Stack 28 centuries into one city: Forum, Colosseum, Pantheon, Sistine Chapel, and the best carbonara on earth
The world's smallest state holds its biggest art: St Peter's, the Vatican Museums and the Sistine ceiling
Visit Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Explore the reconstructed Old Town (a UNESCO World Heritage site with colorful facades and the Royal Castle), see the Warsaw Uprising Museum (dedicated to the 1944 resistance with immersive exhibits), stroll through ลazienki Park (palace and gardens with free-roaming peacocks), and try traditional pierogi (dumplings) at a local milk bar.
Eat your way through Lima, South America's food capital, between colonial plazas and Pacific clifftops
The grandest of Seoulโs five Joseon palaces, with a changing-of-the-guard ceremony and hanbok rental for free entry.
Up to 3,000 people cross in every direction at once when the lights change โ the worldโs busiest pedestrian scramble.
Pragueโs 14th-century stone bridge lined with 30 baroque saints โ walk it at dawn before the crowds and buskers arrive.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peterโs spire, ringed by Europeโs finest Art Nouveau streets.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
Glide the 17th-century canal ring past gabled merchant houses, houseboats and 1,500 bridges โ the city as it was meant to be seen.
The canal house where Anne Frank hid for two years and wrote her diary, with the original bookcase door.
Fortress on Castle Rock holding the Scottish crown jewels and the one oโclock gun.
Stockholmโs medieval old town of narrow lanes and the Royal Palace.
Copenhagenโs 17th-century harbour of brightly painted townhouses, wooden ships and canal-side bars.
Moscowโs historic heart: St Basilโs domes, the Kremlin walls and GUM.
The Thai kingsโ glittering palace complex and the Emerald Buddha, all gold spires and mirrored mosaic.
The Parthenon and its temples on the rock above Athens โ the birthplace of democracy, best climbed at opening time.
Former railway station holding the worldโs greatest Impressionist collection โ Monet, Van Gogh, Degas โ under a giant glass clock.
Beijing's vast imperial palace complex.
Parisโs 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
Berlin's neoclassical symbol of reunification.
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