Visit the Baucau old town

Renaissance sea fortress at Helsingor — the Elsinore of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Swahili island town of donkeys, dhows and carved doorways.

Al-Balad’s coral-stone merchant houses with carved wooden balconies, a UNESCO gateway for centuries of Mecca pilgrims.

Calatrava’s concert hall with a 58-metre concrete wave curling over the roof — Santa Cruz’s answer to the Sydney Opera House.

Island of wooden churches, stilt houses and its own mythology.

Venetian-era fishing town piled on a peninsula, its bell tower a copy of St Mark’s, with swimming off the rocks below.

Ancient churches on a Black Sea peninsula, UNESCO-listed.

Herod’s Roman harbour city — amphitheatre, hippodrome and seaside aqueduct.