Visit Chachapoyas

The adobe city of Chan Chan, the Huacas of the Sun and Moon and the surf at Huanchaco.

Acclimatize in Cusco, the Inca capital where colonial churches stand on six-hundred-year-old stone foundations

Wander Arequipa's White City core, where baroque facades carved from volcanic sillar glow beneath El Misti volcano

Visit Victoria Falls, one of the world's largest waterfalls on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe. See the Main Falls (over 100m high with a 1.7km wide curtain of water), walk through the rainforest (created by spray), and take a helicopter flight for aerial views. Spot wildlife like elephants and hippos in nearby Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park.

The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.

Eat your way through Lima, South America's food capital, between colonial plazas and Pacific clifftops

Inca terraces and villages along the Urubamba between Cusco and Machu Picchu — Ollantaytambo, Pisac market and the Moray circles.

Visit Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands. Cruise the UNESCO-listed canal ring (17th-century waterways with over 1,500 bridges), see masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, explore the Anne Frank House (historic hiding place during WWII), and wander the Jordaan district (picturesque streets with cafes and boutiques).