Natural features
Glencoe
Fort William, Highland, United Kingdom
Scotland's most famous glen, a dramatic valley in the Highlands surrounded by steep mountains such as Buachaille Etive Mòr and the Three Sisters.
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Windmills of Kinderdijk
Slikkerveer, South Holland, Netherlands
Nineteen 18th-century windmills standing in rows along the canals of a polder near Rotterdam, built to pump water out of the low-lying land.
Buildings
Sainte-Chapelle, Paris
Paris, France
A royal chapel built in the 1240s by King Louis IX to house relics of the Crown of Thorns, hidden inside the Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité.
Natural features
Charyn Canyon
Almaty, Kazakhstan
A canyon 154 km long carved by the Charyn River, with red rock formations; the Valley of Castles section has a walk of about 3 km down to the river b…
Natural features
Ölüdeniz Blue Lagoon and Babadağ paragliding
Fethiye, Muğla, Turkey
Ölüdeniz is one of Turkey's most famous beaches: a long curve of shingle beach and a sheltered lagoon of turquoise water, backed by pine-covered moun…
Natural features
Bastei Bridge, Saxon Switzerland
Lohmen, Saxony, Germany
A stone bridge built in 1851 linking towering sandstone pillars 194 m above the River Elbe, in Saxon Switzerland National Park.
Historic sites
Geghard Monastery
Garni, Kotayk, Armenia
A medieval monastery partly carved into the cliffs of a gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with chambers hewn from the rock and remarkable acoustic…
Tours and activities
Ulva Island guided walk, Stewart Island
Southland, New Zealand
Ulva Island is a predator-free open sanctuary in Paterson Inlet, a short water-taxi ride from Oban on Stewart Island.
Historic sites
Avebury Stone Circle
Marlborough, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
The largest stone circle in Britain, so big that part of the village of Avebury sits inside it.
Historic sites
Ruins of St Paul's and Senado Square, Macau
Macau
The stone façade of a 17th-century Jesuit church, all that's left after a fire in 1835, standing at the top of a grand staircase, the symbol of Macau.
Natural features
Mana Pools
Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
A remote park on the Zambezi, a UNESCO site, famous for walking safaris, canoe trips, and elephants standing on their hind legs to reach the trees.
Natural features
Lake Bohinj and Savica Waterfall
Bohinjska Bistrica, Bohinj, Slovenia
Slovenia's largest lake, in the Triglav National Park, quieter and wilder than Bled, surrounded by mountains.