Natural features
Pont d'Arc and the Gorges de l'Ardèche
Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche, France
A huge natural stone arch, 54 metres high, spanning the Ardèche river at the entrance to its gorges, where limestone cliffs rise 300 metres above the…
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Buildings
Fushimi Inari Taisha, Kyoto
Kyoto, Kyōto, Japan
The head shrine of Inari, the god of rice and business, famous for its thousands of bright vermilion torii gates, donated by businesses, which form t…
Natural features
Balos Lagoon, Crete
Kíssamos, Crete, Greece
A shallow turquoise lagoon of white and pink sand between the Gramvousa peninsula and a rocky cape, at the far north-west tip of Crete.
Historic sites
Shirakawa-gō
Hida, Gifu, Japan
A mountain village of gasshō-zukuri farmhouses, with steep thatched roofs like hands joined in prayer, built to shed heavy snow, a UNESCO World Herit…
Natural features
Lake Atitlán
Panajachel, Sololá, Guatemala
A deep volcanic lake surrounded by three volcanoes and Maya villages, each with its own character: Panajachel is the hub, San Pedro is backpacker-fri…
Historic sites
Pantheon, Rome
Rome, Italy
The best-preserved building of ancient Rome, a temple completed around 125 AD and a church since the 7th century.
Natural features
Gásadalur and Múlafossur, Vágar
Vágar, Faroe Islands
A tiny village on the island of Vágar, beside the Múlafossur waterfall, which drops off a cliff straight into the ocean, with mountains and the islan…
Walks and treks
Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk
Bondi Beach, New South Wales, Australia
A 6 km clifftop walk from Bondi Beach past Tamarama, Bronte and Clovelly to Coogee, with ocean pools and the Waverley Cemetery on the cliffs.
Attractions
Powerscourt Estate and Gardens
Enniskerry, Wicklow, Ireland
Often called one of the world's great gardens, Powerscourt has 47 acres of formal gardens, Italian terraces, statues and ornamental lakes beneath the…
Historic sites
Tower of London
Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom
A castle on the Thames founded by William the Conqueror in the 1070s, which has served as a royal palace, a prison and a place of execution.
Historic sites
Hallstatt
Upper Austria, Austria
A village of old houses squeezed between a lake and steep mountains in the Salzkammergut, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most photograph…
Historic sites
Berat
Berat, Albania
The 'town of a thousand windows', with white Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside above the Osum River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.