It's fitting that for my one hundredth review, WHS #100 on my list of sites visited should be the City of Quito, Ecuador, one of the original twelve sites inscribed …
Jay T
United States of America \ Member since October 2015
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It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!
My most impressive site: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
My proposal for a new site: Badlands National Park: A North American Prairie
Recent Visits
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20June 15, 2025Fontainebleau, Provins
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40June 4, 2025Antequera Dolmens Site, Garajonay, Grand-Bassam, Island of Gorée
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10April 27, 2025Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
Top 10 Missing
Completed Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahrain
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Estonia
- Holy See
- Israel
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Qatar
- Saint Lucia
About Jay T
- Member since
- October 2015
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
Visits
- Rank
- #124
- WHS
- 339
- Tentative Sites
- 75
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 180
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Yosemite National Park 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- Mesa Verde 5.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Everglades 4.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.5
- Galapagos Islands 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Yellowstone 4.5
- Wadi Rum 4.5
- Valletta 4.5
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Lake Baikal 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Giant's Causeway 4.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.5
- Nikko 4.5
- Gros Morne National Park 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Provins 4.0
- Independence Hall 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Quito 4.0
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Florence 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Tongariro National Park 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Huascaran National Park 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Burgos Cathedral 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Zacatecas 4.0
- Gulf of Porto 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Australian Convict Sites 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Neolithic Orkney 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Brú na Bóinne 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Santo Domingo 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Würzburg Residence 3.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Ibiza 3.5
- SGang Gwaay 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.0
- Al Ain 3.0
- Ayutthaya 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Pitons Management Area 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- Morne Trois Pitons 3.0
- The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.0
- Valparaiso 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.0
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Monticello 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Grand Pré 3.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 3.0
- San Antonio Missions 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 2.5
- Um er-Rasas 2.5
- Quseir Amra 2.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
- Rideau Canal 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.5
- Lima 2.5
- Kotor 2.5
- Poverty Point 2.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5
- Old Town Lunenburg 2.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.5
- Colonia del Sacramento 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Sangay National Park 2.5
- Turaif Quarter 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Blenheim Palace 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Antigua Naval Dockyard 2.5
- Miguasha National Park 2.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2.0
- Evora 2.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Aranjuez 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- California Current Conservation Complex
- White Sands National Monument
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Gwaii Haanas
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- Mt. Elgon
- Rade de Marseille
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Reviews by Jay T


Greater Blue Mountains (Inscribed)
Greater Blue Mountains
What can I say about the Greater Blue Mountains? Well, they were there, tantalizingly shrouded in the fog when I visited in June of 2012. Eucalyptus trees lined the bluffs …

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Inscribed)
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
About halfway through my very rainy drive from London to the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape in Wales earlier this month, I had to remind myself BBC weather predicted clearing skies by …

Vicenza and the Palladian Vil… (Inscribed)
Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
Palladio's influence on American colonial architecture can be seen in historic homes and structures throughout the East Coast of the United States, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and the University of …

Skocjan Caves (Inscribed)
Skocjan Caves
I love caves, so when a friend of mine suggested visiting Slovenia last fall, I leapt at the opportunity to explore the karst topography of the Škocjan Caves. I had …

Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) (Inscribed)
Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
The Piazza del Duomo in Pisa is one of the most famous sites in Europe, entirely due to an aesthetically designed tower that was poorly engineered. Thankfully there are hordes …

La Fortaleza and San Juan (Inscribed)
La Fortaleza and San Juan
I'm glad I visited La Fortaleza and San Juan Historic Site in Puerto Rico when I did in the fall of 2016, since I learned how beautiful and atmospheric Old …

Grand Pré (Inscribed)
Grand Pré
They were caught between two great powers in the 18th century, and so the French Acadians of Grand Pré fell on the wrong side of history. The French settlers had …

Botanical Garden, Padua (Inscribed)
Botanical Garden, Padua
I enjoy a good botanical garden when traveling, so I looked forward to visiting the Botanical Garden in Padua last year, even though I knew I would be visiting out …

White City of Tel-Aviv (Inscribed)
White City of Tel-Aviv
The White City of Tel Aviv is the rather poetic appellation given to one of the Middle East's youngest World Heritage Sites -- a living museum of several thousand buildings …

Tombs of Buganda Kings (Inscribed)
Tombs of Buganda Kings
It was a rainy day when I visited the Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi in Kampala, Uganda, in summer 2014. The grey afternoon served as a fine backdrop to …

San Antonio Missions (Inscribed)
San Antonio Missions
It shouldn't have been a World Heritage Site that made me finally get around to visiting San Antonio, but I'm afraid the relatively newly-inscribed San Antonio Missions were the impetus …

Olympia (Inscribed)
Olympia
I find it fitting to write about Olympia in the days following the extinguishing of the Olympic flame for the 2018 Winter Games since I visited Olympia the day after …

Kotor (Inscribed)
Kotor
I had great expectations for the Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor when I visited in October 2017, since it would be my first visit to Montenegro. Unfortunately, the city …

Great Smoky Mountains (Inscribed)
Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains National Park was the first World Heritage Site I visited, part of a family vacation when I was six. I have fond memories of the trip and …

Colonia del Sacramento (Inscribed)
Colonia del Sacramento
The Historic Center of the City of Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay is a perfectly adequate World Heritage Site, but, as has been intimated by other reviewers here, it would …

Antigua Naval Dockyard (Inscribed)
Antigua Naval Dockyard
The hurricane season in the fall of 2017 was awful in the eastern Caribbean, and unfortunately devastated the island of Barbuda; in better news, however, the neighboring island of Antigua …

Venetian Works of Defence (Inscribed)
Venetian Works of Defence
One doesn't have to look any farther than the city walls of Kotor in Montenegro to see they are part of the Venetian Works of Defence Between 16th and 17th …

Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuen… (Inscribed)
Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
Although it was rainy during most of my visit, I found the city of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca to be the most charming of the cities I …

Petra (Inscribed)
Petra
Like many of my age, I suspect, my introduction to Petra was via "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", which used the iconic façade of the Treasury to represent a …