Soaring 1949 basilica with a green-tiled roof and pointed arches inspired by Congolese huts โ Brazzaville's landmark.
Coral-stone lanes and the Old Friday Mosque on the Indian Ocean.
Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peterโs spire, ringed by Europeโs finest Art Nouveau streets.
Kuwaitโs largest mosque, with a 26-metre dome, Andalusian-style tiling and space for 10,000 worshippers.
Giant golden Buddha gazing over the Thimphu valley, filled with 125,000 smaller ones.
Historic market in old Kuwait City.
The gold-covered national stupa of Laos, said to hold a relic of the Buddha, with a November lantern festival.
Three 1979 spheres-on-spires on the seafront, with a revolving viewing deck 120 m above the Gulf.
Sixteenth-century stone house that served as Andorraโs parliament for 300 years.
Where the Blue and White Nile meet.
Soviet-era stations of chandeliers, mosaics and marble โ photographed legally only since 2018.
Man-made island of marinas, Mediterranean-style piazzas and luxury shops on reclaimed pearl-diving grounds.
A skyline of 2,500-year-old gingerbread tower houses with white gypsum trim, one of the oldest cities in the world.
Oman's vast, serene grand mosque.
Restored market of spices and falcons.
A 22-km seafront promenade where the whole city walks, jogs and drinks mate at sunset.
Restored colonial old town, UNESCO-listed.
Cafe-lined riverside old town.
Seven hundred monuments in a maze of covered souks around the Zitouna mosque, largely unchanged since the Middle Ages.
A 725-metre monolith with a face-like pattern, on the road to Abuja and on the 100-naira note.
Futuristic, fast-built steppe capital.
One of the world's largest mosques.
Gold, spices, pearls and Bahraini sweets in the lanes behind Bab Al Bahrain โ the old heart of Manama.
Sarajevo's Ottoman old bazaar.
Venetian walls around the last divided capital in Europe โ cross the Green Line on foot from one side to the other.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
One of Islamโs oldest and grandest mosques, glittering with gold mosaics.
Baroque palace and art museum built by Peter the Great for Catherine I.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities: the Umayyad Mosque, Straight Street and the Souq al-Hamidiyah.
Mud-brick birthplace of the Saudi state.
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