Visit Thingvellir National Park

Canada’s first national park: Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, the Icefields Parkway and a gondola up Sulphur Mountain.

Poetic landscape of lakes and fells.

Rhyolite mountains streaked orange, green and pink, with a natural hot river to soak in after the walk — the start of the Laugavegur trail.

Drift between the American and Eurasian tectonic plates in gin-clear glacial water.

Six sapphire lakes held by natural travertine dams in the Hindu Kush — Afghanistan’s first national park.

Monasteries atop soaring rock pillars.

Terraced turquoise lakes and waterfalls.

Sacred Inca island on the world’s highest navigable lake.