Natural features
Avenue of the Baobabs
Toliara, Madagascar
A dirt road lined with towering Grandidier's baobab trees, up to 800 years old, near Morondava on the west coast.
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Andasibe-Mantadia lemurs
Toamasina, Madagascar
A rainforest park east of Antananarivo where you hear the wailing call of the indri, the largest lemur.
Buildings
Strasbourg Cathedral and Petite France
Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Strasbourg's pink sandstone cathedral, with a single spire 142 m high, was the tallest building in the world for over 200 years.
Historic sites
Bryggen, Bergen
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
A row of colourful wooden merchants' houses on Bergen's harbour, the old Hanseatic wharf, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Attractions
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Humlebæk, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
One of the world's most loved art museums, in a series of low buildings set in a sculpture park on the coast north of Copenhagen, looking across the …
Buildings
Windsor Castle
Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom
The oldest and largest occupied castle in the world and an official residence of the King.
Natural features
Anse Source d'Argent, La Digue
La Digue, Seychelles
One of the most photographed beaches in the world, with pink granite boulders, white sand and a shallow turquoise lagoon.
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.
Walks and treks
El Chaltén and Fitz Roy
Santa Cruz, Argentina
Argentina's 'trekking capital', a small village beneath the granite spires of Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre.
Historic sites
Tuol Sleng and the Killing Fields, Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tuol Sleng (S-21), a school turned into a Khmer Rouge prison, where thousands were tortured, is now a genocide museum.
Buildings
Notre-Dame de Paris
Paris, France
The great Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, begun in 1163 and reopened in December 2024 after the restoration that followed the fire of 2019.
Historic sites
AlUla and Hegra
Al-Ula, Al Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Hegra (Mada'in Salih) was the second city of the Nabataeans after Petra, with more than 100 monumental tombs carved into sandstone outcrops, Saudi Ar…