Unesco World Heritage Sites, So Far

Below is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage sites we've been to as of February 2013.

We'll probably get to a dozen more, at least, this year. At that rate, I'll have seen them all about the time I'm 135 years old.

Unesco World Heritage sites aren't the last word in travel, but they do provide a point of reference if you're going to a country anyway. And, they're kind of a fun way of keeping score, if you're into that sort of thing. I use the list as sort of a suggestion box for things to see if you're going to a country anyway. We saw a lot of the sites we visited before we even knew there was such a thing as an official list of cool stuff.

I'll try to keep this updated as we go.

You can see the ones I've written about and/or photographed by clicking here.

Australia
Great Barrier Reef
Tasmanian Wilderness
Sydney Opera House
Australian Convict Sites

Chile
Historic center of Valparaiso

Costa Rica
Conservation areas of Guanacaste

Ecuador
Old City of Quito

France
Banks of the Seine
Chartres Cathedral
Versailles
Historic site of Lyons

Holy See (Vatican)
Vatican City
Historic center of Rome, St. Paul Outside the Walls

Indonesia
The Subak System of Bali

Italy
Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Historic Center of Rome
Historic Center of Florence
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
Historic Center of Naples
Historic Center of Siena
Archeological Area of Agrigento
Archeological Areas of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis

Mexico
San Miguel de Allende and Atontonilco

Peru
City of Cusco
Historic center of Lima
Machu Picchu

Portugal
Sintra
Hieronomite Monastery and Torre de Belem, Lisbon
Historic center of Oporto

Spain
Alcalá de Henares
Alhambra and Generalife, Granada
Burgos Cathedral
El Escorial
Historic Center of Córdoba
Works of Antoní Gaudi, Barcelona
Cave of Altamira and Cave Art of Cantabria
Old town of Avila
Old town of Segovia and Roman Aqueduct
Santiago de Compostela
Historic city of Toledo
Cathedral, Archivo de las Indias, Alcazar in Sevilla
Old city of Salamanca
Route of Santiago de Compostela
Palau de la Musica Catalana, Barcelona
Catalan Romanesque Churches
Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
Archeological site of Atapuerca

Turkey
Goreme National Park and Cappadocian Rock Sites
Historic Areas of Istanbul
Pamukkale
Site of Troy

United Kingdom
Westminster Palace and Abbey
Tower of London
Maritime Greenwich

United States
National Parks: Everglades, Mesa Verde, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon
Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Statue of Liberty
Monticello
Taos Pueblo

Vietnam
Hue Monuments
Old center of Hanoi
Hoi An Ancient Town

That's 66. Only about 897 to go.

We are currently engaged in updating our UNESCO World Heritage site visits on a country by country basis. As we do a new country, we'll add links here. Eventually we'll completely re-edit this post to better reflect our new approach to UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Here are pages with links to the UNESCO World Heritage sites by country that we have done to date.

Australia
Cyprus
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Jordan
Romania
Russia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
Vietnam

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