While wandering through a Spanish palace last year, I ran across a room full of paintings of the Wonders of the World. On one wall was a representation of the …
Jay T
United States of America \ Member since October 2015
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It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!
My most impressive site: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
My proposal for a new site: Badlands National Park: A North American Prairie
Recent Visits
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20June 15, 2025Fontainebleau, Provins
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40June 4, 2025Antequera Dolmens Site, Garajonay, Grand-Bassam, Island of Gorée
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10April 27, 2025Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
Top 10 Missing
Completed Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahrain
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Estonia
- Holy See
- Israel
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Qatar
- Saint Lucia
About Jay T
- Member since
- October 2015
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
Visits
- Rank
- #124
- WHS
- 339
- Tentative Sites
- 75
Website Participation
- Reviews
- 180
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Yosemite National Park 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Mesa Verde 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Istanbul 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Galapagos Islands 4.5
- Nikko 4.5
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5
- Gros Morne National Park 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Yellowstone 4.5
- Valletta 4.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.5
- Everglades 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Lake Baikal 4.5
- Wadi Rum 4.5
- Giant's Causeway 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Rhodes 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Huascaran National Park 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Tongariro National Park 4.0
- Zacatecas 4.0
- Florence 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Quito 4.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Provins 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Independence Hall 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Burgos Cathedral 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Brú na Bóinne 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- Würzburg Residence 3.5
- Santo Domingo 3.5
- Ibiza 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Neolithic Orkney 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Gulf of Porto 3.5
- SGang Gwaay 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Australian Convict Sites 3.5
- Pitons Management Area 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Morne Trois Pitons 3.0
- Monticello 3.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 3.0
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Grand Pré 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3.0
- The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Ayutthaya 3.0
- Al Ain 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- San Antonio Missions 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.0
- Valparaiso 3.0
- Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Rideau Canal 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Colonia del Sacramento 2.5
- Quseir Amra 2.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5
- Antigua Naval Dockyard 2.5
- Old Town Lunenburg 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 2.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.5
- Um er-Rasas 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
- Sangay National Park 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Turaif Quarter 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Poverty Point 2.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Lima 2.5
- Blenheim Palace 2.5
- Kotor 2.5
- Evora 2.0
- Belfries 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Aranjuez 2.0
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs 2.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 2.0
- Miguasha National Park 2.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 2.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements
- Auckland Volcanic Fields
- California Current Conservation Complex
- White Sands National Monument
- Jerash Archaeological City
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers
- Gwaii Haanas
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- Mt. Elgon
- Rade de Marseille
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Reviews by Jay T


Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Inscribed)
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
What makes a great World Heritage Site? Is it a sense of wonder, of awe, of joy? Is it basking in the presence of history, or reveling in the grandeur …

Aranjuez (Inscribed)
Aranjuez
I love gardens, so I was rather excited to choose Aranjuez Cultural Landscape as the first central Iberian World Heritage Site to visit after I arrived in Madrid for a …

Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (Inscribed)
Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
On paper the Villa Adriana seems a site that I would love -- a collection of architecture from around the known world in the 2nd century A.D. incorporated into a …

Toledo (Inscribed)
Toledo
Oh Toledo, jewel of a city! This was easily my favorite day trip from Madrid when I visited Spain last May. I was entranced from my first view of the …

Santiago de Compostela (Inscribed)
Santiago de Compostela
Pilgrim, you have reached journey's end. The paths through the old town suddenly open up onto a plaza marked with walkways in the shape of the scalloped symbol of the …

Potsdam (Inscribed)
Potsdam
I've always associated Potsdam, Germany, with the Cold War, but outside of knowing some historical context, I was unprepared for how beautiful the palaces and gardens would be when I …

Neolithic Orkney (Inscribed)
Neolithic Orkney
I'll always associate the Orkney Islands with the 2019 World Heritage Site meet-up, since they were the first place I met some of the regulars from this forum, to include …

Lima (Inscribed)
Lima
Lima is a great city to explore -- I must state that up front -- but the central historic district which composes the World Heritage Site was not as impressive …

Gwynedd Castles (Inscribed)
Gwynedd Castles
It seems kind of strange that the first World Heritage Site in Wales should be a symbol of subjugation by the English, but that's what the Castles and Town Walls …

Dorset and East Devon Coast (Inscribed)
Dorset and East Devon Coast
I would love to say it was highbrow literature that made me excited to visit England's Dorset and East Devon Coast in May of 2018, but On Chesil Beach just …

Burgos Cathedral (Inscribed)
Burgos Cathedral
Burgos Cathedral was probably my favorite of the many cathedrals I saw on my trip to Spain this past May. The bright vaulted openness of the interior, and the exquisite …

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque (Inscribed)
Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
It's not that aqueducts aren't impressive, but I have much stronger memories of my conversation with my taxi driver on the way to and from the Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque …

Vizcaya Bridge (Inscribed)
Vizcaya Bridge
Bilbao has much to be proud of with its renovated downtown, full of modern architecture designed by the likes of Frank Gehry, Arata Isozaki, Santiago Calatrava, and Norman Foster; however, …

Statue of Liberty (Inscribed)
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable World Heritage Sites in the world, and the only World Heritage Site I have ever seen someone emulate in costume …

Route of Santiago de Composte… (Inscribed)
Route of Santiago de Compostela
One of my more indelible travel memories is of watching a truckload of pilgrims departing for the Hajj, joyfully singing and cheering as they left Luxor, Egypt, in October 2012. …

Pompei (Inscribed)
Pompei
Pompei is an awesome site to visit if you want to see a relatively well-preserved Roman city from the 1st century AD. That said, a visit can also be sobering, …

Las Medulas (Inscribed)
Las Medulas
"There's gold in them thar hills", and that's exactly what brought Rome to Las Médulas in northwest Spain. The UNESCO World Heritage Site inscription is what brought me to Las …

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (Inscribed)
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a strong contender for the oddest named World Heritage Site I've visited, though its name makes sense after learning its history. On a cliff in western …

Flemish Béguinages (Inscribed)
Flemish Béguinages
One of the things I love about World Heritage Sites is how they can expose you to places, or in the case of the Flemish Béguinages, concepts, that I had …