Paestum is the most underrated place I visited so far on my various trips to WHS. The three temples, especially the Apollo temple, are outstanding. No other Greek or Roman …
Allison Vies
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- Aapravasi Ghat
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Aflaj irrigation system
- Agra Fort
- Al Ain
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Thebes
- Angkor
- Anuradhapura
- Aphrodisias
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
- Aquileia
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological site of Philippi
- Arequipa
- Arles
- Assisi
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Avignon
- Ayutthaya
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bahla Fort
- Banska Stiavnica
- Bauhaus Sites
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Benedictine Convent of St. John
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Bethlehem
- Biblical Tells
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Bordeaux
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bridgetown
- Brugge
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Burgundy
- Butrint
- Cahokia Mounds
- Calakmul
- Camino Real
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Caral-Supe
- Central Highlands
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Champagne
- Chan Chan
- Chavin
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Chichen-Itza
- Chola Temples
- Churches and Convents of Goa
- Churches of Peace
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonies of Benevolence
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Curonian Spit
- Cuzco
- Danube Limes
- Delos
- Dolomites
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Dubrovnik
- Edinburgh
- Elephanta Caves
- El Tajin
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves
- Everglades
- Fagus Factory
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Ferrara
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Forth Bridge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Genoa
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Grand Pré
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Great Wall
- Grimeton Radio Station
- Guimarães
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Historic Cairo
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Hopewell
- Huascaran National Park
- Humayun's Tomb
- Ibiza
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Independence Hall
- Istanbul
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Jelling
- Kandy
- Karlskrona
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Kinderdijk
- Kladruby nad Labem
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Kronborg Castle
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kutna Hora
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- La Fortaleza and San Juan
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Land of Frankincense
- Las Medulas
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Le Morne
- Lima
- Longobards in Italy
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Luther Memorials
- Lyon
- Machu Picchu
- Mahabalipuram
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Mammoth Cave
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Maritime Greenwich
- Matera
- Mazagan
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Meknes
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Modena
- Modernist Kaunas
- Monticello
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Mountain Resort, Chengde
- Mount Carmel Caves
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Nancy
- Naples
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- Neolithic Orkney
- New Lanark
- Nice
- Nubian Monuments
- Ohrid Region
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Old Town of Galle
- Oporto
- Orange
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palmeral of Elche
- Paraty and Ilha Grande
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Peking Man Site
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Poblet Monastery
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pont du Gard
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potsdam
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- Primeval Beech Forests
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- Pyramids (Memphis)
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- Québec
- Quedlinburg
- Qutb Minar
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Ravenna
- Red Fort
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- Reichenau
- Reims
- Rhaetian Railway
- Rhodes
- Rideau Canal
- Rio de Janeiro
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- Robben Island
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
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- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Saint-Emilion
- Salzburg
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Santiago de Compostela
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- Schönbrunn
- Serra de Tramuntana
- Seville
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- Sigiriya
- Sinharaja Forest
- Sintra
- Skocjan Caves
- Southern Öland
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Statue of Liberty
- Stevns Klint
- Strasbourg
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Summer Palace
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Surtsey
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
- Syracuse
- Taj Mahal
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
- Tarraco
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley
- Temple of Heaven
- Teotihuacan
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Tiwanaku
- Toledo
- Torun
- Tower of Hercules
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trier
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
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- Urnes Stave Church
- Val d'Orcia
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- Vatican City
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- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
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- Yungang Grottoes
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops
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Reviews by Allison Vies


Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpat… (Inscribed)
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region
4 of the churches are located close to the Slovak WHS Bardejov, so visiting them can easily be combined with the visit of the town and even 2 other wooden …

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum (Inscribed)
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
I left the Hypogeum with mixed feelings. It is a really interesting place that shouldn’t be missed when in Malta and there is no doubt about its outstanding value. Parts …

Rhodes (Inscribed)
Rhodes
Rhodes would probably easy make it into the top 25 visited list on a community site for package tour travellers. The city is stuffed with visitors from cruise ships and …

Biblical Tells (Inscribed)
Biblical Tells
I visited Megiddo and Beer Sheba. For Megiddo I needed to go twice, as unlike written in the lonely planet the site closed at 3pm! And the cold hearted lady …

Mount Carmel Caves (Inscribed)
Mount Carmel Caves
The Carmel caves are an easy WHS to tick off. They are conveniently located close to route 4 and make a nice stopover when travelling between the WHS of Tel …

Lenggong Valley (Inscribed)
Lenggong Valley
Archaeological sites are my least favourite among the WHS. Simply because a whole where the found something important still remains a whole, as usually they remove all they find from …

Serra de Tramuntana (Inscribed)
Serra de Tramuntana
Albeit inscribed as a cultural site, the Serra de Tramuntana is mostly worth a visit because of its stunning landscape. The mountain range can be visited on an easy daytrip …

Anuradhapura (Inscribed)
Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura is nice, because of its numerous and impressive pagodas. On the other hand it is not an easy site to visit, as the points of interest are far from …

Sinharaja Forest (Inscribed)
Sinharaja Forest
Sinharaja Rain Forest is possible to visit as a daytrip from Galle. We rented a motor bike for 8 USD. Alternatively you can get a car with driver for around …

Polonnaruva (Inscribed)
Polonnaruva
As mentioned before, Polonnaruwa is a top whs in Sri Lanka. I visited the city on a 3 day tour to the cultural triangle that also included Dambulla, Sigiriya and …

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona (Inscribed)
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
The most impressive mountains of the Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona are the Tschingelhörner. To go there I suggest you travel to Elm, a small picturesque village in the Glarus region. …

Tower of London (Inscribed)
Tower of London
Just visited the Tower for the second time since 2004. I suggest you to be there about 15 minutes before it opens. Like this, everything can be seen without crowds …

Stoclet House (Inscribed)
Stoclet House
I must admit that I only visited the Stoclet house because it’s on the list and I want to visit as many sites as possible. I’m not sure if it …

Plantin-Moretus Museum (Inscribed)
Plantin-Moretus Museum
I strongly agree with Ian. I visited the museum this April and loved it. Incomprehensible why in some Antwerp travel guides the museum isn’t even mentioned as a highlight. The …

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle (Inscribed)
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
Compared to the beauty of other Swiss cities La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle are rather disappointing. I'm sure this WHS deserves its status, but it's not really a spectacular site …

Maulbronn Monastery (Inscribed)
Maulbronn Monastery
The Maulbronn monastery is well worth a visit. It's a bit off the route so I consider to go by car. Most of the buildings are still in use as …