Attractions
Fuente Dé cable car, Picos de Europa
Camaleño, Cantabria, Spain
A cable car that climbs 753 m in under four minutes, from the meadows of Fuente Dé to a viewpoint on the edge of the central massif of the Picos de E…
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Buildings
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Paris, France
Built for the 1889 World's Fair, the 330 m tower has three levels open to visitors.
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.
Tours and activities
Farewell Spit tour, Collingwood
Tasman, New Zealand
Farewell Spit is a 30 km sandspit at the northern tip of the South Island, curving between the wild west coast and the calm tidal flats of Golden Bay.
Natural features
Snæfellsnes Peninsula and Kirkjufell
Grundarfjörður, Iceland
A peninsula in west Iceland, often called 'Iceland in miniature', with the glacier-capped volcano Snæfellsjökull, black and golden beaches, lava fiel…
Historic sites
Geghard Monastery
Garni, Kotayk, Armenia
A medieval monastery partly carved into the cliffs of a gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with chambers hewn from the rock and remarkable acoustic…
Natural features
Denali National Park, Alaska
Alaska, United States of America
A vast wilderness around Denali, the highest mountain in North America at 6,190 m.
Tours and activities
Antarctic Peninsula cruise
Antarctica
Expedition cruises from Ushuaia cross the Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula, landing by Zodiac among penguin colonies, glaciers and icebergs, …
Historic sites
Nikkō Tōshō-gū
Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan
The lavishly decorated shrine and mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, in a cedar forest in the mountains north of Tokyo,…
Natural features
Vallée de Mai, Praslin
Baie Sainte Anne, Seychelles
A palm forest, a UNESCO site, home to the coco de mer palm with the largest seed in the plant kingdom, and the rare black parrot.
Natural features
Gorkhi-Terelj National Park
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
A national park of granite rocks, forests and grassy valleys about 70 km from Ulaanbaatar, the easiest place to taste the Mongolian countryside.
Historic sites
Valletta
Valletta, Malta
Malta's tiny fortified capital, built by the Knights of St John in the 16th century, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.