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Cartagena old town
Cartagena de Indias, Bolívar, Colombia
A walled colonial port on the Caribbean, a UNESCO site, with colourful balconies, plazas and the San Felipe fortress.
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Lascaux IV cave paintings
Montignac, Dordogne, France
The cave of Lascaux, discovered in 1940, holds some of the finest prehistoric paintings in the world: bulls, horses and deer painted about 17,000 yea…
Natural features
Whitehaven Beach and the Whitsundays
Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia
A 7 km beach of brilliant white silica sand on Whitsunday Island, with swirling sand and water patterns at Hill Inlet seen from the lookout.
Buildings
City Palace and Lake Pichola, Udaipur
Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Udaipur, the 'City of Lakes', is built around Lake Pichola, with the huge City Palace rising from its shore and the Lake Palace hotel floating in the…
Natural features
Sete Cidades, São Miguel, Azores
Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal
Twin lakes, one green and one blue, filling a huge volcanic crater on the island of São Miguel in the Azores.
Natural features
Churchill polar bears
Manitoba, Canada
A small town on Hudson Bay, the 'polar bear capital of the world', where bears gather each October and November waiting for the sea to freeze.
Natural features
Cochamó Valley
Cochamó, Los Lagos, Chile
Often called the Yosemite of South America: a valley of temperate rainforest, rivers and huge granite domes in northern Patagonia.
Attractions
Te Puia and Whakarewarewa, Rotorua
Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
A geothermal valley with the Pōhutu Geyser, which erupts up to 30 m, boiling mud pools, and the national Māori carving and weaving schools.
Historic sites
Glendalough
Wicklow, Ireland
A glacial valley in the Wicklow Mountains with two lakes and the remains of a monastic settlement founded by St Kevin in the 6th century, including a…
Historic sites
Malbork Castle
Malbork, Pomerania, Poland
The largest castle in the world by land area, a huge red-brick Gothic fortress built by the Teutonic Knights from the 13th century beside the Nogat R…
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.
Historic sites
Kronborg Castle, Helsingør
Helsingør, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
A Renaissance castle on the narrowest point of the Øresund strait, where Danish kings collected tolls from passing ships.