For a long time, there has been some discussion on how to visit the "Core Zone" of this site properly. The maps on the UNESCO website certainly don't help and …
Jacob Choi
United States of America \ Member since August 2017
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Years ago, when I first learned about the World Heritage Sites, I set out on a mission to visit every site and experience everything in between. Looking upon the community members on this website, it is fair to say I have a bit more catching up to do... But, with anything in life, a positive attitude with a smile makes the mission much more worthwhile and fun!
My most impressive site: Yellowstone National Park
Recent Visits
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10Dec. 23, 2024Blue and John Crow Mountains
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30July 29, 2024Beijing Central Axis, Schwerin Residence Ensemble, The Flow Country
Visits
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Acropolis
- Agra Fort
- Alcala de Henares
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Nara
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Arequipa
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Baroque Churches
- Bauhaus Sites
- Belfries
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blenheim Palace
- Boyana Church
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Cahokia Mounds
- Camino Real
- Canterbury
- Caral-Supe
- Centennial Hall
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Chan Chan
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Churches of Peace
- City of Bath
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Cuzco
- Danube Limes
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Drottningholm
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Edinburgh
- El Escurial
- Everglades
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Forth Bridge
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Genbaku Dome
- Giant's Causeway
- Glacier parks
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Grand Pré
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Wall
- Gros Morne National Park
- Gyeongju
- Haeinsa Temple
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Himeji-jo
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hopewell
- Horyu-ji Area
- Humayun's Tomb
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Independence Hall
- Istanbul
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Jelling
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Karlskrona
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Kii Mountain Range
- Kinderdijk
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Kutna Hora
- La Fortaleza and San Juan
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Lima
- Litomysl Castle
- Lübeck
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Luther Memorials
- Machu Picchu
- Malbork Castle
- Mammoth Cave
- Maritime Greenwich
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Mesa Verde
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Monticello
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Mount Athos
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- National History Park
- Neolithic Orkney
- New Lanark
- Novgorod
- Old Havana
- Old Rauma
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Olympia
- Olympic National Park
- Pannonhalma
- Par force hunting landscape
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Provins
- Puebla
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Québec
- Qutb Minar
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- Red Fort
- Regensburg
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Rideau Canal
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rome
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Sammallahdenmäki
- San Antonio Missions
- Santo Domingo
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Southern Öland
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- St. George, Bermuda
- Stonehenge and Avebury
- St. Petersburg
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Studenica Monastery
- Summer Palace
- Sydney Opera House
- Taj Mahal
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
- Telc
- Temple of Heaven
- Teotihuacan
- Toledo
- Torun
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Tugendhat Villa
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urnes Stave Church
- Vatican City
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Versailles
- Vienna
- Vigan
- Vilnius
- Visby
- Warsaw
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Yellowstone
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Top 10 Missing
- Angkor 4.72
- Petra 4.61
- Galapagos Islands 4.60
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.51
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Tikal National Park 4.46
- Bagan 4.44
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.41
- Serengeti 4.41
Completed Countries
Country visits
- Argentina: Qhapaq Ñan
- Australia: Greater Blue Mountains Royal Exhibition Building Sydney Opera House Australian Convict Sites
- Austria: Schönbrunn Vienna Danube Limes
- Belarus: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Belgium: Belfries Grand Place, Brussels Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Bolivia: Qhapaq Ñan
- Bulgaria: Boyana Church Rila Monastery
- Canada: Gros Morne National Park L'Anse aux Meadows Old Town Lunenburg Québec Glacier parks Joggins Fossil Cliffs Rideau Canal Grand Pré Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- Chile: Qhapaq Ñan
- China: Great Wall Imperial Palace Imperial Tombs Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor Summer Palace Temple of Heaven Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Beijing Central Axis
- Colombia: Cartagena Qhapaq Ñan
- Costa Rica: Corcovado and Isla del Cano
- Cuba: Old Havana
- Czechia: Holy Trinity Column Cesky Krumlov Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz Holasovice Kutna Hora Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape Litomysl Castle Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk Prague Telc Trebic Tugendhat Villa
- Denmark: Kronborg Castle Jelling Roskilde Cathedral Moravian Church Settlements Par force hunting landscape
- Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo
- Ecuador: Qhapaq Ñan
- Estonia: Tallinn Struve Geodetic Arc
- Finland: Fortress of Suomenlinna Old Rauma Sammallahdenmäki Struve Geodetic Arc
- France: Belfries Chartres Cathedral Fontainebleau Paris, Banks of the Seine Versailles Provins
- Germany: Cologne Cathedral Hildesheim Cathedral and Church Lübeck Bauhaus Sites Classical Weimar Luther Memorials Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Potsdam Stralsund and Wismar Upper Middle Rhine Valley Town Hall and Roland, Bremen Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Regensburg Moravian Church Settlements Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District Danube Limes Schwerin Residence Ensemble Aachen Cathedral
- Greece: Archaeological Site of Delphi Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios Mount Athos Olympia Acropolis
- Haiti: National History Park
- Holy See: Vatican City Rome
- Hungary: Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs Budapest Hollókö Pannonhalma
- India: Fatehpur Sikri Taj Mahal Humayun's Tomb Qutb Minar Red Fort Jantar Mantar Hill Forts of Rajasthan Jaipur City, Rajasthan Agra Fort
- Ireland: Brú na Bóinne Sceilg Mhichíl The Royal Sites of Ireland
- Italy: Venice and its Lagoon Florence Rome
- Jamaica: Blue and John Crow Mountains 17th Century Port Royal
- Japan: Ancient Kyoto Genbaku Dome Himeji-jo Horyu-ji Area Ancient Nara Kii Mountain Range
- Kazakhstan: Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Kyrgyzstan: Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Latvia: Riga Struve Geodetic Arc
- Lithuania: Vilnius Kernavė Struve Geodetic Arc
- Mexico: Teotihuacan Mexico City and Xochimilco Puebla Luis Barragán House and Studio Camino Real Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle Central University City Campus of the UNAM Popocatepetl monasteries
- Moldova: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Netherlands: Dutch Water Defence Lines Kinderdijk Amsterdam Canal Ring Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Norway: Bryggen Urnes Stave Church Struve Geodetic Arc West Norwegian Fjords
- Peru: Arequipa Chan Chan Cuzco Lima Machu Picchu Caral-Supe Qhapaq Ñan Rural Temples of Cusco City of Trujillo
- Philippines: Baroque Churches Vigan Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Poland: Kraków Malbork Castle Torun Warsaw Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines Churches of Peace Centennial Hall Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine Auschwitz Birkenau
- Republic of Korea: Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen Gyeongju Changdeokgung Palace Complex Hwaseong Fortress Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple Jongmyo Shrine Royal Joseon Tombs Hahoe and Yangdong Haeinsa Temple
- Russia: Kremlin and Red Square St. Petersburg Novgorod Trinity Sergius Lavra Struve Geodetic Arc
- Serbia: Stari Ras and Sopocani Studenica Monastery
- Slovakia: Danube Limes
- Spain: Segovia Works of Antoni Gaudí El Escurial Toledo Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro Alcala de Henares
- Sweden: Drottningholm Karlskrona Skogskyrkogarden Southern Öland Visby Birka and Hovgarden Struve Geodetic Arc
- Turkiye: Istanbul
- Ukraine: Struve Geodetic Arc
- United Kingdom: Blenheim Palace Canterbury City of Bath Edinburgh Giant's Causeway Maritime Greenwich Stonehenge and Avebury Neolithic Orkney Tower of London Westminster Kew Gardens New Lanark Forth Bridge Moravian Church Settlements The Flow Country St. George, Bermuda
- United States of America: Cahokia Mounds Chaco Culture Hawaii Volcanoes Everglades Great Smoky Mountains Independence Hall La Fortaleza and San Juan Mammoth Cave Mesa Verde Monticello Olympic National Park Taos Pueblo Statue of Liberty Yellowstone Grand Canyon Glacier parks Moravian Church Settlements San Antonio Missions Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Hopewell Central Park Ellis Island Marine Protected Areas of American Samoa Early Chicago Skyscrapers Dayton Aviation Sites Petrified Forest National Park Thomas Jefferson Buildings Brooklyn Bridge Big Bend National Park
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About Jacob Choi
- Member since
- August 2017
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
Visits
- Rank
- #260
- WHS
- 206
- Tentative Sites
- 14
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 2
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Glacier parks 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Mount Athos 4.5
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 4.5
- Sceilg Mhichíl 4.5
- National History Park 4.5
- Budapest 4.5
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.5
- Old Havana 4.0
- Blue and John Crow Mountains 3.5
- Urnes Stave Church 3.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 3.5
- Vigan 3.5
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3.0
- Santo Domingo 2.5
- St. George, Bermuda 2.5
Tentative Sites
- 16 9
- Photos
- N/A
- Locations
- N/A
- Zones
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Reviews by Jacob Choi
Blue and John Crow Mountains (Inscribed)
Blue and John Crow Mountains
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Jacob Choi
06/01/25
National History Park (Inscribed)
National History Park
N.B. I typically don't do reviews, but after being nudged by others-and the fact that it has been over 10 years since the last review, I decided to give in …
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Jacob Choi
29/12/24