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Ponta da Piedade, Lagos
Lagos, Faro, Portugal
A headland of golden limestone cliffs, sea stacks, arches and grottoes near Lagos in the western Algarve, with a lighthouse on top.
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Gorges du Verdon
Castellane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
Europe's largest canyon, up to 700 m deep, carved by the turquoise Verdon river through the limestone of Provence.
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Pravčická brána, Bohemian Switzerland
Mikulášovice, Děčín, Czech Republic
The largest natural sandstone arch in Europe, 26 m wide and 16 m high, in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, a landscape of rock towers, gorges …
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Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
Central and Western, Hong Kong
The highest point of Hong Kong Island, with the classic view over the skyscrapers of Central, Victoria Harbour and Kowloon.
Historic sites
D-Day beaches and Normandy American Cemetery
Bayeux, Calvados, France
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces landed on five beaches along this coast in the largest seaborne invasion in history.
Historic sites
Stari Most (Old Bridge), Mostar
Mostar, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A slender 16th-century Ottoman bridge arching high over the emerald Neretva River in Mostar, about halfway between Dubrovnik and Sarajevo.
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Chobe National Park
Chobe, Botswana
A park with one of the largest elephant populations in Africa.
Historic sites
George Town, Penang
George Town, Penang, Malaysia
A UNESCO-listed colonial port town with shophouses, clan houses such as the ornate Khoo Kongsi, temples, mosques and churches side by side, and stree…
Attractions
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan
One of the greatest collections of Chinese art in the world, with nearly 700,000 objects, many brought from the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1949.
Natural features
Ha Long Bay
Hạ Long, Quảng Ninh, Vietnam
Nearly 2,000 limestone islands and pillars rise from the emerald water of the Gulf of Tonkin, making one of the most spectacular seascapes in the wor…
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Upper Rock Nature Reserve, Gibraltar
Gibraltar
The top of the Rock of Gibraltar, a nature reserve home to the Barbary macaques, Europe's only wild monkeys.
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Ninh Bình and Tràng An
Huyện Hoa Lư, Ninh Bình, Vietnam
A landscape of limestone peaks rising from rice fields and rivers, called 'Ha Long Bay on land', a UNESCO World Heritage Site.