From sites and components that become the third industrial site which Japan nominated to become a World Heritage Site, I was fortunate to see at least 9 sites during my …
Frederik Dawson
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My most impressive site: Rapa Nui, Yellowstone
My proposal for a new site: Royal palaces and temples in Bangkok / Engineering Feats of Niagara Falls / Panama Canal / Haussmann's Paris
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10May 19, 2025Nan Madol
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10April 21, 2025Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
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50March 7, 2025Bryggen, Rjukan / Notodden, Røros, Urnes Stave Church, West Norwegian Fjords
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World Heritage Sites
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Te Wahipounamu 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Teotihuacan 5.0
- Gunung Mulu 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.5
- Rock Islands 4.5
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Uxmal 4.5
- Dolomites 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Nasca Lines 4.5
- Chichen-Itza 4.5
- Ellora Caves 4.5
- Borobudur 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Ajanta Caves 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Siena 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Bukhara 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Samarkand 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Imperial Palace 4.5
- Machu Picchu 4.5
- Sukhothai 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Wulingyuan 4.5
- Prambanan 4.5
- Glacier parks 4.5
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Cordoba 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Major Town Houses 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Sigiriya 4.0
- Polonnaruva 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Bauhaus Sites 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Dazu Rock Carvings 4.0
- Hué 4.0
- Grand Canal 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Great Wall 4.0
- Itchan Kala 4.0
- Ayutthaya 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Ujung Kulon National Park 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Kinabalu Park 4.0
- Bali Subak system 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Taj Mahal 4.0
- Longmen Grottoes 4.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Chan Chan 4.0
- Cuzco 4.0
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Chaco Culture 4.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0
- Taos Pueblo 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Old Town of Lijiang 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 4.0
- Koh Ker 4.0
- South China Karst 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Lake District 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Sambor Prei Kuk 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Lyon 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Plain of Jars 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Valletta 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.5
- China Danxia 3.5
- Mount Wutai 3.5
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.5
- West Lake 3.5
- Yungang Grottoes 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Causses and Cévennes 3.5
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Nancy 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
- Fujisan 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Himeji-jo 3.5
- Kii Mountain Range 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 3.5
- Hoi An 3.5
- My Son 3.5
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5
- Trang An 3.5
- Western Tien-Shan 3.5
- Dong Phayayen 3.5
- Quito 3.5
- Valparaiso 3.5
- Arequipa 3.5
- Manu National Park 3.5
- Mammoth Cave 3.5
- Statue of Liberty 3.5
- Genoa 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Agra Fort 3.5
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Western Ghats 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Van Nellefabriek 3.5
- Bahla Fort 3.5
- Tubbataha Reefs 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Aachen Cathedral 3.5
- Bamberg 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Luther Memorials 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Trier 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Puebla 3.5
- Tongariro National Park 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Anuradhapura 3.5
- Bellinzone 3.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Stonehenge 3.5
- Avila 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Salamanca 3.5
- Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5
- Yogyakarta 3.5
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Alto Douro 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Corfu 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra 3.5
- Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto 3.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.5
- Yakushima 3.5
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.5
- Urnes Stave Church 3.5
- Nan Madol 3.5
- Haeinsa Temple 3.0
- Pimachiowin Aki 3.0
- Cuenca 3.0
- Huascaran National Park 3.0
- Gyeongju 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.0
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Elephanta Caves 3.0
- Joya de Ceren 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- León Cathedral 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.0
- Guanacaste 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Willemstad 3.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 3.0
- Darien National Park 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.0
- Semmering Railway 3.0
- Amami-Oshima Island 3.0
- Phu Phrabat 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Kaeng Krachan Forest 3.0
- Vézelay 3.0
- Epidaurus 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Pearling 3.0
- Wadden Sea 3.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.0
- Si Thep 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Studley Royal Park 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Southern Öland 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.0
- Niah Caves 3.0
- Gaya Tumuli 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Champagne 3.0
- Ban Chiang 3.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Novgorod 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- Central Highlands 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.0
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Sangay National Park 3.0
- Luang Prabang 3.0
- Jeju 3.0
- Pannonhalma 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Old Town of Galle 3.0
- Shiretoko 3.0
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.0
- Sinharaja Forest 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Qutb Minar 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Jantar Mantar 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Paphos 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Imperial Tombs 3.0
- Hahoe and Yangdong 3.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Zollverein 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Mafra 2.5
- Hiraizumi 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Royal Joseon Tombs 2.5
- Kandy 2.5
- Jongmyo Shrine 2.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Ivrea 2.5
- Namhansanseong 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5
- Yaroslavl 2.5
- Kronborg Castle 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5
- Longobards in Italy 2.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5
- Via Appia 2.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5
- Kutna Hora 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Völklingen Ironworks 2.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.5
- The Four Lifts 2.5
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 2.5
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5
- Telc 2.5
- Baekje Historic Areas 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2.5
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Papahanaumokuakea 2.5
- Thingvellir 2.5
- Surtsey 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- Panamá 2.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- San Antonio Missions 2.5
- Stone Spheres of the Diquís 2.5
- Ruins of León Viejo 2.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.5
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Rjukan / Notodden 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Red Fort 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Vat Phou 2.5
- Shakhrisyabz 2.5
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 2.5
- Thang Long 2.5
- Aflaj irrigation system 2.5
- Baroque Churches 2.5
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.5
- Guimarães 2.5
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
- Choirokoitia 2.5
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 2.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.0
- Rhaetian Railway 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Corvey 2.0
- Heritage of Mercury 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 2.0
- Trebic 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Tusi Sites 2.0
- Lenggong Valley 2.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.0
- Karlskrona 2.0
- Par force hunting landscape 2.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Stevns Klint 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Danube Limes 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Shirakami-Sanchi 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Okinoshima Island 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 2.0
- New Lanark 2.0
- Australian Convict Sites 2.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Schokland 1.0
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Reviews by Frederik Dawson

Sites of Japan's Meiji Indust… (Inscribed)
Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution

Carlsbad Caverns (Inscribed)
Carlsbad Caverns
When I reached the big room of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, my jaw dropped immediately after saw this subterranean wonderland. After visited many great World Heritage Site caves, visiting Carlsbad …

Sian Ka'an (Inscribed)
Sian Ka'an
Despite the enchanting name Sian Ka’an, the origin of the sky, in Mayan Language, I really had no interest to visit this mangrove forest, but thanks to Els’review I found …

Mexico City and Xochimilco (Inscribed)
Mexico City and Xochimilco
Mexico City's historical zone is the last place I visited during my two weeks trip in this country, with high expectation to see the best of colonial arts in the …

Puebla (Inscribed)
Puebla
My flight from Cancun landed in Mexico City airport around 5 AM, after checked in at the nearby airport hotel, I decided to go to Puebla immediately because it was …

Campeche (Inscribed)
Campeche
Campeche was the first true World Heritage Site listed Spanish colonial town I have seen in Mexico and in my life, as the result, I really had a good time …

Central University City Campu… (Inscribed)
Central University City Campus of the UNAM
From Luis Barragan House, I continued my modernist journey to UNAM or Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, another UNESCO listed modern architecture site in Mexico City, by metro. I started …

Luis Barragán House and Studio (Inscribed)
Luis Barragán House and Studio
One of the most memorable thing of my visit to Luis Barragan House is how to get there, from Tacubaya station, I changed the metro and arrived Constituyentes Station, I …

Teotihuacan (Inscribed)
Teotihuacan
I did not know why I suddenly woke up at 3AM in the morning, maybe because of tequila I drank last night or the sound of mariachi band that still …

Namhansanseong (Inscribed)
Namhansanseong
When my plane landed on Incheon International Airport, a flight attendant informed me a shocking message that my connecting flight had been rescheduled for 8 hours and recommended me to …

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont (Inscribed)
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
Today vineyard and more vineyards tomorrow, the groaning words from my cousin that I heard almost every day when we had to join our parents wine trip in France, Switzerland …

Grand Canal (Inscribed)
Grand Canal
Nowhere in China can show the importance of influence in socioeconomics and culture of the ancient engineering marvel of the Grand Canal than the prosperous Jiangnan Region. During my Jiangnan …

Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan… (Inscribed)
Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
There is something mysterious about “Silk Roads” as there are few comparable sites that can capture an adventurous heart like Silk Roads can. With the reminiscences of ancient trading caravans, …

Dong Phayayen (Inscribed)
Dong Phayayen
In June 2014, exactly 10 years from my first visit, I had opportunity to revisit Dong Phayayen – Khao Yai Forest Complex in Thailand, but to be more precise, only …

Yaroslavl (Inscribed)
Yaroslavl
While I was looking my aunt’s Facebook post of her recent tour to Russia, I was intrigued with the images of Yaroslavl, and that brought back memory of my 2007 …

Lenggong Valley (Inscribed)
Lenggong Valley
Driving on Malaysian highway from George Town to Lenggong was very easy and I arrived safely at the Lenggong Archaeological Museum within just 1.45 hours. After read negative reports on …

Churches and Convents of Goa (Inscribed)
Churches and Convents of Goa
On the plane from Mumbai to Goa, I sat with an Indian man who asked me which beach I planned to go, when I answered that I came here to …

Singapore Botanic Gardens (Inscribed)
Singapore Botanic Gardens
On my three days business trip to Singapore, I found a time to visit the famous Singapore Botanic Gardens which actually seemed to be no problem as the garden opens …

Bahla Fort (Inscribed)
Bahla Fort
After two decades of restoration, the biggest fortress in Oman, Bahla Fort is finally opened its door to welcome all visitors to see its impressive heritage and discover its outstanding …

Aflaj irrigation system (Inscribed)
Aflaj irrigation system
Driving from Muscat, the capital city of Oman, to the city of Nizwa was my first time to see Middle East desert environment, I was shocked to witness how dry …