Eroded clay badlands a stone’s throw from the city.
Sandstone gorges, the Pravcicka brana rock arch and boat trips through the Kamenice canyon on the German border.
Patagonia’s granite towers, glacier lakes and the classic W trek.
UNESCO fjord of sheer walls and waterfalls like the Seven Sisters.
Camel trek to towering Erg Chebbi dunes.
Storybook fortress on a rock island ringed by a river canyon.
Sheer fiord of waterfalls and peaks.
Berber villages below snowy peaks.
Flat-topped cliff hanging 604 m over the Lysefjord.
Romantic 18th-century landscape park of grottoes, cascades and follies.
Nineteen immaculate garden terraces cascading down Mount Carmel.
Port-wine country of terraced vineyards along the river, tasted at the quintas and seen best from a rabelo boat.
Danube stretch of terraced vineyards, apricot orchards and the ruined castle where Richard the Lionheart was held.
Hike between Hmong and Dao villages through emerald terraces cut into the mountains near the Chinese border.
Row through limestone karsts and rice paddies on the "Ha Long Bay on land", then climb to the Mua Cave viewpoint.
Wind-carved chalk mushrooms and icebergs of rock glowing at sunset — camp overnight under the Sahara stars.
NZ's finest day hike, past volcanoes.
The "troll’s tongue" rock ledge jutting 700 m above lake Ringedalsvatnet.
Rhyolite mountains streaked orange, green and pink, with a natural hot river to soak in after the walk — the start of the Laugavegur trail.
UNESCO-listed alpine railway over the Bernina Pass from Chur to Tirano.
Rolling hills of honey-stone villages — Bibury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Castle Combe — that look unchanged in 300 years.
White dune fields that fill with turquoise rain lagoons every wet season.
The "river of five colours", turned red by aquatic plants between June and November.
Rainbow-striped Andean valley of adobe villages in Argentina’s far northwest.
Sanctuary of Apollo on the slopes of Mount Parnassus — home of the ancient oracle.
Colossal stone heads ringing a mountaintop royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
Climb 740 steps up the El Penol monolith for views over a maze of turquoise reservoir lakes.
Thundering two-tier glacial waterfall.
Slea Head’s cliff-edge road, beehive huts, Gaelic-speaking pubs and Fungie-era dolphin lore on Ireland’s far west tip.
The world’s largest volcanic lake, with Batak villages on Samosir Island at its centre.
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