The lone tree in the lake, the Roys Peak hike and the quieter alternative to Queenstown.
Vasco da Gama's pillar, the Gedi ruins in the forest and the Italian-flavoured beach town.
The Red Centre town: the MacDonnell ranges, Aboriginal art galleries and the road to Uluru.
Perth's port town of a convict prison, a weekend market and the ferry to Rottnest's quokkas.
The gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, the oldest rainforest on Earth.
A windswept Atlantic port with 18th-century ramparts, a fish market and kitesurfing on the beach.
The Andes as backdrop to a capital of markets, Barrio Bellavista and the cable car up San Cristobal.
The port on Lake Victoria, tilapia by the water and the Kit Mikayi rock.
Wide colonial avenues, the railway museum and the Matobo hills of balancing rocks and rock art.
A lagoon between two sandstone Heads, oysters and the forests of the Garden Route.
Sperm whales all year, dusky dolphins and crayfish, where the mountains meet the sea.
A German Art Nouveau town on the wild coast and the ghost town of Kolmanskop swallowed by sand.
The Edinburgh of the south: the steepest street in the world, albatrosses and yellow-eyed penguins on the peninsula.
One of the smallest capitals in the world, a clock tower copied from London and the Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke market.
The Flag Monument on the Parana, the birthplace of Messi and Che Guevara.
Five fortified Mozabite towns in the Mโzab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.
The Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca, a Moorish basilica and boats to the Isla del Sol.
Moulay Ismail's imperial city: the Bab Mansour gate, the royal granaries and the Roman ruins of Volubilis nearby.
A UNESCO medina by the beach, the Ribat fortress and Roman mosaics in the museum.
Colonial churches, a long beach and the observatories of the Elqui valley behind.
Colonial churches, the Inca mummies of the high-altitude museum and the Train to the Clouds.
One of the biggest cobbled squares in the Americas, whitewashed and unchanged since the 1570s.
The adobe city of Chan Chan, the Huacas of the Sun and Moon and the surf at Huanchaco.
The oasis where Alexander consulted the oracle, salt lakes to float in and the mud-brick Shali fortress.
Four Mile Beach, reef boats and the Daintree, the quieter northern base for the reef.
The trekking capital of the Cordillera Blanca: Laguna 69, the Santa Cruz trek and Huascaran.
The mouth of the Amazon: the Ver-o-Peso market, acai bowls at their source and the Cirio procession.
The Argentine side of Iguazu Falls, walkways to the Devil's Throat and toucans in the forest.
The last stop before Torres del Paine, on a fjord of the Ultima Esperanza.
The best land-based whale watching in the world, southern rights from the cliff path June to November.
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