In December 2013, I stayed at Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, which at the time sponsored the Maldives Whale Shark Research Program. I spent an afternoon snorkeling with whale sharks in …
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Agra Fort
- Agrigento
- Ajanta Caves
- Aksum
- Al Ain
- Alcala de Henares
- Aleppo
- Altamira Cave
- Alto Douro
- Al Zubarah
- Ambohimanga
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Ksour
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Merv
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Thebes
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria
- Angkor
- Angra do Heroismo
- Anjar
- Antigua Guatemala
- Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Anuradhapura
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Aranjuez
- Arles
- Asante Traditional Buildings
- Assisi
- Asturian Monuments
- Atapuerca
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Avila
- Ayutthaya
- Baalbek
- Bagan
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bali Subak system
- Banska Stiavnica
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Baroque Churches
- Battir
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bethlehem
- Biblical Tells
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Bolgar
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Borobudur
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Brasilia
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands
- Bridgetown
- Brimstone Hill Fortress
- Brugge
- Budapest
- Bukhara
- Burgos Cathedral
- Bursa and Cumalikizik
- Butrint
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Byblos
- Caceres
- Cahokia Mounds
- Calakmul
- Camino Real
- Campeche
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Cartagena
- Carthage
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla
- Central Highlands
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Champagne
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Chichen-Itza
- Chitwan National Park
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Chiloé
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Cidade Velha
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Classical Weimar
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Copán
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Cuenca
- Curonian Spit
- Cuzco
- Damascus
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Dengfeng
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Djémila
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Dougga/Thugga
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Edinburgh
- Elephanta Caves
- El Escurial
- Ellora Caves
- El Tajin
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Erbil Citadel
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Fasil Ghebbi
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fort Jesus
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast
- Fossil Hominid Sites
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Fujisan
- Galapagos Islands
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Gebel Barkal
- Gelati Monastery
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Glacier parks
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Granada
- Grand-Bassam
- Grand Canal
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Grand Pré
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Wall
- Gros Morne National Park
- Guanajuato
- Guimarães
- Gulf of California
- Gusuku of Ryukyu
- Gyeongju
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Harar Jugol
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Historic Cairo
- Historic Jeddah
- Holasovice
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hospicio Cabañas
- Humayun's Tomb
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Incense Route of the Negev
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP
- Island of Gorée
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Jeju
- Jelling
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Joya de Ceren
- Kaiping Diaolou
- Kakadu National Park
- Kandy
- Kasbah of Algiers
- Kathmandu Valley
- Kazan Kremlin
- Kenya Lake System
- Kew Gardens
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Kinderdijk
- Komodo National Park
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kuk
- Kulangsu
- Kunta Kinteh Island
- Kutna Hora
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- La Fortaleza and San Juan
- Lagoons of New Caledonia
- Lake Baikal
- Lake District
- Lalibela
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Lamu Old Town
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Le Morne
- León Cathedral
- Leptis Magna
- Levuka
- Lima
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longmen Grottoes
- Lopé-Okanda
- Lord Howe Island
- Los Glaciares
- Lower Valley of the Omo
- Luang Prabang
- Lübeck
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Luther Memorials
- L'viv
- Lyon
- Macao
- Machu Picchu
- Mafra
- Mahabalipuram
- Major Town Houses
- Makli, Thatta
- Malbork Castle
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Mammoth Cave
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Matera
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Mazagan
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Medina of Essaouira
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Sousse
- Medina of Tunis
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Meknes
- Melaka and George Town
- Mérida
- Meroe
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mijikenda Kaya Forests
- Mir Castle
- Mogao Caves
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Geghard
- Monticello
- Morelia
- Morne Trois Pitons
- Mostar
- Mount Carmel Caves
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mount Etna
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
- Mtskheta
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Namhansanseong
- Namib Sand Sea
- Nan Madol
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nesvizh
- Ngorongoro
- Nice
- Nikko
- Nisa
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Novgorod
- Novodevichy Convent
- Nubian Monuments
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Ohrid Region
- Okavango Delta
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Havana
- Old Rauma
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Old Town of Galle
- Olinda
- Olympic National Park
- Oporto
- Ouro Preto
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Palmeral of Elche
- Palmyra
- Pampulha
- Paphos
- Paramaribo
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Peninsula Valdes
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pitons Management Area
- Pitons of Reunion
- Plain of Jars
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Poblet Monastery
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pont du Gard
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Potala Palace
- Potosi
- Potsdam
- Poverty Point
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Provins
- Puebla
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Qal'at al-Bahrain
- Québec
- Quebrada de Humahuaca
- Querétaro
- Quirigua
- Quito
- Quseir Amra
- Qutb Minar
- Rabat
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Rapa Nui
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- Redwood
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhodes
- Rideau Canal
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rio de Janeiro
- Robben Island
- Rock Islands
- Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
- Rohtas Fort
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Royal Palaces of Abomey
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Ruins of León Viejo
- Sabratha
- Saint Catherine Area
- Salamanca
- Salvador de Bahia
- Salzburg
- Samarkand
- Sammallahdenmäki
- San Antonio Missions
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- San Miguel de Allende
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Santo Domingo
- São Francisco Square
- São Luis
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Selimiye Mosque
- Semmering Railway
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Serengeti
- Seville
- Sewell Mining Town
- Sian Ka'an
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Sigiriya
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Simien National Park
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sintra
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Skocjan Caves
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Socotra Archipelago
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- St. George, Bermuda
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge and Avebury
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- St. Petersburg
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Studenica Monastery
- Sucre
- Summer Palace
- Sundarbans National Park
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
- Taj Mahal
- Takht-i-Bahi
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarraco
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Tauric Chersonese
- Taxila
- Teide National Park
- Telc
- Temple of Heaven
- Teotihuacan
- Tequila
- Te Wahipounamu
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Tikal National Park
- Timgad
- Tipasa
- Tiwanaku
- Tiya
- Tlacotalpan
- Toledo
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tower of Hercules
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Tugendhat Villa
- Turaif Quarter
- Uluru
- Um er-Rasas
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Uxmal
- Val di Noto
- Vallée de Mai
- Valletta
- Valongo Wharf
- Valparaiso
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vatnajökull National Park
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victoria Falls
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vilnius
- Virunga National Park
- Visby
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Volubilis
- Vredefort Dome
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadi Al-Hitan
- Wadi Rum
- Walled City of Baku
- W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
- Warsaw
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- West Lake
- Westminster
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Willemstad
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Xochicalco
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Zacatecas
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
Top 10 Missing
- Persepolis 4.37
- Meteora 4.32
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka 4.31
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.21
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.17
- Plitvice Lakes 4.13
- Ravenna 4.13
- Nemrut Dag 4.12
- Gunung Mulu 4.11
- Jiuzhaigou Valley 4.10
Completed Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- Cabo Verde
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Fiji
- Ghana
- Holy See
- Lesotho
- Luxembourg
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Nicaragua
Country visits
Completed Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- Cabo Verde
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Fiji
- Ghana
- Holy See
- Lesotho
- Luxembourg
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Nicaragua
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Qatar
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- San Marino
- Singapore
- Zambia
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Argentina
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Armenia
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Australia
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Austria
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Azerbaijan
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Bahrain
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Barbados
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Belarus
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Belgium
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Benin
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Bolivia
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Bosnia Herzegovina
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Botswana
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Brazil
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Bulgaria
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Burkina Faso
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Cabo Verde
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Cambodia
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Canada
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Chile
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ChinaGreat Wall Imperial Palace Imperial Tombs Longmen Grottoes Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor Mogao Caves Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan Classical Gardens of Suzhou Dazu Rock Carvings Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha Potala Palace Summer Palace Temple of Heaven Macao Kaiping Diaolou Dengfeng West Lake Grand Canal Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Kulangsu Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
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Colombia
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Croatia
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Cuba
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Cyprus
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Czechia
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Côte d'Ivoire
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Denmark
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Dominica
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Dominican Republic
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Ecuador
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Egypt
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El Salvador
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Estonia
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Ethiopia
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Fiji
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Finland
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France
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Gabon
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Gambia
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Georgia
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GermanyCologne Cathedral Speyer Cathedral Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust Hildesheim Cathedral and Church Lübeck Bauhaus Sites Classical Weimar Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz Luther Memorials Maulbronn Monastery Messel Pit Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Potsdam Rammelsberg and Goslar Völklingen Ironworks Stralsund and Wismar Upper Middle Rhine Valley Town Hall and Roland, Bremen Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Fagus Factory Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District Aachen Cathedral Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch Trier
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Ghana
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Greece
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Guatemala
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Holy See
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Honduras
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Hungary
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Iceland
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India
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Indonesia
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Iraq
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Israel
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ItalyVenice and its Lagoon Assisi Verona Florence Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) Botanical Garden, Padua Matera Naples Pompei Su Nuraxi di Barumini Residences of the Royal House of Savoy The trulli of Alberobello Vicenza and the Palladian Villas Villa Adriana (Tivoli) Villa Romana del Casale Val di Noto Villa d'Este Etruscan Necropolises Syracuse Genoa Mantua and Sabbioneta Prehistoric Pile Dwellings Mount Etna Arab-Norman Palermo Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles The Porticoes of Bologna Agrigento Rome Santa Maria delle Grazie
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Jordan
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Kenya
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Kyrgyzstan
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Laos
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Latvia
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Libya
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Malta
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Mauritania
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MexicoOaxaca and Monte Alban Palenque Teotihuacan Sian Ka'an Chichen-Itza Campeche El Tajin Hospicio Cabañas Mexico City and Xochimilco Morelia Puebla Querétaro Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco Tlacotalpan Uxmal Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino Xochicalco Zacatecas Calakmul Luis Barragán House and Studio Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve San Miguel de Allende Tequila Camino Real Caves of Yagul and Mitla Gulf of California Central University City Campus of the UNAM Guanajuato Popocatepetl monasteries
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Micronesia
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Montenegro
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Morocco
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Mozambique
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Myanmar
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Namibia
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Nepal
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Netherlands
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New Zealand
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Nicaragua
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Niger
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North Macedonia
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Pakistan
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Palau
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Palestine
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Panama
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Papua New Guinea
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Peru
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Philippines
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Poland
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Portugal
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Qatar
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Republic of Korea
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Russia
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Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Saint Lucia
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San Marino
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Saudi Arabia
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Senegal
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Serbia
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Seychelles
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Singapore
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Slovakia
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Slovenia
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SpainGranada Palmeral of Elche Atapuerca Caceres Coa Valley and Siega Verde Cordoba Salamanca Roman Walls of Lugo Segovia Seville Works of Antoni Gaudí Asturian Monuments Avila Burgos Cathedral Cuenca El Escurial La Lonja de la Seda Mudejar Architecture of Aragon Mérida Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau Poblet Monastery San Cristobal de La Laguna Santa Maria de Guadalupe Santiago de Compostela Toledo Tarraco Yuso and Suso Monasteries Aranjuez Teide National Park Vizcaya Bridge Tower of Hercules Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro Alcala de Henares Altamira Cave
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Sri Lanka
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Sudan
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Suriname
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Sweden
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Switzerland
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Syria
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Tanzania
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Thailand
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Tunisia
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Turkiye
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Turkmenistan
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Uganda
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Ukraine
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United Arab Emirates
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United Kingdom
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United States of AmericaCarlsbad Caverns Cahokia Mounds Chaco Culture Hawaii Volcanoes Everglades Great Smoky Mountains Independence Hall La Fortaleza and San Juan 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 San Antonio Missions Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
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Uruguay
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Uzbekistan
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Yemen
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Zambia
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Zimbabwe
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Reviews by Michael Novins

Coral Stone Mosques of Maldiv… (On tentative list)
Coral Stone Mosques of Maldives

Abraj Al-Kuwait (On tentative list)
Abraj Al-Kuwait
You will see many of the Kuwait Water Towers as you drive around the country, but the tentative site is a group of three slender towers in Kuwait City known …

Kaieteur National Park (Removed from tentat…)
Kaieteur National Park
I arranged a day tour from Georgetown to Kaieteur National Park with Dagron Tours (www.dagron-tours.com). We flew on Trans Guyana Airways from Ogle Airport, which is used for charter flights. …

Civil Rights Movement Sites (Nominated)
Civil Rights Movement Sites
In October 2011, after a business trip to Atlanta, GA, I drove to Alabama and visited Birmingham, including the 16th Street Baptist Church and Bethel Baptist Church, which are included …

Apamee (On tentative list)
Apamee
In May 2009, I visited the Great Colonnade at Apamea, one of the longest streets in the Roman world. During this trip, I stayed in room 203 of the Baron …

Cretaceous Dinosaur Fossil Si… (On tentative list)
Cretaceous Dinosaur Fossil Sites in Mongolian Gobi
I began my trip in Ulaanbaatar, where I stayed at the Ulaanbaatar Hotel, opened in 1961 and the city's oldest hotel (www.ubhotel.mn/), and ate hot pot at The Bull and …

City Hall, Georgetown (On tentative list)
City Hall, Georgetown
I visited Guyana in August 2007, when I spent a couple of nights at Cara Lodge, the only historic hotel in Georgetown (caralodge.com). Cara Lodge was constructed as Woodbine House …

Plain of Jars (Inscribed)
Plain of Jars
From Luang Prabang, I flew (via an overnight in Vientiane) to Xieng Khouang Airport, the air gateway to the Plain of Jars, where I stayed at the Vansana Plain of …

Ancien Hôpital Albert Schweit… (Removed from tentat…)
Ancien Hôpital Albert Schweitzer de Lambaréné
In August 2012, I visited Lopé National Park. I had planned on returning to Libreville by train on the Train Omnibus l'Equateur, which was scheduled to arrive at Lopé station …

Nan Madol (Inscribed)
Nan Madol
In December 2015, I spent a couple of days in Pohnpei at the Mangrove Bay Hotel, a short walk from downtown Kolonia, the capital of Pohnpei. Kolonia is not a …