The Sunday livestock market and the Id Kah mosque, the Silk Road oasis where China meets Central Asia.
Edo-period merchant streets in the Japanese Alps, a morning market and the spring and autumn float festivals.
The Cathedral of St James built entirely of stone, four fortresses and the boat to Krka waterfalls.
A Roman temple, a chapel lined with bones and whitewashed lanes inside walls, the capital of the Alentejo.
The Leaning Tower is one of four marble buildings on the Field of Miracles; the rest of the city is a student town.
Otzi the Iceman in the museum and a bilingual Tyrolean town at the gates of the Dolomites.
Madeira's capital: wicker toboggans down from Monte, the flower market and Madeira wine lodges.
Slovenia's only port, a Venetian old town around Tito square on what was once an island.
Mallorca's capital: the seafront Gothic cathedral La Seu, Arab baths and the Tramuntana mountains behind.
Early Christian tombs, a mosque turned church on the main square and Zsolnay ceramics.
A Roman amphitheatre on the beach and the remains of Tarraco, capital of Roman Hispania.
The Bagrati cathedral, Gelati monastery and the Prometheus cave, in the capital of ancient Colchis.
The first capital of modern Greece: Venetian fortresses, a Bourtzi island castle and neoclassical lanes.
The city where the wind is born: a white-sand beach, Art Nouveau streets and the abandoned Karosta naval prison.
Las Canteras city beach, the Vegueta colonial quarter and the house where Columbus stopped.
The town of a thousand windows: Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside below a still-inhabited castle.
A medieval Firewatch Tower over a Gothic and baroque centre on the Austrian border, next to Lake Neusiedl.
Sardinia's capital: the Castello quarter, Poetto beach and flamingos in the salt lagoons.
Santa Barbara castle above Postiguet beach and the palm-lined Explanada, the Costa Blanca capital.
Plane trees, the Arslanagic bridge and Herzegovinian wine, half an hour from Dubrovnik.
A 17-metre waterfall in the middle of town, a fortress and the last Bosnian royal capital.
A complete medieval square with a Gothic town hall, spa villas and wooden churches nearby.
Rumi's tomb and the whirling dervishes, the Seljuk capital in the middle of Anatolia.
The Castle of St Peter built from the Mausoleum's stones, wooden gulet cruises and the Aegean nightlife.
A square of pastel Renaissance houses between two fishponds, unchanged since the 16th century.
Honey-coloured stone houses stepping down a hill above the Mesopotamian plain, with Syriac monasteries.
The Holy Trinity Column, six baroque fountains and an astronomical clock rebuilt in socialist realism.
Venetian, French and British layers in one UNESCO old town, with cricket on the Spianada.
The old royal capital in a mountain valley, with former embassies and the monastery of St Peter.
Crete's Venetian harbour with an Egyptian lighthouse, a covered market and the Samaria Gorge nearby.
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