Swim the To Sua Ocean Trench

Powder-white beach with beach fales to sleep in, facing the uninhabited Nu’utele island.

Waves forced through lava tubes blast spray 30 metres into the air — locals throw coconuts in to launch them.

White travertine terraces and pools.

Sacred red monolith at the desert heart.

Copenhagen’s 17th-century harbour of brightly painted townhouses, wooden ships and canal-side bars.

Samoa’s waterfront capital: the fish market, the Immaculate Conception cathedral and Sunday church singing.

Seven kilometres of pure white silica sand in the Whitsundays, swirling into the turquoise Hill Inlet.

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