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Naoshima art island
Kagawa, Japan
A small island in the Seto Inland Sea transformed into a home of contemporary art.
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Kings Canyon Rim Walk
Northern Territory, Australia
A 6 km loop walk (about 3 to 4 hours) around the rim of Kings Canyon, where sheer red sandstone walls drop 100 m to the canyon floor.
Historic sites
Port Arthur Historic Site
Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
The best-preserved convict settlement in Australia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Historic sites
Lednice Castle
Lednice, Břeclav, Czech Republic
A romantic neo-Gothic château surrounded by a huge English-style park, at the heart of the Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritag…
Walks and treks
Mount Rinjani
Labuan Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia
Indonesia's second-highest volcano, 3,726 m, on Lombok, with a crescent-shaped crater lake, Segara Anak, and hot springs.
Historic sites
Petra
Petra, Ma'an, Jordan
The Nabataean city carved into rose-red sandstone cliffs over 2,000 years ago, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
Historic sites
Sutton Hoo
Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom
The Anglo-Saxon royal burial ground where, in 1939, a great ship burial was found under a mound, full of treasures, among them a magnificent iron hel…
Natural features
The Baths, Virgin Gorda
British Virgin Islands
A beach of giant granite boulders forming grottoes and tidal pools, with a trail climbing through them by ladders and ropes to Devil's Bay.
Historic sites
Acropolis of Athens
Athens, Attica, Greece
The rocky citadel above Athens crowned by the Parthenon, the great marble temple to Athena completed in 438 BC, a symbol of classical Greece and the …
Historic sites
Stone Town, Zanzibar
Zanzibar, Zanzibar West, Tanzania
The old Swahili trading town of Zanzibar, a UNESCO site, with carved doors, the House of Wonders, the Old Fort, the former slave market and the Forod…
Historic sites
Toledo
Toledo, Spain
A medieval city on a hill in a bend of the Tagus River, where Christians, Muslims and Jews lived side by side for centuries.
Historic sites
Golden Temple, Amritsar
Amritsar, Punjab, India
The holiest shrine of Sikhism, a gold-covered temple in the middle of a sacred pool, open to all.