I spent some time exploring the German part of this WHS, particularly around the coastal town of Norden, which has good access to mudflats which you can go out and …
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Acropolis
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Nara
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- Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Anuradhapura
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- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Arequipa
- Assisi
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Convict Sites
- Ayutthaya
- Baekje Historic Areas
- Bagan
- Bali Subak system
- Bamberg
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Baroque Churches
- Bauhaus Sites
- Beemster Polder
- Belem
- Belfries
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Blenheim Palace
- Bordeaux
- Borobudur
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Brugge
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Calakmul
- Campeche
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canterbury
- Cape Floral Region
- Caral-Supe
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Centennial Hall
- Central Highlands
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chan Chan
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chavin
- Chichen-Itza
- Chitwan National Park
- Choirokoitia
- Churches of Chiloé
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Weimar
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Cueva de las Manos
- Cuzco
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Delos
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Durmitor National Park
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Edinburgh
- Ephesus
- Epidaurus
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Fagus Factory
- Ferrara
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fraser Island
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Fujisan
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
- Gaya Tumuli
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Giant's Causeway
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Barrier Reef
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Great Spa Towns of Europe
- Great Wall
- Gwynedd Castles
- Gyeongju
- Haeinsa Temple
- Hahoe and Yangdong
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Historic Cairo
- Hoi An
- Holasovice
- Hollókö
- Holy Trinity Column
- Horyu-ji Area
- Huascaran National Park
- Hué
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Imperial Palace
- Independence Hall
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
- Ischigualasto / Talampaya
- Istanbul
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Kakadu National Park
- Kandy
- Kathmandu Valley
- Kernavė
- Kew Gardens
- Kii Mountain Range
- Kinderdijk
- Komodo National Park
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kutna Hora
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Laurisilva of Madeira
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Le Havre
- Lenggong Valley
- Lima
- Litomysl Castle
- Lord Howe Island
- Los Glaciares
- Luang Prabang
- Lübeck
- Lumbini
- Luther Memorials
- Machu Picchu
- Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Major Town Houses
- Margravial Opera House
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mazagan
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medina of Essaouira
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Tétouan
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Meknes
- Melaka and George Town
- Messel Pit
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Mir Castle
- Modena
- Monticello
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- My Son
- Mystras
- Namhansanseong
- Namib Sand Sea
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- Nesvizh
- Nice
- Nikko
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Nubian Monuments
- Old Town of Galle
- Olympia
- Oporto
- Palenque
- Pannonhalma
- Paphos
- Paraty and Ilha Grande
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Peninsula Valdes
- Petra
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Ping Yao
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Pont du Gard
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Preah Vihear Temple
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
- Primeval Beech Forests
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Pyu Ancient Cities
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Québec
- Quedlinburg
- Quseir Amra
- Rabat
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Ravenna
- Regensburg
- Reichenau
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhodes
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Rio de Janeiro
- Robben Island
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
- Rome
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royal Joseon Tombs
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Saint-Emilion
- Salzburg
- Samarkand
- Sanchi
- San Gimignano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Sarazm
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies
- Seville
- Sewell Mining Town
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Sian Ka'an
- Siena
- Sigiriya
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Sintra
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Speyer Cathedral
- Split
- Stari Grad Plain
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- Stoclet House
- Stonehenge
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Studenica Monastery
- Sukhothai
- Sulaiman-Too
- Sydney Opera House
- Taj Mahal
- Talayotic Menorca
- Tallinn
- Tarraco
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Telc
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Temple of Heaven
- Te Wahipounamu
- Thang Long
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Four Lifts
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Thessalonika
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Tikal National Park
- Toledo
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trang An
- Trebic
- Trier
- Trogir
- Tugendhat Villa
- Uluru
- Um er-Rasas
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Uxmal
- Val d'Orcia
- Valletta
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- Van Nellefabriek
- Vatican City
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- Versailles
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Vienna
- Vigan
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d'Este
- Vilnius
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Volubilis
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadden Sea
- Wadi Al-Hitan
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- Warsaw
- Wartburg Castle
- Western Tien-Shan
- Westminster
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Willandra Lakes
- Würzburg Residence
- Xanthos-Letoon
- Yogyakarta
- Yosemite National Park
- Zollverein
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- Old City of Jerusalem 4.37
- Ngorongoro 4.35
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- Mont-Saint-Michel 5.0
- Kakadu National Park 5.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 5.0
- Cesky Krumlov 5.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- San Gimignano 4.0
- Willandra Lakes 4.0
- Chichen-Itza 3.5
- Flemish Béguinages 3.5
- Jongmyo Shrine 3.5
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.5
- Kutna Hora 3.5
- Epidaurus 3.5
- Hué 3.5
- Grand Place, Brussels 3.5
- Volubilis 3.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 3.0
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Bauhaus Sites (Inscribed)
Bauhaus Sites
To see all of the Bauhaus buildings included in the World Heritage Site, you’ll need to visit two German cities – Weimar and Dessau, which are about 150 kilometres apart.
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Castles of Augustusburg and F… (Inscribed)
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
Although they’re not nearly the most famous castles in Germany, the style of the buildings and, more importantly, the interior designs were to influence the creation of other princely courts …

Primeval Beech Forests (Inscribed)
Primeval Beech Forests
All five of the protected areas in Germany offer a variety of experiences. From the white cliffs and coastal breeze of Jasmund National Park through to the inland mountain ranges …

Fagus Factory (Inscribed)
Fagus Factory
To appreciate the significant architectural details, it’s important to see the building from the outside and the inside. Even though the factory is operational, there are tours through all areas …

Messel Pit (Inscribed)
Messel Pit
Visiting the Messel Fossil Pit is a little bit tricky because, in some ways, there’s not a lot to see. Most of the important stuff – the fossils – has …

Hildesheim Cathedral and Chur… (Inscribed)
Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
Both buildings are easy walking distance to each other. In fact, most of central Hildesheim is easy to navigate by foot. The church and the cathedral are open to visitors …

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe (Inscribed)
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
The best way to see the park is by foot. It is possible to use a bicycle but there’s a lot of uphill which can be slightly unpleasant at times. …

Medina of Essaouira (Inscribed)
Medina of Essaouira
Essaouira is a lovely little place and an easy side trip from busy Marrakech. Although it's the medina that is the main focus of the WHS, there are more things …

Medina of Marrakesh (Inscribed)
Medina of Marrakesh
I love this city - although I can't decide whether I prefer Marrakech or Fez. Oh well, no reason why you can't just enjoy both for different reasons!
The constant …

Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou (Inscribed)
Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
A unique Moroccan WHS - there isn't really anything else like it in the country. It's interesting to observe as you approach it and see how the structures have been …

Te Wahipounamu (Inscribed)
Te Wahipounamu
The hardest thing about this WHS is knowing where to start... and where to stop. It's not just enormous in terms of area, it has such an incredible amount of …

Baroque Churches (Inscribed)
Baroque Churches
I visited just one of the churches listed, San Agustin in Manila. It is the oldest of the churches and I thought represented the site quite well.
There are two …

Bryggen (Inscribed)
Bryggen
Very pretty old wharf but, yes, very touristy. It's a bit better out the back. If you just pretend everyone isn't there, though, you can still get good look at …

Polonnaruva (Inscribed)
Polonnaruva
I couldn't help but compare the style and layout here to sites like Angkor. Interestingly, there are some links between the sites, in terms of architecture an diplomacy.
However, while …

Central Highlands (Inscribed)
Central Highlands
I focused my visit on the Horton Plains National Park and did the early morning trek to 'The World's End'. You need to go really early because the whole view …

Kandy (Inscribed)
Kandy
The highlight of Kandy is the Temple of the Tooth and I spent most of my time there. What I found most interesting was all the people there. Every generation …

Old Town of Galle (Inscribed)
Old Town of Galle
There's a really pleasant atmosphere in the streets of the old town of Galle. The architecture has that really interesting mix of European colonialism and South Asia. What I liked …

Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple (Inscribed)
Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
This site was such a surprise - in a completely positive way. I didn't know too much about it beforehand and didn't expect the caves of statues to be so …

Sigiriya (Inscribed)
Sigiriya
I really love this site. It's such a unique place and the story behind it is fascinating (a king going into hiding after he kills his father and steals the …