Cities of City Bucket List

A capital of a few government buildings in the Pohnpei jungle, twenty minutes from the basalt city of Nan Madol.

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.

Kiribati's capital is a chain of islets joined by causeways, three metres above a rising ocean and one of the densest places in the Pacific.

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.

The de facto capital of the smallest republic on Earth: an airstrip, a parliament and the moonscape left by a century of phosphate mining.

The port on Lake Victoria, tilapia by the water and the Kit Mikayi rock.

The castle and the Door of No Return of the Atlantic slave trade, and Kakum's canopy walkway inland.

Rebuilt entirely in Art Deco after the 1931 earthquake, in the Hawke’s Bay wine region.

The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.

Tasmania's second city: the Cataract Gorge in the middle of town and the Tamar valley wineries.

Four Mile Beach, reef boats and the Daintree, the quieter northern base for the reef.

The easternmost point of the mainland, a lighthouse walk, surf breaks and whales passing offshore.

Coffee farms and the wax palms of the Cocora valley in a bright-painted Quindio town.

Thermal baths under the Tungurahua volcano, the swing at the end of the world and the waterfall road.

The door of the desert and the film studios of Gladiator and Game of Thrones, next to the Ait Benhaddou kasbah.

Port Elizabeth: the Friendly City of beaches and the elephants of Addo park, the end of the Garden Route.

An adobe oasis in the driest desert on Earth: geysers, salt flats, flamingos and the clearest night sky.

The lone tree in the lake, the Roys Peak hike and the quieter alternative to Queenstown.

A windswept Atlantic port with 18th-century ramparts, a fish market and kitesurfing on the beach.

The Flag Monument on the Parana, the birthplace of Messi and Che Guevara.

Southern right whales in the bay from June to December, and the Peninsula Valdes wildlife.

One of the smallest capitals in the world, a clock tower copied from London and the Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke market.

Djerba's main town: whitewashed souks, the El Ghriba synagogue and Star Wars sets across the island.

German-style houses on Lake Llanquihue under the perfect cone of Osorno volcano.

The source of the Nile, grade-five rafting and bungee jumping over the river.

Colonial churches, the Inca mummies of the high-altitude museum and the Train to the Clouds.

Coffee farms at the foot of Kilimanjaro, the town every climb starts and ends in.

The sunniest city, craft beer and the gateway to the golden beaches of Abel Tasman.

Moulay Ismail's imperial city: the Bab Mansour gate, the royal granaries and the Roman ruins of Volubilis nearby.