My long time Czech friend Radim recently moved from Brno to a town near Nachod near the Polish border, and upon visiting him from Wroclaw, Poland, I mentioned to him …
Tsunami
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I was born in Japan, lived most of my life in Los Angeles, CA, but am currently changing country of residence every 3 months within Europe.
My most impressive site: Glacier Bay, Mt. Athos, Masada, Skellig Michael
My proposal for a new site: Jingu, Ise, Japan; Atsuta-jingu, Nagoya, Japan; Izumo-taisha, Izumo, Japan; Kyoto Imperial Palace, Kyoto, Japan; Chion-In, Kyoto, Japan; Eihei-ji, Fukui, Japan; Kuon-ji, Yamanashi, Japan; Bodai-ji, Aomori, Japan; Bryce Canyon NP, Utah, USA; Arches NP, Utah, USA; The Wave, Arizona, USA; Coso Rock Art District, California, USA; Inyo National Forest (White Mountain area), California, USA; Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, California, USA; The Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, Italy; Hisarya, Bulgaria
Recent Visits
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01July 17, 2025Birkenhead Park
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10July 14, 2025Møns Klint
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10July 14, 2025Megaliths of Carnac
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agrigento
- Albi
- Altamira Cave
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Nara
- Aquileia
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Archaeological site of Philippi
- Arles
- Assisi
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Avignon
- Avila
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bamberg
- Banska Stiavnica
- Bardejov Town
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Benedictine Convent of St. John
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bethlehem
- Białowieża Forest
- Biblical Tells
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Boyana Church
- Brugge
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Burgundy
- Butrint
- Cahokia Mounds
- Camino Real
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Castel del Monte
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
- Causses and Cévennes
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Centennial Hall
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Chaîne des Puys
- Champagne
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Moldavia
- Churches of Peace
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonies of Benevolence
- Cordoba
- Cordouan Lighthouse
- Corfu
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Curonian Spit
- Dacian Fortresses
- Danube Delta
- Danube Limes
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
- Delos
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Dolomites
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Durmitor National Park
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Edinburgh
- Eisinga Planetarium
- El Escurial
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Epidaurus
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Falun Great Copper Mountain
- Ferrara
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Forth Bridge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Fujisan
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Gammelstad
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Giant's Causeway
- Glacier parks
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Gulf of California
- Gulf of Porto
- Gwynedd Castles
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Heritage of Mercury
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hortobágy
- Horyu-ji Area
- Ibiza
- Incense Route of the Negev
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Island of Patmos
- Isole Eolie
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Ivrea
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
- Jelling
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
- Karlskrona
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Kii Mountain Range
- Kinderdijk
- Kladruby nad Labem
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines
- Kuldiga
- Kutna Hora
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- Lake District
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Laponian Area
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longobards in Italy
- Lower German Limes
- Lübeck
- Luther Memorials
- L'viv
- Lyon
- Madara Rider
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Mammoth Cave
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Matera
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Mir Castle
- Modena
- Modernist Kaunas
- Monastery of Horezu
- Monte San Giorgio
- Monticello
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Mostar
- Mount Athos
- Mount Etna
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Mystras
- Nancy
- Naples
- Naumburg Cathedral
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nessebar
- Nesvizh
- New Lanark
- Nice
- Nikko
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Novgorod
- Novodevichy Convent
- Odesa
- Ohrid Region
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Rauma
- Olympia
- Olympic National Park
- Oporto
- Orange
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Pannonhalma
- Paphos
- Par force hunting landscape
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Petäjävesi Old Church
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Pirin National Park
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Plitvice Lakes
- Pompei
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potsdam
- Poverty Point
- Prague
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Provins
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
- Québec
- Quedlinburg
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Ravenna
- Redwood
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Reims
- Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhaetian Railway
- Rhodes
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rjukan / Notodden
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Rome
- Røros
- Roșia Montană
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Saint-Emilion
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Salamanca
- Saltaire
- Salzburg
- Sammallahdenmäki
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Santo Domingo
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Semmering Railway
- Seville
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Shiretoko
- ShUM Sites
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Sintra
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Skocjan Caves
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Southern Öland
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Split
- Srebarna Nature Reserve
- Stari Grad Plain
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- Stecci
- Stevns Klint
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge and Avebury
- St. Petersburg
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Studenica Monastery
- Studley Royal Park
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
- Telc
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Teotihuacan
- Te Wahipounamu
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The Prosecco Hills
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
- Tikal National Park
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Toledo
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tongariro National Park
- Torun
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Trogir
- Troy
- Tugendhat Villa
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Urbino
- Urnes Stave Church
- Val di Noto
- Val d'Orcia
- Valletta
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vegaøyan
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vézère Valley
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Vienna
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vilnius
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Visby
- Vlkolinec
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Westminster
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Wooden Churches of Maramures
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Würzburg Residence
- Yaroslavl
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Zagori Cultural Landscape
- Zamość
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops
- Zollverein
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- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Central Park
- City of York
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Condominio theatres of Central Italy
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- Gdynia
- Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße
- Hikone-Jo
- Martin Brod - Una National Park
- Megaliths of Carnac
- Minoan Palatial Centres
- Network of fortresses of Carcassonne
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- Pic du Midi
- The Ancient Plovdiv
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
- The wider area of Mount Olympus
- Via Francigena
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- Bishop's Basilica and Mosaics of Philippopolis
- Central Balkan National Park
- Magoura cave
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument
- Rocks of Belogradchik
- The ancient town of Nicopolis ad Istrum
- The Bachkovo Monastery
- The Roussensky Lom National Park
- The royal necropolis of Seuthopolis
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery
- Two neolithic dwellings
- Vratsa Karst Nature Reserve
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Top 10 Missing
- Angkor 4.72
- Machu Picchu 4.63
- Petra 4.61
- Galapagos Islands 4.60
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.51
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Great Wall 4.45
- Bagan 4.44
- Serengeti 4.41
Completed Countries
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Dominican Republic
- Estonia
- Finland
- Germany
- Greece
- Holy See
Country visits
- Albania: Butrint Ohrid Region Berat and Gjirokastra Primeval Beech Forests
- Andorra: Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- Argentina: The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Workers' Assembly Halls
- Australia: Great Barrier Reef Greater Blue Mountains Wet Tropics of Queensland Sydney Opera House Australian Convict Sites Workers' Assembly Halls
- Austria: Salzburg Semmering Railway Graz Hallstatt-Dachstein Schönbrunn Wachau Cultural Landscape Vienna Fertö/Neusiedlersee Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Danube Limes Great Spa Towns of Europe Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße
- Belarus: Białowieża Forest Mir Castle Nesvizh Struve Geodetic Arc
- Belgium: Belfries Brugge Flemish Béguinages Grand Place, Brussels Major Town Houses Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai The Four Lifts Plantin-Moretus Museum Primeval Beech Forests Stoclet House Mining Sites of Wallonia Colonies of Benevolence The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Great Spa Towns of Europe Funerary and memory sites of the First World War Workers' Assembly Halls Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège Le champ de bataille de Waterloo Les citadelles mosanes Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles Les passages de Bruxelles Le noyau historique médiéval de Gand Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers
- Bosnia Herzegovina: Mostar Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge Primeval Beech Forests Stecci Martin Brod - Una National Park Jajce Sarajevo
- Bulgaria: Boyana Church Madara Rider Nessebar Pirin National Park Rila Monastery Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo Srebarna Nature Reserve Thracian tomb of Kazanlak Thracian tomb of Sveshtari Primeval Beech Forests The Ancient Plovdiv Bishop's Basilica and Mosaics of Philippopolis Alexandrovo Thracian Tomb Central Balkan National Park Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument The Roussensky Lom National Park The ancient town of Nicopolis ad Istrum The Bachkovo Monastery Magoura cave The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery Two neolithic dwellings Vratsa Karst Nature Reserve Rocks of Belogradchik The royal necropolis of Seuthopolis
- Canada: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Québec Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Glacier parks
- Croatia: Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik Dubrovnik Euphrasian Basilica in Porec Plitvice Lakes Split Trogir Primeval Beech Forests Stari Grad Plain Venetian Works of Defence Stecci Primosten Vineyards Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Tvrda (Fort) in Osijek
- Cyprus: Choirokoitia Painted Churches in the Troödos Region Paphos Hala Sultan Tekke and Larnaka Salt Lake Complex Church of Panagia Aggeloktisti Troodos, Mt.Olympus
- 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 Primeval Beech Forests Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge Great Spa Towns of Europe Žatec – Landscape of Hops Kladruby nad Labem Mountain-top Hotel Television Transmitter Ještěd Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities The Spa at Luhacovice The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava Extension of Prague WHS Sites of Great Moravia
- Denmark: Kronborg Castle Jelling Roskilde Cathedral Wadden Sea Stevns Klint Moravian Church Settlements Par force hunting landscape Viking Age Ring Fortresses Workers' Assembly Halls Møns Klint The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord The Maritime Heritage of Dragor Amalienborg and its district
- Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo
- Estonia: Tallinn Struve Geodetic Arc
- Finland: High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago Fortress of Suomenlinna Old Rauma Petäjävesi Old Church Sammallahdenmäki Verla Groundwood and Board Mill Struve Geodetic Arc
- France: Belfries Loire Valley Arles Chartres Cathedral Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay Fontainebleau Orange Mont-Saint-Michel Paris, Banks of the Seine Pyrénées - Mont Perdu Reims Strasbourg Vézelay Versailles Vézère Valley Amiens Cathedral Avignon Bourges Cathedral Canal du Midi Fortified City of Carcassonne Gulf of Porto Lyon Nancy Pont du Gard Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans Saint-Emilion Saint-Savin sur Gartempe Provins Le Havre Bordeaux Fortifications of Vauban Primeval Beech Forests Causses and Cévennes Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Albi Burgundy Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin Chaîne des Puys Champagne The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944 Great Spa Towns of Europe Maison Carrée of Nîmes Cordouan Lighthouse Nice Funerary and memory sites of the First World War Megaliths of Carnac Network of fortresses of Carcassonne Pic du Midi Domaine de Fontainebleau Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) Parc national de Port-Cros Rade de Marseille Centre ancien de Sarlat Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas La Camargue Rouen Cathédrale de Saint-Denis Massif du Mont Blanc Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise
- Germany: Cologne Cathedral Speyer Cathedral Würzburg Residence Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust Hildesheim Cathedral and Church Lübeck Pilgrimage Church of Wies Bamberg Bauhaus Sites Classical Weimar Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz Luther Memorials Maulbronn Monastery Messel Pit Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Potsdam Quedlinburg Rammelsberg and Goslar Reichenau Wartburg Castle Völklingen Ironworks Frontiers of the Roman Empire Stralsund and Wismar Upper Middle Rhine Valley Zollverein Muskauer Park Town Hall and Roland, Bremen Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Primeval Beech Forests Regensburg Wadden Sea Fagus Factory Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Corvey Margravial Opera House Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge Moravian Church Settlements Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Caves and Ice Age Art Danube Limes Great Spa Towns of Europe Hedeby and Danevirke Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt Naumburg Cathedral Lower German Limes ShUM Sites Water Management System of Augsburg Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt Schwerin Residence Ensemble Aachen Cathedral Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria Francke Foundation Buildings Torgau Castle Chapel Olympic Park Munich Trier
- Greece: Archaeological Site of Delphi Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios Delos Epidaurus Meteora Mount Athos Mycenae and Tiryns Mystras Olympia Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos Rhodes Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae Thessalonika Corfu Archaeological site of Philippi The wider area of Mount Olympus Zagori Cultural Landscape Minoan Palatial Centres Acropolis Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece Ancient Greek Theatres Gorge of Samaria National Park Ancient Lavrion Archaeological Site of Aigai Archaeological site of Ancient Messene Island of Patmos
- Guatemala: Tikal National Park
- Holy See: Vatican City Rome
- Hungary: Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs Budapest Hortobágy Aggtelek and Slovak Karst Hollókö Pannonhalma Fertö/Neusiedlersee Tokaji Wine Region Royal Seats in Esztergom, Visegrád Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape Ripa Pannonica in Hungary Le Chateau-fort médieval d'Esztergom
- Iceland: Thingvellir Vatnajökull National Park Thingvellir National Park
- India: The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Ireland: Brú na Bóinne Sceilg Mhichíl
- Israel: Old City of Jerusalem Masada Old City of Acre White City of Tel-Aviv Incense Route of the Negev Bahá’i Holy Places The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles Sea of Galilee Jerusalem Biblical Tells
- Italy: Venice and its Lagoon Assisi Isole Eolie Verona Castel del Monte Florence Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) Rock Drawings in Valcamonica Costiera Amalfitana Crespi d'Adda Aquileia Botanical Garden, Padua Ferrara Matera Modena Naples Pienza Pompei Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands Su Nuraxi di Barumini Ravenna Residences of the Royal House of Savoy San Gimignano Siena The trulli of Alberobello Urbino Vicenza and the Palladian Villas Villa Adriana (Tivoli) Villa Romana del Casale Monte San Giorgio Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy Val di Noto Villa d'Este Etruscan Necropolises Syracuse Val d'Orcia Dolomites Genoa Mantua and Sabbioneta Primeval Beech Forests Rhaetian Railway Longobards in Italy Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Medici Villas and Gardens Mount Etna Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont Arab-Norman Palermo Venetian Works of Defence Great Spa Towns of Europe The Prosecco Hills Ivrea Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles The Porticoes of Bologna Via Francigena Evaporitic Karst and Caves Via Appia Early Medieval Benedictine settlements Condominio theatres of Central Italy Nuragic monuments of Sardinia Agrigento Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy) Salento and the Barocco Leccese The Murge of Altamura Massif du Mont-Blanc Cilento and Vallo di Diano Royal Palace at Caserta Rome Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Japan: Ancient Kyoto Genbaku Dome Himeji-jo Horyu-ji Area Itsukushima Shrine Nikko Shirakawa-go and Gokayama Ancient Nara Shirakami-Sanchi Kii Mountain Range Shiretoko Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine Hiraizumi Fujisan Tomioka Silk Mill The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Jomon Prehistoric Sites Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Hikone-Jo Asuka-Fujiwara Hiraizumi (extension) Ancient Kamakura Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Latvia: Riga Struve Geodetic Arc Kuldiga
- Lithuania: Vilnius Curonian Spit Kernavė Struve Geodetic Arc Modernist Kaunas Trakai Historical National Park
- Luxembourg: City of Luxembourg
- Malta: Hal Saflieni Hypogeum Megalithic Temples of Malta Valletta Coastal Cliffs Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta Mdina (Citta Vecchia) Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Mexico: Teotihuacan Mexico City and Xochimilco Camino Real Gulf of California Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Moldova: Struve Geodetic Arc
- Monaco: Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Monaco)
- Montenegro: Durmitor National Park Kotor Venetian Works of Defence Stecci
- Netherlands: Dutch Water Defence Lines Kinderdijk Schokland Beemster Polder Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal Wadden Sea Van Nellefabriek Colonies of Benevolence Eisinga Planetarium Lower German Limes Amsterdam Canal Ring Rietveld Schröderhuis
- New Zealand: Tongariro National Park Te Wahipounamu Waters and seabed of Fiordland
- North Macedonia: Ohrid Region Primeval Beech Forests
- Norway: Bryggen Rock Art of Alta Røros Urnes Stave Church Struve Geodetic Arc Vegaøyan West Norwegian Fjords Rjukan / Notodden The Lofoten islands Tysfjord, the fjord of Hellemobotn and Rago
- Palestine: Bethlehem Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
- Poland: Białowieża Forest Kraków Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Malbork Castle Torun Warsaw Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines Zamość Churches of Peace Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska Muskauer Park Centennial Hall Primeval Beech Forests Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine Gdynia The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains Auschwitz Birkenau
- Portugal: Oporto Belem Sintra Evora University of Coimbra
- Republic of Korea: Changdeokgung Palace Complex Jongmyo Shrine
- Romania: Churches of Moldavia Dacian Fortresses Danube Delta Monastery of Horezu Sighisoara Villages with Fortified Churches Wooden Churches of Maramures Primeval Beech Forests Roșia Montană Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu Dacian Limes The old villages of Hollókõ and Rimetea The Historic Centre of Sibiu Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia
- Russia: Kremlin and Red Square St. Petersburg Curonian Spit Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye Novgorod Trinity Sergius Lavra White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal Novodevichy Convent Struve Geodetic Arc Yaroslavl Rostov Kremlin
- San Marino: San Marino and Mount Titano
- Serbia: Stari Ras and Sopocani Studenica Monastery Medieval Monuments in Kosovo Gamzigrad-Romuliana Stecci Tara National Park
- Slovakia: Bardejov Town Banska Stiavnica Spissky Hrad and Levoca Vlkolinec Aggtelek and Slovak Karst Primeval Beech Forests Danube Limes Kosice Natural and Cultural Landscape of Danube Region Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Slovenia: Skocjan Caves Primeval Beech Forests Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Heritage of Mercury Plečnik's Ljubljana Fuzina Hills in Bohinj The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic
- Spain: Granada Cordoba Salamanca Segovia Seville Works of Antoni Gaudí Avila El Escurial Ibiza La Lonja de la Seda Mudejar Architecture of Aragon Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau Route of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela Toledo Pyrénées - Mont Perdu Primeval Beech Forests Heritage of Mercury Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro Altamira Cave
- Sweden: Drottningholm High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago Karlskrona Laponian Area Skogskyrkogarden Southern Öland Visby Birka and Hovgarden Engelsberg Ironworks Rock Carvings in Tanum Falun Great Copper Mountain Grimeton Radio Station Struve Geodetic Arc Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland Gammelstad
- Switzerland: Bellinzone Benedictine Convent of St. John Old City of Berne Monte San Giorgio Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces Primeval Beech Forests Rhaetian Railway Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle Prehistoric Pile Dwellings The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Abbey of St Gall
- Turkiye: Göreme NP and Cappadocia Istanbul Troy Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Ukraine: Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra L'viv Struve Geodetic Arc Primeval Beech Forests Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region Odesa Crimean Khans' capital in Bakhchysarai Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans Historic Centre of Tchernigov Cultural Landscape of Canyon in Kamenets-Podilsk Astronomical Observatories of Ukraine Kyiv: St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans
- United Kingdom: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape Blenheim Palace Canterbury City of Bath Durham Castle and Cathedral Edinburgh Frontiers of the Roman Empire Giant's Causeway Gwynedd Castles Ironbridge Gorge Maritime Greenwich Stonehenge and Avebury Neolithic Orkney Tower of London Westminster Derwent Valley Mills Dorset and East Devon Coast Kew Gardens New Lanark Saltaire Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal Forth Bridge Gorham's Cave Complex Moravian Church Settlements Great Spa Towns of Europe Jodrell Bank Observatory Lake District The Flow Country The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales City of York Birkenhead Park Little Cayman Marine Parks and Protected Areas Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof East Atlantic Flyway Studley Royal Park
- United States of America: Carlsbad Caverns Cahokia Mounds Chaco Culture Hawaii Volcanoes Everglades Great Smoky Mountains Independence Hall Mammoth Cave Mesa Verde Monticello Olympic National Park Redwood Taos Pueblo Statue of Liberty Yellowstone Yosemite National Park Grand Canyon Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Glacier parks Poverty Point Moravian Church Settlements San Antonio Missions Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Hopewell Civil Rights Movement Sites Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Central Park Ellis Island Early Chicago Skyscrapers Dayton Aviation Sites Serpent Mound Thomas Jefferson Buildings White Sands National Monument Brooklyn Bridge California Current Conservation Complex
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The Betlém Rock Sculptures ne… (On tentative list)
The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks

Surtsey (Inscribed)
Surtsey
I made my 2nd trip to Iceland this past summer. In the year 2000 when I first made it to Iceland, there was no WHS in Iceland, but the tour …
Little Cayman Marine Parks an… (On tentative list)
Little Cayman Marine Parks and Protected Areas
The Pentagon code-named their activities at the Gulf War in the early 1990s "Operation Desert Storm." I code-named my grand tour of the southern half of the USA in summer …

Great Spa Towns of Europe (Inscribed)
Great Spa Towns of Europe
Bad Ems
I spent a few hours in Bad Ems on a Friday afternoon in August.
The original Kurhaus, which is now Häcker's Grand Hotel (upper photo), is …

Great Spa Towns of Europe (Inscribed)
Great Spa Towns of Europe
Bad Kissingen
I had my bathing suit with me just in case, even though I was visiting Bad Kissingen only for 3 hours between trains around noon in late …

Evaporitic Karst and Caves (Inscribed)
Evaporitic Karst and Caves
Evaporite karst and caves of Emilia Romagna Region: Messinian Gypsum of Bologna
It was rather difficult to grasp the OUV of this nomination, so I thought there was no …

Vézère Valley (Inscribed)
Vézère Valley
I was back in the Bordeaux area to visit the Cordouan Lighthouse and decided to swing by the Vezere Valley for the third time. The first time was for Lascoux …

Cathedral of St. James in Sib… (Inscribed)
Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik
Enough has been said probably about the Cathedral of St. James in the previous reviews, so I will just talk about Sibenik in general.
I stayed at a flat …

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpat… (Inscribed)
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
There are 8 of these tserkvas in Ukraine. Besides the one in Zhovkva, which is just outside of Lviv, none has written a report on others yet, so I will …

Routes of Santiago de Compost… (Inscribed)
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
I have visited 11 (Paris, Amiens, Mont Saint-Michel, Vézelay, Asquins, Clermont-Ferrand, Poitiers, Bourges, Toulouse-2, Gavarnie) out of the 78 components, but here I will talk about just one of them, …

Pic du Midi (Nominated)
Pic du Midi
For my annual ski trip for the winter 2022-23 season, because my original ski resort destination in the Pyrenees, Gavarnie-Gedre ski resort, had not opened as scheduled due to little …

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu (Inscribed)
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
This report has to do with the French side. The main place to visit is Gavarnie, the site of one of the three "Cirques" in the area.
In visiting …

Isole Eolie (Inscribed)
Isole Eolie
I just read this thread for the first time to find that all previous 6 posts mentioned only the island of Vulcano, so I would be glad to add my …

Albi (Inscribed)
Albi
Arriving from the Causses and the Cévennes (by a bus that ran under Millau Viaduct) in the evening, I spent the following morning exploring the city of Albi. I understand …

Odesa (Inscribed)
Odesa
I have been to Odesa twice…in 2004 and 2010.
Most Ukrainians would agree that Odesa today has two centers. One is by the port area and the other is …

Primeval Beech Forests (Inscribed)
Primeval Beech Forests
Even though I had been to all WHSs and TWHSs in Germany, upon learning that Germany was offering a 9-Euro, monthly train pass in summer 2022, I decided to take …

Verona (Inscribed)
Verona
I had previously visited the Verona WHS, and the below is only about my experience at one of its components, Arena di Verona, in summer 2022.
It just sounded …

Dacian Fortresses (Inscribed)
Dacian Fortresses
A few days after my visit to Rosia Montana WHS I made my second attempt to visit the main component of this Dacian Fortress WHS, Sarmizegetusa Regia, this time by …

Condominio theatres of Centra… (Nominated)
Condominio theatres of Central Italy
I just noticed that this was a new nomination from Italy in 2021: Historical 62 theatres in the Marche Region. Yes, I've been to 1 of the 62 theaters!
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Cornwall and West Devon Minin… (Inscribed)
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
"The more mechanical you are, the freer you are." --- Robert Wilson
For this occasion to visit the UK, I decided to finish up the remaining WHSs in the …