The town for the Perito Moreno glacier, where ice walls collapse into the lake all day.
The White City of colonial churches and the most solemn Holy Week processions in the Americas.
A sleepy Portuguese town, and Tofo beach with whale sharks and manta rays all year.
A UNESCO medina by the beach, the Ribat fortress and Roman mosaics in the museum.
The Avenue of the Baobabs at sunset and the stone forest of the Tsingy de Bemaraha.
The French Huguenot valley of the Cape winelands, a wine tram and the best restaurants in Africa.
The biggest indigenous market in South America every Saturday, textiles and the Kichwa highlands.
The easternmost point of the mainland, a lighthouse walk, surf breaks and whales passing offshore.
The gateway to the Okavango Delta, mokoro canoes and scenic flights over the floodplains.
The Python Temple and the Route des Esclaves to the beach, the birthplace of voodoo.
The Big Hole, dug by hand in the diamond rush, and the mining town preserved around it.
The Red Centre town: the MacDonnell ranges, Aboriginal art galleries and the road to Uluru.
The Argentine side of Iguazu Falls, walkways to the Devil's Throat and toucans in the forest.
A colonial town on the Orinoco narrows, the departure point for flights over Angel Falls.
The rickshaw and thermal-spa town of the highlands, with crater lakes and semi-precious stones.
Five fortified Mozabite towns in the M’zab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.
One of the biggest cobbled squares in the Americas, whitewashed and unchanged since the 1570s.
Diego Suarez: the second-largest bay in the world, the Emerald Sea and the Amber Mountain rainforest.
The trekking capital of the Cordillera Blanca: Laguna 69, the Santa Cruz trek and Huascaran.
The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.
The Edinburgh of the south: the steepest street in the world, albatrosses and yellow-eyed penguins on the peninsula.
The highest and longest cable car in the world, up to 4,765 metres in the Andes.
The gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, the oldest rainforest on Earth.
The port on Lake Titicaca, the floating Uros islands and a homestay on Amantani.
A Swahili stone town with no cars, only donkeys and dhows, unchanged for seven centuries.
The Andes as backdrop to a capital of markets, Barrio Bellavista and the cable car up San Cristobal.
Coffee farms and the wax palms of the Cocora valley in a bright-painted Quindio town.
Perth's port town of a convict prison, a weekend market and the ferry to Rottnest's quokkas.
Graceland, Sun Studio where Elvis recorded, Beale Street blues and the Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel.
Guanacaste's surf town, with leatherback turtles nesting at Playa Grande next door.
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