Giant's Causeway, in Northern Ireland, exceeds expectations. This geologic formation of hexagonal basalt columns extending into the ocean is a natural playground for visitors, and I had a great time …
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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110Nov. 2, 2025UAE Meet-up: Al Bidya Mosque, Dhayah, Ed-Dur Site ...
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121Sept. 21, 2025Switzerland 2025: Abbey of St Gall, Bellinzone, Caves and Ice Age Art ...
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30Aug. 16, 2025Belgium 2025: Mining Sites of Wallonia, Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
Top 10 Missing
Completed Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Estonia
- Holy See
- Israel
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Qatar
About Jay T
- Member since
- October 2015
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
Visits
- Rank
- #115
- WHS
- 355
- Tentative Sites
- 86
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 181
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Istanbul 5.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Mesa Verde 5.0
- Yosemite National Park 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Acropolis 4.5
- Valletta 4.5
- Gros Morne National Park 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Galapagos Islands 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.5
- Yellowstone 4.5
- Everglades 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Giant's Causeway 4.5
- Lake Baikal 4.5
- Wadi Rum 4.5
- Nikko 4.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.5
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4.0
- Huascaran National Park 4.0
- Tongariro National Park 4.0
- Zacatecas 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Florence 4.0
- Quito 4.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 4.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Independence Hall 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
- Provins 4.0
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Burgos Cathedral 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 4.0
- Olympia 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Würzburg Residence 3.5
- Santo Domingo 3.5
- Ibiza 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Brú na Bóinne 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Neolithic Orkney 3.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Gulf of Porto 3.5
- SGang Gwaay 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Australian Convict Sites 3.5
- Ayutthaya 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.0
- Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Morne Trois Pitons 3.0
- Monticello 3.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Valparaiso 3.0
- Pitons Management Area 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.0
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Al Ain 3.0
- Grand Pré 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- San Antonio Missions 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3.0
- Kotor 2.5
- Um er-Rasas 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Lima 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Poverty Point 2.5
- Sangay National Park 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 2.5
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.5
- Colonia del Sacramento 2.5
- Quseir Amra 2.5
- Antigua Naval Dockyard 2.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
- Rideau Canal 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Old Town Lunenburg 2.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.5
- Blenheim Palace 2.5
- Turaif Quarter 2.5
- Belfries 2.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.0
- Miguasha National Park 2.0
- Aranjuez 2.0
- Evora 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
- 178 12
- Locations
- 14
- Zones
- 1
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Reviews by Jay T
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Biblical Tells (Inscribed)
Biblical Tells
Tel Megiddo, one of the three Biblical Tells (basically towns built right on top of each other over the span of hundreds to thousands of years, forming a mound) inscribed …
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Jay T
22/01/17
Vienna (Inscribed)
Vienna
When traveling by train in central Europe, it's hard not to transit through Vienna, and the city is well worth a visit for the architecture and culture. This is the …
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Jay T
08/01/17
Schönbrunn (Inscribed)
Schönbrunn
The 18th century summer palace and gardens of Schönbrunn are not as remote now from the city of Vienna as they were when first constructed by the Habsburgs. This was …
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Jay T
01/01/17
Morne Trois Pitons (Inscribed)
Morne Trois Pitons
Dominica was the island I was most looking forward to on the Caribbean cruise I took last month, not least because of the reviews I'd read of the beauty of …
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Jay T
25/12/16
Ironbridge Gorge (Inscribed)
Ironbridge Gorge
When I was planning a trip to Wales in 2005, I realized I would be traveling very close to Ironbridge Gorge, widely recognized as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. …
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Jay T
18/12/16
Fortifications of Vauban (Inscribed)
Fortifications of Vauban
I visited the citadel and town of Mont-Louis, one of the inscribed Fortifications of Vauban, in the spring of 2013 as part of a day tour from Barcelona. Mont-Louis is …
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Jay T
11/12/16
Belem (Inscribed)
Belem
As I approached the Tower of Belém, the skies opened up and the rain that had been threatening all morning finally started falling. Thankfully there was a lot to see …
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Jay T
27/11/16
Versailles (Inscribed)
Versailles
The Palace of Versailles was well known to me from history classes in school, and I found the interior of the palace, and the magnificent Hall of Mirrors in particular, …
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Jay T
06/11/16
Siena (Inscribed)
Siena
Siena served as a scheduled rest stop during my tour of mainland Europe in the fall of 2003, and I thoroughly enjoyed my few days of relaxation and exploration in …
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Jay T
30/10/16
Old Town Lunenburg (Inscribed)
Old Town Lunenburg
Old Town Lunenburg is a fantastic representative of Atlantic Canadian fishing villages on the World Heritage Site list. Buildings in the town date back to the 1700s, when Britain established …
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Jay T
23/10/16
L'Anse aux Meadows (Inscribed)
L'Anse aux Meadows
Around 1000 AD a group of Vikings established a village on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland in an area now called L'Anse aux Meadows -- a pre-Columbian European settlement in …
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Jay T
16/10/16
Forth Bridge (Inscribed)
Forth Bridge
Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Kidnapped" ends with a daring ferry crossing across the Firth of Forth, allowing the hero, David Balfour, to confront his duplicitous uncle; if the events of …
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Jay T
02/10/16
Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond … (Inscribed)
Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
The Baptism Site at Bethany Beyond the Jordan (Al-Maghtas in Arabic), where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, has quite an extensive biblical history. Tradition has held this location …
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Jay T
25/09/16
Venice and its Lagoon (Inscribed)
Venice and its Lagoon
What is there to say about Venice that hasn't already been said? It's not surprising this World Heritage Site is the most reviewed of all the Italian sites; this city …
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Jay T
11/09/16
San Marino and Mount Titano (Inscribed)
San Marino and Mount Titano
Given my fascination with European microstates when I was growing up, it was inevitable I would one day visit San Marino, whether or not it was a World Heritage Site. …
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Jay T
04/09/16
Nubian Monuments (Inscribed)
Nubian Monuments
The Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae were the absolute highlight of my trip to Egypt in the fall of 2012. Over fifty years ago, the preservation and movement …
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Jay T
28/08/16
Independence Hall (Inscribed)
Independence Hall
Independence Hall may seem small in stature compared to the surrounding modern city of Philadelphia, but the ideas forged within its walls far outsize the building. Over the course of …
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Jay T
21/08/16
Florence (Inscribed)
Florence
Florence made a much better impression on me on my second visit, in May 2013, than when I first visited ten years before. Perhaps it was because I had not …
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Jay T
14/08/16
Ayutthaya (Inscribed)
Ayutthaya
A short drive north from Bangkok lie the ruins of the Historic City of Ayutthaya, one of Thailand's first three World Heritage Sites, inscribed 25 years ago. As has been …
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Jay T
07/08/16
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