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Bunk'Art, Tirana
Tirana
A huge Cold War nuclear bunker built for the dictator Enver Hoxha, with 106 rooms on five floors, now a museum of Albania's communist history and art.
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Alice Springs Desert Park
Larapinta, Northern Territory
A walk-through park at the foot of the West MacDonnell Ranges that shows the plants and animals of Australia's deserts in recreated habitats: sand co…
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Australia Zoo, Beerwah
Beerwah, Queensland
The zoo made famous by Steve Irwin, the 'Crocodile Hunter', and still run by the Irwin family.
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Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane
Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland
Opened in 1927, Lone Pine is the world's first and largest koala sanctuary, with more than 100 koalas in a bush setting on the Brisbane River at Fig …
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MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Hobart
Berriedale, Tasmania
Australia's most talked-about museum, created by gambler and collector David Walsh and carved into a sandstone cliff beside the Derwent River.
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Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo
Dubbo, New South Wales
An open-range zoo in Dubbo where animals from Africa, Asia and Australia live in huge enclosures separated by moats rather than cages.
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Taronga Zoo, Sydney
Mosman, New South Wales
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 …
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Belvedere Palace and Klimt's The Kiss, Vienna
Vienna
Two baroque palaces built for Prince Eugene of Savoy, facing each other across terraced gardens.
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Golden Roof and Nordkette, Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Tyrol
Innsbruck, capital of the Tyrol, is a city with mountains on its doorstep.
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Prater and the Giant Ferris Wheel, Vienna
Vienna
The Giant Ferris Wheel (Riesenrad), built in 1897, turns slowly in the Prater amusement park, its red wooden cabins rising 65 m over Vienna.
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Bahrain National Museum and Al Fateh Mosque
Manama, Capital
The National Museum covers Dilmun burial mounds and the pearl-diving history of the islands.
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Manneken Pis, Brussels
Brussels, Brussels-Capital
A small bronze statue of a little boy relieving himself into a fountain, a symbol of Brussels' irreverent humour since 1619.
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La Paz cable cars and Witches' Market
La Paz
La Paz, at about 3,650 m in a canyon, has the world's largest urban cable car network, Mi Teleférico, with views over the city and El Alto.
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Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
The 30 m Art Deco statue of Christ with open arms on top of Corcovado mountain, completed in 1931, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, with sw…
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Santiago and Cerro San Cristóbal
Santiago, Región Metropolitana de Santiago
Chile's capital, with the Andes behind. Ride the funicular up Cerro San Cristóbal for views, visit the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, La Chascon…
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Chengdu Giant Panda Base
Chengdu, Sichuan
A research and breeding centre for giant pandas in a large bamboo park in Chengdu, where you can see adult pandas, cubs and red pandas.
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Comuna 13 and Medellín
Medellín, Antioquia
Medellín has transformed itself; Comuna 13, once very violent, is now known for murals, outdoor escalators and hip-hop, best seen with a local guide.
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Gold Museum, Bogotá
Bogotá D.C.
A museum of more than 55,000 pieces of pre-Hispanic gold, including the golden raft of the El Dorado legend.
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Mount Srđ cable car, Dubrovnik
Grad Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik-Neretva
A cable car rises 405 m from just outside the old town walls to the top of Mount Srđ, in about four minutes.
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Humlebæk, Capital Region of Denmark
One of the world's most loved art museums, in a series of low buildings set in a sculpture park on the coast north of Copenhagen, looking across the …
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Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
One of the oldest amusement parks in the world, opened in 1843 in the heart of Copenhagen, with gardens, historic and modern rides, including a woode…
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Aarhus: ARoS and the Old Town
Aarhus, Central Denmark
Denmark's second city has the ARoS art museum, topped by 'Your rainbow panorama', a circular glass walkway in all the colours of the rainbow, with vi…
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Legoland Billund
Billund, Southern Denmark
The original Legoland, opened in 1968 next to the Lego factory in Billund, with Miniland, a world of famous buildings made from millions of Lego bric…
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Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza
Giza
The world's largest archaeological museum, next to the Giza pyramids, with a huge statue of Ramesses II in the atrium, a grand staircase of statues, …
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Addis Ababa and the National Museum
Addis Ababa
The museum holds the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of 'Lucy' (a replica on display, the original in a vault).
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Moomin World, Naantali
Naantali, Finland Proper
A theme park on an island off the pretty old wooden town of Naantali, bringing to life Tove Jansson's Moomin stories, with the blue Moominhouse, char…
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Santa Claus Village, Rovaniemi
Rovaniemi, Lapland
A village on the Arctic Circle outside Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland, where you can meet Santa Claus all year round, send post from his post offi…
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Louvre Museum, Paris
Paris
The world's most visited museum, in the former royal palace on the Seine, entered through I.
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Monet's House and Gardens, Giverny
Les Andelys, Eure
The house where Claude Monet lived for 43 years, and the gardens he created and painted again and again: a flower garden bursting with colour, and ac…
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Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Paris
A former railway station on the Left Bank of the Seine, now home to the world's greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art: Mone…
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Fonseranes locks, Canal du Midi
Béziers, Hérault
A staircase of eight locks on the Canal du Midi at Béziers, lifting boats 21 metres up the hillside, one of the great feats of Pierre-Paul Riquet's 1…
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Hennessy cognac house tour, Cognac
Cognac, Charente
Cognac, a small town on the Charente River, is the home of the brandy of the same name, and the great cognac houses offer tours in several languages.
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Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
Paris
The house and studio of the Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, which he designed as his own museum before he died in 1898.
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Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Kourou, Guyane
Europe's spaceport, from which Ariane rockets are launched.
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Batumi
Batumi, Adjara
A Black Sea resort city with a long seaside boulevard, modern towers, the moving 'Ali and Nino' statue, and a lively nightlife.
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Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg
Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg
The world's largest model railway, filling several floors of an old warehouse with incredibly detailed miniature worlds: Hamburg, the Alps, Scandinav…
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Museum Island, Berlin
Mitte, Berlin
Five world-class museums on an island in the River Spree, together a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Acropolis Museum, Athens
Athens, Attica
A modern glass museum at the foot of the Acropolis, built over excavated ancient streets that you can see through the glass floor.
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Tian Tan Buddha, Lantau
Islands
A giant bronze seated Buddha, 34 m high, on a hilltop on Lantau Island, reached by 268 steps, beside the Po Lin Monastery, which serves vegetarian lu…
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Happy Valley Tea Estate, Darjeeling
Darjeeling, West Bengal
One of Darjeeling's oldest tea gardens, founded in 1854, on the hillside just below the town.
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Book of Kells, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin
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…
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Powerscourt Estate and Gardens
Enniskerry, Wicklow
Often called one of the world's great gardens, Powerscourt has 47 acres of formal gardens, Italian terraces, statues and ornamental lakes beneath the…
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Guinness Storehouse, Dublin
Dublin
Ireland's most visited attraction, in a seven-storey former fermentation building, shaped like a giant pint glass, at the St James's Gate brewery.
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Jameson Distillery Bow St, Dublin
Dublin
The original Jameson distillery in Smithfield, where whiskey was made from 1780 until production moved to Midleton in County Cork in 1975.
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Tel Aviv beaches and Jaffa
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is a beach city with a long promenade and the 'White City' of Bauhaus buildings, a UNESCO site.
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Borghese Gallery, Rome
Rome
A small museum in a 17th-century villa in the Villa Borghese park, with one of the finest art collections in the world: Bernini's breathtaking marble…
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Malcesine and the Monte Baldo cable car
Malcesine, Verona
Malcesine is one of the prettiest towns on Lake Garda, with a medieval castle on the rocks above the water and a small harbour.
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Michelangelo's David, Galleria dell'Accademia
Florence
The Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence is home to Michelangelo's David, the 5 m marble statue carved between 1501 and 1504, displayed under a skylit…
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The Last Supper, Milan
Milan
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, painted on the wall of the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie between 1495 and 1498.
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Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Florence
One of the world's great art museums, in a Renaissance building beside the Arno, with masterpieces such as Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera,…
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Egyptian Museum, Turin
Turin
The oldest museum in the world devoted entirely to ancient Egypt, and one of the most important outside Cairo, with more than 30,000 objects: mummies…
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Naoshima art island
Kagawa
A small island in the Seto Inland Sea transformed into a home of contemporary art.
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teamLab Planets, Tokyo
Tokyo
An immersive digital art museum where you walk barefoot through rooms of light, water and mirrors, including a room of floating orchids and a pool wh…
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Durrell Wildlife Park, Jersey
Vingtaine des Augrès, Trinity
A zoo founded by the naturalist Gerald Durrell in 1959, devoted to breeding endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans, lemurs and Andean bea…
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Cotai Strip and Macau Tower
Macau is the world's largest gambling centre, and the Cotai Strip has huge casino resorts with shows, shopping and canals.
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Langkawi SkyCab and Sky Bridge
Langkawi, Kedah
A cable car that climbs steeply up Gunung Mat Cincang, one of the oldest mountains in Malaysia, over the rainforest to a summit station at 708 m.
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National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
Polanco, Ciudad de México
One of the world's great museums, with the Aztec Sun Stone, Olmec heads, Maya treasures and a recreated tomb of King Pakal, in a building with a vast…
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Centro Mexicano de la Tortuga, Mazunte
Santa María Tonameca, Oaxaca
Mexico's national sea turtle centre, in a village that was once a turtle-hunting town until hunting was banned in 1990.
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Frida Kahlo Museum (Casa Azul), Mexico City
Coyoacán, Ciudad de México
The blue house in Coyoacán where the artist Frida Kahlo was born and lived with Diego Rivera, with her paintings, studio, clothes and garden.
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La Quebrada cliff divers, Acapulco
Acapulco de Juárez, Guerrero
Since the 1930s, Acapulco's clavadistas have dived from ledges up to 35 m high on the cliffs of La Quebrada into a narrow rocky channel, timing their…
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Mileștii Mici Wine Cellars
Ialoveni
The largest wine collection in the world according to Guinness World Records, with nearly 2 million bottles stored in 200 km of underground tunnels, …
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Oceanographic Museum, Monaco
Monaco-Ville
A grand museum of marine science built on a cliff above the Mediterranean in 1910 by Prince Albert I, once directed by Jacques Cousteau, with an aqua…
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Montserrat Volcano Observatory
Saint Peter
The Soufrière Hills volcano erupted in 1995, burying the capital Plymouth under ash; the south of the island is still an exclusion zone.
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Kröller-Müller Museum and Hoge Veluwe National Park
Otterlo, Gelderland
A national park of heath, forest and drifting sand dunes, with deer and wild boar, where you can borrow one of the free white bicycles at the entranc…
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Amsterdam, North Holland
The national museum of the Netherlands, in a grand 19th-century building, home to the masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age: Rembrandt's huge Night Wa…
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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Amsterdam, North Holland
The world's largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh, with more than 200 paintings, including Sunflowers, The Potato Eaters, The Bedroom and A…
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Mauritshuis, The Hague
The Hague, South Holland
A small, beautiful museum in a 17th-century palace beside the Dutch Parliament, with Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and View of Delft, Rembrandt…
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Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Wellington
New Zealand's national museum, with Māori and Pacific treasures, a marae, a colossal squid, the Gallipoli exhibition with giant figures made by Weta …
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Te Puia and Whakarewarewa, Rotorua
Rotorua, Bay of Plenty
A geothermal valley with the Pōhutu Geyser, which erupts up to 30 m, boiling mud pools, and the national Māori carving and weaving schools.
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Anatoki Salmon, Tākaka
Takaka, Tasman
A salmon farm in the Anatoki valley near Tākaka where you can catch your own king salmon in the ponds.
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Auckland Sky Tower and Waiheke Island
Auckland
The 328 m Sky Tower has observation decks and the SkyJump.
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Christchurch Gondola
Christchurch, Canterbury
A cable car up the side of an extinct volcano in the Port Hills, to the summit station 500 m above sea level.
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Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools and Spa
Canterbury
Natural thermal pools in the alpine village of Hanmer Springs, open since 1883.
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Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo
Oslo
More than 200 sculptures in bronze, granite and iron by Gustav Vigeland, showing people of all ages in every stage of life, laid out in Frogner Park.
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Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Doha
A museum designed by I. M. Pei on its own island in Doha Bay, with superb Islamic art from three continents: ceramics, manuscripts, metalwork and car…
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Turda Salt Mine
Turda, Cluj
A salt mine dug from the 17th century, now an underground theme park, deep below Transylvania.
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Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace, St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, in the green and white Winter Palace of the tsars on the Neva, with around 3 million objects, inc…
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Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Singapore, Central Singapore
A futuristic garden beside Marina Bay with the Supertree Grove, giant tree-like structures up to 50 m tall covered in plants, linked by a skyway.
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Sentosa Island, Singapore
Singapore, Central Singapore
Singapore's resort island, just off the south coast and joined to the city by a road bridge, a monorail and a cable car.
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Singapore Zoo and Night Safari
Singapore, Central Singapore
An open-concept zoo in rainforest beside a reservoir, where animals live in landscaped enclosures without bars, including orangutans that roam among …
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Maho Beach, Sint Maarten
A beach right at the end of the airport runway, where planes pass just metres overhead as they land.
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V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
City of Cape Town, Western Cape
Cape Town's working harbour, turned into a lively area of shops, restaurants, hotels and museums, with Table Mountain as a backdrop.
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Gamcheon Culture Village, Busan
Busan
A hillside neighbourhood of brightly painted houses stacked up the slopes above Busan's port, once a refugee settlement, now full of murals, art inst…
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Fuente Dé cable car, Picos de Europa
Camaleño, Cantabria
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…
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Park Güell, Barcelona
Barcelona
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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Prado Museum, Madrid
Retiro, Madrid
One of the world's great art museums, with the finest collection of Spanish painting: Velázquez's Las Meninas, Goya's 'black paintings' and The Third…
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Monte Igueldo funicular, San Sebastián
Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa
A wooden funicular railway, running since 1912, climbs Monte Igueldo at the western end of La Concha Bay.
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Museo Picasso Málaga
Málaga
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga in 1881, and this museum, in the 16th-century Buenavista Palace in the old town, holds more than 200 of his works, d…
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Puerto Banús, Marbella
Marbella, Málaga
The luxury marina just west of Marbella, built in 1970, where superyachts line the quays and supercars cruise past the designer boutiques.
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Vasa Museum, Stockholm
Stockholm
The Vasa, a magnificent warship that sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbour in 1628, and was raised 333 years later almost intact.
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National Palace Museum, Taipei
Shilin District, Taipei
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.
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Meserani Snake Park, near Arusha
Monduli, Arusha
A snake park and reptile centre on the road west of Arusha, with mambas, cobras, pythons and puff adders, plus crocodiles and tortoises.
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Wat Thawet, Sukhothai
Sukhothai
A very different temple from the classic ruins of Sukhothai: a garden of hundreds of handmade concrete statues telling the story of the Ramayana, sce…
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Pattaya Park water park and tower
Pattaya, Chon Buri
A family water park on the beachfront between Pattaya and Jomtien, with water slides, a wave pool, a lazy river and children's pools.
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Cristo Rei, Dili
Cristo Rei, Dili
A 27 m statue of Christ standing on a globe on a headland east of Dili, reached by about 500 steps with the Stations of the Cross, with views over th…
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Louvre Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
A museum of world art and history under a vast lattice dome by Jean Nouvel, which creates a 'rain of light' over the galleries on Saadiyat Island.
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Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
Ballintoy Harbour, Causeway Coast and Glens
A rope bridge strung 30 metres above the sea between the cliffs and the tiny island of Carrick-a-Rede, first built by salmon fishermen over 250 years…
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Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway
Lynton, Devon
A Victorian cliff railway, opened in 1890, linking the twin villages of Lynmouth, at sea level, and Lynton, 150 m above on the cliff top.
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Natural History Museum, London
Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea
A cathedral-like Victorian museum in South Kensington, with a blue whale skeleton hanging in the great Hintze Hall, dinosaurs including a moving T.
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The British Museum, London
Camden Town, Camden
One of the world's great museums, founded in 1753, with eight million objects covering two million years of human history.
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Cadbury World, Bournville
Birmingham
A chocolate-themed attraction at Cadbury's factory in Bournville, the model village built by the Cadbury family for its workers in south Birmingham.
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Eden Project
St Austell, Cornwall
Huge geodesic domes, built in a former clay pit in Cornwall, contain two of the world's largest greenhouses.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Manhattan, New York
One of the largest and greatest art museums in the world, covering 5,000 years of art: the Egyptian Temple of Dendur, European paintings including Re…
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Hollywood and Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
The Griffith Observatory, on a hill in Griffith Park, has free exhibits, telescopes and views of the Hollywood Sign and the Los Angeles basin, especi…
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Kennedy Space Center
Merritt Island, Florida
NASA's launch site on Florida's Atlantic coast, with the Space Shuttle Atlantis, a Saturn V moon rocket, and bus tours of the launch pads.
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Walt Disney World, Orlando
Horizon West, Florida
The world's most visited holiday resort, with four theme parks: the Magic Kingdom with Cinderella Castle, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom…
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Las Vegas Strip
Winchester, Nevada
A 6.8 km boulevard of themed casino resorts in the Nevada desert, with the Bellagio fountains, the Venetian's canals, shows, and the Sphere, a giant …
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Tashkent Metro and Chorsu Bazaar
Tashkent, Tashkent City
Tashkent's metro, opened in 1977, has some of the most ornate stations in the world, each decorated with chandeliers, marble and mosaics on a differe…
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Port Vila and Efate
Port-Vila, Shefa
Vanuatu's capital, with a market, the Mele Cascades waterfalls, and the blue lagoon.
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Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel
One of the world's greatest art collections, built up by the popes, with classical sculpture, the Raphael Rooms, the Gallery of Maps, and, at the end…
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War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City, Hồ Chí Minh
A powerful museum about the Vietnam War (the 'American War' in Vietnam), with American tanks, helicopters and planes in the courtyard and displays in…
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Golden Bridge, Bà Nà Hills
Đại Lộc, Đà Nẵng
A golden footbridge that loops through the mountains, held up by two giant stone-looking hands, in the Bà Nà Hills resort near Đà Nẵng, reached by on…