Saving a snapping turtle from crossing busy highway, near Peterborough, Ont. Click photo to see how it thanked me.Below is a list of world heritage sites (as defined by UNESCO) that I have been to.
No. of sites visited: 18
No. of sites remaining to be seen: 736Canada
Canada/U.S.A. China
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Historic District of Quebec
Czech Republic Estonia Greece Latvia Lithuania Mongolia Poland Ukraine
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang (The "Forbidden City")
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (Terracotta warriors)
- The Great Wall
- Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
- Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
- Kyiv: Saint Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
- L'viv: the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
From RFE/RL Newsline (www.rferl.org), June 4, 2003
LATVIA'S CAPITAL COULD BE REMOVED FROM UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LIST
Mechtild Rossler, chief of the UNESCO World Heritage Center in the European Region, told Latvian parliament and Riga city council deputies on 2 June that the planned construction of the 26-story Sun Stone business complex in Riga's Kipsalu district could result in the removal of the city from the UNESCO list, LETA reported. He noted that a similar situation had arisen in Vienna, where a project for constructing four skyscrapers in the city's historic center was halted after a similar warning. Two floors of the Riga building and a parking lot have already been built. At an extraordinary meeting on 3 June, the council's City Development Committee invited Rossler to its next meeting the following day to explain what UNESCO legal enactments Riga should observe. SG
