Three grand madrasas on one square.
Antigua's iconic yellow arch.
Trio of flame-shaped skyscrapers that light up Bakuโs skyline at night.
Vast Mughal-era mosque of red sandstone and marble domes.
Ride to the top of the iconic tower.
Eighty-two white marble domes, the worldโs largest hand-knotted carpet and reflective pools โ Abu Dhabiโs masterpiece.
Neo-Gothic riverfront parliament, Budapestโs defining silhouette.
Fairy-tale romantic castle above a town of thermal springs.
Fortified mud-brick ksar on the old caravan route โ a favourite film set for decades.
The oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world, the Kingโs weekend home, with St Georgeโs Chapel and the State Apartments.
Moscowโs historic heart: St Basilโs domes, the Kremlin walls and GUM.
Istanbul's six-minareted mosque.
The Thai kingsโ glittering palace complex and the Emerald Buddha, all gold spires and mirrored mosaic.
The Temple of Dawn: a porcelain-encrusted riverside tower you can climb for views across the Chao Phraya at sunset.
Copenhagenโs 17th-century harbour of brightly painted townhouses, wooden ships and canal-side bars.
St Petersburgโs onion-domed church, lined inside with 7,000 mยฒ of mosaic.
Gaudiโs hillside park of mosaic dragons, twisted stone colonnades and a serpentine bench overlooking Barcelona.
Norman Fosterโs glass dome spirals above the German parliament chamber, with a free 360ยฐ view over Berlin.
Sikhism's radiant golden shrine.
White basilica on the highest hill in Paris, with the artistsโ square of Place du Tertre and the whole city spread out below.
The largest surviving Romanesque church in Europe, built for pilgrims on the road to Santiago and topped by a five-tier octagonal bell tower.
Berlin's neoclassical symbol of reunification.
Parisโs 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.
Gaudiโs dragon-backed house on Passeig de Gracia โ bone-like balconies, a scaled roof and not a straight line inside.
Beijing's vast imperial palace complex.
Calatravaโs concert hall with a 58-metre concrete wave curling over the roof โ Santa Cruzโs answer to the Sydney Opera House.
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