Where two seas meet at the tip of Jutland, in the light that drew the Skagen painters.
The pebble beach, the Palace Pier and the Royal Pavilion, an Indian-style palace built for a Regency prince.
Dylan Thomas's 'ugly, lovely town', with the Gower Peninsula's beaches on the doorstep.
Norway's summer city on the south coast, with the zoo and Fiskebrygga fish quay.
La Concha bay, pintxos bars in the old town and more Michelin stars per head than anywhere else.
The walled corsair city of Brittany, rebuilt stone by stone after 1944, with the biggest tides in Europe.
Unspoilt island of boatbuilders.
Walk the whole capital in an afternoon — a strip of land so thin the airstrip doubles as the village green.
Palm-fringed beach on Nevis.
Sheltered, yacht-filled bay.
Exclusive private-island hideaway.
Wild, empty rainforest beaches.
St Lucia's most popular beach.
Powder-white beach with beach fales to sleep in, facing the uninhabited Nu’utele island.
Quiet islands of beaches and history.
Tobago's iconic palm-fringed beach.
Quiet former colonial coastal town.
Nauru’s best beach, a curve of sand and coral pinnacles on the east coast, with a harbour and swimming lagoon.
Powder-white South Pacific beach.
Sacred, uninhabited white-sand island.
Beach famous for bake-and-shark.
Sailing and whale-watching islands.
Calm, clear lagoon with tiny islets.
Postcard sandbar in Aitutaki lagoon.
Powdery beach and vivid reef.
Lagoon island of white sand.
Two miles of soft Caribbean sand.
Bike to famous granite-boulder beaches.
The gateway island of the Bijagos, with the Bruce beach, a small museum and boats to the wilder islands.
Remote islands of saltwater hippos.
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