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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.
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Rovinj Old Town
Rovinj, Istria, Croatia
A colourful fishing town on a small peninsula on Istria's west coast, with narrow cobbled lanes climbing to the hilltop church of St Euphemia, whose …
Natural features
Corcovado National Park
Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
One of the most biologically intense places on earth, on the remote Osa Peninsula, with tapirs, all four Costa Rican monkey species, scarlet macaws a…
Buildings
Reichstag dome, Berlin
Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
The home of the German parliament, the Bundestag, crowned by a glass dome designed by Norman Foster when the building was restored in 1999.
Attractions
Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
New Zealand's national museum, with Māori and Pacific treasures, a marae, a colossal squid, the Gallipoli exhibition with giant figures made by Weta …
Walks and treks
Triund trek, McLeod Ganj
Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India
A popular day hike from McLeod Ganj up through oak and rhododendron forest to the grassy ridge of Triund at 2,850 m.
Natural features
Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe side)
Victoria Falls, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
The Zambezi drops 108 m over a 1.7 km wide edge, the 'Smoke that Thunders', a UNESCO site.
Shopping
Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
Fatih, İstanbul, Turkey
One of the oldest and largest covered markets in the world, begun in 1461.
Attractions
Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg
Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, Germany
The world's largest model railway, filling several floors of an old warehouse with incredibly detailed miniature worlds: Hamburg, the Alps, Scandinav…
Historic sites
Mont-Saint-Michel
Avranches, Manche, France
A rocky tidal island in the bay between Normandy and Brittany, crowned by a Benedictine abbey begun in the 8th century and rebuilt over the following…
Natural features
Le Morne Brabant, Mauritius
Black River, Mauritius
A mountain rising above a turquoise lagoon on the south-west tip of Mauritius, a UNESCO site as a refuge of escaped slaves.
Historic sites
Göbekli Tepe
Haliliye, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
The world's oldest known monumental temple, built around 9600 BC by hunter-gatherers, thousands of years before Stonehenge, with huge T-shaped stone …