Wind-carved kalut ridges in one of the hottest places ever measured on Earth.
Tobacco fields and limestone hills.
Six sapphire lakes held by natural travertine dams in the Hindu Kush — Afghanistan’s first national park.
Eroded clay badlands a stone’s throw from the city.
Sheer fiord of waterfalls and peaks.
Sandstone gorges, the Pravcicka brana rock arch and boat trips through the Kamenice canyon on the German border.
Danube stretch of terraced vineyards, apricot orchards and the ruined castle where Richard the Lionheart was held.
Nineteen immaculate garden terraces cascading down Mount Carmel.
Romantic 18th-century landscape park of grottoes, cascades and follies.
Storybook fortress on a rock island ringed by a river canyon.
Row through limestone karsts and rice paddies on the "Ha Long Bay on land", then climb to the Mua Cave viewpoint.
UNESCO fjord of sheer walls and waterfalls like the Seven Sisters.
Port-wine country of terraced vineyards along the river, tasted at the quintas and seen best from a rabelo boat.
The world’s largest volcanic lake, with Batak villages on Samosir Island at its centre.
Scenic loop of coast and mountains.
Colossal stone heads ringing a mountaintop royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
Sanctuary of Apollo on the slopes of Mount Parnassus — home of the ancient oracle.
White dune fields that fill with turquoise rain lagoons every wet season.
Rolling hills of honey-stone villages — Bibury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Castle Combe — that look unchanged in 300 years.
Loop past geysers, falls and rifts.
England’s chalk-white front door: cliff-top paths above the Channel with France visible on a clear day.
Two-stage cable car to Rio’s granite icon and its harbour-wide views.
Rainbow-striped Andean valley of adobe villages in Argentina’s far northwest.
Climb 740 steps up the El Penol monolith for views over a maze of turquoise reservoir lakes.
Greek Orthodox monastery clinging to a sheer cliff face in the Pontic Mountains.
A 2,500-km coastal route from Donegal to Cork past cliffs, surf beaches and pubs with sessions every night.
Poetic landscape of lakes and fells.
UNESCO-listed alpine railway over the Bernina Pass from Chur to Tirano.
Monasteries atop soaring rock pillars.
Slea Head’s cliff-edge road, beehive huts, Gaelic-speaking pubs and Fungie-era dolphin lore on Ireland’s far west tip.
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