Historic sites
D-Day beaches and Normandy American Cemetery
Bayeux, Calvados, France
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces landed on five beaches along this coast in the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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Vianden Castle
Vianden, Luxembourg
One of the largest fortified castles west of the Rhine, built between the 11th and 14th centuries on a rocky hill above the town of Vianden and the O…
Natural features
Balos Lagoon, Crete
Kíssamos, Crete, Greece
A shallow turquoise lagoon of white and pink sand between the Gramvousa peninsula and a rocky cape, at the far north-west tip of Crete.
Natural features
Kynance Cove
Mullion, Cornwall, United Kingdom
One of the most beautiful coves in Cornwall, with white sand, turquoise water and islands of dark red and green serpentine rock.
Historic sites
Icherisheher, Baku
Baku, Azerbaijan
Baku's walled old city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the 12th-century Maiden Tower, the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, caravanserais and carpet sh…
Attractions
Kröller-Müller Museum and Hoge Veluwe National Park
Otterlo, Gelderland, Netherlands
A national park of heath, forest and drifting sand dunes, with deer and wild boar, where you can borrow one of the free white bicycles at the entranc…
Buildings
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France
One of the most perfect Gothic cathedrals, built mostly between 1194 and 1220 and keeping almost all its original stained glass, famous for its deep …
Historic sites
Chapel Bridge and Old Town, Lucerne
Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Lucerne's covered wooden footbridge, built in the 14th century, crosses the River Reuss diagonally, with painted panels under its roof and the stone …
Tours and activities
Farewell Spit tour, Collingwood
Tasman, New Zealand
Farewell Spit is a 30 km sandspit at the northern tip of the South Island, curving between the wild west coast and the calm tidal flats of Golden Bay.
Natural features
Lofoten Islands
Moskenes, Nordland, Norway
A chain of islands above the Arctic Circle with jagged mountains rising straight out of the sea, white beaches, and fishing villages of red wooden ca…
Natural features
Corcovado National Park
Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
One of the most biologically intense places on earth, on the remote Osa Peninsula, with tapirs, all four Costa Rican monkey species, scarlet macaws a…
Historic sites
Borobudur
Magelang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia
The world's largest Buddhist temple, built in the 9th century in central Java, a giant stepped pyramid with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statue…