Botanic Gardens 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

Ibiza 3.5

Kew Gardens 3.5

Las Medulas 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

Al Ain 3

Ayutthaya 3

Belem 3

Botanical Garden, Padua 3

Camino Real 3

Flemish Béguinages 3

Grand Pré 3

Great Smoky Mountains 3

Greater Blue Mountains 3

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3

Monticello 3

Morne Trois Pitons 3

Naples 3

Pitons Management Area 3

San Antonio Missions 3

Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 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

Novodevichy Convent 2.5

Old Town Lunenburg 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

White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5

Belfries 2

Evora 2

Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2

Miguasha Park 2

Palau de la Musica Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau 2

Altamira Cave

Ancient Thebes

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque

Aranjuez

Asturian Monuments

Avila

Bamberg

Burgos Cathedral

Canterbury

Caral-Supe

Central University City Campus of the UNAM

Chaco Culture

Chavin

City of Bath

City of Luxembourg

Cuzco

Dorset and East Devon Coast

Dubrovnik

El Escurial

Giant's Causeway

Gwynedd Castles

Historic Cairo

Lima

Luis Barragán House and Studio

Machu Picchu

Major Town Houses

Mammoth Cave

Margravial Opera House

Maritime Greenwich

Masada

Maulbronn Monastery

Medici Villas and Gardens

Melaka and George Town

Mexico City and Xochimilco

Museumsinsel (Museum Island)

New Lanark

Nubian Monuments

Popocatepetl monasteries

Potsdam

Primeval Beech Forests

Puebla

Pyramids (Memphis)

Qhapaq Ñan

Redwood

Regensburg

Roman Walls of Lugo

Route of Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela

Segovia

Sintra

Stoclet House

Stonehenge

Strasbourg

Sydney Opera House

Taos Pueblo

Teotihuacan

Toledo

Tower of Hercules

Trogir

Vizcaya Bridge

Würzburg Residence

Xochicalco

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