Historic sites
Khor Virap and Mount Ararat
Ararat, Armenia
A monastery near the Turkish border, where St Gregory the Illuminator was held in a pit for 13 years before converting Armenia to Christianity in 301…
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Natural features
Porthcurno and the Minack Theatre
Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Porthcurno is a stunning beach of fine white shell sand and clear blue-green water in a steep cove near Land's End.
Natural features
Great Migration, Maasai Mara
Narok, Kenya
Every year about 1.5 million wildebeest, with hundreds of thousands of zebra and gazelle, follow the rains in a huge clockwise circuit between Tanzan…
Natural features
Chobe National Park
Chobe, Botswana
A park with one of the largest elephant populations in Africa.
Walks and treks
Torres del Paine National Park
Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena, Chile
Granite towers, glaciers and turquoise lakes in Chilean Patagonia.
Buildings
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Paris, France
Built for the 1889 World's Fair, the 330 m tower has three levels open to visitors.
Tours and activities
Bonaire National Marine Park
Bonaire, Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba
The whole coastline of Bonaire is a marine park, with some of the best shore diving in the world: yellow stones mark dive sites along the road.
Walks and treks
Simien Mountains
Debark’, Amhara, Ethiopia
A dramatic plateau of jagged peaks and deep valleys, a UNESCO site, home of gelada baboons, walia ibex and the Ethiopian wolf.
Natural features
Tsingy de Bemaraha
Mahajanga, Madagascar
A stone forest of jagged limestone pinnacles, a UNESCO site, explored with guides using via ferrata cables, ladders and rope bridges.
Walks and treks
Drakensberg Amphitheatre
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
A 5 km wall of basalt cliffs in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, a UNESCO site, over which the Tugela Falls drop 948 m, among the highest in the world.
Natural features
Tiger Hill sunrise, Darjeeling
Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
A hilltop 11 km from Darjeeling, at 2,590 m, famous for the view at sunrise as the first light turns the snowy summit of Kangchenjunga, the world's t…
Natural features
Viñales Valley
Viñales, Pinar del Río, Cuba
A green valley of tobacco farms and limestone hills (mogotes), a UNESCO World Heritage Site.