Busan’s hillside of pastel houses and street art, a former shanty town now known as the Machu Picchu of Korea.
The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.
Six hundred traditional hanok houses on a hill between two palaces, still lived in, with Seoul’s towers behind the tiled roofs.
The grandest of Seoul’s five Joseon palaces, with a changing-of-the-guard ceremony and hanbok rental for free entry.
The Thai kings’ glittering palace complex and the Emerald Buddha, all gold spires and mirrored mosaic.
Drop into a limestone sinkhole of crystal-clear fresh water on the Yucatan, where the Maya saw the entrance to the underworld.
Georgian spa city with Roman baths.
Sunken Byzantine reservoir under Istanbul, its columns rising from black water.
Former railway station holding the world’s greatest Impressionist collection — Monet, Van Gogh, Degas — under a giant glass clock.
Stand before the 5.17 m marble David — Michelangelo's flawless Renaissance colossus in Florence
Try Milan’s golden saffron risotto — creamy, rich, and traditionally served with ossobuco
Twenty-five thatched farmhouses and a kabuki stage moved from across Japan into a wooded park — the old countryside in one walk.
Buddhist temple where three million people come at New Year to ward off bad luck — and where the incense-smoke ritual is part of the visit.
One of Shinto’s holiest shrines, said to house the sacred sword of the imperial regalia, set in a 1,000-year-old camphor forest.
Three kingdoms at the top of the map - fjords, forests, and long summer light.
Complete the critically acclaimed puzzle-platformer Portal 2.
Ring in the year with lanterns and feasts.
Ireland's biggest party, in Dublin's streets.
Korea's clean, clear distilled spirit.
South America's shared caffeinated herbal brew.
Hungary's paprika-rich beef stew.
The full fry-up: eggs, bacon, beans and toast.
Coffee-soaked, layered Italian dessert.
Italy's dense, intensely flavoured ice cream.
Creamy spiced tomato curry from northern India.
Eggs poached in spiced tomato and pepper sauce.
Creamy chickpea-and-tahini dip, best scooped warm.
Crisp deep-fried chickpea balls from the Middle East.
A detective RPG built from ideas and dialogue (2019).
Time-hopping JRPG often called the greatest ever (1995).
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