World Greatest Sites celebrates the most outstanding places of the world, from Unesco World Heritage Sites to natural wonders and engineering marvels. From this website, you can explore the whole world without leaving your desk. All the sites are just a click away, and we would encourage you to point, click and discover! At World Greatest Sites, we don't just describe a place, we want to show you exactly where it is. By using our state-of-the-art Google Map, we achieve pinpoint accuracy of locating all the greatest places of the world.
World Greatest Sites encompass outstanding places that include Unesco World Heritage Sites, engineering man-made marvels, architectural megaprojects, skyscrapers, ancient ruins, castles, natural landscape, or some of the most popular and awesome tourist attractions. This website is far from completion - and we never expect it to be ever completed, as we continue to add new sites that are worth mentioning. To ensure we keep you updated on the latest sites added in, be sure to sign up to receive our beautiful newsletter - free to all subscribers.
We created World Greatest Sites because we ourselves simply love to explore and find out about the greatest places of the world, and we are enthusiastic to share this information with you. Our hope is that World Greatest Sites will be the place that document all the outstanding destinations of the world, and that you, our cherished readers, will have a great time browsing the information we have assembled.
If there is a site you deem worthy of inclusion, write to us and we will investigate and research it. It make take some time before a new site is added to World Greatest Sites, depending on how soon we are able to assemble the details about it. This involves looking for photographs, putting together the map, and assembling other related details. It is a lot of hard work but we sure enjoy it very much. So please, keep your suggestions coming.
Now we leave you to enjoy the information and photographs of World Greatest Sites, and we hope you will visit us ever so often. Enjoy your visit.
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San Alfonso del Mar, by Sam View in Panoramio
Map of World Greatest Sites
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Site List
Abu Simbel, Aswan, Egypt |
Alhambra, Granada, Spain |
Angkor Wat, Cambodia |
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Angel Falls, Venezuela |
Bora Bora, French Polynesia |
Borobudur, Indonesia |
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Burj Dubai, UAE |
Cappadocia, Turkey |
Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico |
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Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
CN Tower, Toronto, Canada |
Colosseum, Rome, Italy |
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Easter Island, Chile |
Eiffel Tower, Paris, France |
Falkirk Wheel, Scotland, UK |
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Forbidden City, China |
Golden Temple of Amritsar, India |
Grand Canyon, USA |
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Great Wall, China |
Iguazu Falls, Brazil/Argentina |
Itaipu Dam, Brazil/Paraguay |
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Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine |
Machu Picchu, Peru |
Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
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Mont St Michel, France |
Mount Bromo, Indonesia |
Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany |
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Oresund Bridge, Denmark/Sweden |
Osaka, Japan |
Petra, Jordan |
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Pyramids of Giza, Egypt |
San Alfonso del Mar, Chile |
Santorini, Greece |
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Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia |
Sensoji, Tokyo, Japan |
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Statue of Liberty, USA |
Stonehenge, United Kingdom |
Sydney Opera House, Australia |
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Taipei 101, Taiwan |
Taj Mahal, India |
Temple of Heaven, China |
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Teotihuacan, Mexico |
Three Gorges Dam, China |
Torii of Itsukushima Shrine, Japan |
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe/Zambia |
Wat Si Saket, Vientiane, Laos |
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About World Greatest Sites
World Greatest Sites is authored by Timothy Tye, whose websites include London Travel Tips, Chiang Mai Travel Tips, Macau Travel Tips, Penang Travel Tips, EarthDocumentary, World in Pictures, AsiaExplorers, Budget Accommodation Guide, Travel Photography Workshop, The Flowering Garden and Happy Jobless Guy.
Photo Credit:
Wikimedia is cited as the source of some of the photos and attribution is provided to the authors on the main pages where the photographs appear, along with licensing terms. Some photos provided by Panoramio are under the copyright of their owners.
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