The worldโs highest and longest cable car, up to 4,765 m in the Andes.
Ancient Islamic city of 82 mosques, where hyenas are fed by hand at night.
Cemetery of brightly painted crosses telling each villagerโs life in verse.
Switchback railway descending a near-vertical Andean wall at Alausi.
Shifting Sahara-like dunes on Venezuelaโs Caribbean coast.
Eroded "moon landscape" near the coast.
Gilded boulder balanced on a cliff edge, crowned by a small stupa.
The worldโs highest commercial bridge bungee โ a 216-metre drop off the Garden Route.
Straddle both hemispheres at the equator monument outside Quito.
Bubbling grey cones on the Caspian steppe โ half the worldโs mud volcanoes are here.
Neon sulphur pools, salt flats 125 m below sea level and the Erta Ale lava lake โ the hottest inhabited place on Earth.
Cathedral-sized salt chambers with an underground lake and Ferris wheel.
Rattle along old rails on a bamboo platform powered by a motorbike engine โ dismantled when another train comes.
Rusting steam locomotives abandoned on the edge of the salt flats a century ago โ a surreal stop on the way to the Salar.
Step inside a working base like Port Lockroy or Vernadsky, post a card from the worldโs southernmost post office and meet the scientists.
Car-free village of canals, thatched farmhouses and punted boats.
Sail through a narrow gap into the flooded caldera of an active volcano, past a ruined whaling station and beaches warm enough to dig a hot bath.
Church blasted out of solid granite in 1969, lit by a copper dome โ Helsinkiโs most striking modern building.
Drink an Inca Kola โ the bubblegum-gold soda that beat Coca-Cola on its own turf
Meet the thousand-year-old dead of Chauchilla, sitting in their open desert graves with hair and textiles intact
Watch the sun rise along the Thirteen Towers of Chankillo, a 2,300-year-old solar calendar in the desert
Eroded clay badlands a stoneโs throw from the city.
Visit Marcahuasi, a 4,000 m plateau of giant stone faces that stare back
Wind-carved chalk mushrooms and icebergs of rock glowing at sunset โ camp overnight under the Sahara stars.
High-altitude geyser field steaming at dawn, 4,300 m up in the Andes.
Geysers, hot springs and Maori culture.
The 1628 warship Vasa, raised almost intact after 333 years on the seabed.
Hotel rebuilt from Torne river ice every winter, art suites and all.
Step onto the springy reed ground of the Uros islands, hand-woven villages floating on Lake Titicaca for centuries
Drift by boat beneath a cave ceiling lit by thousands of glowworms.
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