Visit the Naasa Hablood hills

England’s chalk-white front door: cliff-top paths above the Channel with France visible on a clear day.

Climb 740 steps up the El Penol monolith for views over a maze of turquoise reservoir lakes.

Escarpment forest above the desert.

Monasteries atop soaring rock pillars.

Mineral springs that have petrified into white waterfalls of stone above the Oaxaca valleys, with cliff-edge pools you can swim in.

Rainbow-striped Andean valley of adobe villages in Argentina’s far northwest.

Rift-valley site of the world’s oldest parliament, where the tectonic plates pull apart.

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