The White Temple, the Blue Temple and the Golden Triangle where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet.
Medieval canals and the Ghent Altarpiece.
A hilltop colonial town of churches and artists, with the giant puppets of its Carnival.
The Red Centre town: the MacDonnell ranges, Aboriginal art galleries and the road to Uluru.
The Walker sculpture garden, the Mississippi falls and lakes inside the city limits.
The Pearl of the South: the striped Parque de Bombas firehouse and the best art museum in the Caribbean.
Adobe architecture, the Georgia OโKeeffe museum and the oldest state capital, at 2,100 metres.
Niemeyer's Pampulha church, the bar capital of Brazil and the Inhotim art park nearby.
The Savitsky museum, a hidden collection of banned Soviet avant-garde art in the Karakalpak desert.
Bali's cultural heart: the Monkey Forest, the Tegallalang rice terraces and dance every night.
Lalitpur, the city of fine arts: a Durbar square of bronze casters and the Golden Temple.
The Basilica del Pilar on the Ebro, Goya in the museums and the Aljaferia Moorish palace.
Chagall's birthplace, his house museum and the Slavianski Bazaar festival each July.
Master Paul's 18-metre carved altar, the tallest Gothic altar in the world, inside a walled Spis town.
Van Gogh's town, with a Roman amphitheatre still hosting bullfights and the Camargue at its edge.
The city of three cultures on a rock above the Tagus, with El Greco, a synagogue and a Damascene steel trade.
Banksy's home town: a harbour city of street art, the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the SS Great Britain in dry dock.
Where two seas meet at the tip of Jutland, in the light that drew the Skagen painters.
Vermeer's canals, Delft Blue pottery and the tomb of William of Orange in the New Church.
The mechanical elephant of Les Machines de l'Ile, the Dukes' castle and the city Jules Verne grew up in.
Cezanne's town of fountains and plane trees, with Mont Sainte-Victoire on the horizon he painted sixty times.
The Frauenkirche rebuilt from rubble, the Zwinger's Old Masters and the Elbe skyline Canaletto painted.
The Grote Markt, the Frans Hals Museum and the tulip fields of the Bollenstreek beginning at the city edge.
The Ars Electronica Center on the Danube, Linzer torte and a steel city turned culture capital.
Colonial city of churches and murals.
Whole streets of flamboyant Jugendstil facades โ Europeโs densest collection.
West Africa's largest art gallery, in Lagos.
Cobbled colonial town of pink Gothic church spires and rooftop bars, repeatedly voted the best small city in the world.
Gaudiโs dragon-backed house on Passeig de Gracia โ bone-like balconies, a scaled roof and not a straight line inside.
Gaudiโs hillside park of mosaic dragons, twisted stone colonnades and a serpentine bench overlooking Barcelona.
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