A whole town of trulli โ conical drystone houses found nowhere else, white and strange in the Puglian sun
Visit Zalipie, a village in southern Poland known as the 'Painted Village' for its tradition of decorating houses with colorful floral motifs. See the House of the Women Painters (Dom Malarek), a museum showcasing the art and history of the custom, admire the painted church of St. Joseph, and explore the annual Painted Cottage Competition held in June, where residents compete for the most beautiful decorations.
The Gothic town hall, the oldest Catholic university in the world and the headquarters of Stella Artois.
Monumental, tightly-controlled capital.
Medieval canals and the Ghent Altarpiece.
The world's largest car-free old city.
Georgian spa city with Roman baths.
The "Florence of the South" โ honey-coloured Baroque churches carved from soft Lecce stone
The least populated capital in the world - a domed capitol on a hill in Melekeok, built in 2006 for a few hundred people.
A Georgian port town around the Berkeley Memorial clock, rebuilt after fire and hurricane, with Brimstone Hill fortress along the coast.
The capital Myanmar built from farmland in 2005 and moved to overnight: twenty-lane highways with almost nothing on them, and an Uppatasanti Pagoda one foot shorter than Shwedagon.
A Portuguese colonial capital on the equator, pastel and peeling, with cocoa plantations in the hills behind it.
Five fortified Mozabite towns in the Mโzab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.
The Edinburgh of the south: the steepest street in the world, albatrosses and yellow-eyed penguins on the peninsula.
Rebuilt entirely in Art Deco after the 1931 earthquake, in the Hawkeโs Bay wine region.
The Pearl of the South: a French-founded city of neoclassical squares on a bay, and the Tomas Terry theatre.
Spanish moss over 22 squares, antebellum mansions and the Bonaventure cemetery.
Adobe architecture, the Georgia OโKeeffe museum and the oldest state capital, at 2,100 metres.
Rosewater distilleries, the Fin garden and merchant houses with wind towers on the desert edge.
The Gateway Arch, 192 metres of stainless steel over the Mississippi, and the free zoo in Forest Park.
Thirteen baroque churches of the gold rush on steep cobbled hills, with Aleijadinhoโs sculptures.
The Pearl of the South: the striped Parque de Bombas firehouse and the best art museum in the Caribbean.
A colonial centre of pink stone and an 18th-century aqueduct of 74 arches, the safest big city in Mexico.
The blue city under the Mehrangarh fort, the biggest and most dramatic in Rajasthan.
Where bubble tea was invented, the Rainbow Village and the National Taichung Theater.
The ruined Art Nouveau casino on the Black Sea, a Roman mosaic and the beach resort of Mamaia.
Where the 1989 revolution began; Secession squares and the first European city lit by electric street lamps.
Houses with eyes in the roofs, the Bridge of Lies and a Saxon centre that was Capital of Culture in 2007.
The Basilica del Pilar on the Ebro, Goya in the museums and the Aljaferia Moorish palace.
The Habsburg 'little Vienna' of Bukovina, with a UNESCO university that was once the Metropolitan's residence.
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