Tropical Top End: the Mindil beach sunset market, saltwater crocodiles and Kakadu three hours away.
A cloud-forest village of hummingbirds, butterfly farms and chocolate, two hours from Quito.
The White City of colonial churches and the most solemn Holy Week processions in the Americas.
Sperm whales all year, dusky dolphins and crayfish, where the mountains meet the sea.
The Edinburgh of the south: the steepest street in the world, albatrosses and yellow-eyed penguins on the peninsula.
Five fortified Mozabite towns in the Mโzab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.
The adobe city of Chan Chan, the Huacas of the Sun and Moon and the surf at Huanchaco.
A German Art Nouveau town on the wild coast and the ghost town of Kolmanskop swallowed by sand.
The oasis where Alexander consulted the oracle, salt lakes to float in and the mud-brick Shali fortress.
The port on Lake Victoria, tilapia by the water and the Kit Mikayi rock.
Moulay Ismail's imperial city: the Bab Mansour gate, the royal granaries and the Roman ruins of Volubilis nearby.
The Flag Monument on the Parana, the birthplace of Messi and Che Guevara.
Wide colonial avenues, the railway museum and the Matobo hills of balancing rocks and rock art.
Vasco da Gama's pillar, the Gedi ruins in the forest and the Italian-flavoured beach town.
The Andes as backdrop to a capital of markets, Barrio Bellavista and the cable car up San Cristobal.
A lagoon between two sandstone Heads, oysters and the forests of the Garden Route.
The southernmost city in the world, the end of the road and the port for Antarctic ships.
Cape Dutch gables under oak trees and the oldest wine estates in the country.
The highest and longest cable car in the world, up to 4,765 metres in the Andes.
A colonial town on the Orinoco narrows, the departure point for flights over Angel Falls.
Southern right whales in the bay from June to December, and the Peninsula Valdes wildlife.
Four Mile Beach, reef boats and the Daintree, the quieter northern base for the reef.
The source of the Nile, grade-five rafting and bungee jumping over the river.
A ten-kilometre beach on the Atlantic, rebuilt modern after the 1960 earthquake, and the Paradise Valley behind.
Camel rides on Cable Beach at sunset, pearling history and the Staircase to the Moon.
The biggest indigenous market in South America every Saturday, textiles and the Kichwa highlands.
The fourth holiest city of Islam: the Great Mosque of 670 and the carpet souks.
The Python Temple and the Route des Esclaves to the beach, the birthplace of voodoo.
A Roman amphitheatre for 35,000 rising out of a small town, better preserved than the Colosseum.
The cultural capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Amna Suraka prison museum and the Zagros mountains.
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