Natural features
Spiaggia di Cea, Ogliastra
Tortolì, Ogliastra, Italy
A long beach of fine sand on the east coast of Sardinia, famous for the two red porphyry rock stacks (the Faraglioni di Cea) standing just offshore.
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Hokitika Gorge
Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand
A granite gorge where the Hokitika River runs a startling milky turquoise, coloured by fine 'glacial flour' ground from the mountains.
Natural features
Cape Reinga (Te Rerenga Wairua)
Northland, New Zealand
The northern tip of the North Island, where the Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean in a line of clashing waves off the point.
Historic sites
Temple of Heaven, Beijing
Beijing, China
A Ming dynasty complex where emperors prayed for good harvests, with the circular, triple-roofed Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, a masterpiece of C…
Natural features
Stowe Gardens
Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
A vast 18th-century landscape garden full of temples, monuments and bridges, made by the Temple family with help from Capability Brown, who was head …
Attractions
Louvre Museum, Paris
Paris, France
The world's most visited museum, in the former royal palace on the Seine, entered through I.
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Península Valdés
Chubut, Argentina
A peninsula on the Patagonian coast, a UNESCO site, where southern right whales come to breed from June to December, sea lions and elephant seals bre…
Buildings
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain
Frank Gehry's spectacular museum of modern art, opened in 1997, with curving forms clad in shining titanium beside the river.
Historic sites
Valletta
Valletta, Malta
Malta's tiny fortified capital, built by the Knights of St John in the 16th century, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Historic sites
Tikal
Petén, Guatemala
One of the greatest Maya cities, deep in the rainforest of Petén, with temple pyramids rising above the canopy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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.
Historic sites
Berat
Berat, Albania
The 'town of a thousand windows', with white Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside above the Osum River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.