Wide colonial avenues, the railway museum and the Matobo hills of balancing rocks and rock art.
A Swahili stone town with no cars, only donkeys and dhows, unchanged for seven centuries.
The gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, the oldest rainforest on Earth.
Southern right whales in the bay from June to December, and the Peninsula Valdes wildlife.
The Argentine side of Iguazu Falls, walkways to the Devil's Throat and toucans in the forest.
Five fortified Mozabite towns in the M’zab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.
The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.
Stilt palafito houses and wooden churches on Chiloe island, with curanto cooked in the ground.
A UNESCO medina by the beach, the Ribat fortress and Roman mosaics in the museum.
Perth's port town of a convict prison, a weekend market and the ferry to Rottnest's quokkas.
A cathedral lit up every Saturday, an aqueduct and the monarch butterfly forests two hours away.
Hegra, the Nabataean tombs of the southern Petra, and the Elephant Rock in a desert of sandstone.
The Pearl of the South: a French-founded city of neoclassical squares on a bay, and the Tomas Terry theatre.
A pastel walled city built against pirates, the quietest colonial capital in the Yucatan.
Rosewater distilleries, the Fin garden and merchant houses with wind towers on the desert edge.
The Maya city of sculptors: the hieroglyphic stairway and scarlet macaws in the ruins.
The largest covered bazaar in the world, a Blue Mosque and the carpet-weaving capital of Persia.
A whitewashed colonial port between the rainforest and the sea, with schooner trips to the islands.
Tobacco farms among limestone mogotes, horse rides and the Mural of Prehistory.
A maze of streets built to confuse pirates, clay tinajones jars and a ballet company.
Talavera tiles, 70 churches, mole poblano and the Popocatepetl volcano on the horizon.
The mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, Timur's unfinished masterpiece and Kazakhstan's holiest site.
Thirteen baroque churches of the gold rush on steep cobbled hills, with Aleijadinho’s sculptures.
A silver-mining city of pink cantera stone with a cable car over the centre and a mine to walk through.
A Crusader city under an Ottoman city: the Knights Halls, a Templar tunnel and hummus by the port.
The Garden City oasis, camel market and Jebel Hafeet, the UAE's only UNESCO site.
The Phoenician city that invented purple dye, a Roman hippodrome and beaches on a peninsula.
A colonial centre of pink stone and an 18th-century aqueduct of 74 arches, the safest big city in Mexico.
The Alamo, four more Spanish missions and the River Walk below street level.
Penang's UNESCO capital: clan jetties, street art and the best hawker food in Malaysia.
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