The grandest of Seoulโs five Joseon palaces, with a changing-of-the-guard ceremony and hanbok rental for free entry.
Tutankhamunโs gold mask, royal mummies and 120,000 pharaonic treasures in the 1902 museum on Tahrir Square.
The largest ancient castle complex in the world, with St Vitus Cathedral, the Golden Lane cottages and the hourly guard change.
Sleepy colonial island capital.
Old churches of the capital.
Cliff-carved tunnel fortifications.
Riverside old town below the cliffs.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Bissau's faded colonial centre.
Birthplace of the Liberian nation.
Fortress park above the meeting of the Sava and the Danube.
Moving memorial to the 1994 genocide.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Sixteenth-century stone house that served as Andorraโs parliament for 300 years.
Coral-stone lanes and the Old Friday Mosque on the Indian Ocean.
Restored colonial old town, UNESCO-listed.
Seven hundred monuments in a maze of covered souks around the Zitouna mosque, largely unchanged since the Middle Ages.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities: the Umayyad Mosque, Straight Street and the Souq al-Hamidiyah.
The hand-dug tunnel under Sarajevo airport that kept the besieged city supplied for three years in the 1990s.
Bahrain's history and Dilmun treasures.
Venetian walls around the last divided capital in Europe โ cross the Green Line on foot from one side to the other.
Mud-brick birthplace of the Saudi state.
Baroque palace and art museum built by Peter the Great for Catherine I.
Submarine, icebreaker and seaplanes displayed inside vast concrete hangars from 1917 on Tallinnโs waterfront.
Sarajevo's Ottoman old bazaar.
Former royal palace of Porto-Novo.
Ottoman-era citadel quarter stacked above the bay of Algiers.
Fifteenth-century royal complex at the heart of Bakuโs walled old city.
The sultanโs coronation chariot, gifts and gold on display in central Bandar.
The canal house where Anne Frank hid for two years and wrote her diary, with the original bookcase door.
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