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Prizren Old Town
Prizren, Kosovo
Kosovo's most beautiful town, with an Ottoman stone bridge over the Bistrica River, the Sinan Pasha Mosque, Orthodox churches, and a fortress on the …
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Itsukushima Shrine, Miyajima
Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan
A Shinto shrine on the island of Miyajima, built over the water, with a huge vermilion torii gate that seems to float at high tide.
Natural features
Stockholm Archipelago
Vaxholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Around 30,000 islands, islets and rocks stretch from Stockholm out into the Baltic, with red cottages, pine woods and smooth granite rocks.
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Great Barrier Reef from Cairns
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
The world's largest coral reef system, a UNESCO site, stretching 2,300 km.
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Lindisfarne Castle
Bamburgh, Northumberland, United Kingdom
A Tudor fort on a rocky outcrop on Holy Island, turned into a holiday home by Edwin Lutyens for Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life magazine.
Natural features
Cliffs of Moher
Clare, Ireland
Ireland's most famous natural sight: sheer cliffs rising up to 214 m out of the Atlantic, running for 14 km along the County Clare coast.
Historic sites
Mount Nemrut
Kâhta, Adıyaman, Turkey
A mountain top at 2,134 m where King Antiochus of Commagene built a tomb mound in the 1st century BC, with huge stone heads of gods and kings now sca…
Natural features
Redwood National and State Parks
Westhaven-Moonstone, California, United States of America
Forests of coast redwoods, the tallest trees on earth, some over 110 m, along the foggy northern California coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Chefchaouen
Chefchaouen, Morocco
A mountain town in the Rif whose medina is painted in every shade of blue.
Natural features
Galápagos Islands
Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador
Volcanic islands 1,000 km off the coast where the unique wildlife inspired Darwin's theory of evolution: giant tortoises, marine iguanas, blue-footed…
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Icherisheher, Baku
Baku, Azerbaijan
Baku's walled old city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the 12th-century Maiden Tower, the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, caravanserais and carpet sh…
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Mezquita of Córdoba
Córdoba, Spain
The great mosque of Córdoba, begun in 785, with a forest of more than 850 columns supporting red and white striped arches, and a dazzling mihrab of g…