Natural features
Rottnest Island and quokkas
Western Australia, Australia
A car-free island off Perth with turquoise bays and quokkas, small smiling marsupials that are unafraid of people.
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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…
Natural features
Doubtful Sound
Southland, New Zealand
A remote, quiet fiord in Fiordland, three times longer than Milford Sound, reached by boat across Lake Manapōuri and a bus over Wilmot Pass.
Buildings
Notre-Dame de Paris
Paris, France
The great Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, begun in 1163 and reopened in December 2024 after the restoration that followed the fire of 2019.
Buildings
Amiens Cathedral
Amiens, Somme, France
The largest Gothic cathedral in France, built in the 13th century, with a nave so vast that two Notre-Dames of Paris would fit inside.
Natural features
Tobago Cays, Grenadines
Grenadines, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Five uninhabited islands in a marine park protected by a reef, where you snorkel with green turtles in turquoise water.
Historic sites
Ayutthaya Historical Park
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
The ruins of the old Siamese capital, sacked by the Burmese in 1767, with prang towers, temples and Buddha statues, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland
The largest Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered.
Tours and activities
Ulva Island guided walk, Stewart Island
Southland, New Zealand
Ulva Island is a predator-free open sanctuary in Paterson Inlet, a short water-taxi ride from Oban on Stewart Island.
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…