A maze of streets built to confuse pirates, clay tinajones jars and a ballet company.
Temple Square, the Great Salt Lake and the greatest snow on Earth an hour up the canyons.
Talavera tiles, 70 churches, mole poblano and the Popocatepetl volcano on the horizon.
The Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, the Rocky steps at the art museum, and a cheesesteak.
The Prophet's Mosque with its green dome, the second holiest city of Islam.
A cobbled old town on Banderas Bay, humpback whales in winter and the Malecon at sunset.
The live-music capital: SXSW, bats under the Congress bridge and breakfast tacos.
A silver-mining city of pink cantera stone with a cable car over the centre and a mine to walk through.
The Maya city of sculptors: the hieroglyphic stairway and scarlet macaws in the ruins.
Spanish moss over 22 squares, antebellum mansions and the Bonaventure cemetery.
A Crusader city under an Ottoman city: the Knights Halls, a Templar tunnel and hummus by the port.
A highland colonial town of Tzotzil markets, amber and the Sumidero canyon nearby.
The largest covered bazaar in the world, a Blue Mosque and the carpet-weaving capital of Persia.
The southern trading city, a Silk Road bazaar and the base for Aksu-Zhabagly nature reserve.
The base for the ATM cave with its Maya skeletons, Xunantunich and jungle lodges.
Forty-two beaches on one island, the surfing capital of Brazil and Azorean fishing villages.
The Khan's Palace of stained glass without a single nail, a Silk Road caravanserai and halva.
The Kul Sharif mosque inside a Kremlin, the capital of Tatarstan where minarets and domes share a skyline.
Taiwan's old capital: Dutch forts, hundreds of temples and the best street food on the island.
Old-town white coffee, colonial shophouses with street art and cave temples in the limestone hills.
The Bornean capital of Sabah, the base for Mount Kinabalu and the Tunku Abdul Rahman islands.
Penang's UNESCO capital: clan jetties, street art and the best hawker food in Malaysia.
The Meenakshi temple with 14 gopuram towers covered in painted gods, the heart of Tamil culture.
Cobbled Calle Crisologo and Spanish colonial houses, the best-preserved colonial town in Asia.
The 2,000-year-old sacred city: giant brick stupas and the oldest planted tree with a known date.
Fort Rotterdam, the pinisi schooners at Paotere harbour and the road to Toraja.
Kobe beef, a harbour between the mountains and the sea, and the night view from Mount Rokko.
The harbour town on Flores where the Komodo dragon boats leave, with pink beaches and manta rays.
Lalitpur, the city of fine arts: a Durbar square of bronze casters and the Golden Temple.
Island-hopping among the Bacuit lagoons of northern Palawan, limestone cliffs and turquoise water.
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