Monumental, tightly-controlled capital.
Nine giant steel spheres from Expo 58 — Brussels’ space-age landmark.
The world's smallest national capital.
One of the region’s biggest livestock markets, camels haggled over by the hundred.
Vast synchronised stadium spectacle.
The largest church in the world, a marble replica of St Peter’s standing in the African bush.
Futurist petrol station shaped like an aeroplane — icon of Asmara’s modernism.
Soviet-era stations of chandeliers, mosaics and marble — photographed legally only since 2018.
Straddle both hemispheres at the equator monument outside Quito.
Eroded clay badlands a stone’s throw from the city.
Church blasted out of solid granite in 1969, lit by a copper dome — Helsinki’s most striking modern building.
The 1628 warship Vasa, raised almost intact after 333 years on the seabed.
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