The 50,000-seat amphitheatre where Rome staged its bloodiest spectacles for 2,000 years
Stand among the cloud-wrapped ruins of Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel perched high above Peru's Sacred Valley
Pay respects at the largest Nazi concentration camp memorial
Climb 251 spiralling steps up the world's most famous architectural mistake — tilting since 1173
Walk the streets of a Roman city frozen mid-life by Vesuvius in 79 AD — ruts, frescoes, bakeries and all
Italy's gastronomic heartland — Parmigiano, prosciutto, balsamic, tortellini and Ferrari, all in one region
Visit the largest castle in the world by land area, located in Malbork, Poland, and explore its medieval history and architecture.
The grandest of Seoul’s five Joseon palaces, with a changing-of-the-guard ceremony and hanbok rental for free entry.
The torch-bearing symbol of New York.
Walk the sculpted mud corridors of Chan Chan, the largest adobe city ever built
Fly over the Nazca Lines, giant desert figures etched into Peru's coastal plain two thousand years ago
Xi'an's buried army of clay warriors.
Four 18-metre presidential faces carved into a Black Hills granite cliff — best seen at the evening lighting ceremony.
Macau's iconic baroque church facade.
The world's greatest WWII wreck dive.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Fortress on Castle Rock holding the Scottish crown jewels and the one o’clock gun.
The canal house where Anne Frank hid for two years and wrote her diary, with the original bookcase door.
Moscow’s historic heart: St Basil’s domes, the Kremlin walls and GUM.
Historic fortress and the Crown Jewels.
Paris’s 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
Moorish palace-fortress of Granada.
Berlin's neoclassical symbol of reunification.
Sikhism's radiant golden shrine.
Beijing's vast imperial palace complex.
Shogun-era castle famous for the pair of golden shachihoko dolphins on its roof and the lavishly rebuilt Honmaru Palace.
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