A city built on water with no cars โ gondolas, Byzantine mosaics, and getting happily lost in the back canals
The 50,000-seat amphitheatre where Rome staged its bloodiest spectacles for 2,000 years
The world's smallest state holds its biggest art: St Peter's, the Vatican Museums and the Sistine ceiling
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
Visit Krakow, the historic former capital of Poland, known for its medieval Old Town, Wawel Castle, and vibrant cultural scene.
Climb 251 spiralling steps up the world's most famous architectural mistake โ tilting since 1173
Pale limestone towers that turn rose-pink at sunset โ Italyโs most spectacular mountains
Walk the streets of a Roman city frozen mid-life by Vesuvius in 79 AD โ ruts, frescoes, bakeries and all
A vertiginous corniche of lemon groves and pastel towns โ Positano, Amalfi, Ravello above a cobalt sea
Acclimatize in Cusco, the Inca capital where colonial churches stand on six-hundred-year-old stone foundations
Eat your way through Lima, South America's food capital, between colonial plazas and Pacific clifftops
Visit Biaลowieลผa Forest, one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain, known for its biodiversity and European bison.
Hike the smoking summit of Europe's most active volcano, 3,357 m above the Sicilian coast
Visit the largest castle in the world by land area, located in Malbork, Poland, and explore its medieval history and architecture.
Wander Arequipa's White City core, where baroque facades carved from volcanic sillar glow beneath El Misti volcano
The torch-bearing symbol of New York.
Visit Toruล (Torun), a historic city in Poland known for its well-preserved medieval Old Town, birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, and delicious gingerbread.
Swim among millions of stingless jellyfish.
The world's greatest Renaissance church.
Walk the sculpted mud corridors of Chan Chan, the largest adobe city ever built
Terraced turquoise lakes and waterfalls.
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.
Climb the iconic volcanic spire.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Macau's iconic baroque church facade.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Fjord-like bay and walled old town.
Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peterโs spire, ringed by Europeโs finest Art Nouveau streets.
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