An 8-km beach with no hotels at all, reached by boat through Jaragua National Park — the wildest sand in the Caribbean.
Palm-fringed national-park island reached by catamaran, with a starfish-filled natural pool on the way.
Iconic Ottoman arched bridge over the Neretva.
Laid-back "go slow" Caribbean island.
A vast blue lake at 1,900 m with the Sevanavank monastery on a peninsula and grilled trout on the shore.
The basilica over the grotto venerated as Jesus’s birthplace in Bethlehem.
Seventeen kilometres of white sand and casuarina trees south of Mombasa, with kite-surfing and colobus monkeys in the trees.
Big cats and the Great Migration.
Ninth-century mosque with the spiralling Malwiya minaret.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited sites.
Ruins of the legendary ancient city.
One of the world's highest active volcanoes.
Abandoned flying-saucer monument on a Balkan mountaintop.
Taipei’s biggest night market — stinky tofu, giant fried chicken, bubble tea.
Ride to the top of the iconic tower.
One of the world’s largest stupas, ringed by prayer wheels and monasteries.
Medieval Newar royal square of pagodas and wood-carved palaces.
Jungle island with 28 white beaches, glowing plankton at night and almost no roads, off Sihanoukville.
Zanzibar’s liveliest beach, dhow builders and turquoise shallows.
Clifftop Transylvanian castle marketed as Dracula’s — worth it either way.
The sixth-century mosaic map of the Holy Land on the floor of St George’s Church — the oldest surviving map of the region.
Jordan’s slice of the Red Sea: coral gardens, a sunken tank and the Cedar Pride wreck in warm, calm water.
Roman forum, Romanesque churches and the Sea Organ — steps that play music from the waves — on a Dalmatian peninsula.
Terraced turquoise lakes and waterfalls.
Colonial silver city beneath the "rich hill" that bankrolled an empire.
Fairy-tale romantic castle above a town of thermal springs.
Dripstone galleries and an underground river in the Low Tatras.
Curved 21-arch railway viaduct made world-famous by the Jacobite steam train.
Deep Highland loch with a ruined castle shore and a famous resident legend.
The canal house where Anne Frank hid for two years and wrote her diary, with the original bookcase door.
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