Buildings
Frauenkirche, Dresden
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Dresden's great baroque church, with its stone dome, collapsed after the bombing of the city in February 1945 and lay as a pile of rubble for nearly …
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Bwindi Impenetrable Forest gorilla trekking
Kanungu, Western, Uganda
A rainforest park, a UNESCO site, home to nearly half the world's mountain gorillas.
Natural features
Pravčická brána, Bohemian Switzerland
Mikulášovice, Děčín, Czech Republic
The largest natural sandstone arch in Europe, 26 m wide and 16 m high, in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, a landscape of rock towers, gorges …
Walks and treks
Routeburn Track
Otago, New Zealand
One of New Zealand's Great Walks, 33 km over 2 to 4 days through Mount Aspiring and Fiordland National Parks, with alpine lakes, waterfalls and views…
Historic sites
Gamla Stan, Stockholm
Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm's old town, on a small island, with narrow cobbled lanes, ochre and red houses, and the Stortorget square.
Natural features
San Blas Islands (Guna Yala)
Tubualá, Guna, Panama
An archipelago of about 365 small palm-covered islands on the Caribbean coast, governed by the indigenous Guna people.
Historic sites
Château de Chambord
Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France
The largest and most extravagant of the Loire châteaux, built from 1519 for King François I as a hunting lodge.
Natural features
Wineglass Bay, Freycinet National Park
Tasmania, Australia
A perfect curve of white sand and turquoise water on Tasmania's east coast, framed by the pink granite peaks of the Hazards.
Natural features
Cathedral Cove (Mautohe)
Whitianga, Waikato, New Zealand
A huge natural rock arch joining two white-sand beaches on the Coromandel Peninsula, in the Te Whanganui-A-Hei Marine Reserve, with a tall rock pinna…
Historic sites
Colmar and Little Venice
Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France
Colmar is the most picturesque town in Alsace, with colourful half-timbered houses, flower boxes and canals.
Natural features
Praia do Norte big waves, Nazaré
Nazaré, Leiria, Portugal
Nazaré's North Beach is famous for the biggest surfable waves in the world, created by an undersea canyon that funnels the Atlantic swell.
Natural features
Cappadocia hot-air balloons and fairy chimneys
Nevşehir, Turkey
A landscape of rock pinnacles ('fairy chimneys'), valleys and cave dwellings in central Turkey, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.