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 …
Jay T
Member since August 2017
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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
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About Jay T
- First name
- Jay
- Member since
- August 2017
- Country of Origin
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- Tentative Sites
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World Heritage Sites
- Istanbul 5.0
- St. Petersburg 5.0
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 5.0
- Venice and its Lagoon 5.0
- Uluru 5.0
- Mesa Verde 5.0
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
- Edinburgh 5.0
- Machu Picchu 5.0
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park 5.0
- Iguazu National Park 5.0
- Rome 5.0
- Petra 5.0
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
- Grand Canyon 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
- Yosemite National Park 5.0
- Iguacu 5.0
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 5.0
- Yellowstone 4.5
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.5
- Gros Morne National Park 4.5
- Versailles 4.5
- Everglades 4.5
- Pompei 4.5
- Wadi Rum 4.5
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia 4.5
- Lake Baikal 4.5
- Nikko 4.5
- Giant's Causeway 4.5
- Galapagos Islands 4.5
- Valletta 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.5
- Toledo 4.5
- Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Acropolis 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- Rhodes 4.0
- Tower of London 4.0
- Huascaran National Park 4.0
- Thingvellir 4.0
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 4.0
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale 4.0
- Ephesus 4.0
- Zacatecas 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Olympic National Park 4.0
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.0
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 4.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Bamberg 4.0
- Independence Hall 4.0
- Vienna 4.0
- Salzburg 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Statue of Liberty 4.0
- Quito 4.0
- La Fortaleza and San Juan 4.0
- Costiera Amalfitana 4.0
- Siena 4.0
- Florence 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.0
- Kinderdijk 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Tongariro National Park 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 4.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 4.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- L'Anse aux Meadows 4.0
- Burgos Cathedral 4.0
- Sintra 4.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Split 3.5
- Ibiza 3.5
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 3.5
- Las Medulas 3.5
- Speyer Cathedral 3.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 3.5
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 3.5
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 3.5
- Historic Cairo 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Santo Domingo 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Brú na Bóinne 3.5
- SGang Gwaay 3.5
- Gulf of Porto 3.5
- Australian Convict Sites 3.5
- Neolithic Orkney 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa 3.0
- Grand Pré 3.0
- Great Smoky Mountains 3.0
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis 3.0
- Morne Trois Pitons 3.0
- San Antonio Missions 3.0
- Monticello 3.0
- Botanical Garden, Padua 3.0
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca 3.0
- Naples 3.0
- Wet Tropics of Queensland 3.0
- Greater Blue Mountains 3.0
- Al Ain 3.0
- Ayutthaya 3.0
- Belem 3.0
- Pitons Management Area 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3.0
- Gwynedd Castles 3.0
- Potsdam 3.0
- Santiago de Compostela 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Roman Walls of Lugo 3.0
- New Lanark 3.0
- Tower of Hercules 3.0
- Villa d'Este 3.0
- Valparaiso 3.0
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.0
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.0
- Jodrell Bank Observatory 3.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.5
- Forth Bridge 2.5
- Kotor 2.5
- Blenheim Palace 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Vizcaya Bridge 2.5
- Turaif Quarter 2.5
- Venetian Works of Defence 2.5
- Lima 2.5
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.5
- Antigua Naval Dockyard 2.5
- Colonia del Sacramento 2.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 2.5
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 2.5
- Popocatepetl monasteries 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Sangay National Park 2.5
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 2.5
- Quseir Amra 2.5
- Um er-Rasas 2.5
- White City of Tel-Aviv 2.5
- Novodevichy Convent 2.5
- Tombs of Buganda Kings 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Biblical Tells 2.5
- Old Town Lunenburg 2.5
- Rideau Canal 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Poverty Point 2.5
- Miguasha National Park 2.0
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque 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
- Evora 2.0
- Stoclet House 1.0
Tentative Sites
- Civil Rights Movement Sites
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
- Minoan Palatial Centres
- Early Medieval Benedictine settlements in Italy
- 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


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 …

Camino Real (Inscribed)
Camino Real
I first traveled Mexico's Royal Road, the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, in 1998 as part of a church mission trip which took me from El Paso by road to …