Natural features
West Lake, Hangzhou
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
A famous lake surrounded by hills, pagodas, temples and gardens, celebrated by poets for centuries, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
Paola, Malta
An underground Neolithic burial complex carved into the rock around 4000 BC, with chambers on three levels, some painted with red ochre spirals.
Walks and treks
Pico do Arieiro to Pico Ruivo, Madeira
Santana, Madeira, Portugal
A spectacular high-mountain walk on Madeira between its second and highest peaks, along a path cut into knife-edge ridges, through tunnels and up sta…
Historic sites
Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew, Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand
The former royal residence, a dazzling complex of gilded spires and halls built from 1782, with Wat Phra Kaew, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Thai…
Historic sites
Temple of the Tooth, Kandy
Kandy, Central, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's most sacred Buddhist temple, in the royal palace complex beside Kandy Lake, housing a relic of the Buddha's tooth.
Attractions
Natural History Museum, London
Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom
A cathedral-like Victorian museum in South Kensington, with a blue whale skeleton hanging in the great Hintze Hall, dinosaurs including a moving T.
Natural features
Cathedral Cove (Mautohe)
Whitianga, Waikato, New Zealand
A huge natural rock arch joining two white-sand beaches on the Coromandel Peninsula, in the Te Whanganui-A-Hei Marine Reserve, with a tall rock pinna…
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…
Natural features
Moraine Lake and Lake Louise, Banff
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Two glacier-fed lakes of brilliant turquoise in Banff National Park, Canada's oldest national park.
Historic sites
Chichén Itzá
Chichén-Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico
A great Maya city in Yucatán, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, with the stepped pyramid of El Castillo, where at the equinoxes the shadow o…
Walks and treks
Heaphy Track
West Coast, New Zealand
New Zealand's longest Great Walk, 78 km through Kahurangi National Park from the Aorere valley in Golden Bay to the wild West Coast near Karamea.
Historic sites
Port Arthur Historic Site
Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
The best-preserved convict settlement in Australia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.