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The Historic District of Old Quebec was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1985. What the inscription recognizes is not a pretty old town but the most complete surviving fortified colonial settlement in North America.
Banff is not inscribed on its own. It is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, a single World Heritage property listed in 1984 and extended in 1990, and understanding that is the key to planning a trip through it.
Niagara Falls carries no World Heritage status of any kind, which surprises almost everyone. What it does carry is the best view of the falls from either country, and a town around it that needs navigating.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1981. It records nearly six thousand years of communal bison hunting by the peoples of the northern plains, and it is interpreted by their descendants.
L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978, in the first group of properties UNESCO ever listed. It is the only authenticated Norse settlement in North America and it is a long way from anywhere.
The Grand Canyon is on the World Heritage List for the record its rock layers hold and for a landscape at a scale photographs do not carry. Almost everything that goes wrong for visitors comes from underestimating the heat, or the difference between walking down and walking back up.
Yellowstone was the first national park anywhere and is on the World Heritage List for a geothermal system with no equal and the wildlife that lives on top of it. The two rules that matter most are about where you put your feet and how far away you stay.
Cahokia was a city of thousands across the river from what is now St. Louis, built and abandoned centuries before Europeans arrived. It is one of the most important archaeological sites in North America and one of the least visited things on the World Heritage List.
The churches, bridges, schools and streets where the civil rights movement happened are spread across the South and the border states. Their status is worth stating precisely, because they are frequently described as something they are not.
The San Antonio Missions are a chain of eighteenth century Spanish colonial complexes along the river, inscribed together in 2015. They are living parishes as well as a heritage site, and the walk or ride between them is much of the point.