The Pearl of the South: the striped Parque de Bombas firehouse and the best art museum in the Caribbean.
Moose in the suburbs, the Tony Knowles trail along the inlet and the road to Denali.
The surfing town of the west coast since the 1968 world championships, with winter whales.
The mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Timur's unfinished masterpiece and Kazakhstan's holiest site.
Geisha coffee farms, the Quetzal trail and the Baru volcano where you can see both oceans.
The shrine of Imam Reza, the largest mosque complex in the world by area, and twenty million pilgrims a year.
The heart of America's wine country: 400 wineries, the Wine Train and hot-air balloons at dawn.
The Arenal volcano, hot springs and hanging bridges through the rainforest.
Music City: the Grand Ole Opry, honky-tonks on Broadway and hot chicken.
Saguaro cacti in the Desert Botanical Garden and Camelback Mountain at dawn, before the heat.
The Phoenician city that invented purple dye, a Roman hippodrome and beaches on a peninsula.
Coral reefs on the Red Sea, the Underwater Observatory and the desert of Timna, at Israel's southern tip.
The Basilica of the Annunciation, the largest church in the Middle East, and an Arab old-town market.
Guanacaste's surf town, with leatherback turtles nesting at Playa Grande next door.
The Alamo, four more Spanish missions and the River Walk below street level.
Tobacco farms among limestone mogotes, horse rides and the Mural of Prehistory.
Red rock buttes, vortex hikes and a Chapel built into the cliff, two hours from the Grand Canyon.
The Motown Museum, the Henry Ford, Art Deco skyscrapers and a comeback story.
A pastel walled city built against pirates, the quietest colonial capital in the Yucatan.
The Walker sculpture garden, the Mississippi falls and lakes inside the city limits.
The Inner Harbor, Fort McHenry where the anthem was written and Chesapeake blue crabs.
A bazaar city on the edge of the Lut desert, with the Ganjali Khan bathhouse and the Rayen citadel nearby.
The Garden City oasis, camel market and Jebel Hafeet, the UAE's only UNESCO site.
The model city of parks and bus lanes, the glass Botanical Garden and the train to the coast.
The longest zipline in the world off Jebel Jais, mountains and quieter beaches than Dubai.
A whitewashed colonial port between the rainforest and the sea, with schooner trips to the islands.
Walt Disney World, Universal and the theme-park capital of the world.
Graceland, Sun Studio where Elvis recorded, Beale Street blues and the Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel.
A Crusader sea castle, a soap museum in an old khan and the vaulted souks of a Phoenician port.
A round fort of 1668, the Friday goat market and the date-palm oasis at the foot of Jebel Akhdar.
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