Historic sites
USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor
‘Aiea, Hawaii, United States of America
The white memorial straddles the sunken battleship USS Arizona, which was sunk in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
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Mount Bromo
Jawa Timur, Indonesia
An active volcano in East Java rising from a vast sea of sand inside an ancient caldera, with Mount Semeru smoking behind.
Natural features
Viñales Valley
Viñales, Pinar del Río, Cuba
A green valley of tobacco farms and limestone hills (mogotes), a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Historic sites
Gorée Island
Dakar, Senegal
A small car-free island off Dakar with pastel colonial houses and the House of Slaves with its 'Door of No Return', a memorial to the Atlantic slave …
Natural features
Arches National Park
Moab, Utah, United States of America
More than 2,000 natural stone arches in red rock desert near Moab, Utah.
Walks and treks
Samaria Gorge, Crete
Chóra Sfakíon, Crete, Greece
One of Europe's longest gorges, 16 km through the White Mountains of western Crete, down from Xyloskalo at 1,250 m to the Libyan Sea at Agia Roumeli.
Natural features
Salar de Uyuni
Potosí, Bolivia
The largest salt flat in the world, over 10,000 km² of white hexagonal crust; in the rainy season a thin layer of water turns it into a vast mirror.
Natural features
Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland
Ilulissat, Avannaata, Greenland
A fjord choked with giant icebergs calved from Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the fastest glaciers in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Historic sites
Sarajevo Tunnel Museum (Tunnel of Hope)
Ilidža, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
During the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995, a tunnel 800 m long was dug under the airport runway to connect the besieged city with free territory.
Buildings
Sagrada Família, Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Antoni Gaudí's extraordinary basilica, under construction since 1882 and due to be finished in the coming years.
Historic sites
Rovinj Old Town
Rovinj, Istria, Croatia
A colourful fishing town on a small peninsula on Istria's west coast, with narrow cobbled lanes climbing to the hilltop church of St Euphemia, whose …
Natural features
Perito Moreno Glacier
Santa Cruz, Argentina
A huge glacier, 5 km wide and 60 m high, in Los Glaciares National Park, which advances across Lake Argentino and calves icebergs with a roar.