World Heritage

I've gotten interested over the past few years in visiting locations designated as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. As of 2007, there are 851 properties on the list (with more due to be inscribed in Summer 2008). As of December 2007, I have visited 40 of the sites, as follows.

Australia

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)
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

Brugge (WHC site) (my visit: May 2000)

Canada

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (WHC site) (my visit: May 2003)

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)

Germany

Cologne Cathedral (WHC site) (my visit: April 2006)

India

Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram (WHC site) (my visit: December 2005)

Mexico

Historic Centre of Puebla (WHC site) (my visit: May 2004)
Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen Itza (WHC site) (my visit: October 2003)

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)
Old City of Berne (WHC site) (my visit: May 2004)

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)
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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