I visited Mada'in Saleh in December 2018 as part of a trip to Saudi Arabia for the inaugural Formula E race hosted in Riyadh. I took a day trip up …
Gary Arndt
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I sold my home in 2007 to travel around the world for a year. That year has turned into a decade as I never really stopped. Early in my travels, I discovered world heritage sites and I started going out of my way to visit them. The first few didn't require any extra effort, but when I made a special trip to the island of Rennell in the Solomon Islands, I knew I was hooked.
During my travels, I taught myself photography and have been named Travel Photographer of the Year three times in North America.
I have been to over 380 UNESCO World Heritage sites around the world. I photograph and document each site I visit and post about it on my website.
My most impressive site: Nahanni National Park
My proposal for a new site: Denali National Park
Check out my website: https://everything-everywhere.com/unesco-world-heritage-sites/
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World Heritage Sites
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Victoria Falls 5.0
- Nan Madol 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 5.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Prambanan 5.0
- Wadi Rum 5.0
- Sceilg Mhichíl 5.0
- Namib Sand Sea 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Vatican City 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Gunung Mulu 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Ancient Thebes 5.0
- Florence 5.0
- Glacier parks 5.0
- Rock Islands 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Nahanni National Park 5.0
- Galapagos Islands 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Yosemite National Park 5.0
- Lord Howe Island 5.0
- Hegra 4.5
- Lalibela 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Cologne Cathedral 4.5
- Sintra 4.5
- Iguacu 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Aachen Cathedral 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Yakushima 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Westminster 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Taj Mahal 4.5
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Borobudur 4.5
- L'Anse aux Meadows 4.0
- Wood Buffalo National Park 4.0
- Bellinzone 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Sukhothai 4.0
- National History Park 4.0
- Purnululu National Park 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Plitvice Lakes 4.0
- Völklingen Ironworks 4.0
- Grimeton Radio Station 4.0
- Copán 4.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Qutb Minar 4.0
- Biblical Tells 4.0
- Belize Barrier Reef 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Nikko 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 4.0
- Mesa Verde 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Tikal National Park 4.0
- Rjukan / Notodden 4.0
- Agra Fort 4.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 4.0
- Old City of Acre 4.0
- Paphos 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Los Glaciares 4.0
- Cordoba 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Avignon 4.0
- Caceres 4.0
- Kotor 4.0
- Aksum 4.0
- Dubrovnik 4.0
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe 4.0
- Masada 4.0
- Blenheim Palace 4.0
- Island of Gorée 4.0
- Kinabalu Park 4.0
- Banska Stiavnica 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Stonehenge 4.0
- Te Wahipounamu 4.0
- Nubian Monuments 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 4.0
- Bethlehem 4.0
- Kraków 4.0
- Chaco Culture 4.0
- Mérida 4.0
- Luang Prabang 4.0
- Horyu-ji Area 4.0
- Quito 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Naples 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- St. Petersburg 4.0
- Shark Bay 4.0
- East Rennell 4.0
- Meteora 4.0
- SGang Gwaay 4.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 4.0
- Granada 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 4.0
- Budapest 3.5
- Kutna Hora 3.5
- Zollverein 3.5
- Siena 3.5
- Abbey of St Gall 3.5
- Auschwitz Birkenau 3.5
- City of Bath 3.5
- Seville 3.5
- Trier 3.5
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.5
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Ningaloo Coast 3.5
- Gulf of California 3.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park 3.5
- Gros Morne National Park 3.5
- Tongariro National Park 3.5
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park 3.5
- Mammoth Cave 3.5
- Fraser Island 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 3.5
- Great Smoky Mountains 3.5
- Trebic 3.5
- Robben Island 3.5
- Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 3.5
- Heritage of Mercury 3.5
- Vall de Boi 3.5
- Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge 3.5
- Gyeongju 3.5
- San Antonio Missions 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5
- Durmitor National Park 3.5
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.5
- Teide National Park 3.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.5
- Corfu 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Serra de Tramuntana 3.5
- Pont du Gard 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- Rhaetian Railway 3.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 3.5
- Medina of Marrakesh 3.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 3.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Fatehpur Sikri 3.5
- Ravenna 3.5
- Giant's Causeway 3.5
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.5
- Reichenau 3.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 3.5
- Taos Pueblo 3.5
- Ayutthaya 3.5
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 3.5
- Maritime Greenwich 3.5
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Mistaken Point 3.5
- Mostar 3.5
- Tarraco 3.5
- Trogir 3.0
- Central Highlands 3.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 3.0
- Garajonay 3.0
- Antigua Guatemala 3.0
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 3.0
- Monastery of Batalha 3.0
- Jongmyo Shrine 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Old Town Lunenburg 3.0
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.0
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station 3.0
- Monticello 3.0
- Saint Catherine Area 3.0
- Mafra 3.0
- Tower of London 3.0
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- Santo Domingo 3.0
- Willandra Lakes 3.0
- Bauhaus Sites 3.0
- Red Fort 3.0
- Poblet Monastery 3.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.0
- Tasmanian Wilderness 3.0
- Brimstone Hill Fortress 3.0
- Hué 3.0
- Kandy 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Willemstad 3.0
- Arles 3.0
- Sighisoara 3.0
- Genbaku Dome 3.0
- Gondwana Rainforests 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- La Lonja de la Seda 3.0
- Vigan 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 3.0
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.0
- Brú na Bóinne 3.0
- Mount Carmel Caves 3.0
- Hoi An 3.0
- Humayun's Tomb 3.0
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Kew Gardens 3.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.0
- Guanacaste 3.0
- Wartburg Castle 3.0
- Twyfelfontein 3.0
- Fossil Hominid Sites 3.0
- Mapungubwe 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Himeji-jo 3.0
- City of Luxembourg 3.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
- Bali Subak system 3.0
- Curonian Spit 3.0
- Quirigua 3.0
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim 3.0
- Poverty Point 3.0
- Riga 3.0
- Vilnius 3.0
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 3.0
- Holy Trinity Column 3.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Tallinn 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Regensburg 3.0
- Verona 3.0
- Bourges Cathedral 3.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Grand Pré 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Valletta 3.0
- Bamberg 3.0
- Telc 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 3.0
- Warsaw 3.0
- My Son 3.0
- Royal Palace at Caserta 3.0
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 3.0
- Um er-Rasas 3.0
- Incense Route of the Negev 3.0
- Palmeral of Elche 3.0
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.0
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3.0
- Wadden Sea 3.0
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.0
- Vizcaya Bridge 3.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Statue of Liberty 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- San Cristobal de La Laguna 3.0
- Engelsberg Ironworks 3.0
- Cape Floral Region 3.0
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 3.0
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- San Gimignano 3.0
- Baroque Churches 3.0
- Rideau Canal 3.0
- Thingvellir 3.0
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 3.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.0
- Lübeck 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 2.5
- Melaka and George Town 2.5
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 2.5
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 2.5
- St. George, Bermuda 2.5
- Bridgetown 2.5
- Morne Trois Pitons 2.5
- Pitons Management Area 2.5
- Australian Convict Sites 2.5
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 2.5
- Rock Carvings in Tanum 2.5
- Quseir Amra 2.5
- Stećci 2.5
- Mir Castle 2.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 2.5
- Margravial Opera House 2.5
- Ohrid Region 2.5
- New Lanark 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Muskauer Park 2.5
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.5
- Boyana Church 2.5
- Wooden Churches of Southern Malopolska 2.5
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 2.5
- Luther Memorials 2.5
- Champagne 2.5
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 2.5
- Litomysl Castle 2.5
- Mantua and Sabbioneta 2.5
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 2.5
- Modena 2.5
- Maulbronn Monastery 2.5
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 2.5
- Messel Pit 2.5
- Cathedral of St. James in Sibenik 2.5
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 2.5
- Van Nellefabriek 2.5
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Speyer Cathedral 2.5
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5
- Belfries 2.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 2.5
- University of Coimbra 2.5
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Elvas 2.5
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2.0
- Kernavė 2.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 2.0
- Cahokia Mounds 2.0
- Turaif Quarter 2.0
- Corvey 2.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 2.0
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba 2.0
- Ban Chiang 2.0
- Tlacotalpan 2.0
- Joya de Ceren 2.0
- Quebrada de Humahuaca 2.0
- Miguasha National Park 2.0
- Bahá’i Holy Places 2.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.0
- Evora 2.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.0
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.0
- Struve Geodetic Arc 2.0
- Tugendhat Villa 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Classical Weimar 2.0
- Flemish Béguinages 2.0
- Schokland 2.0
- Fagus Factory 2.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 2.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Sydney Opera House 2.0
- Ibiza 2.0
- Nesvizh 2.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 2.0
- Medina of Tétouan 2.0
- Villages with Fortified Churches 2.0
- Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Bahla Fort 2.0
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.0
- Choirokoitia 1.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 1.5
- Le Havre 1.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 1.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 1.5
- Úbeda and Baeza 1.5
- Major Town Houses 1.5
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska 1.5
- Holasovice 1.0
- Battir 1.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
- Sangiran Early Man Site 1.0
- Vredefort Dome 1.0
- Royal Exhibition Building 1.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 1.0
- Stari Grad Plain 1.0
- White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
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Reviews by Gary Arndt


Nahanni National Park (Inscribed)
Nahanni National Park
Nahanni National Park might very well be the greatest national park in the world. That is a big statement, but anyone who has been to Nahanni (and few people have) …

Corvey (Inscribed)
Corvey
I visited the Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey in the summer of 2018 when I drove from Belgium to Berlin.
I visited the site on my own without a …

Hawaii Volcanoes (Inscribed)
Hawaii Volcanoes
On my list of world heritage sites, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is listed as my very first site. When I began traveling full time in 2007, my first stop was …

Battir (Inscribed)
Battir
The village of Battir is not far from Jerusalem and is right on the Israel/Palestine border. In fact, there are Israeli train tracks which go right past the terraces at …

Bethlehem (Inscribed)
Bethlehem
Traveling to Bethlehem from Jerusalem is not difficult if you are not an Israeli. There are some restrictions when going into the Palestinian Territories, and your van might get searched …

Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvr… (Inscribed)
Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
There are several parts of Bet Guvrin which I found fascinating. First, it is one of the only places in Israel where the public can participate in an archaeological dig. …

Necropolis of Bet She'arim (Inscribed)
Necropolis of Bet She'arim
The Necropolis of Bet She'arim: A Landmark of Jewish Renewal is a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in Israel. It was inscribed into the list in 2015 and is …

Biblical Tells (Inscribed)
Biblical Tells
Tels are hills or mounds created over centuries by communities building over the ruins and refuse of the previous structures. Archaeologists often liken tels to a layer cake with each …

Bahá’i Holy Places (Inscribed)
Bahá’i Holy Places
I have visited the Baha'i Holy Places twice now, and both times I've had limited access to the gardens in Haifa. Really just bad luck. The gardens are beautiful and …

Incense Route of the Negev (Inscribed)
Incense Route of the Negev
The ruins which compromise the Incense Route of the Negev mostly date back to the crusader era, even though the cities themselves are much older. That is why you will …

Changdeokgung Palace Complex (Inscribed)
Changdeokgung Palace Complex
I visited this site in late 2007.
The Changdeok Palace sits in central Seoul and is an intact, impressive former seat of the Korean monarchy. Unfortunately, the palace seems rather …

Jongmyo Shrine (Inscribed)
Jongmyo Shrine
I visited here in late 2007.
The Jongmyo Shrine grounds is literally across the street from the Changdeok Palace compound. Like the Changdeok Palace, it suffers from a lack of …

Hwaseong Fortress (Inscribed)
Hwaseong Fortress
I visited here in late 2007.
Suwon is about an hour ride by commuter train from Seoul. When I arrived in Suwon I walked to the Hwaseong Fortress, getting lost …

Macao (Inscribed)
Macao
I visited here on Christmas Day 2007.
If you are ever in Hong Kong, take a day to go and visit the Historic Center of Macau. It is to Portugal …

Nikko (Inscribed)
Nikko
I visited Nikko in the fall of 2007.
Nikko is a small town and the temple area is located in a wooded area about a 30-minute walk from the train …

Gyeongju (Inscribed)
Gyeongju
I visited here in the autumn of 2007.
I would describe Gyeongju as the Korean Equivalent of Kyoto or Nara, only not as well preserved. There are fewer historic structures …

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa… (Inscribed)
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
I visited here in fall of 2007.
Located a short distance out of Gyeongju, the Seokguram Grotto and Bluguksa Temple are two completely different w sites put under the same …

Ancient Nara (Inscribed)
Ancient Nara
I visited here in 2007.
Nara is a former imperial capital of Japan and served as the capital before Kyoto.
While there are many attractions here, the biggest (literally) is …

Horyu-ji Area (Inscribed)
Horyu-ji Area
I visited this site in 2007.
Whenever someone tells me they are going to Japan, especially if they are going to Kyoto and Nara, I tell them to take the …