Travel Bucket List

Visit Brest, a port city in western France. Explore the National Maritime Museum (housing historic ships and naval artifacts), stroll along the Rade de Brest (a large natural harbor with scenic views), see the medieval Tour Tanguy (a tower museum showcasing the city's history), and try local Breton specialties like crêpes and cider.

Visit Oran, Algeria's second-largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Explore the Santa Cruz Fortress (a 16th-century Spanish citadel with panoramic views), see the Great Mosque of Oran (a historic Ottoman-era landmark), stroll along the waterfront promenade, and experience the local culture at the Ahmed Zabana National Museum (showcasing regional art and history).

Visit Omdurman, the largest city in Sudan and a key cultural hub. Explore the Khalifa House Museum (former residence of the Mahdist leader, showcasing 19th-century history), see the Omdurman Souq (one of Africa's largest open-air markets with traditional crafts and spices), and visit the Mahdi's Tomb (a significant Islamic shrine commemorating the founder of the Mahdist state).

Visit Bujumbura, largest city of Burundi

Visit Burgas, port city of Bulgaria

Explore Lebanon's ancient Roman temples

Visit Benghazi, the second-largest city in Libya, located on the Mediterranean coast. Explore the historic Al-Funduq (old Ottoman-era inn), see the Italian-era architecture in the city center, and visit the Benghazi Cathedral (a former Catholic church now used as a cultural center). Stroll along the corniche for views of the sea and local life.

Explore Pakistan's ancient Buddhist civilization

Visit Gyumri, Armenia's second-largest city known for its historic architecture and cultural heritage. Explore the Black Fortress (a 19th-century Russian military structure with panoramic views), see the Dzitoghtsyan Museum of Social Life and National Architecture (showcasing traditional Armenian homes and artifacts), and stroll through Vardanants Square (the central square with the Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God and Soviet-era buildings).

The capital Myanmar built from farmland in 2005 and moved to overnight: twenty-lane highways with almost nothing on them, and an Uppatasanti Pagoda one foot shorter than Shwedagon.

Kiribati's capital is a chain of islets joined by causeways, three metres above a rising ocean and one of the densest places in the Pacific.

A capital of a few government buildings in the Pohnpei jungle, twenty minutes from the basalt city of Nan Madol.

The least populated capital in the world - a domed capitol on a hill in Melekeok, built in 2006 for a few hundred people.

Tanzania's official capital since 1974, in the middle of the country and the middle of its wine region; parliament sits here, the embassies stayed in Dar es Salaam.

A cruise harbour under Morne Fortune, a covered market selling cocoa sticks and bay rum, and the Pitons an hour down the coast.

A Portuguese colonial capital on the equator, pastel and peeling, with cocoa plantations in the hills behind it.

The de facto capital of the smallest republic on Earth: an airstrip, a parliament and the moonscape left by a century of phosphate mining.

A Georgian port town around the Berkeley Memorial clock, rebuilt after fire and hurricane, with Brimstone Hill fortress along the coast.

The most complete Gothic cathedral in France, with 176 windows of unrepeatable twelfth-century blue.

A circular Berber fortified granary of 114 cells, built in the twelfth century and still standing.

Three rooms of pine, built in three days in 1703; the first building in St Petersburg.

Eighteen storeys cut into volcanic rock, deep enough to hide twenty thousand people and their cattle.

Michelangelo's New Sacristy, where Night and Day lie unfinished over the Medici tombs.

The Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa on the platform holiest to Judaism and third-holiest to Islam.

Thomas Jefferson's self-designed neoclassical house, and the plantation he never freed.

Nineteen masonry instruments from the 1730s, including a sundial accurate to two seconds.

A vaulted iron-roofed bazaar running to the Umayyad Mosque, its ceiling pierced by French bullet holes.