Morocco's blue-painted mountain town.
Six hundred traditional hanok houses on a hill between two palaces, still lived in, with Seoulโs towers behind the tiled roofs.
Twenty-five thatched farmhouses and a kabuki stage moved from across Japan into a wooded park โ the old countryside in one walk.
Visit the abandoned Burj Al Babas castle village in Turkey, a surreal landscape of hundreds of identical fairy-tale castles left unfinished.
Land of fortified tower-houses, UNESCO-listed.
Whimsical Italianate seaside village.
Cobbled colonial town above a lake.
Kassena village where the women repaint the mud houses every year with black, white and red geometric patterns.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
Blue-and-white clifftop village.
Venetian-era fishing town piled on a peninsula, its bell tower a copy of St Markโs, with swimming off the rocks below.
Red riverside warehouses and wooden lanes in Finlandโs second-oldest town.
Walled medieval town of whitewashed lanes and bougainvillea, where ginjinha cherry liqueur is served in chocolate cups.
Fairy-tale town wrapped in a bend of the Vltava, with a painted castle tower and a baroque theatre that still works.
Highland Sulawesi region of boat-shaped tongkonan houses and cliff graves, where funerals last for days and draw the whole village.
Walled medieval town on the Romantic Road, all half-timbered houses and cobbled lanes.
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