Nine giant steel spheres from Expo 58 — Brussels’ space-age landmark.
Swim in a deep garden swimming hole.
The largest church in the world, a marble replica of St Peter’s standing in the African bush.
Futurist petrol station shaped like an aeroplane — icon of Asmara’s modernism.
Hill covered in thousands of crosses.
Eerie avenue of ancient beech trees.
Renaissance castle built into the mouth of a cliff cave, with secret tunnels used by a robber knight.
Gilded boulder balanced on a cliff edge, crowned by a small stupa.
Straddle both hemispheres at the equator monument outside Quito.
Sacred red monolith at the desert heart.
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