UNESCO‘s interactive World Heritage List map, identifies the List’s 962 properties across the globe and provides information about each, including an photos. These sites have been selected based on their cultural and natural heritage that the committee deemed to be having outstanding universal value.
It is a great way to explore and discover things about the world beyond the really well known sites. Or a way to discover more about popular country destinations by taking you outside of the tourist spots. This list can be a great guide to discovering more of the most significant places in the world.
The red points on the map are World Heritage Sites in danger of being destroyed or permanently altered by man or nature, so they may not be around forever.
Unbeknownst to me, as I’ve been traveling, I’ve been to many of these places. I like lists, so this is a place to organize the places that I’ve been to. The full list is available on their website.
Total number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: 1052 (as of July 2016)
Number I’ve been to: 47
Austria
- Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
- Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
- Historic Centre of Vienna
Belgium
- Flemish Béguinages
- La Grand-Place, Brussels
- Historic Centre of Brugge
Cambodia
- Ankor
Canada
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Historic District of Old Québec
China
- Historic Centre of Macau
Czech Republic
France
- Palace and Park of Versailles
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes
Germany
- Aachen Cathedral
- Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Speicherstadt
Greece
Holy See
- Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
- Vatican City
Hungary
- Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue
- Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape
Ireland
- Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne
Italy
- Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
- Historic Centre of Florence
- Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
Japan
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
Netherlands
- Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
- Seventeenth-century canal ring area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
Poland
- Cracow’s Historic Centre
Spain
- Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville
- Historic Centre of Cordoba
UK
- Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
- City of Bath
- Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret’s Church
- Tower of London
USA
- Yellowstone National Park
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Independence Hall
- Redwood National and State Parks
- Olympic National Park
- Statue of Liberty
- Yosemite National Park
- Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
