Visit Porvoo Old Town

Twenty-five thatched farmhouses and a kabuki stage moved from across Japan into a wooded park — the old countryside in one walk.

Highland Sulawesi region of boat-shaped tongkonan houses and cliff graves, where funerals last for days and draw the whole village.

Six hundred traditional hanok houses on a hill between two palaces, still lived in, with Seoul’s towers behind the tiled roofs.

Red wooden riverside warehouses and cobbled lanes, the second-oldest town in Finland.

Drift the palm-lined waterways by houseboat.

Rustic island of kampong houses and mangrove boardwalks, best explored by bicycle.

Rolling hills of honey-stone villages — Bibury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Castle Combe — that look unchanged in 300 years.

The world’s largest volcanic lake, with Batak villages on Samosir Island at its centre.