A hilltop colonial town of churches and artists, with the giant puppets of its Carnival.
The Blue Hole, freediving on the Bedouin beach and Mount Sinai at sunrise an hour away.
The gateway to the salt flat, the train cemetery and three-day jeep trips to the coloured lagoons.
The Ras Mohammed reefs and the Thistlegorm wreck, at the tip of the Sinai.
The sea of seven colours, a Caribbean island closer to Nicaragua with Raizal English Creole culture.
The mouth of the Amazon: the Ver-o-Peso market, acai bowls at their source and the Cirio procession.
The oldest city in Colombia, the beaches of Tayrona park and the trek to the Lost City.
The Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca, a Moorish basilica and boats to the Isla del Sol.
The food capital of Bolivia, the biggest Christ statue in South America and the La Cancha market.
The Red Sea resort coast: dive boats to the Giftun islands and dolphins in the morning.
A living Inca town with its original street grid and terraces, the train station for Machu Picchu.
The only cable car in the Caribbean, up to a Christ statue, and the amber museum.
Afro-Caribbean reggae, coconut rice and the Salsa Brava wave on the Caribbean coast.
Wooden Caribbean houses on stilts, starfish beach and the boats to the Bocas del Toro islands.
A cobbled island town in Lake Peten Itza, the base for the Tikal pyramids at dawn.
The Mile High City, the gateway to the Rockies, with Red Rocks amphitheatre and a craft beer scene.
Xela, the highland second city of Spanish schools, hot springs and the Santa Maria volcano.
Niemeyer's Pampulha church, the bar capital of Brazil and the Inhotim art park nearby.
A French-Dominican beach town on the Samana peninsula, humpback whales from January to March.
Climb Dunn's River Falls and swim the Blue Hole, with Bob Marley's birthplace in the hills.
Hemingway's house, the sunset celebration at Mallory Square and the southernmost point of the mainland US.
Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum, the Arts District and Texas barbecue.
Fifth Avenue, the ferry to Cozumel and the reef diving of the Riviera Maya.
Rainbow Row, Fort Sumter where the Civil War began and Lowcountry cooking.
The gateway to Lake Atitlan, three volcanoes and the Maya villages reached by boat.
Bamboo rafting on the Rio Grande, the Blue Lagoon and the jerk pits of Boston Bay.
Food carts, Powell’s bookshop, more breweries than any other city and the Columbia Gorge nearby.
Kenroku-en, one of the three great gardens, a samurai district and geisha teahouses that escaped the war intact.
Japan's first capital: the Great Buddha of Todai-ji and 1,200 bowing deer in the park around it.
The black 'Crow Castle', the oldest surviving keep in Japan, at the gateway to the Northern Alps.
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