Coastal drive of cliffs and castles.
The "inland sea" where dunes meet water.
Crater lake ringed by three volcanoes and Maya villages — Aldous Huxley called it the most beautiful lake in the world.
A 165-km, ten-day wilderness trail from the ice sheet to the coast with huts, reindeer and no roads.
Young fissure volcano between spreading tectonic rifts.
Cliff villages of the Bandiagara Escarpment.
Trail beneath cliff-built Dogon villages and ancient Tellem granaries.
Twin 80-metre falls in the rainforest, a film-famous curtain of water.
Monastery on a hill where St Gregory was imprisoned in a pit, with snow-capped Ararat filling the sky behind it.
A "mini Grand Canyon" of red rock.
Sheer desert escarpment near Riyadh.
Otherworldly landscape of limestone chimneys.
Tis Issat, the "smoking water" — the Blue Nile plunges 45 metres over a basalt lip below Lake Tana.
Forested highlands rising green out of the Djiboutian desert.
Turquoise alpine reservoir in the mountains above Almaty.
Waterfall dropping through three natural bridges into a cave shaft.
Green highlands of terraced villages and baboons around Abha.
Flat-topped mountain over Cape Town.
One of the world's highest active volcanoes.
Jagged peaks and gelada baboons.
Golden monastery perched on a volcanic plug, guarded by monkeys and nat spirits.
Glacial lake staircase high in the Rila mountains.
Climb the vast flat-topped tepui.
Coastal road of forests and lagoons.
Karst caves stuffed with Buddhas amid sugarloaf mountains.
Rolling green tea estates of Sylhet.
The world’s highest paved international road, Islamabad to Kashgar.
Tepuis and waterfalls, UNESCO-listed.
Classic Himalayan trekking circuit.
One of the largest green canyons on Earth, seen from God’s Window and the Three Rondavels viewpoints.
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