World Heritage
I've gotten interested over the past few years in visiting locations designated as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. As of 2011, there are 936 properties on the list (with more due to be inscribed in Summer 2012). As of December 2011, I have visited 54 of the sites, as follows.
Australia
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (WHC site) (my visit: November 2008)
- Central Eastern Rain Forest Reserves (WHC site) (my visit: July 2002)
- Great Barrier Reef (WHC site) (my visit: July 2002)
- Greater Blue Mountains Area (WHC site) (my visit: July 2002)
- Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (WHC site)(my visit: December 2008)
- Sydney Opera House (WHC site) (my visit: July 2002)
Austria
- Historic Centre of Vienna (WHC site) (my visit: September 2007)
- Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn (WHC site) (my visit: September 2007)
Belgium
- Belfries of Belgium and France (WHC site) (my visit: May 2000)
- Brugge (WHC site) (my visit: May 2000)
Canada
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (WHC site) (my visit: May 2003)
- Rideau Canal (WHC site) (my visit: June 2011)
Cyprus
- Paphos (WHC site) (my visit: December 1994)
Estonia
- Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn (WHC site) (my visit: May 2007)
Finland
- Fortress of Suomenlinna (WHC site) (my visit: June 1998)
France
- Paris, Banks of the Seine (WHC site) (my visit: February 2005)
- Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy (WHC site) (my visit: October 2008)
Germany
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl (WHC site) (my visit: April 2009)
- Cologne Cathedral (WHC site) (my visit: April 2006)
India
- Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram (WHC site) (my visit: December 2005)
Korea, Republic of
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex (WHC site) (my visit: December 2011)
- Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes (WHC site) (my visit: February 2001)
- Jongmyo Shrine (WHC site) (my visit: December 2011)
- Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty (WHC site) (my visit: December 2011)
Mexico
- Historic Centre of Puebla (WHC site) (my visit: May 2004)
- Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen Itza (WHC site) (my visit: October 2003)
Netherlands
- Seventeenth-century canal ring area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht (WHC site) (my visit: December 2011)
Poland
- Historic Centre of Warsaw (WHC site) (my visit: May 2003)
Russia
- Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments (WHC site) (my visit: May/June 2006)
Spain
- Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona (WHC site) (my visit: May 2007)
- Works of Antoni Gaudí (WHC site) (my visit: May 2007)
Switzerland
- Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn (WHC site) (my visit: May 2004)
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces (WHC site) (my visit: September 2009)
- Old City of Berne (WHC site) (my visit: May 2004)
Turkey
- Historic Areas of Istanbul (WHC site) (my visit: April 2008)
United Kingdom
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (WHC site) (my visit: September 2006)
- Blenheim Palace (WHC site) (my visit: November 2005)
- City of Bath (WHC site) (my visit: March 2003)
- Durham Cathedral (WHC site)
- Hadrian's Wall (WHC site)
- Ironbridge Gorge (WHC site) (my visit: September 2006)
- Maritime Greenwich (WHC site) (my visit: September 2011)
- Old and New Towns of Edinburgh (WHC site) (my first visit: December 1993)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (WHC site) (my visit: November 2005)
- Stonehenge (WHC site) (my visit: April 2003)
- Studley Royal Park, including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey (WHC site) (my visit: June 1995)
- Tower of London (WHC site) (my visit: September 2001)
- Westminster Abbey (WHC site) (my visit: April 2003)
United States
- Everglades National Park (WHC site) (my visit: January 2003)
- Independence Hall (WHC site) (my visit: August 2003)
- La Fortaleza and San Juan Historic Site in Puerto Rico (WHC site) (my visit: October 2005)
- Monticello and University of Virginia (WHC site) (my visit to UVa: July 2001) (my visit to Monticello: October 2002)
- Statue of Liberty (WHC site) (my visit: April 2006)
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