Bissau's faded colonial centre.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Moving memorial to the 1994 genocide.
Fortress park above the meeting of the Sava and the Danube.
Whole streets of flamboyant Jugendstil facades — Europe’s densest collection.
Sixteenth-century stone house that served as Andorra’s parliament for 300 years.
Giant golden Buddha gazing over the Thimphu valley, filled with 125,000 smaller ones.
The gold-covered national stupa of Laos, said to hold a relic of the Buddha, with a November lantern festival.
Visit the world's only bonobo sanctuary.
Soaring 1949 basilica with a green-tiled roof and pointed arches inspired by Congolese huts — Brazzaville's landmark.
Historic market in old Kuwait City.
Kuwait’s largest mosque, with a 26-metre dome, Andalusian-style tiling and space for 10,000 worshippers.
Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peter’s spire, ringed by Europe’s finest Art Nouveau streets.
Coral-stone lanes and the Old Friday Mosque on the Indian Ocean.
Three 1979 spheres-on-spires on the seafront, with a revolving viewing deck 120 m above the Gulf.
Cafe-lined riverside old town.
Landmark museum of Islamic treasures.
A 725-metre monolith with a face-like pattern, on the road to Abuja and on the 100-naira note.
Seven hundred monuments in a maze of covered souks around the Zitouna mosque, largely unchanged since the Middle Ages.
A 22-km seafront promenade where the whole city walks, jogs and drinks mate at sunset.
Oman's vast, serene grand mosque.
Man-made island of marinas, Mediterranean-style piazzas and luxury shops on reclaimed pearl-diving grounds.
Soviet-era stations of chandeliers, mosaics and marble — photographed legally only since 2018.
Doha’s arts district of galleries, an open-air amphitheatre and a golden mosque, with a beach on the bay.
Restored market of spices and falcons.
Restored colonial old town, UNESCO-listed.
Where the Blue and White Nile meet.
A skyline of 2,500-year-old gingerbread tower houses with white gypsum trim, one of the oldest cities in the world.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
Venetian walls around the last divided capital in Europe — cross the Green Line on foot from one side to the other.
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