And it's not too late, ever, even when most of these things are pretty silly for grown-ups.
But silly is good :-D
National Trust's 50 things to do before you're 11 3/4
101 things every child should do before they grow up
51 things your child should do before growing up
30 Things Kids Should Do Before They Grow Up
Bucket List for Kids: 101 Things to Experience in Childhood
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Sunday, August 3, 2014
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part V - Oceania and Antarktis
Antarctic
Blood Falls Glacier
Deception Island
Oceania
Australia
Tasmania
Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands (Keeling islands), Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island and several other islands
Great Barrier Reef
Kakadu National Park
Willandra Lakes Region
Lord Howe Island Group
Tasmanian Wilderness
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Shark Bay, Western Australia
Fraser Island
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)
Heard and McDonald Islands
Macquarie Island
Greater Blue Mountains Area
Purnululu National Park
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
Sydney Opera House
Australian Convict Sites
Ningaloo Coast
Caves on Kangaroo Island
Hyams Beach, the whitest sand in the world
The Twelve Apostles (sea stacks)
Ball’s Pyramid (sea stack)
Hillier Lake, pink lake
Melanesia
Fiji
Rotuma
Levuka Historical Port Town
Vanuatu
Chief Roi Mata’s Domain
Solomon Islands
East Rennell
Papua New Guinea
Kuk Early Agricultural Site
New Caledonia (F)
Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems
Micronesia
Federal States of Micronesia (Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae)
Kiribati
Phoenix Islands Protected Area
Marshall Islands
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site
Nauru
Palau
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon
Guam, Marianas and Wake Island (US)
Polynesia
New Zealand
Norfolk Island, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and numerous smaller islands
Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand
Tongariro National Park
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands
Moeraki Boulders
Milford Sound
Lake Matheson, New Zealand
Glowworm Caves
Muriwai Black Sand Beach
Hawaii and American Samoa (US)
Papahānaumokuākea
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Na Pali Coast waterfall cave
Mauna Kea
Red Sand Beach of Kaihalulu Bay
Black Sand Beach, Punaluʻu Beach
Papakōlea Beach, Green Sand Beach
Honokohau Falls in Maui
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Ch)
Rapa Nui National Park
Pitcairn Islands (UK)
Henderson Island
Samoa
Tonga
Tuvalu
French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna (F)
Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambier Islands, Marquesas Islands and Austral Islands
Tahiti
Blood Falls Glacier
Deception Island
Oceania
Australia
Tasmania
Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands (Keeling islands), Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island and several other islands
Great Barrier Reef
Kakadu National Park
Willandra Lakes Region
Lord Howe Island Group
Tasmanian Wilderness
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Shark Bay, Western Australia
Fraser Island
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)
Heard and McDonald Islands
Macquarie Island
Greater Blue Mountains Area
Purnululu National Park
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
Sydney Opera House
Australian Convict Sites
Ningaloo Coast
Caves on Kangaroo Island
Hyams Beach, the whitest sand in the world
The Twelve Apostles (sea stacks)
Ball’s Pyramid (sea stack)
Hillier Lake, pink lake
Melanesia
Fiji
Rotuma
Levuka Historical Port Town
Vanuatu
Chief Roi Mata’s Domain
Solomon Islands
East Rennell
Papua New Guinea
Kuk Early Agricultural Site
New Caledonia (F)
Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems
Micronesia
Federal States of Micronesia (Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae)
Kiribati
Phoenix Islands Protected Area
Marshall Islands
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site
Nauru
Palau
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon
Guam, Marianas and Wake Island (US)
Polynesia
New Zealand
Norfolk Island, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and numerous smaller islands
Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand
Tongariro National Park
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands
Moeraki Boulders
Milford Sound
Lake Matheson, New Zealand
Glowworm Caves
Muriwai Black Sand Beach
Hawaii and American Samoa (US)
Papahānaumokuākea
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Na Pali Coast waterfall cave
Mauna Kea
Red Sand Beach of Kaihalulu Bay
Black Sand Beach, Punaluʻu Beach
Papakōlea Beach, Green Sand Beach
Honokohau Falls in Maui
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Ch)
Rapa Nui National Park
Pitcairn Islands (UK)
Henderson Island
Samoa
Tonga
Tuvalu
French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna (F)
Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambier Islands, Marquesas Islands and Austral Islands
Tahiti
Saturday, August 2, 2014
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part IV - Americas
Americas
Canada
L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
Nahanni National Park
Dinosaur Provincial Park
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek 5
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
SGang Gwaay
Wood Buffalo National Park
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks6
Historic District of Old Québec
Gros Morne National Park
Old Town Lunenburg
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
Miguasha National Park
Rideau Canal
Joggins Fossil Cliffs
Landscape of Grand Pré
Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
Places in Canada you won't actually believe are real
Cirque of the Unclimbables
United States of America
Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Marianas, U. S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa
Alaska (shared with Canada)
Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
Mendenhall Glacier ice cave
Montana (shared with Canada)
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
Washington
Olympic National Park
California
Redwood National and State Parks
Yosemite National Park (Don't forget to visit the Thank God Ledge... ;-))
Lava Tube Cave, Tulelake
Pfeiffer Beach (purple sand), Big Sur
Glass Beach
Anacapa Arch, Channel Islands National Park,
Arizona
Grand Canyon National Park
Antelope Canyon
The Wave
Nevada
The Fly Geyser
Valley of Fire
Utah
Paria River
Dixie National Forest
Colorado
Mesa Verde National Park
New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Taos Pueblo
Texas
Caverns of Sonora
Wyoming, Montana, Idaho
Yellowstone National Park (Old Faithful and Grand Prismatic)
Michigan
Torch Lake
Porcupine Mountains Waterfall
Illinois
Cahokia
Kentucky
Mammoth Cave National Park
Tennessee, North Carolina
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Ruby Falls
Rumble Room, Rumbling Falls
Alabama
Rock Cave
Virginia
Monticello and the University of Virginia
Pennsylvania
Independence Hall
New York
Statue of Liberty
Louisiana
Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point
Florida
Everglades National Park
Mesa Verde National Park
Crescent Beach, Siesta Key (very white sand)
("Eat Key Lime Pie at Florida Key)
Mexico
Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán
Historic Centre of Puebla
Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan
Sian Ka'an
Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines
Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
Historic Centre of Morelia
El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City
Historic Centre of Zacatecas
Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl
Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro
Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal
Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes
Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan
Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco
Historic Fortified Town of Campeche
Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
Luis Barragán House and Studio
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California
Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila
Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve
Sacred Cenote
Cave of Crystals, Naica mines
The Yucatan Cave Lake
Caribbean Islands
Greater Antilles
The Bahamas
Underwater caves
Pink Sand Beach, Harbour Island, Eleuthera
Cuba
Old Havana and its Fortification System
Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba
Desembarco del Granma National Park
Viñales Valley
Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos
Historic Centre of Camagüey
Haiti
National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers
Dominican Republic
Colonial City of Santo Domingo
Jamaica
Cayman Islands (UK)
Puerto Rico (US)
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico
Lesser Antilles
Leeward Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands
Anguilla (UK)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park
Antigua and Barbuda
Saint Martin/Sint Maarten
Montserrat (UK)
Guadeloupe (F)
Windward Islands
Dominica
Morne Trois Pitons National Park
Martinique (F)
Saint Lucia
Pitons Management Area
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Grenada
Barbados
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison
Trinidad and Tobago
Leeward Antilles (Netherland Antilles)
Aruba
Curaçao
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (BES islands)
Belize
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System
The Great Blue Hole
Guatemala
Antigua Guatemala
Tikal National Park
Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua
El Salvador
Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site
Honduras
Maya Site of Copan
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Nicaragua
Ruins of León Viejo
León Cathedral
Costa Rica
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
Cocos Island National Park
Area de Conservación Guanacaste
Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís
Panama
Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo
Darien National Park
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá
Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection
Colombia
Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
Los Katíos National Park
Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox
National Archeological Park of Tierradentro
San Agustín Archaeological Park
Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Sierra Nevada Del Cocuy y Guican
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Coro and its Port
Canaima National Park
Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
Cave of ghost
Catatumbo lightning
Mount Roraima (Shared with Brazil and Guyana)
Guyana
Mount Roraima (Shared with Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana)
Suriname
Central Suriname Nature Reserve
Historic Inner City of Paramaribo
French Guyana
Brazil
Historic Town of Ouro Preto
Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes
Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas
Iguaçu National Park
Brasilia
Serra da Capivara National Park
Historic Centre of São Luís
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves
Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina
Central Amazon Conservation Complex
Pantanal Conservation Area
Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves
Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks
Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás
São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão
Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea
Mount Roraima (Shared with Venezuela and Guyana)
Ecuador
City of Quito
Galápagos Islands
Sangay National Park
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Peru
City of Cuzco
Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
Chavin (Archaeological Site)
Huascarán National Park
Chan Chan Archaeological Zone
Manú National Park
Historic Centre of Lima
Río Abiseo National Park
Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana
Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa
Sacred City of Caral-Supe
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
City of Potosí
Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
Historic City of Sucre
Fuerte de Samaipata
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Salar de Uyuni
Paraguay
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue
Uruguay
Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento
Argentina
Los Glaciares National Park
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto
and Santa Maria Mayor
Iguazu National Park
Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas
Península Valdés
Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
Quebrada de Humahuaca
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Chile
Churches of Chiloé Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
Sewell Mining Town
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Marble Caves
Canada
L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
Nahanni National Park
Dinosaur Provincial Park
Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek 5
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
SGang Gwaay
Wood Buffalo National Park
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks6
Historic District of Old Québec
Gros Morne National Park
Old Town Lunenburg
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
Miguasha National Park
Rideau Canal
Joggins Fossil Cliffs
Landscape of Grand Pré
Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
Places in Canada you won't actually believe are real
Cirque of the Unclimbables
United States of America
Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Marianas, U. S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa
Alaska (shared with Canada)
Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
Mendenhall Glacier ice cave
Montana (shared with Canada)
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
Washington
Olympic National Park
California
Redwood National and State Parks
Yosemite National Park (Don't forget to visit the Thank God Ledge... ;-))
Lava Tube Cave, Tulelake
Pfeiffer Beach (purple sand), Big Sur
Glass Beach
Anacapa Arch, Channel Islands National Park,
Arizona
Grand Canyon National Park
Antelope Canyon
The Wave
Nevada
The Fly Geyser
Valley of Fire
Utah
Paria River
Dixie National Forest
Colorado
Mesa Verde National Park
New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Taos Pueblo
Texas
Caverns of Sonora
Wyoming, Montana, Idaho
Yellowstone National Park (Old Faithful and Grand Prismatic)
Michigan
Torch Lake
Porcupine Mountains Waterfall
Illinois
Cahokia
Kentucky
Mammoth Cave National Park
Tennessee, North Carolina
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Ruby Falls
Rumble Room, Rumbling Falls
Alabama
Rock Cave
Virginia
Monticello and the University of Virginia
Pennsylvania
Independence Hall
New York
Statue of Liberty
Louisiana
Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point
Florida
Everglades National Park
Mesa Verde National Park
Crescent Beach, Siesta Key (very white sand)
("Eat Key Lime Pie at Florida Key)
Mexico
Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán
Historic Centre of Puebla
Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan
Sian Ka'an
Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines
Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
Historic Centre of Morelia
El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City
Historic Centre of Zacatecas
Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl
Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro
Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal
Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes
Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan
Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco
Historic Fortified Town of Campeche
Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
Luis Barragán House and Studio
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California
Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila
Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve
Sacred Cenote
Cave of Crystals, Naica mines
The Yucatan Cave Lake
Caribbean Islands
Greater Antilles
The Bahamas
Underwater caves
Pink Sand Beach, Harbour Island, Eleuthera
Cuba
Old Havana and its Fortification System
Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba
Desembarco del Granma National Park
Viñales Valley
Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos
Historic Centre of Camagüey
Haiti
National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers
Dominican Republic
Colonial City of Santo Domingo
Jamaica
Cayman Islands (UK)
Puerto Rico (US)
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico
Lesser Antilles
Leeward Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands
Anguilla (UK)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park
Antigua and Barbuda
Saint Martin/Sint Maarten
Montserrat (UK)
Guadeloupe (F)
Windward Islands
Dominica
Morne Trois Pitons National Park
Martinique (F)
Saint Lucia
Pitons Management Area
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Grenada
Barbados
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison
Trinidad and Tobago
Leeward Antilles (Netherland Antilles)
Aruba
Curaçao
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (BES islands)
Belize
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System
The Great Blue Hole
Guatemala
Antigua Guatemala
Tikal National Park
Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua
El Salvador
Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site
Honduras
Maya Site of Copan
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Nicaragua
Ruins of León Viejo
León Cathedral
Costa Rica
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
Cocos Island National Park
Area de Conservación Guanacaste
Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís
Panama
Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo
Darien National Park
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá
Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection
Colombia
Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
Los Katíos National Park
Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox
National Archeological Park of Tierradentro
San Agustín Archaeological Park
Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Sierra Nevada Del Cocuy y Guican
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Coro and its Port
Canaima National Park
Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
Cave of ghost
Catatumbo lightning
Mount Roraima (Shared with Brazil and Guyana)
Guyana
Mount Roraima (Shared with Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana)
Suriname
Central Suriname Nature Reserve
Historic Inner City of Paramaribo
French Guyana
Brazil
Historic Town of Ouro Preto
Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes
Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas
Iguaçu National Park
Brasilia
Serra da Capivara National Park
Historic Centre of São Luís
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves
Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina
Central Amazon Conservation Complex
Pantanal Conservation Area
Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves
Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks
Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás
São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão
Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea
Mount Roraima (Shared with Venezuela and Guyana)
Ecuador
City of Quito
Galápagos Islands
Sangay National Park
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Peru
City of Cuzco
Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
Chavin (Archaeological Site)
Huascarán National Park
Chan Chan Archaeological Zone
Manú National Park
Historic Centre of Lima
Río Abiseo National Park
Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana
Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa
Sacred City of Caral-Supe
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
City of Potosí
Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
Historic City of Sucre
Fuerte de Samaipata
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Salar de Uyuni
Paraguay
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue
Uruguay
Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento
Argentina
Los Glaciares National Park
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto
and Santa Maria Mayor
Iguazu National Park
Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas
Península Valdés
Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
Quebrada de Humahuaca
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Chile
Churches of Chiloé Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
Sewell Mining Town
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
Marble Caves
Friday, August 1, 2014
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part III - Africa
Africa
Morocco
Medina of Fez
Medina of Marrakesh
Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
Historic City of Meknes
Archaeological Site of Volubilis
Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)
Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)
Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)
Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage
Western Sahara
Algeria
Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
Djémila
M'Zab Valley
Tassili n'Ajjer
Timgad
Tipasa
Kasbah of Algiers
Tunisia
Amphitheatre of El Jem
Archaeological Site of Carthage
Medina of Tunis
Ichkeul National Park
Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis
Kairouan
Medina of Sousse
Dougga / Thugga
Libya
Archaeological Site of Cyrene
Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna
Archaeological Site of Sabratha
Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus
Old Town of Ghadamès
Egypt
Abu Mena
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
Historic Cairo
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
Saint Catherine Area
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)
Citadel of Qaitbay - built on the site of the Alexandrian lighthouse, using some of the same stones.
The New Library of Alexandria
Sudan
Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region
Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe
South Sudan
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Simien National Park
Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
Aksum (Don't forget to go and see the stelae of Aksum when you're in Ethiopia!)
Lower Valley of the Awash
Lower Valley of the Omo
Tiya
Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town
Konso Cultural Landscape
Erta Ale Volcano
Djibouti
Somalia
Kenya
Lake Turkana National Parks
Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
Lamu Old Town
Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
Fort Jesus, Mombasa
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley
Maasai Mara National Reserve and Mara river
Explore Kenya’s coral coast
Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage
- Here you can tick off such goals like bottle-feeding an elephant, cuddling an elephant, bathing an elephant, hanging out with elephants...
Suggested as the 8th wonder, a natural wonder of the world;
The great wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania
United Republic of Tanzania
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
Serengeti National Park
Selous Game Reserve
Kilimanjaro National Park
Stone Town of Zanzibar
Kondoa Rock-Art Sites
Lake Natron
The snow on Kilimanjaro is melting... Might be all gone before 2040
Uganda
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi
Rwanda
Burundi
Malawi
Lake Malawi National Park
Chongoni Rock-Art Area
Zambia
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Devil's Pool)
Mozambique
Island of Mozambique
Comoros
Mauritius
Aapravasi Ghat
Le Morne Cultural Landscape
Seven Colored Earths
Madagascar
Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve
Royal Hill of Ambohimanga
Rainforests of the Atsinanana
Isalo National Park
Seychelles
Aldabra Atoll
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve
Zimbabwe
Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
Great Zimbabwe National Monument
Khami Ruins National Monument
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Devil's Pool)
Matobo Hills
Botswana
Tsodilo
Okavango Delta
South Africa
Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa
iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Robben Island
Maloti-Drakensberg Park
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
Vredefort Dome
Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
Lion's Head Mountain, Signal Hill and Table Mountain in Cape Town
Swaziland
Lesotho
Maloti-Drakensberg Park
Namibia
Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes
Namib Sand Sea
Namib-Naukluft Park
Angola
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaïre)
Virunga National Park
Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Garamba National Park
Salonga National Park
Okapi Wildlife Reserve
Congo, Republic of the Congo
Sangha Trinational
Gabon
Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda
Equatorial Guinea
Central African Republic
Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park
Sangha Trinational
Chad
Lakes of Ounianga
Cameroon
Dja Faunal Reserve
Sangha Trinational
Nigeria
Sukur Cultural Landscape
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
Niger
Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves
W National Park of Niger
Historic Centre of Agadez
Benin
Royal Palaces of Abomey
Togo
Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba
Burkina Faso
Ruins of Loropéni
Ghana
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
Asante Traditional Buildings
Côte d'Ivoire
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
Taï National Park
Comoé National Park
Historic Town of Grand-Bassam
Liberia
Sierra Leona
Guinea
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
Guinea Bissau
São Tomé and Príncipe
Cabo Verde
Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande
Gambia
Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites
Stone Circles of Senegambia
Senegal
Island of Gorée
Niokolo-Koba National Park
Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary
Island of Saint-Louis
Stone Circles of Senegambia
Saloum Delta
Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes
The pink lake Retba
Mali
Timbuktu
Old Towns of Djenné
Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)
Tomb of Askia
Mauritania
Banc d'Arguin National Park
Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata
The Richat Structure
Morocco
Medina of Fez
Medina of Marrakesh
Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
Historic City of Meknes
Archaeological Site of Volubilis
Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)
Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)
Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)
Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage
Western Sahara
Algeria
Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
Djémila
M'Zab Valley
Tassili n'Ajjer
Timgad
Tipasa
Kasbah of Algiers
Tunisia
Amphitheatre of El Jem
Archaeological Site of Carthage
Medina of Tunis
Ichkeul National Park
Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis
Kairouan
Medina of Sousse
Dougga / Thugga
Libya
Archaeological Site of Cyrene
Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna
Archaeological Site of Sabratha
Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus
Old Town of Ghadamès
Egypt
Abu Mena
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
Historic Cairo
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
Saint Catherine Area
Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)
Citadel of Qaitbay - built on the site of the Alexandrian lighthouse, using some of the same stones.
The New Library of Alexandria
Pyramids of Giza is the only one remaining Antique Wonders of the World.
Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region
Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe
South Sudan
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Simien National Park
Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
Aksum (Don't forget to go and see the stelae of Aksum when you're in Ethiopia!)
Lower Valley of the Awash
Lower Valley of the Omo
Tiya
Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town
Konso Cultural Landscape
Erta Ale Volcano
Djibouti
Somalia
Kenya
Lake Turkana National Parks
Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
Lamu Old Town
Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
Fort Jesus, Mombasa
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley
Maasai Mara National Reserve and Mara river
Explore Kenya’s coral coast
Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage
- Here you can tick off such goals like bottle-feeding an elephant, cuddling an elephant, bathing an elephant, hanging out with elephants...
Suggested as the 8th wonder, a natural wonder of the world;
The great wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, Kenya and Serengeti, Tanzania
United Republic of Tanzania
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
Serengeti National Park
Selous Game Reserve
Kilimanjaro National Park
Stone Town of Zanzibar
Kondoa Rock-Art Sites
Lake Natron
Uganda
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi
Rwanda
Burundi
Malawi
Lake Malawi National Park
Chongoni Rock-Art Area
Zambia
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Devil's Pool)
Mozambique
Island of Mozambique
Comoros
Mauritius
Aapravasi Ghat
Le Morne Cultural Landscape
Seven Colored Earths
Madagascar
Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve
Royal Hill of Ambohimanga
Rainforests of the Atsinanana
Isalo National Park
Seychelles
Aldabra Atoll
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve
Zimbabwe
Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
Great Zimbabwe National Monument
Khami Ruins National Monument
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Devil's Pool)
Matobo Hills
Botswana
Tsodilo
Okavango Delta
South Africa
Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa
iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Robben Island
Maloti-Drakensberg Park
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
Vredefort Dome
Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
Lion's Head Mountain, Signal Hill and Table Mountain in Cape Town
Swaziland
Lesotho
Maloti-Drakensberg Park
Namibia
Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes
Namib Sand Sea
Namib-Naukluft Park
Angola
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaïre)
Virunga National Park
Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Garamba National Park
Salonga National Park
Okapi Wildlife Reserve
Congo, Republic of the Congo
Sangha Trinational
Gabon
Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda
Equatorial Guinea
Central African Republic
Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park
Sangha Trinational
Chad
Lakes of Ounianga
Cameroon
Dja Faunal Reserve
Sangha Trinational
Nigeria
Sukur Cultural Landscape
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
Niger
Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves
W National Park of Niger
Historic Centre of Agadez
Benin
Royal Palaces of Abomey
Togo
Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba
Burkina Faso
Ruins of Loropéni
Ghana
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
Asante Traditional Buildings
Côte d'Ivoire
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
Taï National Park
Comoé National Park
Historic Town of Grand-Bassam
Liberia
Sierra Leona
Guinea
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
Guinea Bissau
São Tomé and Príncipe
Cabo Verde
Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande
Gambia
Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites
Stone Circles of Senegambia
Senegal
Island of Gorée
Niokolo-Koba National Park
Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary
Island of Saint-Louis
Stone Circles of Senegambia
Saloum Delta
Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes
The pink lake Retba
Mali
Timbuktu
Old Towns of Djenné
Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)
Tomb of Askia
Mauritania
Banc d'Arguin National Park
Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata
The Richat Structure
Thursday, July 31, 2014
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part II - Asia
Asia
Georgia
Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery
Historical Monuments of Mtskheta
Upper Svaneti
Krubera Cave in Abkhazia
Azerbaijan
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape
Armenia
Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin
Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley
Syrian Arab Republic
Ancient City of Damascus
Ancient City of Bosra
Site of Palmyra
Ancient City of Aleppo
Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din
Ancient Villages of Northern Syria
Lebanon
Anjar
Baalbek
Byblos
Tyre
Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)
Israel, Palestine, Jerusalem
Masada
Old City of Acre
White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement
Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves
Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands
as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves
Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem
Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir
Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
Dead Sea
Jordan
Petra
Quseir Amra
Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)
Wadi Rum Protected Area
Dead Sea
Saudi Arabia
Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih)
At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah
Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah
Yemen
Old Walled City of Shibam
Old City of Sana'a
Historic Town of Zabid
Socotra Archipelago
Oman
Bahla Fort
Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
Arabian Oryx Sanctuary
Land of Frankincense
Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman
Caves of Oman
United Arab Emirates
Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas)
Qatar
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site
Bahrain
Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun
Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
Kuwait
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Meidan Emam, Esfahan
Persepolis
Tchogha Zanbil
Takht-e Soleyman
Bam and its Cultural Landscape
Pasargadae
Soltaniyeh
Bisotun
Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil
Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex
The Persian Garden
Gonbad-e Qābus
Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan
Golestan Palace
Shahr-i Sokhta
Iraq
Hatra
Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)
Samarra Archaeological City
Erbil Citadel
Kazakhstan
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly
Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
Uzbekistan
Itchan Kala
Historic Centre of Bukhara
Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz
Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures
Kyrgyzstan
Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
Tajikistan
Proto-urban Site of Sarazm
Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs)
Turkmenistan
State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv”
Kunya-Urgench
Parthian Fortresses of Nisa
Door to Hell
Afghanistan
Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam
Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley
Pakistan
Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro
Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol
Taxila
Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore
Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta
Rohtas Fort
India
Agra Fort
Ajanta Caves
Ellora Caves
Taj Mahal
Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
Sun Temple, Konârak
Kaziranga National Park
Keoladeo National Park
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
Churches and Convents of Goa
Fatehpur Sikri
Group of Monuments at Hampi
Khajuraho Group of Monuments
Elephanta Caves
Great Living Chola Temples
Group of Monuments at Pattadakal
Sundarbans National Park
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks
Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi
Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
Mountain Railways of India
Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)
Red Fort Complex
The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
Western Ghats
Hill Forts of Rajasthan
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area
Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat
Chand Baori - Abhaneri
Maldives
Sea of Stars, Vaadhoo island
Nepal
Kathmandu Valley
Sagarmatha National Park
Chitwan National Park
Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha
Bhutan
The Tiger’s Nest, Paro Taktsang Monastery
China
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Mogao Caves
Mount Taishan
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
The Great Wall
Mount Huangshan
Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area
Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area
Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains
Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa
Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu
Lushan National Park
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
Ancient City of Ping Yao
Classical Gardens of Suzhou
Old Town of Lijiang
Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
Dazu Rock Carvings
Mount Wuyi
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Longmen Grottoes
Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System
Yungang Grottoes
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
Historic Centre of Macao
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains
Yin Xu
Kaiping Diaolou and Villages
South China Karst
Fujian Tulou
Mount Sanqingshan National Park
Mount Wutai
China Danxia
Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in “The Centre of Heaven and Earth”
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou
Chengjiang Fossil Site
Site of Xanadu
Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
Xinjiang Tianshan
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
The Grand Canal
Wuhua Hai, or Five-Flower Lake, Jiuzhaigon National Park
Reed Flute Cave Lake in Guilin, Guangxi
Zhangye, China - the multicolored, striped hills
The Stone Forest - Yunnan
Mongolia
Uvs Nuur Basin
Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape
Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai
North Korea - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Complex of Koguryo Tombs
Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong
South Korea - Republic of Korea
Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon,
the Depositories for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks
Jongmyo Shrine
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
Changdeokgung Palace Complex
Hwaseong Fortress
Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites
Gyeongju Historic Areas
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes
Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty
Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong
Namhansanseong
Japan
Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
Himeji-jo
Shirakami-Sanchi
Yakushima
Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
Shrines and Temples of Nikko
Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range
Shiretoko
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape
Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites
Representing the Buddhist Pure Land
Ogasawara Islands
Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration
Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
Blood Pond Hot Spring
Taiwan (Republic of China)
Viet Nam
Complex of Hué Monuments
Ha Long Bay
Hoi An Ancient Town
My Son Sanctuary
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park
Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi
Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
Trang An Landscape Complex
Hang En and Hang Son Doong Caves
Laos
Bangladesh
Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat
Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur
The Sundarbans
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Ancient City of Polonnaruwa
Ancient City of Sigiriya
Sacred City of Anuradhapura
Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications
Sacred City of Kandy
Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Golden Temple of Dambulla
Central Highlands of Sri Lanka
Myanmar (Burma)
Pyu Ancient Cities
Thailand
Historic City of Ayutthaya
Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries
Ban Chiang Archaeological Site
Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex
Lod Cave, Mae Hong Son Province
Khao Luang Caves
Khao Sam Roi Yot
The Naga fireballs along the Mekong River
James Bond Island (Ko Tapu), Phang Nga Bay
Koh Poda Rock, Krabi
Cambodia
Angkor
Temple of Preah Vihear
Laos - Lao People's Democratic Republic
Town of Luang Prabang
Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape
The Naga fireballs along the Mekong River
Champa (Southern Vietnam)
Indonesia
Borobudur Temple Compounds
Komodo National Park
Prambanan Temple Compounds
Ujung Kulon National Park
Sangiran Early Man Site
Lorentz National Park
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System
as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy
East Timor
Malaysia
Gunung Mulu National Park
Kinabalu Park
Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca
Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley
Bako Sea Stack in Bako National Park in Borneo
Brunei
Singapore
Philippines
Baroque Churches of the Philippines
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
Historic Town of Vigan
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park
Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary
Georgia
Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery
Historical Monuments of Mtskheta
Upper Svaneti
Krubera Cave in Abkhazia
Azerbaijan
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape
Armenia
Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin
Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley
Syrian Arab Republic
Ancient City of Damascus
Ancient City of Bosra
Site of Palmyra
Ancient City of Aleppo
Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din
Ancient Villages of Northern Syria
Lebanon
Anjar
Baalbek
Byblos
Tyre
Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)
Israel, Palestine, Jerusalem
Masada
Old City of Acre
White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement
Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves
Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands
as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves
Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem
Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir
Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
Dead Sea
Jordan
Petra
Quseir Amra
Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)
Wadi Rum Protected Area
Dead Sea
Saudi Arabia
Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih)
At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah
Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah
Yemen
Old Walled City of Shibam
Old City of Sana'a
Historic Town of Zabid
Socotra Archipelago
Socotra must be one of the most amazing places on earth...
Oman
Bahla Fort
Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
Arabian Oryx Sanctuary
Land of Frankincense
Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman
Caves of Oman
United Arab Emirates
Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas)
Qatar
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site
Bahrain
Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun
Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
Kuwait
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Meidan Emam, Esfahan
Persepolis
Tchogha Zanbil
Takht-e Soleyman
Bam and its Cultural Landscape
Pasargadae
Soltaniyeh
Bisotun
Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil
Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex
The Persian Garden
Gonbad-e Qābus
Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan
Golestan Palace
Shahr-i Sokhta
Iraq
Hatra
Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)
Samarra Archaeological City
Erbil Citadel
Kazakhstan
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly
Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
Uzbekistan
Itchan Kala
Historic Centre of Bukhara
Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz
Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures
Kyrgyzstan
Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
Tajikistan
Proto-urban Site of Sarazm
Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs)
Turkmenistan
State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv”
Kunya-Urgench
Parthian Fortresses of Nisa
Door to Hell
Afghanistan
Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam
Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley
Pakistan
Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro
Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol
Taxila
Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore
Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta
Rohtas Fort
India
Agra Fort
Ajanta Caves
Ellora Caves
Taj Mahal
Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
Sun Temple, Konârak
Kaziranga National Park
Keoladeo National Park
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
Churches and Convents of Goa
Fatehpur Sikri
Group of Monuments at Hampi
Khajuraho Group of Monuments
Elephanta Caves
Great Living Chola Temples
Group of Monuments at Pattadakal
Sundarbans National Park
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks
Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi
Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
Mountain Railways of India
Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)
Red Fort Complex
The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
Western Ghats
Hill Forts of Rajasthan
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area
Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat
Chand Baori - Abhaneri
Maldives
Sea of Stars, Vaadhoo island
Nepal
Kathmandu Valley
Sagarmatha National Park
Chitwan National Park
Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha
Bhutan
The Tiger’s Nest, Paro Taktsang Monastery
China
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Mogao Caves
Mount Taishan
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
The Great Wall
Mount Huangshan
Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area
Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area
Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains
Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa
Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu
Lushan National Park
Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
Ancient City of Ping Yao
Classical Gardens of Suzhou
Old Town of Lijiang
Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
Dazu Rock Carvings
Mount Wuyi
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Longmen Grottoes
Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System
Yungang Grottoes
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
Historic Centre of Macao
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains
Yin Xu
Kaiping Diaolou and Villages
South China Karst
Fujian Tulou
Mount Sanqingshan National Park
Mount Wutai
China Danxia
Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in “The Centre of Heaven and Earth”
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou
Chengjiang Fossil Site
Site of Xanadu
Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
Xinjiang Tianshan
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
The Grand Canal
Wuhua Hai, or Five-Flower Lake, Jiuzhaigon National Park
Reed Flute Cave Lake in Guilin, Guangxi
Zhangye, China - the multicolored, striped hills
The Stone Forest - Yunnan
Mongolia
Uvs Nuur Basin
Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape
Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai
North Korea - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Complex of Koguryo Tombs
Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong
South Korea - Republic of Korea
Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon,
the Depositories for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks
Jongmyo Shrine
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
Changdeokgung Palace Complex
Hwaseong Fortress
Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites
Gyeongju Historic Areas
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes
Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty
Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong
Namhansanseong
Japan
Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
Himeji-jo
Shirakami-Sanchi
Yakushima
Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
Shrines and Temples of Nikko
Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range
Shiretoko
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape
Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites
Representing the Buddhist Pure Land
Ogasawara Islands
Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration
Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
Blood Pond Hot Spring
Taiwan (Republic of China)
Viet Nam
Complex of Hué Monuments
Ha Long Bay
Hoi An Ancient Town
My Son Sanctuary
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park
Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi
Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
Trang An Landscape Complex
Hang En and Hang Son Doong Caves
Laos
Bangladesh
Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat
Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur
The Sundarbans
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Ancient City of Polonnaruwa
Ancient City of Sigiriya
Sacred City of Anuradhapura
Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications
Sacred City of Kandy
Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Golden Temple of Dambulla
Central Highlands of Sri Lanka
Myanmar (Burma)
Pyu Ancient Cities
Thailand
Historic City of Ayutthaya
Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns
Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries
Ban Chiang Archaeological Site
Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex
Lod Cave, Mae Hong Son Province
Khao Luang Caves
Khao Sam Roi Yot
The Naga fireballs along the Mekong River
James Bond Island (Ko Tapu), Phang Nga Bay
Koh Poda Rock, Krabi
Cambodia
Angkor
Temple of Preah Vihear
Laos - Lao People's Democratic Republic
Town of Luang Prabang
Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape
The Naga fireballs along the Mekong River
Champa (Southern Vietnam)
Indonesia
Borobudur Temple Compounds
Komodo National Park
Prambanan Temple Compounds
Ujung Kulon National Park
Sangiran Early Man Site
Lorentz National Park
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System
as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy
East Timor
Malaysia
Gunung Mulu National Park
Kinabalu Park
Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca
Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley
Bako Sea Stack in Bako National Park in Borneo
Brunei
Singapore
Philippines
Baroque Churches of the Philippines
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
Historic Town of Vigan
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park
Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part I - Europe
Europe
Finland
Åland
Fortress of Suomenlinna
Old Rauma
Petäjävesi Old Church
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
Struve Geodetic Arc
Sweden
Royal Domain of Drottningholm
Birka and Hovgården
Engelsberg Ironworks
Rock Carvings in Tanum
Skogskyrkogården
Hanseatic Town of Visby
Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå
Laponian Area
Naval Port of Karlskrona
Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg
Struve Geodetic Arc
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
Norway
Svalbard, Jan Mayen
Bryggen
Urnes Stave Church
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference
Rock Art of Alta
Vegaøyan -- The Vega Archipelago
Struve Geodetic Arc
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord
Now,
thanks to Internet, Preikestolen, Trolltunga and Kjeragbolten have
found their way to many bucket lists, which means that there's always a
LOT of people.
St Olav's Pilgrim's Route is something very special for me. I started crying seeing Nidaros Cathedral in a photo. I can't imagine the emotional impact of the "real thing"...
Anyway, this is a nice little circle for me. Now, Hurtigrutten sails from Bergen to Kirkenes
Alesund, Norway
Þingvellir National Park
Surtsey
37 Photographic Proofs That Iceland Is A Miracle Of Nature
Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon
Gullfoss
Don't miss ice caves and vulcanic ash in rivers creating amazing patterns and colors
Hvítserkur, Vatnsnes peninsula
Skaftafeli
Arnessysla
Denmark
Faroe Islands and Greenland
Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
Roskilde Cathedral
Kronborg Castle
Wadden Sea
Stevns Klint
Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland
Risin og Kellingin, Eysturoy island, Faroe Islands
Lake Sørvágsvatn
Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn
Struve Geodetic Arc
Latvia
Historic Centre of Riga
Struve Geodetic Arc
Lithuania
Vilnius Historic Centre
Curonian Spit
Kernavė Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernavė)
Struve Geodetic Arc
Belarus
Białowieża Forest
Mir Castle Complex
Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh
Struve Geodetic Arc
Russia
Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Kizhi Pogost
Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow
Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands
Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings
White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad
Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
Virgin Komi Forests
Lake Baikal
Volcanoes of Kamchatka
Golden Mountains of Altai
Western Caucasus
Curonian Spit
Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery
Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin
Central Sikhote-Alin
Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent
Uvs Nuur Basin
Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent
Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve
Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl
Struve Geodetic Arc
Putorana Plateau
Lena Pillars Nature Park
Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex
Orda cave
Siberia
Ice cave Near the Mutnovsky volcano
Sail Rock, The Black Sea
Stone Giants, Northern Ural, Siberia
Ukraine
Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
Struve Geodetic Arc
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans
Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
Tunnel of Love
Republic of Moldova
Struve Geodetic Arc
Romania
Danube Delta
Churches of Moldavia
Monastery of Horezu
Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania 19
Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains
Historic Centre of Sighişoara
Wooden Churches of Maramureş
Izvorul Bigăr
Bulgaria
Boyana Church
Madara Rider
Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo
Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
Ancient City of Nessebar
Pirin National Park
Rila Monastery
Srebarna Nature Reserve
Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari
Devetashka cave
Turkey
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği
Historic Areas of Istanbul
Hattusha: the Hittite Capital
Nemrut Dağ
Hierapolis-Pamukkale
Xanthos-Letoon
City of Safranbolu
Archaeological Site of Troy
Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex
Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük
Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire
Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape
Cappadocia
Mount Ararat
Cyprus
Paphos
Painted Churches in the Troodos Region
Choirokoitia
Greece
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
Acropolis, Athens
Archaeological Site of Delphi
Medieval City of Rhodes
Meteora
Mount Athos
Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika
Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus
Archaeological Site of Mystras
Archaeological Site of Olympia
Delos
Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
Archaeological Site of Aigai (modern name Vergina)
Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint-John the Theologian
and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos
Old Town of Corfu
Melissani Cave, Kefalonia
Kokkini Beach, Red Beach of Santorini
Minoan ruins fo Akotiri
Ikaria, Greece
Albania
Butrint
Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region
Kosovo
Montenegro
Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor
Durmitor National Park
Stari Ras and Sopoćani
Studenica Monastery
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad
Croatia
Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian
Old City of Dubrovnik
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč
Historic City of Trogir
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik
Stari Grad Plain
Rovinj, Croatia
Škocjan Caves
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija
Piran, Slovenia
Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its vicinity
Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments
Vlkolínec
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area
Czech Republic
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov
Historic Centre of Prague
Historic Centre of Telč
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora
Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara
and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž
Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
Litomyšl Castle
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica in Třebíč
Poland
Historic Centre of Kraków
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
Auschwitz Birkenau
German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
Białowieża Forest
Historic Centre of Warsaw
Old City of Zamość
Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork
Medieval Town of Toruń
- Visit the Gingerbread Museum
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural
and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park
Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski
Centennial Hall in Wrocław
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
Hungary
Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter
and Andrássy Avenue
Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae)
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape
Austria
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape
Semmering Railway
City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg
Wachau Cultural Landscape
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
Historic Centre of Vienna
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Abbey of St Gall
Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair
Old City of Berne
Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
Monte San Giorgio
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Matterhorn
Germany
Aachen Cathedral
Speyer Cathedral
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square
Pilgrimage Church of Wies
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar
and Upper Harz Water Management System
Maulbronn Monastery Complex
Town of Bamberg
Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg
Völklingen Ironworks
Messel Pit Fossil Site
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau
Cologne Cathedral
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg
Classical Weimar
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
Wartburg Castle
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
Monastic Island of Reichenau
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
Upper Middle Rhine Valley
Dresden Elbe Valley
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians
and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
Wadden Sea
Fagus Factory in Alfeld
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey
Belgium
Flemish Béguinages
La Grand-Place, Brussels
The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière
and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)
Belfries of Belgium and France
Historic Centre of Brugge
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex
Stoclet House
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
Netherlands
Schokland and Surroundings
Defence Line of Amsterdam
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao
Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)
Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)
Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)
Wadden Sea
Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
Van Nellefabriek
Tulip fields
Luxembourg
City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications
San Marino
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano
Italy
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie
with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci
Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
Historic Centre of Florence
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
Venice and its Lagoon
Historic Centre of San Gimignano
The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
Crespi d'Adda
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta
Historic Centre of Naples
Historic Centre of Siena
Castel del Monte
Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
The Trulli of Alberobello
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli,
and the San Leucio Complex
Archaeological Area of Agrigento
Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
Costiera Amalfitana
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Villa Romana del Casale
Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum
and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
Historic Centre of Urbino
Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
City of Verona
Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
Villa d'Este, Tivoli
Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
Monte San Giorgio
Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
Val d'Orcia
Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
Mantua and Sabbioneta
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
The Dolomites
Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany
Mount Etna
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato
Porto Ferro, Sardinia (orange, rust colored sand)
Sea stack at Torre Sant’Andrea
GR20
Holy See
Vatican City
Malta
City of Valletta
Megalithic Temples of Malta
Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
Monaco
France
Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna
Chartres Cathedral
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
Palace and Park of Versailles
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
Vézelay, Church and Hill
Amiens Cathedral
Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments
Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
Palace and Park of Fontainebleau
Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange
From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans,
the Production of Open-pan Salt
Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy
Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
Strasbourg – Grande île
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi
and Palace of Tau, Reims
Paris, Banks of the Seine
Bourges Cathedral
Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge
Canal du Midi
Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
Historic Site of Lyons
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
Belfries of Belgium and France
Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes
Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs
Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret
Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
Fortifications of Vauban
Episcopal City of Albi Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche
Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve
Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island
Gouffre de Padirac
Andorra
Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
Spain
the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, Alborán, Alhucemas, Chafarinas and Vélez de la Gomera.
Basque
Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada
Burgos Cathedral
Historic Centre of Cordoba
Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid
Works of Antoni Gaudí
Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain
Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturia
Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct
Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)
Historic City of Toledo Mudejar Architecture of Arago
Old Town of Cáceres
Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville
Old City of Salamanca
Poblet Monastery
Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida
Route of Santiago de Compostela
Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
Doñana National Park
Historic Walled Town of Cuenca
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
Las Médulas
Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares
Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture
Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco
Archaeological Site of Atapuerca
Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí
Palmeral of Elche Roman Walls of Lugo
Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza
Tower of Hercules
Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana
Vizcaya Bridge
Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija
Teide National Park
San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Garajonay National Park
Rio Tinto
Caminito del Rey
Portugal
Azores and Madeira
Convent of Christ in Tomar Monastery of Batalha
Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon
Historic Centre of Évora
Monastery of Alcobaça
Cultural Landscape of Sintra
Historic Centre of Porto
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde
Alto Douro Wine Region Historic Centre of Guimarães
Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications
University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia
Laurisilva of Madeira
Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores
Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture
Algar seco Carvoeiro, Algarve
United Kingdom of Great Britain
England
Durham Castle and Cathedral
Ironbridge Gorge
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
Blenheim Palace
City of Bath
Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church
Tower of London
Maritime Greenwich
Derwent Valley Mills Dorset and East Devon Coast
Saltaire Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City
Wales
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Cornwall
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
Scotland
St Kilda
Heart of Neolithic Orkney
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
New Lanark
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Isle of Skyes Fairy Pools
Smoo Cave
Fingal’s Cave
Loch Ness
Old Man of Hoy, Hoy island
Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man
Gough and Inaccessible Islands (In South Atlantic)
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda
Ireland
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast (UK)
Brú na Bóinne - Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne
Sceilg Mhichíl
Cliffs of Moher
Finland
Åland
Fortress of Suomenlinna
Old Rauma
Petäjävesi Old Church
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
Struve Geodetic Arc
Sweden
Royal Domain of Drottningholm
Birka and Hovgården
Engelsberg Ironworks
Rock Carvings in Tanum
Skogskyrkogården
Hanseatic Town of Visby
Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå
Laponian Area
Naval Port of Karlskrona
Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg
Struve Geodetic Arc
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
Norway
Svalbard, Jan Mayen
Bryggen
Urnes Stave Church
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference
Rock Art of Alta
Vegaøyan -- The Vega Archipelago
Struve Geodetic Arc
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord
St Olav's Pilgrim's Route is something very special for me. I started crying seeing Nidaros Cathedral in a photo. I can't imagine the emotional impact of the "real thing"...
Anyway, this is a nice little circle for me. Now, Hurtigrutten sails from Bergen to Kirkenes
Alesund, Norway
While in Alesund, visit the Atlantic Sea Park at Tueneset, the biggest saltwater aquarium in northern Europe. Visit in December for next-level skiing in the Sunnmore alps.Iceland
Þingvellir National Park
Surtsey
37 Photographic Proofs That Iceland Is A Miracle Of Nature
Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon
Gullfoss
Don't miss ice caves and vulcanic ash in rivers creating amazing patterns and colors
Hvítserkur, Vatnsnes peninsula
Skaftafeli
Arnessysla
Denmark
Faroe Islands and Greenland
Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
Roskilde Cathedral
Kronborg Castle
Wadden Sea
Stevns Klint
Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland
Risin og Kellingin, Eysturoy island, Faroe Islands
Lake Sørvágsvatn
Lake Sørvágsvatn
EstoniaHistoric Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn
Struve Geodetic Arc
Latvia
Historic Centre of Riga
Struve Geodetic Arc
Lithuania
Vilnius Historic Centre
Curonian Spit
Kernavė Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernavė)
Struve Geodetic Arc
Belarus
Białowieża Forest
Mir Castle Complex
Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh
Struve Geodetic Arc
Russia
Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Kizhi Pogost
Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow
Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands
Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings
White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad
Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
Virgin Komi Forests
Lake Baikal
Volcanoes of Kamchatka
Golden Mountains of Altai
Western Caucasus
Curonian Spit
Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery
Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin
Central Sikhote-Alin
Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent
Uvs Nuur Basin
Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent
Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve
Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl
Struve Geodetic Arc
Putorana Plateau
Lena Pillars Nature Park
Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex
Orda cave
Siberia
Ice cave Near the Mutnovsky volcano
Sail Rock, The Black Sea
Stone Giants, Northern Ural, Siberia
Ukraine
Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
Struve Geodetic Arc
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans
Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
Tunnel of Love
Republic of Moldova
Struve Geodetic Arc
Romania
Danube Delta
Churches of Moldavia
Monastery of Horezu
Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania 19
Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains
Historic Centre of Sighişoara
Wooden Churches of Maramureş
Izvorul Bigăr
Bulgaria
Boyana Church
Madara Rider
Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo
Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
Ancient City of Nessebar
Pirin National Park
Rila Monastery
Srebarna Nature Reserve
Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari
Devetashka cave
Turkey
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği
Historic Areas of Istanbul
Hattusha: the Hittite Capital
Nemrut Dağ
Hierapolis-Pamukkale
Xanthos-Letoon
City of Safranbolu
Archaeological Site of Troy
Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex
Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük
Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire
Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape
Cappadocia
Mount Ararat
Cyprus
Paphos
Painted Churches in the Troodos Region
Choirokoitia
Greece
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
Acropolis, Athens
Archaeological Site of Delphi
Medieval City of Rhodes
Meteora
Mount Athos
Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika
Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus
Archaeological Site of Mystras
Archaeological Site of Olympia
Delos
Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
Archaeological Site of Aigai (modern name Vergina)
Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint-John the Theologian
and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos
Old Town of Corfu
Melissani Cave, Kefalonia
Kokkini Beach, Red Beach of Santorini
Minoan ruins fo Akotiri
Ikaria, Greece
There must be something in the water on this Grecian island, where residents typically live to 100. Visit during the summer for panagiria, the huge festivals celebrating various religious holidays, which happen once or twice a week between May and October.
Albania
Butrint
Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region
Kosovo
Montenegro
Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor
Durmitor National Park
Kotor
SerbiaStari Ras and Sopoćani
Studenica Monastery
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad
Croatia
Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian
Old City of Dubrovnik
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč
Historic City of Trogir
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik
Stari Grad Plain
Rovinj, Croatia
Located on the Adriatic Sea, Rovinj is an active fishing port (hello, amazingly fresh meals) and boasts incredible Mediterranean weather. Also nearby is the Brijuni Island National Park, where you can see ancient Roman villas and the remains of a Byzantine Palace.
Plitvice
SloveniaŠkocjan Caves
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija
Piran, Slovenia
Narrow streets and Gothic alleyways wind through this historical Slovenian town sitting at the tip of a thin peninsula. Pack your flats: The town is so tiny, you'll want to make the 30-minute walk from end to end.Slovakia
Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its vicinity
Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments
Vlkolínec
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area
Czech Republic
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov
Historic Centre of Prague
Historic Centre of Telč
Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora
Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara
and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž
Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
Litomyšl Castle
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
Tugendhat Villa in Brno
Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica in Třebíč
Poland
Historic Centre of Kraków
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
Auschwitz Birkenau
German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
Białowieża Forest
Historic Centre of Warsaw
Old City of Zamość
Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork
Medieval Town of Toruń
- Visit the Gingerbread Museum
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural
and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park
Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica
Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski
Centennial Hall in Wrocław
Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
Hungary
Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter
and Andrássy Avenue
Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae)
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape
Austria
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape
Semmering Railway
City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg
Wachau Cultural Landscape
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
Historic Centre of Vienna
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Abbey of St Gall
Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair
Old City of Berne
Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
Monte San Giorgio
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Matterhorn
Germany
Aachen Cathedral
Speyer Cathedral
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square
Pilgrimage Church of Wies
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar
and Upper Harz Water Management System
Maulbronn Monastery Complex
Town of Bamberg
Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg
Völklingen Ironworks
Messel Pit Fossil Site
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau
Cologne Cathedral
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg
Classical Weimar
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
Wartburg Castle
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
Monastic Island of Reichenau
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
Upper Middle Rhine Valley
Dresden Elbe Valley
Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians
and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
Wadden Sea
Fagus Factory in Alfeld
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey
Belgium
Flemish Béguinages
La Grand-Place, Brussels
The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière
and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)
Belfries of Belgium and France
Historic Centre of Brugge
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex
Stoclet House
Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
Netherlands
Schokland and Surroundings
Defence Line of Amsterdam
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao
Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)
Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)
Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)
Wadden Sea
Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
Van Nellefabriek
Tulip fields
Luxembourg
City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications
San Marino
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano
Italy
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie
with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci
Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
Historic Centre of Florence
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
Venice and its Lagoon
Historic Centre of San Gimignano
The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
Crespi d'Adda
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta
Historic Centre of Naples
Historic Centre of Siena
Castel del Monte
Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
The Trulli of Alberobello
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli,
and the San Leucio Complex
Archaeological Area of Agrigento
Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
Costiera Amalfitana
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
Go to Manarola, the oldest and second smallest of the Cinque Terre towns, for fresh seafood from the Ligurian Sea, sweet Sciacchetrà wine and some peace and quiet (no cars are allowed).
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Villa Romana del Casale
Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum
and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
Historic Centre of Urbino
Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
City of Verona
Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
Villa d'Este, Tivoli
Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
Monte San Giorgio
Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
Val d'Orcia
Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
Mantua and Sabbioneta
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
The Dolomites
Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany
Mount Etna
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato
Porto Ferro, Sardinia (orange, rust colored sand)
Sea stack at Torre Sant’Andrea
GR20
Holy See
Vatican City
Malta
City of Valletta
Megalithic Temples of Malta
Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
Monaco
France
Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna
Chartres Cathedral
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
Palace and Park of Versailles
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
Vézelay, Church and Hill
Amiens Cathedral
Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments
Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
Palace and Park of Fontainebleau
Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange
From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans,
the Production of Open-pan Salt
Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy
Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
Strasbourg – Grande île
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi
and Palace of Tau, Reims
Paris, Banks of the Seine
Bourges Cathedral
Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge
Canal du Midi
Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
Historic Site of Lyons
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
Belfries of Belgium and France
Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes
Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs
Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret
Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
Fortifications of Vauban
Episcopal City of Albi Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche
Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve
Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island
Gouffre de Padirac
Andorra
Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
Spain
the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, Alborán, Alhucemas, Chafarinas and Vélez de la Gomera.
Basque
Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada
Burgos Cathedral
Historic Centre of Cordoba
Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid
Works of Antoni Gaudí
Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain
Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturia
Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct
Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)
Historic City of Toledo Mudejar Architecture of Arago
Old Town of Cáceres
Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville
Old City of Salamanca
Poblet Monastery
Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida
Route of Santiago de Compostela
Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
Doñana National Park
Historic Walled Town of Cuenca
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
Las Médulas
Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares
Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture
Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco
Archaeological Site of Atapuerca
Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí
Palmeral of Elche Roman Walls of Lugo
Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza
Tower of Hercules
Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana
Vizcaya Bridge
Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija
Teide National Park
San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Garajonay National Park
Rio Tinto
Caminito del Rey
Portugal
Azores and Madeira
Convent of Christ in Tomar Monastery of Batalha
Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon
Historic Centre of Évora
Monastery of Alcobaça
Cultural Landscape of Sintra
Historic Centre of Porto
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde
Alto Douro Wine Region Historic Centre of Guimarães
Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications
University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia
Laurisilva of Madeira
Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores
Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture
Algar seco Carvoeiro, Algarve
Porto
England
Durham Castle and Cathedral
Ironbridge Gorge
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
Blenheim Palace
City of Bath
Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church
Tower of London
Maritime Greenwich
Derwent Valley Mills Dorset and East Devon Coast
Saltaire Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City
Wales
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Cornwall
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
Scotland
St Kilda
Heart of Neolithic Orkney
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
New Lanark
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Isle of Skyes Fairy Pools
Smoo Cave
Fingal’s Cave
Loch Ness
Old Man of Hoy, Hoy island
Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man
Gough and Inaccessible Islands (In South Atlantic)
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda
Ireland
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast (UK)
Brú na Bóinne - Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne
Sceilg Mhichíl
Cliffs of Moher
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list
1,000 Places to See Before You Die is a travel book by Patricia Schultz. The title appeals to all bucket-listers. Unfortunately, the book doesn't keep the title's promise.
I am not at all happy about this list.
USA, Canada, British Isles, Caribbean and Australia and New Zealand is a bit more than 2/5 of the list (39,5 %)
Europe is a little less than 1/3 of the list (29,5%)
Rest of the world; Asia, Middle East, Africa, Middle and South America, Oceania and Antarctic gets what's left (22,5%)
So, if you are a white Anglo-Saxon American, this list might be something for you.
If you are not... not so much.
There's also quite a lot of hotels on the list.
I find it hard to believe there's nothing much to see in Singapore, except "The Eastern and Oriental Express", "Singapore street food" and "Raffles hotel".
In my mind Bukit Timah nature reserve might be something better to see and experience. The botanical gardens. Zoological gardens with nocturnal animals nighttime tour... And Chinatown, Little India, Arab Street...
The American Club in Wisconsin is a hotel. "a luxury spa and resort" with nothing much to see or do except some golf courses. The facilities count such amazing features like bidet and ice machine.
"To include a hot dog stand in Chicago and then skip the ruins of Carthage in Tunisia spoils the credibility of this book."
"The title is a fascinating idea but it's a misnomer. It should have been " My Favorite Expensive Hotels." Schultz goes to the Pyramids and talks about the hotel. She goes to Yellowstone and talks about the hotel, and so on and so on."
"I am not a hotel collector. If you aren't either, skip this book."
"If someone needs a place to start for places to visit, one need look no further than the list of World Heritage Sites (numbering nearly a thousand). Oh, and a spa (no matter where it is) is not a place to see before you die."
"I expected some kind of personal list of interesting places around the world. What I got is a listing that any armchair traveler can put together reading other guides."
"During the rest of my life I would like to see some of the amazing, fantastic, unusual, beautiful, and awe-inspiring things and places that exist on this planet (they do exist!). So what does Ms. Schultz suggest as the most important places that I should see before I die? HOTELS!! Hotels????"
"Also no listings for anything in Korea, a country of amazing heritage, food and art and yet nothing!"
So, do NOT use this as a traveling bucket list, if you REALLY want to EXPERIENCE something worth it!
Here's some 300 man-made places on earth to visit and here's some 300 natural wonders
I had the list on this blog, but as I don't think the places she list ARE something to see before you die, I made my own list.
One thing before we start.
If you travel to some place, you become a tourist.
Tourism is VERY wearing for the natural sights and monuments.
Just the fact that we walk on the ground and breathe, just the fact that we exist in that place, leaves a mark. (skin cells, hair, sweat... we carry pores in our clothes and hair. We can be carrying seeds and parasites without knowing it.)
The LEAST you can do, is to pick up anything you can see that doesn't belong there, never mind if it was you or someone else who left it.
Don't pee in waters, springs, lakes and pools. Absolutely do not wash your dirty laundry or dishes in springs or pools. Take your laundry to your hotel or home, do the dishes by a piece of paper that you then put in a garbage bag that you carry with you to a garbage bin, away from the place.
Don't throw your food in the nature for the animals to clean up.
Take everything back with you that you brought there. (It is acceptable to leave a stone to certain places, but that's it.)
Do not carve your mark anywhere. Not on stones, not in trees, not on cliffs, not in monuments, buildings, statues... One would think that's something self-evident, but apparently it's not.
Take your camera with you and take a photo of yourself by something recognizable, so that you can say "I was there!".
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part I - Europe
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part II - Asia
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part III - Africa
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part IV - Americas
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part V - Oceania and Antarktis
Some traveling ideas
Silk Road - There has been several trade routes called "Silk Road" that an itinerary must be created for each effort to "travel the Silk Road"
Around the world in 80 days - Phineas Fogg's itinerary
Amber Road
Inca trail to Machu Picchu
The Whale trail
The King's Trail
Camino de Santiago
The Seven Wonders of the World
* Great Pyramid of Giza
* Hanging Gardens of Babylon
* Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
* Statue of Zeus at Olympia
* Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
* Colossus of Rhodes
* Lighthouse of Alexandria
Suggestions for the Eighth Wonder of the World
Natural places:
* Milford Sound in New Zealand; called so by Rudyard Kipling
* Natural Bridge in Virginia, so dubbed by William Jennings Bryan
* Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
* Burney Falls in California; called so by Theodore Roosevelt
* Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada
* Uluru in Australia.
* Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand, prior to their destruction in the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Pre-1900 creations
* Sigiriya in Matale District, Sri Lanka.
* The Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao, Philippines.
* Angkor Wat in Angkor, Cambodia.
* The Citadelle Laferrière in Northern Haiti.
* Great Wall of China, China
* The Taj Mahal, India
* Stonehenge, United Kingdom
* Machu Picchu, Peru
* Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines
* The Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti
* Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg, Russia
* The monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain.
* Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
* Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, United States
* Angkor Wat, Cambodia
* The moai statues of Easter Island, Chile
* The Terracotta Army, China
Post-1900 creations
* Delta Works, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland and Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands.
* Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia.
* Houston Astrodome
* Empire State Building, New York City
* Palm Islands of Dubai
* Panama Canal
* Karakoram Highway in Pakistan and China
* Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
* Thames Barrier, London, England
* Bahá'í terraces, on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
* Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China
* West Baden Springs Hotel
* Pikeville Cut-Through in Pikeville, Kentucky
* International Space Station in Orbit around Earth
New 7 Wonders of the World
Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Giza Necropolis, Giza, Egypt
Petra, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan
Colosseum, Rome, Italy
Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico
Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Peru
Great Wall of China, China
Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Other finalists:
Acropolis of Athens, Athens, Greece
Alhambra, Granada, Spain
Angkor Wat, Angkor, Cambodia
Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
Hagia Sophia, İstanbul, Turkey
Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto, Japan
Moai, Easter Island, Chile
Neuschwanstein, Füssen, Germany
Red Square, Moscow, Russia
Statue of Liberty, New York, United States
Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Timbuktu , Timbuktu, Mali
I am not at all happy about this list.
USA, Canada, British Isles, Caribbean and Australia and New Zealand is a bit more than 2/5 of the list (39,5 %)
Europe is a little less than 1/3 of the list (29,5%)
Rest of the world; Asia, Middle East, Africa, Middle and South America, Oceania and Antarctic gets what's left (22,5%)
So, if you are a white Anglo-Saxon American, this list might be something for you.
If you are not... not so much.
There's also quite a lot of hotels on the list.
I find it hard to believe there's nothing much to see in Singapore, except "The Eastern and Oriental Express", "Singapore street food" and "Raffles hotel".
In my mind Bukit Timah nature reserve might be something better to see and experience. The botanical gardens. Zoological gardens with nocturnal animals nighttime tour... And Chinatown, Little India, Arab Street...
The American Club in Wisconsin is a hotel. "a luxury spa and resort" with nothing much to see or do except some golf courses. The facilities count such amazing features like bidet and ice machine.
"To include a hot dog stand in Chicago and then skip the ruins of Carthage in Tunisia spoils the credibility of this book."
"The title is a fascinating idea but it's a misnomer. It should have been " My Favorite Expensive Hotels." Schultz goes to the Pyramids and talks about the hotel. She goes to Yellowstone and talks about the hotel, and so on and so on."
"I am not a hotel collector. If you aren't either, skip this book."
"If someone needs a place to start for places to visit, one need look no further than the list of World Heritage Sites (numbering nearly a thousand). Oh, and a spa (no matter where it is) is not a place to see before you die."
"I expected some kind of personal list of interesting places around the world. What I got is a listing that any armchair traveler can put together reading other guides."
"During the rest of my life I would like to see some of the amazing, fantastic, unusual, beautiful, and awe-inspiring things and places that exist on this planet (they do exist!). So what does Ms. Schultz suggest as the most important places that I should see before I die? HOTELS!! Hotels????"
"Also no listings for anything in Korea, a country of amazing heritage, food and art and yet nothing!"
So, do NOT use this as a traveling bucket list, if you REALLY want to EXPERIENCE something worth it!
Here's some 300 man-made places on earth to visit and here's some 300 natural wonders
I had the list on this blog, but as I don't think the places she list ARE something to see before you die, I made my own list.
One thing before we start.
If you travel to some place, you become a tourist.
Tourism is VERY wearing for the natural sights and monuments.
Just the fact that we walk on the ground and breathe, just the fact that we exist in that place, leaves a mark. (skin cells, hair, sweat... we carry pores in our clothes and hair. We can be carrying seeds and parasites without knowing it.)
DO YOUR BEST TO LEAVE
AS SMALL A MARK AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN!
The LEAST you can do, is to pick up anything you can see that doesn't belong there, never mind if it was you or someone else who left it.
Don't pee in waters, springs, lakes and pools. Absolutely do not wash your dirty laundry or dishes in springs or pools. Take your laundry to your hotel or home, do the dishes by a piece of paper that you then put in a garbage bag that you carry with you to a garbage bin, away from the place.
Don't throw your food in the nature for the animals to clean up.
Take everything back with you that you brought there. (It is acceptable to leave a stone to certain places, but that's it.)
Do not carve your mark anywhere. Not on stones, not in trees, not on cliffs, not in monuments, buildings, statues... One would think that's something self-evident, but apparently it's not.
Take your camera with you and take a photo of yourself by something recognizable, so that you can say "I was there!".
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part I - Europe
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part II - Asia
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part III - Africa
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part IV - Americas
The 1000+ places to visit before you die list, part V - Oceania and Antarktis
Some traveling ideas
Silk Road - There has been several trade routes called "Silk Road" that an itinerary must be created for each effort to "travel the Silk Road"
Around the world in 80 days - Phineas Fogg's itinerary
Amber Road
Inca trail to Machu Picchu
The Whale trail
The King's Trail
Camino de Santiago
The Seven Wonders of the World
* Great Pyramid of Giza
* Hanging Gardens of Babylon
* Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
* Statue of Zeus at Olympia
* Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
* Colossus of Rhodes
* Lighthouse of Alexandria
Suggestions for the Eighth Wonder of the World
Natural places:
* Milford Sound in New Zealand; called so by Rudyard Kipling
* Natural Bridge in Virginia, so dubbed by William Jennings Bryan
* Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
* Burney Falls in California; called so by Theodore Roosevelt
* Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada
* Uluru in Australia.
* Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand, prior to their destruction in the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Pre-1900 creations
* Sigiriya in Matale District, Sri Lanka.
* The Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao, Philippines.
* Angkor Wat in Angkor, Cambodia.
* The Citadelle Laferrière in Northern Haiti.
* Great Wall of China, China
* The Taj Mahal, India
* Stonehenge, United Kingdom
* Machu Picchu, Peru
* Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines
* The Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti
* Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near Saint Petersburg, Russia
* The monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain.
* Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
* Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, United States
* Angkor Wat, Cambodia
* The moai statues of Easter Island, Chile
* The Terracotta Army, China
Post-1900 creations
* Delta Works, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland and Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands.
* Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia.
* Houston Astrodome
* Empire State Building, New York City
* Palm Islands of Dubai
* Panama Canal
* Karakoram Highway in Pakistan and China
* Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
* Thames Barrier, London, England
* Bahá'í terraces, on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
* Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China
* West Baden Springs Hotel
* Pikeville Cut-Through in Pikeville, Kentucky
* International Space Station in Orbit around Earth
New 7 Wonders of the World
Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Giza Necropolis, Giza, Egypt
Petra, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan
Colosseum, Rome, Italy
Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico
Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Peru
Great Wall of China, China
Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Other finalists:
Acropolis of Athens, Athens, Greece
Alhambra, Granada, Spain
Angkor Wat, Angkor, Cambodia
Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
Hagia Sophia, İstanbul, Turkey
Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto, Japan
Moai, Easter Island, Chile
Neuschwanstein, Füssen, Germany
Red Square, Moscow, Russia
Statue of Liberty, New York, United States
Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Timbuktu , Timbuktu, Mali
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