Visit Oban

The capital of the Highlands, ten minutes from Loch Ness and the Culloden battlefield.

A castle on a crag above the battlefields of Wallace and Bruce — Scotland's history in one town.

The Granite City sparkles after rain; the gateway to Royal Deeside and the whisky trail.

The home of golf and Scotland's oldest university, with a ruined cathedral above the sea.

The V&A Dundee on the Tay and the RRS Discovery, Scott's Antarctic ship, in a reinvented waterfront.

Okinawa's capital: Shuri castle of the Ryukyu kings, Kokusai-dori and a food and drink culture of its own.

Stilt palafito houses and wooden churches on Chiloe island, with curanto cooked in the ground.

Britain's second city has more canal miles than Venice, the Balti Triangle and Peaky Blinders' Black Country next door.