Thursday, October 20, 2011

Wish List III

Time for the biennial wish list update!  Instead of listing places alphabetically, this time we're going to do it by country.

* UNESCO World Heritage Sites
# new places

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRIA 
Hainburg an der Donau# 
Marchegg

BELGIUM 
Bruges*#

CANADA 
Banff National Park#
Calgary Stampede#
L'Anse aux Meadows*
Montréal 
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Québec City*#
Queen Charlotte Islands 
Vancouver

CHILE 
Valparaíso*

CROATIA 
Plitvice Lakes*#

EGYPT
Giza*

FINLAND 
Suomenlinna*#

FRANCE 
Annecy# 
Avignon*#
Basilica of Saint Denis# 
Bayeux Tapestry
Brittany
Carcassonne*
Chartres Cathedral*#
Dordogne River Valley
Mont Saint Michel* 
Normandy
Provins*# 
Rouen#  
Strasbourg

GERMANY 
Aachen Cathedral*# 
Wittenberg in 2017

GREECE

ICELAND

INDIA 
Shimla*

ISRAEL 
Jerusalem*

JAMAICA 

KENYA 

the NETHERLANDS

NEW ZEALAND

NORWAY 
Bergen#
Borgund Stave Church#
Urnes Stave Church*#
Viking Ship Museum#

POLAND 
Częstochowa#
Malbork Castle*

RUSSIA 
Lake Baikal*#
Siberia

SPAIN 
Ávila*#
Santiago de Compostela*
Toledo*# 
walk at least 100 kilometers of the Santiago pilgrimage route*#

SWITZERLAND 
Lucerne#

SYRIA 
Krak des Chevaliers*

TURKEY 
Istanbul*#

UK 
all the medieval cathedrals in England which I shall discuss in a separate post 
Battle Abbey and Hastings battlefield# 
Berwick-upon-Tweed#
Cambridge#
Canterbury* 
Channel Islands#
Cornwall#
Forest of Dean# 
Fountains Abbey# 
Greenwich*#
Hadrian's Wall*# 
Iona 
Isle of Skye#
Lindisfarne
Oxford#
Stonehenge*
walk the pilgrimage route from London to Canterbury Cathedral
Wearmouth-Jarrow twin monastery# 

USA 
Alaska
Aspen# 
Badlands National Park 
Bethany Beach
Denali National Park 
drive Route 66 between Chicago and Los Angeles 
Dry Tortugas National Park 
Everglades National Park*
Florida Keys
Hawaii 
Louisiana 
Minnesota
Mount Rushmore 
Santa Fe 
Sitka 
St. Augustine 
Texas 
Vermont 
Wyoming
Yellowstone National Park*

INTERNATIONAL/MULTI-NATIONAL 
aurora borealis
bears
fjords 
glaciers
midnight sun 
Niagara Falls 
polar bears
Rocky Mountains 
Victoria Falls* 
zebras

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