Bernini's vast colonnaded piazza.
Wave-patterned UNESCO plaza.
Southern tip facing across to Africa.
Twin landmark hills near Hargeisa.
Giant hilltop statue of Christ.
Ancient stone trilithon, "Pacific Stonehenge".
Macau's iconic baroque church facade.
Futurist petrol station shaped like an aeroplane — icon of Asmara’s modernism.
Giant seated Buddha on Lantau.
Ride to Hong Kong's famous summit view.
Sandstone plateau fortress of King Moshoeshoe I, birthplace of the Basotho nation.
The Prince of Liechtenstein’s home on a crag above the capital — closed inside, but the hillside path gives the postcard view.
The largest church in the world, a marble replica of St Peter’s standing in the African bush.
Cross the harbour on a vintage ferry.
Elegant seaside colonnade in Gagra.
Avenue of towering ancient baobabs.
The point where the Nile leaves Lake Victoria on its 6,650-km journey, plus grade-five white-water rafting.
Hill covered in thousands of crosses.
Giant golden Buddha gazing over the Thimphu valley, filled with 125,000 smaller ones.
A claimed southernmost source of the Nile.
Three 1979 spheres-on-spires on the seafront, with a revolving viewing deck 120 m above the Gulf.
The gold-covered national stupa of Laos, said to hold a relic of the Buddha, with a November lantern festival.
Stone marking where Livingstone and Stanley camped on Lake Tanganyika’s shore.
Mountaintop fortress, UNESCO-listed.
Soaring 1949 basilica with a green-tiled roof and pointed arches inspired by Congolese huts — Brazzaville's landmark.
Antigua's iconic yellow arch.
Sacred rock outcrop over Abeokuta.
Three grand madrasas on one square.
A 725-metre monolith with a face-like pattern, on the road to Abuja and on the 100-naira note.
Renaissance castle built into the mouth of a cliff cave, with secret tunnels used by a robber knight.
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