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Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai, Thailand
A golden temple on a mountain above Chiang Mai, reached by a naga-lined staircase of 306 steps (or a funicular), with views over the city.
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Bryggen, Bergen
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
A row of colourful wooden merchants' houses on Bergen's harbour, the old Hanseatic wharf, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Historic sites
Hohensalzburg Fortress and Old Town, Salzburg
Salzburg, Austria
One of the largest medieval castles in Europe, standing above Salzburg's baroque old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Natural features
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
Ocampo, Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico
Each winter, millions of monarch butterflies migrate up to 4,000 km from Canada and the USA to fir forests in Michoacán, covering the trees in orange…
Natural features
Classical Gardens of Suzhou
Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Suzhou's classical gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are miniature landscapes of ponds, rocks, pavilions and windows framing views.
Attractions
Park Güell, Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
A hillside park designed by Gaudí, with gingerbread-like gatehouses, a mosaic dragon on the grand staircase, and a great terrace edged with a long, w…
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Old Havana
La Habana Vieja, Havana, Cuba
The colonial heart of Havana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with four great plazas, baroque churches, crumbling and restored mansions, and 1950s Amer…
Natural features
Gorges du Verdon
Castellane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
Europe's largest canyon, up to 700 m deep, carved by the turquoise Verdon river through the limestone of Provence.
Historic sites
Conques
Firmi, Aveyron, France
A medieval village of stone houses with slate roofs clinging to a steep hillside, around the Romanesque abbey church of Sainte-Foy, a great stop on t…
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Itchan Kala, Khiva
Khiwa, Xorazm, Uzbekistan
The walled inner town of Khiva, a remarkably complete Silk Road city of mud-brick walls, madrasas, minarets and palaces, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Walks and treks
North Gorge Walk, Point Lookout
Queensland, Australia
An easy 1.2 km boardwalk loop around the headland at Point Lookout, on North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), and one of the best wildlife walks in Q…
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Sirmione and the Grottoes of Catullus
Sirmione, Brescia, Italy
Sirmione sits on a narrow peninsula jutting into the south of Lake Garda.
Attractions
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan
One of the greatest collections of Chinese art in the world, with nearly 700,000 objects, many brought from the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1949.
Tours and activities
Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) Cave
Belmopan, Cayo, Belize
A Maya ceremonial cave where you swim, wade and climb deep inside to chambers with pottery and the calcified skeletons of sacrificial victims, includ…
Historic sites
Stari Most (Old Bridge), Mostar
Mostar, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A slender 16th-century Ottoman bridge arching high over the emerald Neretva River in Mostar, about halfway between Dubrovnik and Sarajevo.
Natural features
Moorea
Windward Islands, French Polynesia
A lush island 30 minutes by ferry from Tahiti, with jagged peaks, Cook's Bay and Ōpūnohu Bay, and the Belvedere lookout.
Historic sites
Corfe Castle
Corfe Castle, Dorset, United Kingdom
The dramatic ruin of a royal castle on a steep hill in a gap in the Purbeck Hills, above a village of grey stone cottages.
Natural features
Oia, Santorini
Oía, South Aegean, Greece
A village of white houses and blue-domed churches clinging to the rim of Santorini's caldera, a flooded volcanic crater, with famous sunsets over the…
Walks and treks
Lavaux Vineyard Terraces
Chexbres, Vaud, Switzerland
Terraced vineyards rising steeply from the shores of Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Montreux, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, created by monks in the…
Historic sites
Visoki Dečani Monastery
Deçan, Gjakove, Kosovo
A Serbian Orthodox monastery built in the 14th century, with a church of pale marble and one of the largest and best-preserved collections of Byzanti…
Attractions
Taronga Zoo, Sydney
Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney's zoo sits on a hillside at Mosman with probably the best view of any zoo in the world, looking across the harbour to the Opera House and the …
Natural features
Danube Delta
Sulina, Tulcea, Romania
Europe's largest and best-preserved river delta, where the Danube splits into channels, lakes and reed beds before reaching the Black Sea.
Walks and treks
Simien Mountains
Debark’, Amhara, Ethiopia
A dramatic plateau of jagged peaks and deep valleys, a UNESCO site, home of gelada baboons, walia ibex and the Ethiopian wolf.
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…
Attractions
Book of Kells, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
The Book of Kells is a richly illuminated manuscript of the Gospels made by monks around 800 AD, one of Ireland's greatest treasures, displayed in Tr…
Natural features
Huka Falls, Taupō
Taupo, Waikato, New Zealand
The Waikato River, New Zealand's longest, squeezes from about 100 m wide into a narrow rocky chasm just 15 m wide, then thunders over an 11 m drop in…
Historic sites
Cusco
Cusco, Peru
The old Inca capital, at 3,400 m, with Spanish churches built on Inca walls, a UNESCO site.
Natural features
Rock Islands and Jellyfish Lake, Palau
Koror, Palau
Hundreds of mushroom-shaped limestone islands in a turquoise lagoon, a UNESCO site.
Historic sites
Tuol Sleng and the Killing Fields, Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tuol Sleng (S-21), a school turned into a Khmer Rouge prison, where thousands were tortured, is now a genocide museum.
Historic sites
Real Alcázar of Seville
Sevilla, Spain
A royal palace begun by the Moors and rebuilt by Christian kings in the Mudéjar style, with richly tiled and carved halls, courtyards with pools, and…
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