Winners & Losers: Episode 4 - UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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In this 4th episode of Winners and Losers, I look the some of the most iconic landmarks and naturally beautiful places on the planet. From the Great Wall of China, to Blue Mountains of Australia, and everything inbetween.

Notre-Dame footage curtiousy of AP archive.

[quasar]

This channel should be a Unesco heritage site.

[Jameman]

UNESCO:
Site gets bombed: I sleep
Bridge gets built: GET SOME

[QueenFondue]

When WonderWhy uploads, we're all winners.

[melledevries]

WonderWhy: "Most visited UNESCO World Heritage Site is the Forbidden City"
Chinese emperor: * rolls in grave *

[klunkymunkey]

Episode 5: Microstates
Episode 6: Capital cities
Episode 7: Continents

[AS-mwpw]

I wonder how many potential UNESCO world heritage sites were destroyed in WW1 and WW2

[abalancedbreakfast]

Episode 5 dictators

Most killed/least killed

Longest /shortest reign

Amount of international support

Most/least infamous

[zzzzzz]

Episode 1 came out on 1 Aug 2013
195 days later
Episode 2 came out (1 Feb 2014)
1389 days later
Episode 3 came out (30 Nov 2017)
611 days later
This Episode came out
1389-611 is 778 so episode 5 should come out 18 Sep 2021(778 days from now)
Note: yes I know wonder said it would be 2024

[patrickwienhoft]

It's weird having some Scottish guy on the Internet that I've never seen talk about a bridge I see every week at 14:53. Greetings from Dresden :D

[hoodclassicsofcalifornia]

Btw, WonderWhy this was an interesting idea that was better than all of our WAL 4 suggestions. See why these great videos take so long. Keep it up

[eduardof]

Fun Fact: Mexico City has 6 different places considered World Heritage Site inside the city, in an area of less than 800 km2 making it probably one of the places with more density of world heritage sites in the world.
-Mexico City Historic Center
-Xochimilco
-Ancient City of Teotihuacán
-UNAM Campus
-Luis Barragán House and Studio
-The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
There are also two more places that have already been presented to the UNESCO and are in process to be considered a World Heritage Site:
-Chapultepec Forest, Hill and Castle
-Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House and Studio
With this we would have 8 different World Heritage Site declarations in the same city, the same amount as whole countries like Hungary, Finland or Sri Lanka, and just to sites ahead of the Netherlands or Denmark...in the same city.
By the way, rhe Luis Barragan House is also one of the smallest heritage places in the world, as it is also an individual house.

[penguinpingu]

In my opinion Bhutan should be a UNESCO world heritage site itself

[tomithyyt]

currently watching from a Easter Island, a UNESCO world heritage site. love you vids!

[lewiss.]

Everyone: "Oh, UNESCO includes super relevant things!"
UNESCO: *h o u s e*

[archdukefranzferdinand]

he bought it back the absolute mad lad

[beanman]

This manz really makes these long breaks worth it because he comes up with ideas nobody else thinks of. Rock on legend!!!

[WonderWhy]

I wasn't planning on doing episode 4 of my Winners and Losers series, until I came up with this idea. Something I thought was a little different, and could be interesting, UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Originally I was worried it was too soon after the last episode, only to discover the 3rd one was in 2017! How time flies.


So I hope everyone likes the new episode, it was a lot of fun to make, and has given me about 50 new places that are on my bucket list! There are so many stunning locations I had never even heard of.




As always, free feel to leave suggestions for the next episode... which will probably be in like 2024 or something. Thanks for watching!

[beatlemaniac]

13:50 Shocking that my home town is in danger of losing its world heritage status. Liverpool is such a beautiful and iconic place with a history and culture that am proud of. Thanks for raising this issue mate.

[gnzalomras]

Spain is named three times in the rankings, but no reference or image appears.

*Spain:* Crying in the corner

[Itzarzky]

We went from
1: Countries
2: USA
3: Planets
4: Heritage