The black-sand surf village of the Surf City coast, named for the pig-shaped rock offshore.
A cobbled old town on Banderas Bay, humpback whales in winter and the Malecon at sunset.
Forty-two beaches on one island, the surfing capital of Brazil and Azorean fishing villages.
The gateway to Manuel Antonio: sloths and capuchins on the beach in the smallest national park.
The Phoenician city that invented purple dye, a Roman hippodrome and beaches on a peninsula.
Hemingway's house, the sunset celebration at Mallory Square and the southernmost point of the mainland US.
The surfing town of the west coast since the 1968 world championships, with winter whales.
The dhow-building yards, a lighthouse on the lagoon and the turtle beach at Ras al Jinz.
Island-hopping among the Bacuit lagoons of northern Palawan, limestone cliffs and turquoise water.
A fire-breathing Dragon Bridge, My Khe beach and the Golden Bridge held up by giant hands in the Ba Na hills.
Tsingtao beer in plastic bags, German colonial villas and beaches on the Yellow Sea.
One of the deepest natural harbours in the world, Nilaveli beach and blue whales offshore.
Subtropical Black Sea beaches and the 2014 Winter Olympics venues in the Caucasus above.
The Albanian Riviera resort opposite Corfu, with Butrint ruins and the Blue Eye spring nearby.
Las Canteras city beach, the Vegueta colonial quarter and the house where Columbus stopped.
The Algarve capital, with a walled old town, storks nesting on the cathedral and the Ria Formosa lagoon.
A German-built port on the Baltic, the ferry to the Curonian Spit and its sand dunes.
Sardinia's capital: the Castello quarter, Poetto beach and flamingos in the salt lagoons.
A 12-kilometre sand beach, an old pirate town on a rock and the Ada Bojana river island.
Roman mosaics, the Tombs of the Kings and the rock where Aphrodite came ashore.
The ruined Art Nouveau casino on the Black Sea, a Roman mosaic and the beach resort of Mamaia.
The oldest city in Western Europe, founded by Phoenicians, with Carnival, beaches and the Atlantic on three sides.
Santa Barbara castle above Postiguet beach and the palm-lined Explanada, the Costa Blanca capital.
Estonia's summer capital: a long sandy beach, spa hotels and wooden villas.
The Castle of St Peter built from the Mausoleum's stones, wooden gulet cruises and the Aegean nightlife.
The city where the wind is born: a white-sand beach, Art Nouveau streets and the abandoned Karosta naval prison.
Lycian rock tombs above the harbour, the Blue Lagoon at Oludeniz and paragliding off Babadag.
Nissi beach and the sea caves by day, the clubbing capital of the eastern Mediterranean by night.
Pastel houses inside 13th-century walls above two sandy beaches on the Pembrokeshire coast.
Where European surfing began in 1957 โ Napoleon III's beach resort on the Basque coast.
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