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5620April 3, 2014Aachen Cathedral, Aapravasi Ghat, Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch, Abbey of St Gall, Acropolis ...
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Acropolis
- Agra Fort
- Agrigento
- Ajanta Caves
- Aksum
- Al Ain
- Alcala de Henares
- Aleppo
- Altamira Cave
- Alto Douro
- Al Zubarah
- Ambohimanga
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Ksour
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Merv
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Thebes
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria
- Angkor
- Angra do Heroismo
- Anjar
- Antigua Guatemala
- Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Anuradhapura
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Aranjuez
- Arles
- Asante Traditional Buildings
- Assisi
- Asturian Monuments
- Atapuerca
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Avila
- Ayutthaya
- Baalbek
- Bagan
- Bahá’i Holy Places
- Bali Subak system
- Banska Stiavnica
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Baroque Churches
- Battir
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Berat and Gjirokastra
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Bethlehem
- Biblical Tells
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Blenheim Palace
- Bolgar
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Borobudur
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Brasilia
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands
- Bridgetown
- Brimstone Hill Fortress
- Brugge
- Budapest
- Bukhara
- Burgos Cathedral
- Bursa and Cumalikizik
- Butrint
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Byblos
- Caceres
- Cahokia Mounds
- Calakmul
- Camino Real
- Campeche
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Cartagena
- Carthage
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Caves of Yagul and Mitla
- Central Highlands
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Champagne
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
- Chichen-Itza
- Chitwan National Park
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Chiloé
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Cidade Velha
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Classical Weimar
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Copán
- Cordoba
- Corfu
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Cuenca
- Curonian Spit
- Cuzco
- Damascus
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Dengfeng
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Djémila
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Dougga/Thugga
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Edinburgh
- Elephanta Caves
- El Escurial
- Ellora Caves
- El Tajin
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Erbil Citadel
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fagus Factory
- Fasil Ghebbi
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Fort Jesus
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast
- Fossil Hominid Sites
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
- Fujisan
- Galapagos Islands
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Gebel Barkal
- Gelati Monastery
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Glacier parks
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Granada
- Grand-Bassam
- Grand Canal
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Grand Pré
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Wall
- Gros Morne National Park
- Guanajuato
- Guimarães
- Gulf of California
- Gusuku of Ryukyu
- Gyeongju
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Harar Jugol
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Historic Cairo
- Historic Jeddah
- Holasovice
- Holy Trinity Column
- Hospicio Cabañas
- Humayun's Tomb
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Ilulissat Icefjord
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Incense Route of the Negev
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park
- Island of Gorée
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan
- Jantar Mantar
- Jeju
- Jelling
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Joya de Ceren
- Kaiping Diaolou
- Kakadu National Park
- Kandy
- Kasbah of Algiers
- Kathmandu Valley
- Kazan Kremlin
- Kenya Lake System
- Kew Gardens
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Kinderdijk
- Komodo National Park
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kuk
- Kulangsu
- Kunta Kinteh Island
- Kutna Hora
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- La Fortaleza and San Juan
- Lagoons of New Caledonia
- Lake Baikal
- Lake District
- Lalibela
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Lamu Old Town
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Le Morne
- León Cathedral
- Leptis Magna
- Levuka
- Lima
- Litomysl Castle
- Loire Valley
- Longmen Grottoes
- Lopé-Okanda
- Lord Howe Island
- Los Glaciares
- Lower Valley of the Omo
- Luang Prabang
- Lübeck
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Luther Memorials
- L'viv
- Lyon
- Macao
- Machu Picchu
- Mafra
- Mahabalipuram
- Major Town Houses
- Makli, Thatta
- Malbork Castle
- Maloti-Drakensberg Park
- Mammoth Cave
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masada
- Matera
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Mazagan
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Medina of Essaouira
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Sousse
- Medina of Tunis
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Meknes
- Melaka and George Town
- Mérida
- Meroe
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Mijikenda Kaya Forests
- Mir Castle
- Mogao Caves
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Geghard
- Monticello
- Morelia
- Morne Trois Pitons
- Mostar
- Mount Carmel Caves
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mount Etna
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan
- Mtskheta
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- Namhansanseong
- Namib Sand Sea
- Nan Madol
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- Necropolis of Bet She'arim
- Neolithic Orkney
- Nesvizh
- Ngorongoro
- Nice
- Nikko
- Nisa
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Novgorod
- Novodevichy Convent
- Nubian Monuments
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Ohrid Region
- Okavango Delta
- Old City of Acre
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Havana
- Old Rauma
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Old Town of Galle
- Olinda
- Olympic National Park
- Oporto
- Ouro Preto
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Palmeral of Elche
- Palmyra
- Pampulha
- Panamá
- Paphos
- Paramaribo
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Peninsula Valdes
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pitons Management Area
- Pitons of Reunion
- Plain of Jars
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Poblet Monastery
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pont du Gard
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Potala Palace
- Potosi
- Potsdam
- Poverty Point
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Provins
- Puebla
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Qal'at al-Bahrain
- Québec
- Quebrada de Humahuaca
- Querétaro
- Quirigua
- Quito
- Quseir Amra
- Qutb Minar
- Rabat
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Rapa Nui
- Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
- Redwood
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhodes
- Rideau Canal
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rio de Janeiro
- Robben Island
- Rock Islands
- Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
- Rohtas Fort
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Rome
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Royal Palaces of Abomey
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Ruins of León Viejo
- Sabratha
- Saint Catherine Area
- Salamanca
- Salvador de Bahia
- Salzburg
- Samarkand
- Sammallahdenmäki
- San Antonio Missions
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- San Miguel de Allende
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Santo Domingo
- São Francisco Square
- São Luis
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Selimiye Mosque
- Semmering Railway
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Serengeti
- Seville
- Sewell Mining Town
- Sian Ka'an
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Sigiriya
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Simien National Park
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sintra
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Skocjan Caves
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Socotra Archipelago
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- St. George, Bermuda
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- St. Petersburg
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Studenica Monastery
- Sucre
- Summer Palace
- Sundarbans National Park
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Sydney Opera House
- Syracuse
- Taj Mahal
- Takht-i-Bahi
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tarraco
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Tauric Chersonese
- Taxila
- Teide National Park
- Telc
- Temple of Heaven
- Teotihuacan
- Tequila
- Te Wahipounamu
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thingvellir
- Tikal National Park
- Timgad
- Tipasa
- Tiwanaku
- Tiya
- Tlacotalpan
- Toledo
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tower of Hercules
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Tugendhat Villa
- Turaif Quarter
- Uluru
- Um er-Rasas
- University of Coimbra
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Uxmal
- Val di Noto
- Vallée de Mai
- Valletta
- Valongo Wharf
- Valparaiso
- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
- Vatnajökull National Park
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Versailles
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victoria Falls
- Vienna
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vilnius
- Virunga National Park
- Visby
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Volubilis
- Vredefort Dome
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadi Al-Hitan
- Wadi Rum
- Walled City of Baku
- W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
- Warsaw
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- West Lake
- Westminster
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Willemstad
- Wooden Churches of the Slovak Carpathians
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Xochicalco
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Zacatecas
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
Top 10 Missing
- Persepolis 4.37
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka 4.31
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.21
- Meteora 4.20
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.17
- Ravenna 4.15
- Nemrut Dag 4.14
- Plitvice Lakes 4.12
- Gunung Mulu 4.11
- Jiuzhaigou Valley 4.10
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Rainforests of the Atsinanana (Inscribed)
Rainforests of the Atsinanana
In August 2016, I decided to stop in Madagascar while traveling from Seychelles to Mayotte so that I could visit one of the national parks in the Rainforests of the …

Les médinas des Sultanats his… (Nominated)
Les médinas des Sultanats historiques des Comores
Anjouan -- In August 2016, I flew on Inter Îles Air (http://www.inter-iles-air.com) from Dzaoudzi–Pamandzi International Airport located in Mayotte to Ouani Airport in Anjouan. I had arranged through Laka Lodge …

Ecosystèmes Marins de l'Archi… (On tentative list)
Ecosystèmes Marins de l'Archipel des Comores
I visited Moheli in August 2016, when stayed at Laka Lodge (http://www.lakalodge.com), the most interesting place to stay in Comoros. I spent my morning snorkeling in the Moheli Marine Park, …

Lord Howe Island (Inscribed)
Lord Howe Island
I visited Lord Howe Island in July 2016, when I stayed at Beachcomber Lodge and rented a car from Wilson's Hire Service. My main objective was to see the Lord …

Kuk (Inscribed)
Kuk
In July 2016, I spent a few days in Mount Hagen, where I stayed at the Highlander Hotel. Mount Hagen is a short drive from the Kuk Early Agricultural …

The Site of Ancient Town of P… (On tentative list)
The Site of Ancient Town of Pyanjekent
In May 2007, I visited from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, making a day trip visit to Penjikent, a city a few miles from the Uzbek/Tajik border -- the ruins of Penjikent were …

Grenadines Island Group (On tentative list)
Grenadines Island Group
I visited the Grenadines in February 2010. Bequia Express and Admiralty Transport run frequent daytime ferries on the hour long trip from Kingstown to Port Elizabeth, Bequia.

Cellular Jail, Andaman Islands (On tentative list)
Cellular Jail, Andaman Islands
I visited the Andaman Islands in December 2011. I stayed at Hotel Megapode Nest in Port Blair, a short walk from the Cellular Jail National Memorial, a former British prison. …

White Mosque in Ramle (On tentative list)
White Mosque in Ramle
In May 2014, I stopped to visit the White Mosque (really just a tower) in Ramle during a long drive from Nazareth to Masada.

Jacmel (On tentative list)
Jacmel
I visited Haiti in October 2009, just a few months before the January 2010 earthquake. I made arrangements with Jacqui at Voyages Lumiere (voyageslumiere.com/), who I highly recommend. I based …

Historic zone of Basseterre (On tentative list)
Historic zone of Basseterre
In February 2008, I flew on Winair from St. Maarten to Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport, which is only a short walk to Basseterre. In Basseterre, I visited the Berkeley …

Torres del Paine and Bernardo… (On tentative list)
Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins National P
I visited Chile in November 1995. From Puerto Montt, I flew to Punta Arenas, the most prominent settlement on the Strait of Magellan (due to its location and size it …

Casablanca (On tentative list)
Casablanca
I visited Morocco in December 2010, and ended my trip in Casablanca, where I stayed at Hôtel Maamoura, one of the city's many Mauresque (a blend of French-colonial design and …

Chobe Linyanti System (On tentative list)
Chobe Linyanti System
In August 2001, I went on safari in the Okavango Delta (where I stayed at Chitabe Camp), the Savute Channel in northern Botswana (where I stayed at Savuti Camp), and …

The Maasai Mara (On tentative list)
The Maasai Mara
My first visit to Kenya was in August 1999. I started that trip in Nairobi, where I stayed at the Norfolk Hotel, the most historic hotel in the capital. From …

Kaieteur National Park (Removed from tentat…)
Kaieteur National Park
I arranged a day tour from Georgetown to Kaieteur National Park with Dagron Tours (www.dagron-tours.com). We flew on Trans Guyana Airways from Ogle Airport, which is used for charter flights. …

City Hall, Georgetown (On tentative list)
City Hall, Georgetown
I visited Guyana in August 2007, when I spent a couple of nights at Cara Lodge, the only historic hotel in Georgetown (caralodge.com). Cara Lodge was constructed as Woodbine House …

Apamee (On tentative list)
Apamee
In May 2009, I visited the Great Colonnade at Apamea, one of the longest streets in the Roman world. During this trip, I stayed in room 203 of the Baron …

Cretaceous Dinosaur Fossil Si… (On tentative list)
Cretaceous Dinosaur Fossil Sites in the Mongolian
I began my trip in Ulaanbaatar, where I stayed at the Ulaanbaatar Hotel, opened in 1961 and the city's oldest hotel (www.ubhotel.mn/), and ate hot pot at The Bull and …