Heart-shaped mountain village on an island in the far northwest.
Eerie avenue of ancient beech trees.
Dead camelthorn trees, 900 years old, black against a white clay pan and the worldโs tallest red dunes.
Blue-and-white clifftop village.
Seven hours of tea plantations, waterfalls and the Nine Arches Bridge from an open train door โ often called the worldโs most beautiful railway.
Antigua's iconic yellow arch.
Sea stack on the Paphos coast where the goddess of love is said to have risen from the foam.
Submerged sunken forest in a turquoise lake.
Monastery on a hill where St Gregory was imprisoned in a pit, with snow-capped Ararat filling the sky behind it.
Sheer desert escarpment near Riyadh.
Elephants beneath Mount Kilimanjaro.
The worldโs longest teak footbridge, best at sunset near Mandalay.
The temple left to the jungle โ silk-cotton roots strangle its walls, famous from Tomb Raider.
One of the largest green canyons on Earth, seen from Godโs Window and the Three Rondavels viewpoints.
Eroded "moon landscape" near the coast.
Dramatic 1,000m escarpment viewpoint.
The "Pink Mosque", famous for the kaleidoscope its stained glass throws at dawn.
Island castle at the meeting of three sea lochs โ Scotlandโs most photographed.
The world's largest spring flower garden.
Rusting steam locomotives abandoned on the edge of the salt flats a century ago โ a surreal stop on the way to the Salar.
Storybook lakeside village in the Alps.
Sea cave on the Algarve coast with a round skylight in its domed roof โ reached by boat, kayak or paddleboard.
White dune fields that fill with turquoise rain lagoons every wet season.
Climb 740 steps up the El Penol monolith for views over a maze of turquoise reservoir lakes.
Monasteries atop soaring rock pillars.
Coastal drive past the Twelve Apostles.
Gaudiโs hillside park of mosaic dragons, twisted stone colonnades and a serpentine bench overlooking Barcelona.
White basilica on the highest hill in Paris, with the artistsโ square of Place du Tertre and the whole city spread out below.
Slot canyon on Navajo land near Page, Arizona, carved into swirling sandstone by flash floods.
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