Fifteen rocks in raked gravel, arranged so you can never see all fifteen at once.
A hilltop colonial town of churches and artists, with the giant puppets of its Carnival.
The world's greatest Renaissance church.
Catch a 15-minute audience with Leonardo's fading masterpiece on a Milan refectory wall
The most complete Gothic cathedral in France, with 176 windows of unrepeatable twelfth-century blue.
Lalitpur, the city of fine arts: a Durbar square of bronze casters and the Golden Temple.
Master Paul's 18-metre carved altar, the tallest Gothic altar in the world, inside a walled Spis town.
Van Gogh's town, with a Roman amphitheatre still hosting bullfights and the Camargue at its edge.
The city of three cultures on a rock above the Tagus, with El Greco, a synagogue and a Damascene steel trade.
Galleries leading to the Sistine Chapel.
Medieval marble monastery, UNESCO-listed.
Serbian Orthodox monastery with thousands of medieval frescoes, UNESCO-listed.
Ancient rock fortress with frescoes.
Sacred forest of shrines and sculpture along the Osun river, a UNESCO site.
One of Islamโs oldest and grandest mosques, glittering with gold mosaics.
Fifteenth-century monasteries frescoed inside and out, still vivid.
Eleventh-century cathedral with original mosaics, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Cobbled colonial town of pink Gothic church spires and rooftop bars, repeatedly voted the best small city in the world.
Canyon wall stencilled with hundreds of hands up to 9,000 years old โ the oldest art in South America, and a UNESCO site.
Gaudiโs dragon-backed house on Passeig de Gracia โ bone-like balconies, a scaled roof and not a straight line inside.
Gaudiโs hillside park of mosaic dragons, twisted stone colonnades and a serpentine bench overlooking Barcelona.
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