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VISIT 500 UNESCO SITES
Last Updated: February 2026
One of my lifetime travel goals is to visit 500 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Along with my goal to visit 100 countries, as well as other travel and adventure goals, this challenge gives me an excuse (like I need one) to seek out some of the most incredible natural landscapes, historic cities, cultural landmarks, and iconic sites in the world.
If a place I’ve already visited is added to the UNESCO list later on, I’m still counting it. Let’s face it, if I’m starting this goal with 16 sites (as of July 2014 when this list was started), I’m going to need all the help I can get to reach 500!
Really though, whether I end up at 462 or 534, the ultimate reward will be that I have visited and experienced some awesome natural and cultural sites all around the world.
Below you’ll find the sites I’ve visited so far, and if you’d like to follow along with my progress towards this (very lofty!) goal, please feel free to stop by this page anytime.
# UNESCO SITES WORLDWIDE
# UNESCO SITES I'VE VISITED
% OF MY GOAL COMPLETED
UNESCO SITES VISITED
ALBANIA
Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra
Butrint
BELGIUM
Belfries of Belgium and France (Ypres, Belgium) *Shared with FRANCE
Flemish Béguinages
Funerary and Memory Sites of the First World War (Western Front) *Shared with FRANCE
Historic Centre of Brugge
La Grand-Place, Brussels
BERMUDA
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda
CANADA
Historic District of Old Québec
Old Town Lunenburg
Rideau Canal
Landscape of Grand Pré
Joggins Fossil Cliffs
COLOMBIA
Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
CROATIA
Old City of Dubrovnik
DENMARK
The Par Force Hunting Landscape in North Zealand
Kronberg Castle
Roskilde Cathedral
DOMINICA
Morne Trois Pitons National Park
EL SALVADOR
Joya de Cerén Archaeolgical Site
ENGLAND
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey and St Martin’s Church
Tower of London
Maritime Greenwich
Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
Ironbridge Gorge
City of Bath
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (Delisted 2021)
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
Jodrell Bank Observatory
The Great Spa Towns of Europe (City of Bath)
Blenheim Palace
FINLAND
Fortress of Suomenlinna
FRANCE
Mont Saint-Michel and Its Bay
Palace and Park of Versailles
Paris, Banks of the Seine
Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret
Belfries of Belgium and France (Arras, France) * Shared with BELGIUM
Fortifications of Vauban (Arras, France)
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims
Funerary and Memory Sites of the First World War (Western Front) *Shared with BELGIUM
GERMANY
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus
Speyer Cathedral
Pilgrimage Church of Wies
Maulbronn Monastery Complex
Abbey and Altenmunster of Lorsch
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Schachen and Herrenchiemsee
GREECE
Old Town of Corfu
GUATEMALA
Antigua Guatemala
ICELAND
Thingvellir National Park
IRELAND
Brú na Bóinne- 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 (Centre of Rome) *Shared with HOLY SEE
Historic Centre of Florence
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and other San Franciscan Sites
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanica), Padua
Padua’s Fourteenth-Century Fresco Cycles
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
Venice and its Lagoon
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta
The Porticoes of Bologna
Archaeolgical Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
Historica Centre of Naples
LUXEMBOURG
City of Luxembourg: Its Old Quarters and Fortifications
NETHERLANDS
Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curacao
NORWAY
Rock Art of Alta
PORTUGAL
Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores
Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon
Cultural Landscape of Sintra
RUSSIA
Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
SAINT LUCIA
Pitons Management Area
SAN MARINO
San Marino Historical Centre and Mount Titano
SCOTLAND
Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Antonine Wall, Scotland)
The Forth Bridge
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
SPAIN
Cathedral, Alcazar and Archivo de Indias in Seville
San Cristobal de la Laguna
Teide National Park
Works of Antoni Gaudi
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
San Antonio Missions
Statue of Liberty
Grand Canyon National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
VATICAN CITY
Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura *Shared with ITALY
Vatican City