Our initial glimpses of Huanglong were, truth be told, a touch anticlimactic. We'd ascended via the cable car and found ourselves on the first viewing platform. Compared to the turquoise …
Nan
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It's up to you how you want to spend your holiday, whether that's lazing on the beach at a Caribbean club hotel sipping Mai Tais. Or tending to the garden.

While I do enjoy the occasional Mai Tai on the beach, I prefer to see new things and travel to faraway places. I've read my fair share of travel guides to find out where to go and what to see. And I was often disappointed.
While many guidebooks spend an entire chapter extolling the virtues of a particular destination (e.g. a capital city), World Heritage Sites are different. They're as objective as it gets, and often take you off the beaten track. For example, I have fond memories of my taxi ride through a Czech winter landscape to visit Holasovice, a site that only World Heritage connoisseurs would appreciate. More often than not, WHS are great places.
Initially, I concentrated on visiting as many WHS as possible, which gave me a good overview. However, since I've reached the magic 300 (almost 600 now), I've shifted my focus to visiting the really great sites: quality over quantity.
Ultimately, I recommend that you travel as you please. However, if you find yourself in a country (even if it's just for a beach holiday), take a look at the map of World Heritage Sites on this site to see if any are nearby. You may have to travel a little off the beaten track, but I assure you it will be worth it.
My most impressive sites (the usual):
- Petra
- Machu Picchu
- Angkor
From the tentative sites I have seen I feel strongly for:
- Okefenokee NP, USA - Riding canoe in the swamp with snakes and crocodiles.
- Unjusa temple, South Korea (my title picture) - Korea's best temple.
- Desert Castles in Uzbekistan.
Several aspiring sites in Sri Lanka also come to mind Bawa's modernism and the painted buddhist temples are something to behold.
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World Heritage Sites
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Teotihuacan 5.0
- Palenque 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Los Glaciares 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Mesa Verde 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Meteora 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Cordoba 4.5
- Yosemite National Park 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Jiuzhaigou Valley 4.5
- Dubrovnik 4.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.5
- Bukhara 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Samarkand 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Nubian Monuments 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Los Alerces National Park 4.5
- Sceilg Mhichíl 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.5
- Chichen-Itza 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Te Wahipounamu 4.5
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Ping Yao 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Great Wall 4.5
- Fatehpur Sikri 4.5
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Longmen Grottoes 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Kotor 4.0
- Istanbul 4.0
- Everglades 4.0
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 4.0
- Selimiye Mosque 4.0
- Dengfeng 4.0
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 4.0
- Cueva de las Manos 4.0
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing 4.0
- Gyeongju 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Iguacu 4.0
- Nasca Lines 4.0
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 4.0
- Yungang Grottoes 4.0
- Upper Svaneti 4.0
- Teide National Park 4.0
- Ancient Kyoto 4.0
- Riga 4.0
- Huanglong 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Kew Gardens 4.0
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 4.0
- Wadden Sea 4.0
- Sukhothai 4.0
- Olympia 4.0
- South China Karst 4.0
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban 4.0
- Dolomites 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region 4.0
- West Lake 4.0
- Jantar Mantar 4.0
- El Escurial 4.0
- Itchan Kala 4.0
- Berat and Gjirokastra 4.0
- Laponian Area 4.0
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 4.0
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.0
- Trang An 4.0
- Guanajuato 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Humayun's Tomb 4.0
- Surtsey 4.0
- Valletta 4.0
- Aachen Cathedral 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Arab-Norman Palermo 4.0
- Himeji-jo 4.0
- Agrigento 4.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0
- Castel del Monte 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Wadi Al-Hitan 4.0
- Megaliths of Carnac 4.0
- Studley Royal Park 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Neolithic Orkney 4.0
- Peninsula Valdes 4.0
- Fuerte de Samaipata 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 3.5
- Baalbek 3.5
- Rhodes 3.5
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.5
- University of Coimbra 3.5
- Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5
- Assisi 3.5
- Danube Delta 3.5
- Westminster 3.5
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 3.5
- Mountain Railways of India 3.5
- Fagus Factory 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Rabat 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
- Meknes 3.5
- Medina of Essaouira 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- L'viv 3.5
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.5
- Edinburgh 3.5
- Anuradhapura 3.5
- Malbork Castle 3.5
- Masada 3.5
- Dazu Rock Carvings 3.5
- Old City of Acre 3.5
- Tallinn 3.5
- Bethlehem 3.5
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 3.5
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 3.5
- Lake District 3.5
- The trulli of Alberobello 3.5
- Schönbrunn 3.5
- Çatalhöyük 3.5
- Huangshan 3.5
- Cuenca 3.5
- Göbekli Tepe 3.5
- Pergamon 3.5
- Altamira Cave 3.5
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 3.5
- Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Churches of Peace 3.5
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 3.5
- Fujisan 3.5
- Brú na Bóinne 3.5
- Dacian Fortresses 3.5
- Churches of Moldavia 3.5
- Villages with Fortified Churches 3.5
- Cesky Krumlov 3.5
- Wooden Churches of Maramures 3.5
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Matera 3.5
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- Calakmul 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Tongariro National Park 3.5
- Bryggen 3.5
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 3.5
- Xidi and Hongcun 3.5
- Kraków 3.5
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3.5
- Villa Romana del Casale 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Syracuse 3.5
- Churches of Chiloé 3.5
- Reims 3.5
- Champagne 3.5
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.5
- Kii Mountain Range 3.5
- Mount Wutai 3.0
- Arequipa 3.0
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.0
- Trebic 3.0
- Yaroslavl 3.0
- Fortifications of Vauban 3.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.0
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.0
- Albi 3.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.0
- Stevns Klint 3.0
- Grand Canal 3.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Zollverein 3.0
- Southern Öland 3.0
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 3.0
- Valparaiso 3.0
- Hoi An 3.0
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 3.0
- Xochicalco 3.0
- Nikko 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Bellinzone 3.0
- Summer Palace 3.0
- Ancient Nara 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano 3.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.0
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.0
- Uxmal 3.0
- Oporto 3.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 3.0
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.0
- Kutna Hora 3.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 3.0
- Hué 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus 3.0
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Urnes Stave Church 3.0
- Sucre 3.0
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Vilnius 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra 3.0
- Poblet Monastery 3.0
- Salamanca 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- Stonehenge and Avebury 3.0
- Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- Avila 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Segovia 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Warsaw 3.0
- Cologne Cathedral 3.0
- Cuzco 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Agra Fort 3.0
- Avignon 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.0
- Split 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 3.0
- San Miguel de Allende 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Canterbury 3.0
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Fontainebleau 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Seville 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Bursa and Cumalikizik 3.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.0
- Mount Athos 3.0
- Archaeological Site of Aigai 3.0
- Hiraizumi 3.0
- Aquileia 3.0
- Plitvice Lakes 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 3.0
- Luang Prabang 3.0
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.0
- Potosi 3.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 3.0
- Old Rauma 3.0
- Plain of Jars 3.0
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Vegaøyan 3.0
- Rjukan / Notodden 3.0
- Isole Eolie 3.0
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 3.0
- Giant's Causeway 3.0
- Aphrodisias 3.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.0
- Arslantepe Mound 3.0
- Genoa 3.0
- Ohrid Region 3.0
- Studenica Monastery 3.0
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.0
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 3.0
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 3.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.0
- Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands 3.0
- Gelati Monastery 3.0
- Haghpat and Sanahin 3.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.0
- Sinharaja Forest 3.0
- Central Highlands 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- Kuldiga 3.0
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 3.0
- Haeinsa Temple 3.0
- Medina of Fez 3.0
- Medina of Marrakesh 3.0
- Volubilis 3.0
- Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream 3.0
- Taj Mahal 3.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 3.0
- Strasbourg 3.0
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Mostar 3.0
- Via Appia 3.0
- Imperial Tombs 3.0
- Lyon 3.0
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.0
- Ayutthaya 3.0
- Mountain Resort, Chengde 2.5
- Speyer Cathedral 2.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 2.5
- Rila Monastery 2.5
- Val di Noto 2.5
- Nancy 2.5
- Longobards in Italy 2.5
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 2.5
- Red Fort 2.5
- Monastery of Batalha 2.5
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2.5
- Val d'Orcia 2.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 2.5
- Abbey of St Gall 2.5
- Gammelstad 2.5
- Lübeck 2.5
- Petäjävesi Old Church 2.5
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Białowieża Forest 2.5
- Trier 2.5
- Ironbridge Gorge 2.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- New Lanark 2.5
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 2.5
- Toledo 2.5
- Caceres 2.5
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 2.5
- Sian Ka'an 2.5
- Boyana Church 2.5
- Le Havre 2.5
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca 2.5
- Vlkolinec 2.5
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians 2.5
- Western Ghats 2.5
- Thessalonika 2.5
- Liangzhu Archaeological Site 2.5
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Melaka and George Town 2.5
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Tiwanaku 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Australian Convict Sites 2.5
- Rock Art of Alta 2.5
- Orange 2.5
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius 2.5
- Telc 2.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 2.5
- Sighisoara 2.5
- Roșia Montană 2.5
- Bardejov Town 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Naples 2.5
- Bauhaus Sites 2.5
- Roman Walls of Lugo 2.5
- Tower of Hercules 2.5
- Asturian Monuments 2.5
- Troy 2.5
- Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens 2.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
- Genbaku Dome 2.5
- Royal Joseon Tombs 2.5
- Burgos Cathedral 2.5
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 2.5
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 2.5
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 2.5
- Elvas 2.5
- Fray Bentos 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Trogir 2.5
- Sarazm 2.5
- Chartres Cathedral 2.5
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Incense Route of the Negev 2.5
- Mount Carmel Caves 2.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5
- Medina of Tétouan 2.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 2.5
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.5
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots 2.5
- Saltaire 2.5
- Mtskheta 2.5
- Zacatecas 2.5
- Hollókö 2.5
- Ancient Jericho 2.5
- Koh Ker 2.5
- Modernist Kaunas 2.5
- The Four Lifts 2.5
- Old Town of Galle 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5
- Kandy 2.5
- Monastery of Geghard 2.5
- Laurisilva of Madeira 2.5
- Corfu 2.5
- Choirokoitia 2.5
- Paphos 2.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 2.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 2.5
- The Flow Country 2.5
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 2.5
- Baekje Historic Areas 2.5
- Hahoe and Yangdong 2.5
- The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria 2.5
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 2.5
- Mazagan 2.5
- Tarraco 2.5
- Yin Xu 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Domus de janas Sardinia 2.5
- Camino Real 2.5
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 2.5
- Puebla 2.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 2.5
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 2.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Mount Taishan 2.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Rhaetian Railway 2.5
- Independence Hall 2.5
- San Gimignano 2.5
- Grimeton Radio Station 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Heritage of Mercury 2.5
- Nesvizh 2.5
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec 2.5
- Van Nellefabriek 2.5
- Qutb Minar 2.5
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 2.5
- Vat Phou 2.5
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Gorham's Cave Complex 2.5
- Banska Stiavnica 2.5
- Margravial Opera House 2.5
- Blenheim Palace 2.5
- Palmeral of Elche 2.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- Burgundy 2.5
- Gaya Tumuli 2.0
- Sigiriya 2.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 2.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.0
- Zamość 2.0
- Guimarães 2.0
- Morelia 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Nessebar 2.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 2.0
- Epidaurus 2.0
- Novgorod 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 2.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 2.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 2.0
- Mérida 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.0
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.0
- Shakhrisyabz 2.0
- Monastery of Horezu 2.0
- Nice 2.0
- Kronborg Castle 2.0
- Archaeological site of Philippi 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Litomysl Castle 2.0
- Sammallahdenmäki 2.0
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.0
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Major Town Houses 2.0
- Karlskrona 2.0
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo 2.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.0
- Kernavė 2.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.0
- China Danxia 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Novodevichy Convent 2.0
- Centennial Hall 2.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 2.0
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 2.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Úbeda and Baeza 2.0
- Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines 2.0
- Saint-Emilion 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 2.0
- Stecci 2.0
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops 2.0
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 2.0
- Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans 2.0
- Pienza 2.0
- Verona 2.0
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 2.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.0
- Peking Man Site 2.0
- Curonian Spit 2.0
- Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.0
- Ferrara 2.0
- Lima 2.0
- Salzburg 2.0
- City of Luxembourg 2.0
- Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 1.5
- Campeche 1.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 1.5
- Classical Weimar 1.5
- Reichenau 1.5
- Pirin National Park 1.5
- Crespi d'Adda 1.5
- Ivrea 1.5
- Torun 1.5
- Bahá’i Holy Places 1.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 1.5
- Caves and Ice Age Art 1.5
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill 1.5
- Hortobágy 1.5
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge 1.5
- Par force hunting landscape 1.5
- Drottningholm 1.5
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 1.5
- Madara Rider 1.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 1.5
- Mount Etna 1.5
- Birka and Hovgarden 1.5
- Xanthos-Letoon 1.5
- Holasovice 1.5
- Aranjuez 1.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.5
- Thingvellir 1.5
- Naumburg Cathedral 1.5
- Donana National Park 1.5
- Regensburg 1.5
- Colonia del Sacramento 1.5
- Medina Azahara 1.5
- Jongmyo Shrine 1.5
- Jeju 1.5
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 1.5
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 1.5
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 1.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 1.5
- Semmering Railway 1.5
- Luther Memorials 1.5
- Querétaro 1.5
- Hedeby and Danevirke 1.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 1.0
- Schokland 1.0
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.0
- The Porticoes of Bologna 1.0
- Danube Limes 1.0
- Lower German Limes 1.0
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 1.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Old City of Berne 1.0
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.0
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 1.0
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu 1.0
- Tokaji Wine Region 1.0
- Dacian Limes 1.0
- Stari Grad Plain 1.0
- Corvey 1.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 1.0
- Polonnaruva 1.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 1.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 1.0
- Battir 1.0
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine 1.0
- Pannonhalma 1.0
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs 1.0
- Messel Pit 1.0
- Water Management System of Augsburg 1.0
- Namhansanseong 1.0
- Western Tien-Shan 1.0
- Mir Castle 1.0
- Thang Long 1.0
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 0.5
- Tlacotalpan 0.5
- Srebarna Nature Reserve 0.5
- The Prosecco Hills 0.5
- Alto Douro 0.5
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 0.5
- Mafra 0.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 0.5
Tentative Sites
- Phra Prang of Wat Arun Ratchawararam
- Ellis Island
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- Hikone-Jo
- Leuven
- Rostov Kremlin
- The Rise of Systematic Biology
- Coral Stone Mosques of Maldives
- Pulacayo, Industrial Heritage Site
- Sacred Titicaca Lake
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- Mdina (Citta Vecchia)
- Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins NPs
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Pombaline Lisbon
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese
- Rural Temples of Cusco
- Svalbard Archipelago
- The Lofoten islands
- Archaeological site of Ancient Messene
- Ancient Lavrion
- City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- Mountain-top Hotel Television Transmitter Ještěd
- Konya-A capital of Seljuk Civilization
- Midyat Churches and Monasteries
- Ancient City of Kaunos
- Harran and Sanliurfa
- Zeynel Abidin Mosque and Mor Yakup Church
- Anatolian Seljuks Madrasahs
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm
- Bahoutdin Architectural Complex
- Degania & Nahalal
- Jerusalem
- Sea of Galilee
- Nuragic monuments of Sardinia
- Hisham's Palace/ Khirbet al-Mafjar
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee
- Tbilisi Historic District
- Vani
- Uplistsikhe Cave Town
- City of York
- The Ringed Seal Archipelagos of Lake Saimaa
- Site of the Schöningen Spears
- Aalto Works
- Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
- Los Petenes-Ría Celestún
- The Turf House Tradition
- The Royal Sites of Ireland
- Naganeupseong
- Seljuk Caravanserais from Denizli to Dogubeyazit
- Kamenets-Podilsk Cultural Landscape
- Rouen
- Knights Fortifications around Harbours of Malta
- Alba Julia
- Sultan Bayezid II Complex
- Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital
- Abydos
- Necropolises of Middle Egypt
- Lake Titicaca
- Nasca Aqueducts
- Waters and seabed of Fiordland
- Temple of Hator built by Ramses III
- Seruwila to Sri Pada pilgrim route
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of Dead Sea Scrolls
- Asuka-Fujiwara
- Zerzevan Castle and Mithraeum
- Garni and the ‘Basalt Organ’ Columnar Joint
- Mt. Soraksan Nature Reserve
- Stone Buddhas and Pagodas at Hwasun Unjusa Temple
- Chiang Mai
- Archaeological Sites of the Ancient Shu State
- Sites for Liquor Making in China
- Ancient Buddhist Meditation Monasteries
- Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan
- Panamá City
- Francke Foundation Buildings
- Bulwarked Frontier Fortifications
- Ribeira Sacra Waterscape
- The Historical Port City of Izmir
- The Roussensky Lom National Park
- China-Egypt hydrological sites
- Egyptian Museum
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece
- Complex of Sheikh Mukhtar-Vali (mausoleum)
- Tashkent makhallas
- Mývatn and Laxá
- Minaret in Vobkent
- Tvrda (Fort) in Osijek
- Caesarea
- Amalienborg and its district
- Old Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Bet She'an
- La Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio
- Green Belt
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles
- Ein Karem
- Chashma-Ayub Mausoleum
- Mértola
- Vila Viçosa
- Sulcis Iglesiente
- Tara National Park
- Thingvellir National Park
- Bussaco cultural landscape
- Orvieto
- Civita di Bagnoregio
- Via Francigena
- Villas of the Papal Nobility
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands
- Central Park
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
- Citadel of Alessandria
- Delhi - A Heritage City
- Thingvellir Viking Sites
- Horvat Minnim
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom
- Fortifications in Komárno - Komárom (Hun)
- L'ensemble rupestre de Basarabi
- La Camargue
- La Moneda Palace
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège
- The Danube Limes (Croatia)
- Massif du Mont Blanc
- Mattanchery Palace
- Metz Royale et Impériale
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia
- D-Day Landing Beaches, Normandy, 1944
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy)
- Hoge Kempen
- The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski)
- Khor Dubai
- The Fortress of Terezín
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture
- Pharaon Island
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse
- Yildiz Palace Complex
- Cultural landscape of Bač
- Hala Sultan Tekke and Larnaka Salt Lake Complex
- Roman Ways. Itineraries of the Roman Empire
- Sites of Great Moravia
- The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski)
- Alanya
- Zadar - Episcopal complex
- Victoria Lines Fortifications
- Coastal Cliffs
- Maltese Catacomb Complexes
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct
- That Luang de Vientiane
- The late ancient tomb of Silistra
- Levadas of Madeira Island
- The Silver Route
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Pobiti Kamani Natural Monument
- Nuruosmaniye Complex
- Bulwarked Fortresses of the Raia
- Troodos, Mt.Olympus
- Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape
- Ancient Kamakura
- Mardin Cultural Landscape
- San Francisco Church and Convent
- Trakai Historical National Park
- Monte Verde Archaeological Site
- Massif du Mont-Blanc
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade
- Torgau Castle Chapel
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf (EXT)
- Pretzien Weir
- Ancient Greek Theatres
- Casablanca
- The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord
- National Museum of Qatar
- Cal Orck’o
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities
- Kosice
- The Karlstejn Castle
- Kyiv: St. Cyril's and St. Andrew's Churches
- Archaeological site of Laodikeia
- Ayvalık Industrial Landscape
- Italica
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Reviews by nan


Jiuzhaigou Valley (Inscribed)
Jiuzhaigou: A Turquoise Wonderland
Jiuzhaigou is a water-and-mountain wonderland, bursting with turquoise pools, breathtaking mountain vistas, and spectacular waterfalls. It's not without reason that it ranks as China's top Natural World Heritage Site and …

Dazu Rock Carvings (Inscribed)
Stone Stories at Dazu
On a day trip from Chengdu, we visited both Baodingshan and Beishan. We started our visit at Baodingshan. As it was our first full day in China, we still needed …

Sites of the Busan Wartime Ca… (On tentative list)
Exploring Busan
When the Korean War started, the North Koreans quickly conquered the northern parts of South Korea. Seoul being very close to the border fell in 3 days (June 28, 1950, …

Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats (Inscribed)
Wadden Sea Lover in Korea
As a Wadden Sea fan and a native of Schleswig-Holstein, I do have a soft spot for tidal mud flats. It was on my first visit to Korea more than …

Meknes (Inscribed)
Rainy Meknes
Meknes was the last of the four royal cities of Morocco we visited. Unfortunately, we had really bad luck on multiple levels. It turns out it does rain in Morocco …

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lor… (Inscribed)
Ruins of Lorsch
Visiting Lorsch today, you might find it to be a rather quiet and uneventful town. However, it's fascinating to imagine that during Carolingian and medieval times, Lorsch was a bustling …

Berlin Modernism Housing Esta… (Inscribed)
A decade to see it all
In 2012, while visiting Berlin for a job interview, I took the opportunity to visit three locations of the Modernism Housing Estates before my interview. The interview was at lunchtime, …

Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academi… (Inscribed)
Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies by Nan
If you play Civilization VI, you know what a Seowon is: the Korean variant of the blue Campus District. A Seowon generates a lot of science, is cheap to build, …

Baekje Historic Areas (Inscribed)
Baekje Historic Areas by Nan
Being only able to visit one cluster of sites, we focused on Iksan and Wanggung-ri, following Philipp's recommendation. Both mark the final bout of the Baekje Kingdom around 600-700 CE, …

Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa … (Inscribed)
Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen by Nan
A decade ago, on my last day in Seoul before flying home, I ventured to Ganghwa to tick the Dolmens. I waited near a metro station in Seoul, trying to …

Stone Buddhas and Pagodas at … (On tentative list)
Stone Buddhas and Pagodas at Hwasun Unjusa Temple by Nan
Every once in a while, a little-known, off-the-beaten-path site manages to outshine the already inscribed sites of a country. It's rare; most of the newly inscribed sites are below average …

Capital Fortifications of Han… (Nominated)
Capital Fortifications of Hanyang by Nan
The first time I visited Korea in 2004, I recall that the beautiful Dongdaemun Gate stood at the centre of a large and unattractive roundabout with heavy traffic. Today, the …

Göbekli Tepe (Inscribed)
Göbekli Tepe by Nan
Göbekli Tepe, located on a hill east of Urfa, is considered one of the earliest sites of human worship and settlement. Excavations began in the 1960s and continue to this …

Ephesus (Inscribed)
Ephesus by Nan
In his review, Jay highlights the high quality of the Turkish tentative list, being surprised that Ephesos, one of the most iconic Greco-Roman archaeological sites, was only inscribed in 2015. …

Echmiatsin and Zvartnots (Inscribed)
Echmiatsin and Zvartnots by Nan
In the summer of 2023, we visited Yerevan, Armenia, coming from Georgia. Yerevan, being the most westernized part of the country, served as our base for a few days to …

Paphos (Inscribed)
Paphos by Nan
During our visit to Paphos, we focused on two key components, beginning with the tombs. Although these structures are referred to as “tombs for kings,” they actually served as burial …

Choirokoitia (Inscribed)
Choirokoitia by Nan
Choirokoitia, by virtue of being a Palaeolithic site, doesn’t draw hordes of visitors. Recent efforts by the Cypriots have enhanced the visitor experience with updated amenities like parking, toilets, signs, …

Painted Churches in the Troöd… (Inscribed)
Painted Churches in the Troödos Region by Nan
In the Troödos region, you’ll find historic, medieval Painted Churches. Exploring these requires a car or multi-day hikes and luck to get the keys. We limited our exploration to Ayios …

Monastery of Geghard (Inscribed)
Monastery of Geghard by Nan
Our half-day excursion from Yerevan led us to Garni and the Geghard Monastery. Like most visitors, we began at the reconstructed Garni Temple, which offers panoramic views of the Azat …