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 …
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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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20April 4, 2025Hopewell, San Antonio Missions
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50July 27, 2024Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu, Dacian Limes, Schwerin Residence Ensemble, The Flow Country, Via …
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10June 28, 2024Vatnajökull National Park
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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
- Stećci
- Stevns Klint
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- 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
- Carnac
- 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
- Minoan Palatial Centres
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- Pic du Midi
- Plovdiv
- The network of fortresses of the seneschalty of Ca
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II
- The wider area of Mount Olympus
- Via Francigena
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- Alexandrovo Thracian Tomb
- Bishop's Basilica and Late-Antique Mosaics of Phil
- 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 the Thracian city of Seuth
- The town of Melnik and the Rozhen Monastery
- Two neolithic dwellings
- Vratsa Karst Nature Reserve
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Top 10 Missing
- Angkor 4.71
- Galapagos Islands 4.62
- Machu Picchu 4.62
- Petra 4.60
- Pyramids (Memphis) 4.50
- Rapa Nui 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.48
- Bagan 4.44
- Great Wall 4.44
- Serengeti 4.41
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The Betlém Rock Sculptures ne… (On tentative list)
The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks
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Tsunami 17/10/24
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 …
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Tsunami 09/10/24
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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 …
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Tsunami 01/11/23
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 …
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Tsunami 10/10/23
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 …
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Tsunami 20/09/23
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 …
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Tsunami 12/08/23
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 …
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Tsunami 05/07/23
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 …
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Tsunami 15/03/23
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 …
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Tsunami 28/02/23
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, …
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Tsunami 08/02/23
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 …
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Tsunami 04/02/23
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 …
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Tsunami 26/01/23
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 …
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Tsunami 20/01/23
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 …
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Tsunami 05/11/22
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 …
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Tsunami 28/10/22
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 …
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Tsunami 16/08/22
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 …
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Tsunami 12/08/22
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 …
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Tsunami 17/05/22
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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Tsunami 05/05/22
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 …
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Tsunami 03/05/22
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