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Plantin-Moretus Museum

Jay T USA - 07-Apr-19

The United States celebrates National Library Week each April, but libraries in the US and around the world would be in poor shape were it not for publishing houses and the printed word; hence, the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, finds its place on the World Heritage Site list. I had high expectations for the museum when I visited last August, and the audio tour I took easily met those expectations. The Plantin-Moretus Museum showcases a 16th century publishing house run as a family business

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Lake Baikal

Jay T USA - 24-Feb-19

I was told when visiting Lake Baikal that to dip your hand or foot into the lake would add five years to your life, to step in with both feet would add ten years, and to fully swim would add 25 years. I may have been young and callow, but I wasn't rash enough to actually swim in those frigid waters; I limited myself to walking in up to my knees, and even then I thought I might actually have lost years from my life rather than adding them on! Lake Baikal has a great history, from a legend explaining how the lake and the Angara River flowing from it were formed, to more modern tales of the struggles to complete a rail line around the lake

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Gros Morne National Park

Jay T USA - 17-Feb-19

Gros Morne National Park was the first World Heritage Site I intentionally set out to visit, and the start of my quest to visit World Heritage Sites during my travels. I learned about the park when researching a trip to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia with my father in the summer of 2006, and upon realizing that, like L'anse aux Meadows, Gros Morne was a World Heritage Site, I made a point to add it into the itinerary. I was not disappointed. Gros Morne is a place of beauty, on the rumpled west coast of Newfoundland. We stayed in Rocky Harbor for two nights, and took short trips out to look for moose and other wildlife, as well as to visit the coastal lighthouse at Lobster Cove Head

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

Jay T USA - 03-Feb-19

Of the Canadian fossil sites I have visited, I enjoyed Dinosaur Provincial Park the most. A great part of this is due to the size of the fossils on display in the on-site museum, to include tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, and ankylosaurs, all unearthed in the surrounding fluvial landscape. I spent an August day with dinosaurs last summer, starting off in the museum, and then exploring the nature trails in the surrounding badlands to see exhibits detailing former archaeological sites. I love the Badlands of South Dakota, and it was impressive to see a similar landscape inscribed as a World Heritage Site, even if primarily for the fossils found there (and I still find the US Badlands as separately unique for their own prairie and Native American heritage)

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Brugge

Jay T USA - 20-Jan-19

Brugge is a beautiful city, and one of the highlights of my visit to Belgium in August 2018. The first evening I spent in Brugge, I enjoyed traditional moules-frites with friends at a cafe on the market square, admiring the Gothic architecture with the doubly-inscribed belfry towering overhead. Over the course of two days, we spent memorable hours wandering the city, admiring canals, churches, chocolate shops, and the walls and windmills surrounding the city. We also climbed the belfry for overhead views of the winding streets and waterways. Back at ground level, the beguinage delivered a quiet respite from tourist crowds, and I loved its location on the water

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Most Impressive: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
Proposal: Badlands National Park: A North American Prairie

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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

Vatican City 4.5

Versailles 4.5

Wadi Rum 4.5

Works of Antoni Gaudí 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

White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 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

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

Grand Pré 3

Great Smoky Mountains 3

Greater Blue Mountains 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

Ancient Thebes

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque

Bamberg

Camino Real

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

Flemish Béguinages

Giant's Causeway

Gwynedd Castles

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

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

Pompei

Popocatepetl monasteries

Potsdam

Primeval Beech Forests

Puebla

Pyramids (Memphis)

Qhapaq Ñan

Redwood

Regensburg

Sintra

Stoclet House

Stonehenge

Strasbourg

Sydney Opera House

Taos Pueblo

Teotihuacan

Trogir

Westminster

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