Flat-topped cliff hanging 604 m over the Lysefjord.
The oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world, the King’s weekend home, with St George’s Chapel and the State Apartments.
Climb 740 steps up the El Penol monolith for views over a maze of turquoise reservoir lakes.
St Petersburg’s onion-domed church, lined inside with 7,000 m² of mosaic.
The Parthenon and its temples on the rock above Athens — the birthplace of democracy, best climbed at opening time.
Moscow’s historic heart: St Basil’s domes, the Kremlin walls and GUM.
Copenhagen’s 17th-century harbour of brightly painted townhouses, wooden ships and canal-side bars.
The Temple of Dawn: a porcelain-encrusted riverside tower you can climb for views across the Chao Phraya at sunset.
Ancient city of the Sun and Moon pyramids.
Two-stage cable car to Rio’s granite icon and its harbour-wide views.
Historic fortress and the Crown Jewels.
Thundering two-tier glacial waterfall.
Car-free alpine village at the foot of the world’s most photographed peak, with Europe’s highest cable-car station.
The Thai kings’ glittering palace complex and the Emerald Buddha, all gold spires and mirrored mosaic.
England’s chalk-white front door: cliff-top paths above the Channel with France visible on a clear day.
Istanbul's six-minareted mosque.
The 1843 amusement park that inspired Disneyland, with wooden roller coasters, lanterns and concerts in the heart of Copenhagen.
Gaudi’s dragon-backed house on Passeig de Gracia — bone-like balconies, a scaled roof and not a straight line inside.
Calatrava’s concert hall with a 58-metre concrete wave curling over the roof — Santa Cruz’s answer to the Sydney Opera House.
Beijing's vast imperial palace complex.
A 1.3-km stretch of the Berlin Wall painted by artists in 1990 — including the famous Brezhnev–Honecker kiss.
Norman Foster’s glass dome spirals above the German parliament chamber, with a free 360° view over Berlin.
Paris’s 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
Berlin's neoclassical symbol of reunification.
Gaudi’s hillside park of mosaic dragons, twisted stone colonnades and a serpentine bench overlooking Barcelona.
71-metre Buddha carved into a river cliff in Sichuan — the largest stone Buddha in the world.
Sacred red monolith at the desert heart.
The largest surviving Romanesque church in Europe, built for pilgrims on the road to Santiago and topped by a five-tier octagonal bell tower.
White basilica on the highest hill in Paris, with the artists’ square of Place du Tertre and the whole city spread out below.
Sikhism's radiant golden shrine.
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