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.
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Natural features
Lake Rotoiti and Kerr Bay, St Arnaud
Tasman, New Zealand
A glacial lake in Nelson Lakes National Park, surrounded by beech forest and mountains, with the village of St Arnaud on its northern shore.
Attractions
The Last Supper, Milan
Milan, Italy
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, painted on the wall of the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie between 1495 and 1498.
Natural features
Ring of Kerry and Skellig Michael
Cahersiveen, Kerry, Ireland
The Ring of Kerry is a 179 km scenic route around the Iveragh peninsula, past mountains, lakes, beaches and villages.
Historic sites
Château de Chillon
Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland
A medieval castle on a rock in Lake Geneva near Montreux, one of the most visited historic monuments in Switzerland.
Historic sites
Mikulov
Mikulov, Břeclav, Czech Republic
A beautiful little town in the heart of the South Moravian wine country, under a hilltop château and the white limestone hills of the Pálava.
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.
Tours and activities
Transfăgărășan Highway
Cârţişoara, Sibiu, Romania
A spectacular mountain road across the Făgăraș Mountains, Romania's highest, built in the 1970s for military reasons, twisting up through hairpin ben…
Walks and treks
Bright Angel Trail, Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States of America
The view from the South Rim is stunning, but walking down into the Grand Canyon is unforgettable: you descend through layer after layer of rock up to…
Natural features
Churchill polar bears
Manitoba, Canada
A small town on Hudson Bay, the 'polar bear capital of the world', where bears gather each October and November waiting for the sea to freeze.
Walks and treks
Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
At 5,895 m, Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world, and you can walk to the summit without…
Tours and activities
Great Ocean Road and the Twelve Apostles
Timboon, Victoria, Australia
A 243 km coastal road in Victoria built by returned WWI soldiers, past surf beaches, rainforest and koalas, to the limestone stacks of the Twelve Apo…