Natural features
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Newlands, Western Cape, South Africa
One of the world's great botanic gardens, on the slopes of Table Mountain, devoted to South Africa's native plants, including proteas.
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Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
The half-timbered house on Henley Street where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and grew up.
Buildings
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
Frank Gehry's spectacular museum of modern art, opened in 1997, with curving forms clad in shining titanium beside the river.
Natural features
Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach
Mýrdalshreppur, Iceland
A black volcanic sand beach near Vík, with towering basalt columns forming a cave and the Reynisdrangar sea stacks offshore, said to be trolls turned…
Historic sites
Mussenden Temple and Downhill Demesne
Castlerock, Causeway Coast and Glens, United Kingdom
A small round temple, modelled on the temples of Vesta in Italy, perched on the very edge of a cliff above Downhill Strand, built in 1785 as a librar…
Tours and activities
Great Barrier Reef from Cairns
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
The world's largest coral reef system, a UNESCO site, stretching 2,300 km.
Buildings
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg's concert hall, opened in 2017: a glass wave-like structure built on top of an old brick warehouse at the tip of the HafenCity docks.
Natural features
Douro Valley
Alijó, Vila Real, Portugal
The oldest demarcated wine region in the world, where port wine comes from, with vineyards terraced into the steep slopes of the Douro River valley, …
Historic sites
Nara Park and Tōdai-ji
Nara-shi, Nara, Japan
Japan's first permanent capital, where more than 1,000 tame sika deer roam the park; buy deer crackers and they will bow to you.
Natural features
Lake Bohinj and Savica Waterfall
Bohinjska Bistrica, Bohinj, Slovenia
Slovenia's largest lake, in the Triglav National Park, quieter and wilder than Bled, surrounded by mountains.
Natural features
Chobe National Park
Chobe, Botswana
A park with one of the largest elephant populations in Africa.
Attractions
Fuente Dé cable car, Picos de Europa
Camaleño, Cantabria, Spain
A cable car that climbs 753 m in under four minutes, from the meadows of Fuente Dé to a viewpoint on the edge of the central massif of the Picos de E…