The Big Hole, dug by hand in the diamond rush, and the mining town preserved around it.
The Avenue of the Baobabs at sunset and the stone forest of the Tsingy de Bemaraha.
The Pearl of the South: the striped Parque de Bombas firehouse and the best art museum in the Caribbean.
Waikiki beach, the Pearl Harbor memorial and the Diamond Head crater hike.
The 6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land on a church floor, and Mount Nebo next door.
Hot springs and the Sea of Galilee, 200 metres below sea level, with Capernaum along the shore.
Spanish moss over 22 squares, antebellum mansions and the Bonaventure cemetery.
The Maya city of sculptors: the hieroglyphic stairway and scarlet macaws in the ruins.
A Russian wooden mosque built by Dungans, the Sunday animal market and treks to Altyn-Arashan hot springs.
The gateway to Lake Atitlan, three volcanoes and the Maya villages reached by boat.
One of the best aurora spots on Earth, on Great Slave Lake, with an ice road in winter.
The heart of America's wine country: 400 wineries, the Wine Train and hot-air balloons at dawn.
Moose in the suburbs, the Tony Knowles trail along the inlet and the road to Denali.
The Yukon capital: northern lights, the SS Klondike sternwheeler and the road to Dawson City.
The Pearl of the South: a French-founded city of neoclassical squares on a bay, and the Tomas Terry theatre.
The Venice of the East on the Shatt al-Arab, date palms and the gateway to the Mesopotamian marshes.
The Thursday and Sunday market, the biggest in Central America, and incense on the steps of Santo Tomas.
Balboa Park, the zoo, La Jolla sea lions and the best year-round weather in the country.
The dhow-building yards, a lighthouse on the lagoon and the turtle beach at Ras al Jinz.
A Crusader sea castle, a soap museum in an old khan and the vaulted souks of a Phoenician port.
Forty-two beaches on one island, the surfing capital of Brazil and Azorean fishing villages.
A bazaar city on the edge of the Lut desert, with the Ganjali Khan bathhouse and the Rayen citadel nearby.
Climb Dunn's River Falls and swim the Blue Hole, with Bob Marley's birthplace in the hills.
The only cable car in the Caribbean, up to a Christ statue, and the amber museum.
Guanacaste's surf town, with leatherback turtles nesting at Playa Grande next door.
Tobacco farms among limestone mogotes, horse rides and the Mural of Prehistory.
The Mesoamerican reef a swim from shore, West End dive shops and whale sharks.
The golden shrine of Imam Ali and Wadi al-Salam, the largest cemetery in the world.
A maze of streets built to confuse pirates, clay tinajones jars and a ballet company.
Rainbow Row, Fort Sumter where the Civil War began and Lowcountry cooking.
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