The medieval Newar city of potters and pagodas, the best-preserved of the three Kathmandu valley kingdoms.
A Tibetan Buddhist town at 3,500 metres in Ladakh, monasteries on rocks and the road to Pangong lake.
A French hill station of pine forests, flower farms and a Crazy House, cool all year in the Central Highlands.
Chinese fishing nets, a Portuguese church, a Jewish quarter and Kathakali dance in the port of Kerala.
Where bubble tea was invented, the Rainbow Village and the National Taichung Theater.
The Sunday livestock market and the Id Kah mosque, the Silk Road oasis where China meets Central Asia.
Old-town white coffee, colonial shophouses with street art and cave temples in the limestone hills.
Lalitpur, the city of fine arts: a Durbar square of bronze casters and the Golden Temple.
The dzong at the meeting of two rivers, the old winter capital, with jacaranda in spring.
Onion domes over meadows: five monasteries and thirty churches in a town with no buildings taller than two storeys.
Riverside colonial town famous for its pepper, with the abandoned hill station of Bokor above.
The food capital of the Philippines, the Dinagyang festival and a river esplanade, opposite Guimaras island.
The Ice and Snow Festival, whole palaces built of river ice, and Russian onion domes on the main street.
The gateway to Taroko Gorge's marble cliffs and the Pacific coast road.
The yoga capital of the world on the Ganges, evening aarti and whitewater rafting below the Himalayas.
A Kremlin on the bluff where the Oka meets the Volga, and the longest cable car across a river in Europe.
The Church on the Blood where the Romanovs died, on the border of Europe and Asia in the Urals.
The 'city of eternal spring' in Yunnan, the Stone Forest and the gateway to the ethnic south-west.
A complete Ming-dynasty walled city where China's first banks were founded.
The Hwaseong fortress walls to walk in a loop, and the fried chicken street below them.
Subtropical Black Sea beaches and the 2014 Winter Olympics venues in the Caucasus above.
The French Quarter of yellow villas and bougainvillea, the Aurobindo ashram and Auroville next door.
The Hunza valley capital under Rakaposhi, the Baltit fort and apricot orchards on the Karakoram Highway.
A Naxi old town of canals and stone bridges under the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
The Khan's Palace of stained glass without a single nail, a Silk Road caravanserai and halva.
The base for the Bolaven Plateau coffee farms, Wat Phou Khmer temple and the 4,000 Islands of the Mekong.
The Longmen Grottoes with 100,000 carved Buddhas, the first Buddhist temple in China and the April peony festival.
The port for Ha Long Bay: 1,600 limestone islands and an overnight on a junk boat.
Karst peaks along the Li River, the landscape on the 20-yuan note, and a bamboo raft to Yangshuo.
Moldavia's old capital: the Palace of Culture, the Three Hierarchs church carved like lace and the oldest university in Romania.
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