We visited all four sites of the Stari Ras and Sopocani cluster in October 2023, by public transport with two nights in Novi Pasar. As we had stayed in Studenica …
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- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey of St Gall
- Abu Mena
- Acropolis
- Ajanta Caves
- Aksum
- Aleppo
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Merv
- Ancient Nara
- Ancient Thebes
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria
- Angkor
- Ani
- Anjar
- Antequera Dolmens Site
- Antigua Guatemala
- Anuradhapura
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Archaeological site of Philippi
- Arles
- Asmara
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Avignon
- Ayutthaya
- Baalbek
- Baekje Historic Areas
- Bali Subak system
- Bamberg
- Banska Stiavnica
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Bauhaus Sites
- Belem
- Belfries
- Bellinzone
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Białowieża Forest
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Borobudur
- Bosra
- Brugge
- Budapest
- Bukhara
- Burgundy
- Byblos
- Calakmul
- Campeche
- Canterbury
- Cartagena
- Carthage
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Centennial Hall
- Central Highlands
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chichen-Itza
- Churches and Convents of Goa
- Churches of Moldavia
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Coffee Cultural Landscape
- Cologne Cathedral
- Cordoba
- Corvey
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crac des Chevaliers
- Curonian Spit
- Cyrene
- Damascus
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens
- Djenné
- Djerba
- Djoudj
- Dolomites
- Dougga/Thugga
- Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs
- Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Edinburgh
- Elephanta Caves
- El Escurial
- Ellora Caves
- El Tajin
- Evora
- Fasil Ghebbi
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee
- Flemish Béguinages
- Florence
- Fujisan
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana
- Gebel Barkal
- Gelati Monastery
- Genbaku Dome
- Genoa
- Golestan Palace
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Granada
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Graz
- Great Wall
- Gusuku of Ryukyu
- Gwynedd Castles
- Gyeongju
- Haeinsa Temple
- Haghpat and Sanahin
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Hampi
- Harar Jugol
- Hattusha
- Heritage of Mercury
- Himeji-jo
- Hiraizumi
- Historic Cairo
- Hoi An
- Horyu-ji Area
- Hué
- Imperial Palace
- Imperial Tombs
- Island of Gorée
- Island of Saint-Louis
- Istanbul
- Itchan Kala
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Jeju
- Jomon Prehistoric Sites
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Joya de Ceren
- Kairouan
- Kandy
- Kernavė
- Konso
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kronborg Castle
- Kunya-Urgench
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
- Lake Baikal
- Lake District
- Lalibela
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Leptis Magna
- Longmen Grottoes
- Los Katios National Park
- Lower Valley of the Omo
- Luang Prabang
- Lübeck
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Luther Memorials
- Macao
- Major Town Houses
- Malbork Castle
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Margravial Opera House
- Maritime Greenwich
- Masjed-e Jâme'
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Medici Villas and Gardens
- Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
- Medina Azahara
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Sousse
- Medina of Tétouan
- Medina of Tunis
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Meknes
- Melaka and George Town
- Meroe
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Modernist Kaunas
- Mogao Caves
- Monastery of Geghard
- Mount Wutai
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun
- Mtskheta
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Muskauer Park
- Mycenae and Tiryns
- My Son
- Naples
- Nemrut Dag
- Nikko
- Niokolo-Koba National Park
- Nisa
- Nubian Monuments
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Odesa
- Old City of Berne
- Old Town of Galle
- Olympia
- Orange
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Palmyra
- Pannonhalma
- Par force hunting landscape
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Pattadakal
- Persepolis
- Persian Garden
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Ping Yao
- Plain of Jars
- Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Polonnaruva
- Pont du Gard
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Puebla
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Querétaro
- Quirigua
- Quito
- Quseir Amra
- Rabat
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Rapa Nui
- Ravenna
- Regensburg
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Riga
- Risco Caido
- Rome
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Royal Palaces of Abomey
- Ruins of Loropéni
- Sabratha
- Saint Catherine Area
- Saloum Delta
- Salzburg
- Samarkand
- San Agustín
- San Cristobal de La Laguna
- Sangay National Park
- San Gimignano
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Sarazm
- Saryarka
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Seville
- Shakhrisyabz
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Shiretoko
- ShUM Sites
- Sian Ka'an
- Siena
- Sighisoara
- Sigiriya
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
- Simien National Park
- Sintra
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- South China Karst
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Stevns Klint
- Stoclet House
- St. Petersburg
- Stralsund and Wismar
- Strasbourg
- Studenica Monastery
- Sukhothai
- Sulaiman-Too
- Summer Palace
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
- Talayotic Menorca
- Tanbaly
- Teide National Park
- Temple of Heaven
- Teotihuacan
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá
- The Persian Qanat
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Thessalonika
- Thingvellir
- Tierradentro
- Tikal National Park
- Timbuktu
- Tomioka Silk Mill
- Tongariro National Park
- Torun
- Tower of London
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
- Trier
- Tyre
- Um er-Rasas
- Uxmal
- Val d'Orcia
- Valletta
- Valparaiso
- Vatican City
- Vatnajökull National Park
- Vat Phou
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verona
- Vézelay
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
- Vienna
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Vilnius
- Vlkolinec
- Volubilis
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Wadi Al-Hitan
- Wadi Rum
- Walled City of Baku
- W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Western Tien-Shan
- Westminster
- Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Würzburg Residence
- Xanthos-Letoon
- Yakushima
- Yazd
- Yogyakarta
- Yungang Grottoes
- Zacatecas
- Zamość
- Zollverein
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Top 10 Missing
- Machu Picchu 4.63
- Galapagos Islands 4.60
- Yellowstone 4.49
- Victoria Falls 4.47
- Bagan 4.44
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.41
- Serengeti 4.41
- Grand Canyon 4.40
- Uluru 4.39
- Pompei 4.38
Completed Countries
Country visits
- Albania: Primeval Beech Forests
- Argentina: The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Armenia: Haghpat and Sanahin Monastery of Geghard Tatev Monastery and Vorotan Gorge The monastery of Noravank and the upper Amaghou Va Echmiatsin and Zvartnots
- Austria: Salzburg Graz Hallstatt-Dachstein Wachau Cultural Landscape Vienna Fertö/Neusiedlersee Primeval Beech Forests
- Azerbaijan: Walled City of Baku
- Belarus: Białowieża Forest
- Belgium: Belfries Brugge Flemish Béguinages Grand Place, Brussels Major Town Houses Primeval Beech Forests Stoclet House Mining Sites of Wallonia The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège Les passages de Bruxelles
- Benin: Royal Palaces of Abomey W-Arly-Pendjari Complex Village souterrain d'Agongointo-Zoungoudo
- Bosnia Herzegovina: Primeval Beech Forests
- Bulgaria: Primeval Beech Forests
- Burkina Faso: W-Arly-Pendjari Complex Ruins of Loropéni Sya, centre historique de Bobo-Dioulasso
- Cambodia: Angkor Cambodian Memorial Sites
- Chile: Rapa Nui Valparaiso
- China: Great Wall Imperial Palace Imperial Tombs Longmen Grottoes Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor Mogao Caves Classical Gardens of Suzhou Ping Yao Summer Palace Temple of Heaven Yungang Grottoes Macao Mount Wutai South China Karst Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Colombia: Cartagena Los Katios National Park San Agustín Tierradentro Coffee Cultural Landscape
- Costa Rica: Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
- Croatia: Primeval Beech Forests
- Czechia: Prague Primeval Beech Forests
- Denmark: Kronborg Castle Roskilde Cathedral Stevns Klint Par force hunting landscape Viking Age Ring Fortresses Møns Klint The Maritime Heritage of Dragor Amalienborg and its district
- Ecuador: Quito Sangay National Park Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Egypt: Ancient Thebes Historic Cairo Nubian Monuments Pyramids (Memphis) Saint Catherine Area Wadi Al-Hitan Egyptian Museum Abu Mena Abydos Necropolises of Middle Egypt Dahab Dahshour El Fayoum Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun Minia Siwa archaeological area Alexandria
- El Salvador: Joya de Ceren
- Eritrea: Asmara Qoahito Cultural Landscape
- Ethiopia: Simien National Park Fasil Ghebbi Lalibela Lower Valley of the Omo Aksum Harar Jugol Konso
- France: Belfries Arles Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay Orange Paris, Banks of the Seine Strasbourg Vézelay Avignon Pont du Gard Primeval Beech Forests Burgundy The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Georgia: Gelati Monastery Mtskheta
- Germany: Cologne Cathedral Würzburg Residence Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust Lübeck Pilgrimage Church of Wies Bamberg Bauhaus Sites Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz Luther Memorials Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Potsdam Stralsund and Wismar Zollverein Muskauer Park Town Hall and Roland, Bremen Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Primeval Beech Forests Regensburg Corvey Margravial Opera House The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Lower German Limes ShUM Sites Water Management System of Augsburg Schwerin Residence Ensemble Aachen Cathedral The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria Trier
- Greece: Archaeological Site of Delphi Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios Meteora Mycenae and Tiryns Olympia Thessalonika Archaeological site of Philippi Acropolis Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Guatemala: Antigua Guatemala Tikal National Park Quirigua
- Holy See: Vatican City Rome
- Hungary: Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs Budapest Pannonhalma Fertö/Neusiedlersee Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System
- Iceland: Thingvellir Vatnajökull National Park
- India: Churches and Convents of Goa Elephanta Caves Ellora Caves Hampi Pattadakal Ajanta Caves The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
- Indonesia: Borobudur Prambanan Bali Subak system Yogyakarta
- Iran: Meidan Emam, Esfahan Persepolis Yazd Masjed-e Jâme' Persian Garden Golestan Palace The Persian Qanat
- Italy: Venice and its Lagoon Verona Florence Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) Costiera Amalfitana Naples Pienza Ravenna San Gimignano Siena Val d'Orcia Dolomites Genoa Mantua and Sabbioneta Primeval Beech Forests Medici Villas and Gardens The Porticoes of Bologna Rome
- Japan: Ancient Kyoto Genbaku Dome Himeji-jo Horyu-ji Area Itsukushima Shrine Nikko Shirakawa-go and Gokayama Ancient Nara Gusuku of Ryukyu Shirakami-Sanchi Yakushima Shiretoko Hiraizumi Fujisan Tomioka Silk Mill The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Jomon Prehistoric Sites Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution
- Jordan: Petra Quseir Amra Um er-Rasas Wadi Rum Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Kazakhstan: Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi Tanbaly Saryarka Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Western Tien-Shan
- Kyrgyzstan: Sulaiman-Too Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Western Tien-Shan
- Laos: Luang Prabang Vat Phou Plain of Jars
- Latvia: Riga
- Lebanon: Anjar Byblos Tyre Baalbek
- Libya: Cyrene Leptis Magna Sabratha
- Lithuania: Vilnius Curonian Spit Kernavė Modernist Kaunas
- Luxembourg: City of Luxembourg
- Malaysia: Melaka and George Town
- Mali: Cliff of Bandiagara Djenné Timbuktu
- Malta: Hal Saflieni Hypogeum Megalithic Temples of Malta Valletta
- Mexico: Oaxaca and Monte Alban Palenque Teotihuacan Sian Ka'an Chichen-Itza Campeche El Tajin Mexico City and Xochimilco Puebla Querétaro Uxmal Zacatecas Calakmul Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Morocco: Medina of Fez Medina of Marrakesh Medina of Tétouan Meknes Volubilis Rabat
- Netherlands: Van Nellefabriek Lower German Limes Rietveld Schröderhuis
- New Zealand: Tongariro National Park
- Niger: W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
- North Macedonia: Primeval Beech Forests
- Panama: The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
- Poland: Białowieża Forest Kraków Malbork Castle Torun Zamość Muskauer Park Centennial Hall Primeval Beech Forests Auschwitz Birkenau
- Portugal: Belem Sintra Evora
- Republic of Korea: Gyeongju Changdeokgung Palace Complex Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple Jongmyo Shrine Jeju Baekje Historic Areas Haeinsa Temple
- Romania: Churches of Moldavia Sighisoara Villages with Fortified Churches Primeval Beech Forests
- Russia: Kremlin and Red Square St. Petersburg Curonian Spit Lake Baikal
- Saudi Arabia: Hegra Turaif Quarter Historic Jeddah Rock Art in the Hail Region
- Senegal: Island of Saint-Louis Island of Gorée Niokolo-Koba National Park Djoudj Saloum Delta
- Serbia: Stari Ras and Sopocani Studenica Monastery Medieval Monuments in Kosovo Gamzigrad-Romuliana
- Slovakia: Banska Stiavnica Vlkolinec Primeval Beech Forests
- Slovenia: Primeval Beech Forests Heritage of Mercury Plečnik's Ljubljana
- Spain: Granada Cordoba Seville Works of Antoni Gaudí El Escurial Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau San Cristobal de La Laguna Primeval Beech Forests Teide National Park Heritage of Mercury Antequera Dolmens Site Talayotic Menorca Medina Azahara Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro Risco Caido
- Sri Lanka: Kandy Old Town of Galle Polonnaruva Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple Sigiriya Anuradhapura Central Highlands
- Sudan: Gebel Barkal Meroe
- Switzerland: Bellinzone Old City of Berne Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces Primeval Beech Forests La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier Abbey of St Gall
- Syria: Aleppo Bosra Damascus Palmyra Crac des Chevaliers Ancient villages of Northern Syria
- Tajikistan: Sarazm Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
- Thailand: Ayutthaya Sukhothai
- Tunisia: Carthage Dougga/Thugga Kairouan Medina of Sousse Medina of Tunis Djerba Amphitheater of El Jem
- Turkiye: Göreme NP and Cappadocia Hattusha Istanbul Nemrut Dag Xanthos-Letoon Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Ani Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia
- Turkmenistan: Kunya-Urgench Nisa Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor Ancient Merv
- Ukraine: Primeval Beech Forests Odesa
- United Kingdom: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape Canterbury Edinburgh Gwynedd Castles Maritime Greenwich Tower of London Westminster Gorham's Cave Complex Lake District
- Uzbekistan: Bukhara Itchan Kala Shakhrisyabz Samarkand Western Tien-Shan Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
- Viet Nam: Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago Hoi An Hué My Son
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World Heritage Sites
- Simien National Park 5.0
- Bukhara 5.0
- Ancient Kyoto 5.0
- Wadi Rum 5.0
- Baalbek 5.0
- Tierradentro 4.5
- Wadi Al-Hitan 4.5
- Ancient Merv 4.0
- Timbuktu 4.0
- Yakushima 4.0
- Royal Palaces of Abomey 4.0
- Churches and Convents of Goa 4.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 4.0
- Aleppo 4.0
- Ancient villages of Northern Syria 4.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 4.0
- Van Nellefabriek 4.0
- Rock Art in the Hail Region 4.0
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 4.0
- Ani 4.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 3.5
- Amphitheater of El Jem 3.0
- Cliff of Bandiagara 3.0
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 3.0
- Lower German Limes 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Los Katios National Park 3.0
- Saryarka 3.0
- Anjar 3.0
- Lower Valley of the Omo 2.5
- Niokolo-Koba National Park 2.5
- Banska Stiavnica 2.5
- Stari Ras and Sopocani 2.5
- Zamość 2.0
- Gamzigrad-Romuliana 2.0
- Turaif Quarter 1.5
- Ruins of Loropéni 1.0
- Abu Mena 1.0
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 0.5
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