When traveling by train in central Europe, it's hard not to transit through Vienna, and the city is well worth a visit for the architecture and culture. This is the …
Jay T
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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
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- August 2017
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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


Schönbrunn (Inscribed)
Schönbrunn
The 18th century summer palace and gardens of Schönbrunn are not as remote now from the city of Vienna as they were when first constructed by the Habsburgs. This was …

Morne Trois Pitons (Inscribed)
Morne Trois Pitons
Dominica was the island I was most looking forward to on the Caribbean cruise I took last month, not least because of the reviews I'd read of the beauty of …

Ironbridge Gorge (Inscribed)
Ironbridge Gorge
When I was planning a trip to Wales in 2005, I realized I would be traveling very close to Ironbridge Gorge, widely recognized as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. …

Fortifications of Vauban (Inscribed)
Fortifications of Vauban
I visited the citadel and town of Mont-Louis, one of the inscribed Fortifications of Vauban, in the spring of 2013 as part of a day tour from Barcelona. Mont-Louis is …

Belem (Inscribed)
Belem
As I approached the Tower of Belém, the skies opened up and the rain that had been threatening all morning finally started falling. Thankfully there was a lot to see …

Versailles (Inscribed)
Versailles
The Palace of Versailles was well known to me from history classes in school, and I found the interior of the palace, and the magnificent Hall of Mirrors in particular, …

Siena (Inscribed)
Siena
Siena served as a scheduled rest stop during my tour of mainland Europe in the fall of 2003, and I thoroughly enjoyed my few days of relaxation and exploration in …

Old Town Lunenburg (Inscribed)
Old Town Lunenburg
Old Town Lunenburg is a fantastic representative of Atlantic Canadian fishing villages on the World Heritage Site list. Buildings in the town date back to the 1700s, when Britain established …

L'Anse aux Meadows (Inscribed)
L'Anse aux Meadows
Around 1000 AD a group of Vikings established a village on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland in an area now called L'Anse aux Meadows -- a pre-Columbian European settlement in …

Forth Bridge (Inscribed)
Forth Bridge
Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Kidnapped" ends with a daring ferry crossing across the Firth of Forth, allowing the hero, David Balfour, to confront his duplicitous uncle; if the events of …

Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond … (Inscribed)
Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
The Baptism Site at Bethany Beyond the Jordan (Al-Maghtas in Arabic), where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, has quite an extensive biblical history. Tradition has held this location …

Venice and its Lagoon (Inscribed)
Venice and its Lagoon
What is there to say about Venice that hasn't already been said? It's not surprising this World Heritage Site is the most reviewed of all the Italian sites; this city …

San Marino and Mount Titano (Inscribed)
San Marino and Mount Titano
Given my fascination with European microstates when I was growing up, it was inevitable I would one day visit San Marino, whether or not it was a World Heritage Site. …

Nubian Monuments (Inscribed)
Nubian Monuments
The Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae were the absolute highlight of my trip to Egypt in the fall of 2012. Over fifty years ago, the preservation and movement …

Independence Hall (Inscribed)
Independence Hall
Independence Hall may seem small in stature compared to the surrounding modern city of Philadelphia, but the ideas forged within its walls far outsize the building. Over the course of …

Florence (Inscribed)
Florence
Florence made a much better impression on me on my second visit, in May 2013, than when I first visited ten years before. Perhaps it was because I had not …

Ayutthaya (Inscribed)
Ayutthaya
A short drive north from Bangkok lie the ruins of the Historic City of Ayutthaya, one of Thailand's first three World Heritage Sites, inscribed 25 years ago. As has been …

Vatican City (Inscribed)
Vatican City
Vatican City is an architectural wonder, a theocracy, a rich repository of art and literature, and the center of the Catholic church; there is a lot packed into the world's …

Salzburg (Inscribed)
Salzburg
The geographer Alexander von Humboldt (perhaps apocryphally) thought highly enough of Salzburg to consider it one of the three most beautiful regions on Earth that he'd seen. After visiting Salzburg …