Visit Ouro Preto

A whitewashed colonial port between the rainforest and the sea, with schooner trips to the islands.

A hilltop colonial town of churches and artists, with the giant puppets of its Carnival.

A whole town of trulli — conical drystone houses found nowhere else, white and strange in the Puglian sun

Climb 251 spiralling steps up the world's most famous architectural mistake — tilting since 1173

Explore the ancient temple complex of Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world, located in Cambodia

Niemeyer's Pampulha church, the bar capital of Brazil and the Inhotim art park nearby.

Forty-two beaches on one island, the surfing capital of Brazil and Azorean fishing villages.

The model city of parks and bus lanes, the glass Botanical Garden and the train to the coast.