A city built on water with no cars โ gondolas, Byzantine mosaics, and getting happily lost in the back canals
The world's smallest state holds its biggest art: St Peter's, the Vatican Museums and the Sistine ceiling
Visit Krakow, the historic former capital of Poland, known for its medieval Old Town, Wawel Castle, and vibrant cultural scene.
The Renaissance in one walkable city: Michelangelo's David, Brunelleschi's dome, and the Uffizi
Eat your way through Lima, South America's food capital, between colonial plazas and Pacific clifftops
Acclimatize in Cusco, the Inca capital where colonial churches stand on six-hundred-year-old stone foundations
A walled medieval upper town above modern Bergamo โ Venetian ramparts, funiculars and Lombard charm
Visit Antigua Guatemala, a UNESCO World Heritage city in Guatemala. Explore the iconic Santa Catalina Arch (yellow archway with views of Volcรกn de Agua), see the ruins of La Merced Church (baroque facade and earthquake-damaged interior), and wander through the Central Market (vibrant local market with textiles and produce).
A whole town of trulli โ conical drystone houses found nowhere else, white and strange in the Puglian sun
Wander Arequipa's White City core, where baroque facades carved from volcanic sillar glow beneath El Misti volcano
The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.
Visit Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Poland known for its Mannerist architectural and park landscape complex and pilgrimage park
Visit Zamoลฤ, a Renaissance town in southeastern Poland. Explore the Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site with its unique star-shaped layout and arcaded market square designed by Italian architect Bernardo Morando. See the Zamoลฤ Cathedral (16th-century basilica with ornate interior), the Zamoyski Palace (former residence of the noble family), and the Zamoลฤ Synagogue (one of the best-preserved Renaissance synagogues in Poland).
Visit Toruล (Torun), a historic city in Poland known for its well-preserved medieval Old Town, birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, and delicious gingerbread.
A hilltop colonial town of churches and artists, with the giant puppets of its Carnival.
The Hahoe folk village, its mask dance and the Confucian academies of the Joseon aristocracy.
Japan's first capital: the Great Buddha of Todai-ji and 1,200 bowing deer in the park around it.
The gilded Toshogu shrine of the Tokugawa shoguns in a cedar forest, with the Kegon waterfall above.
Colonial silver city beneath the "rich hill" that bankrolled an empire.
The world's largest car-free old city.
Georgian spa city with Roman baths.
The main town of the Galapagos, the Darwin research station and giant tortoises in the highlands.
The castle and the Door of No Return of the Atlantic slave trade, and Kakum's canopy walkway inland.
A windswept Atlantic port with 18th-century ramparts, a fish market and kitesurfing on the beach.
The Avenue of the Baobabs at sunset and the stone forest of the Tsingy de Bemaraha.
Moulay Ismail's imperial city: the Bab Mansour gate, the royal granaries and the Roman ruins of Volubilis nearby.
A Swahili stone town with no cars, only donkeys and dhows, unchanged for seven centuries.
The gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, the oldest rainforest on Earth.
The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.
A UNESCO medina by the beach, the Ribat fortress and Roman mosaics in the museum.
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