Colonial silver city beneath the "rich hill" that bankrolled an empire.
Four 18-metre presidential faces carved into a Black Hills granite cliff โ best seen at the evening lighting ceremony.
The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, in 1950 โ and still the deadliest of the fourteen.
Walk the crater rim of the volcano that buried Pompeii, with the Bay of Naples below.
Colonial churches, the Inca mummies of the high-altitude museum and the Train to the Clouds.
The cultural capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Amna Suraka prison museum and the Zagros mountains.
Edo-period merchant streets in the Japanese Alps, a morning market and the spring and autumn float festivals.
Retrace the last leg of Shackleton's 1916 rescue march over the pass from Fortuna Bay to the Stromness whaling station.
Italian-era steam railway to the highlands.
Basalt peak above the lagoon where runaway slaves hid, now a UNESCO site with a steep, rewarding summit trail.
A 15th-century stone inn for Silk Road caravans, alone in a high valley near the Chinese border.
Mountaintop fortress, UNESCO-listed.
Town below the Accursed Mountains.
Roman mountain town with some of North Africaโs finest mosaics.
The hilltop where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land, with views to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem.
Neo-Renaissance royal retreat in the Carpathian foothills at Sinaia.
Israelโs Holocaust memorial and museum on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.
Sanctuary of Apollo on the slopes of Mount Parnassus โ home of the ancient oracle.
Visit historic bathhouses and thermal springs in the Ouachita Mountains at Hot Springs National Park.
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