One of the world’s largest stupas, ringed by prayer wheels and monasteries.
Ride to the top of the iconic tower.
The world's largest residential palace.
Glide past Budapest's floodlit landmarks.
Neo-Gothic riverfront parliament, Budapest’s defining silhouette.
Trio of flame-shaped skyscrapers that light up Baku’s skyline at night.
The sultan’s coronation chariot, gifts and gold on display in central Bandar.
Ottoman-era citadel quarter stacked above the bay of Algiers.
Fifteenth-century royal complex at the heart of Baku’s walled old city.
Budapest's grand thermal bathhouse.
Straddle both hemispheres at the equator monument outside Quito.
Fortress on Castle Rock holding the Scottish crown jewels and the one o’clock gun.
Manila’s walled Spanish city: Fort Santiago, the San Agustin Church and horse-drawn kalesa rides along the ramparts.
Eroded clay badlands a stone’s throw from the city.
Havana’s 8 km seawall promenade at sunset, waves crashing over the wall.
Cruise Havana in a vintage convertible.
Glide the 17th-century canal ring past gabled merchant houses, houseboats and 1,500 bridges — the city as it was meant to be seen.
Church blasted out of solid granite in 1969, lit by a copper dome — Helsinki’s most striking modern building.
Sea fortress islands off Helsinki, UNESCO-listed.
Restored terraced gardens holding the tomb of the first Mughal emperor.
Medieval quarter of a thousand minarets: the Khan el-Khalili bazaar, Al-Azhar mosque and the Sultan Hassan madrasa.
Vienna's imperial Habsburg palace and gardens.
Golden-domed monastery complex above catacombs of mummified monks.
Eleventh-century cathedral with original mosaics, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Stockholm’s medieval old town of narrow lanes and the Royal Palace.
The 1628 warship Vasa, raised almost intact after 333 years on the seabed.
Copenhagen’s 17th-century harbour of brightly painted townhouses, wooden ships and canal-side bars.
The Temple of Dawn: a porcelain-encrusted riverside tower you can climb for views across the Chao Phraya at sunset.
Moscow’s historic heart: St Basil’s domes, the Kremlin walls and GUM.
The Parthenon and its temples on the rock above Athens — the birthplace of democracy, best climbed at opening time.
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