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.
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Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
Ocampo, Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico
Each winter, millions of monarch butterflies migrate up to 4,000 km from Canada and the USA to fir forests in Michoacán, covering the trees in orange…
Natural features
Danube Delta
Sulina, Tulcea, Romania
Europe's largest and best-preserved river delta, where the Danube splits into channels, lakes and reed beds before reaching the Black Sea.
Buildings
Tiger's Nest Monastery (Paro Taktsang)
Paro, Bhutan
Bhutan's most famous sight: a monastery clinging to a cliff 900 m above the Paro valley, where Guru Rinpoche is said to have arrived on the back of a…
Natural features
Cape Reinga (Te Rerenga Wairua)
Northland, New Zealand
The northern tip of the North Island, where the Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean in a line of clashing waves off the point.
Attractions
Natural History Museum, London
Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom
A cathedral-like Victorian museum in South Kensington, with a blue whale skeleton hanging in the great Hintze Hall, dinosaurs including a moving T.
Historic sites
Icherisheher, Baku
Baku, Azerbaijan
Baku's walled old city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the 12th-century Maiden Tower, the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, caravanserais and carpet sh…
Natural features
Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach
Mýrdalshreppur, Iceland
A black volcanic sand beach near Vík, with towering basalt columns forming a cave and the Reynisdrangar sea stacks offshore, said to be trolls turned…
Attractions
Vasa Museum, Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden
The Vasa, a magnificent warship that sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbour in 1628, and was raised 333 years later almost intact.
Natural features
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
Yongding, Hunan, China
Thousands of towering sandstone pillars rising from forested valleys, often wrapped in mist, which inspired the floating mountains in the film Avatar.
Natural features
Sennen Cove
St Just, Cornwall, United Kingdom
A wide crescent of white sand and turquoise water at the far western tip of Cornwall, sheltered by Pedn-men-du headland.
Historic sites
Château d'Azay-le-Rideau
Azay-le-Rideau, Indre-et-Loire, France
One of the most graceful Renaissance châteaux of the Loire Valley, built in the 1520s on an island in the River Indre, so that it seems to float on t…