The gateway to the salt flat, the train cemetery and three-day jeep trips to the coloured lagoons.
The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.
The Red Centre town: the MacDonnell ranges, Aboriginal art galleries and the road to Uluru.
Flamingos on the lagoon, kayaking with seals at Pelican Point and the dunes of Sandwich Harbour.
An adobe oasis in the driest desert on Earth: geysers, salt flats, flamingos and the clearest night sky.
The door of the desert and the film studios of Gladiator and Game of Thrones, next to the Ait Benhaddou kasbah.
Boats to the Ballestas islands of sea lions and penguins, and the desert reserve next door.
Five fortified Mozabite towns in the M’zab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.
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.
A bazaar city on the edge of the Lut desert, with the Ganjali Khan bathhouse and the Rayen citadel nearby.
Saguaro cacti in the Desert Botanical Garden and Camelback Mountain at dawn, before the heat.
The Garden City oasis, camel market and Jebel Hafeet, the UAE's only UNESCO site.
Hegra, the Nabataean tombs of the southern Petra, and the Elephant Rock in a desert of sandstone.
Coral reefs on the Red Sea, the Underwater Observatory and the desert of Timna, at Israel's southern tip.
A golden sandstone fort still lived in, and camel safaris into the Thar desert dunes.
The Sunday livestock market and the Id Kah mosque, the Silk Road oasis where China meets Central Asia.
Ancient desert city of windcatchers.
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