Visit Nizwa

A 17th-century round tower fort with murder holes and honey traps, beside Nizwa’s Friday goat market.

Visit Salalah, the capital of Dhofar Governorate in Oman. Explore the Al Baleed Archaeological Park (a UNESCO World Heritage site with ruins of an ancient port city), see the Sultan Qaboos Mosque (a modern architectural landmark with intricate Islamic designs), and experience the Khareef Festival during the monsoon season (when the desert transforms into a lush green landscape with waterfalls and mist).

The dhow-building yards, a lighthouse on the lagoon and the turtle beach at Ras al Jinz.

The world's largest car-free old city.

Hokkaido's southern port: the night view from Mount Hakodate, red-brick warehouses and the morning fish market.

The Seomun night market, a medicine-herb street and the Haeinsa temple with its 80,000 printing blocks nearby.

Flemish gables, the Grand Place and the Braderie, Europe's biggest flea market, every first weekend of September.

Cezanne's town of fountains and plane trees, with Mont Sainte-Victoire on the horizon he painted sixty times.