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, …
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Natural features
Þingvellir National Park
Bláskógabyggð, Iceland
A rift valley where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are pulling apart, and where Iceland's parliament, the Alþingi, met in the open a…
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.
Food and drink
Hawker centres of Singapore
Tanjong Pagar, Central Singapore, Singapore
Singapore's hawker culture is UNESCO-listed: open-air food courts with dozens of stalls serving cheap, excellent local dishes like Hainanese chicken …
Walks and treks
Samaria Gorge, Crete
Chóra Sfakíon, Crete, Greece
One of Europe's longest gorges, 16 km through the White Mountains of western Crete, down from Xyloskalo at 1,250 m to the Libyan Sea at Agia Roumeli.
Natural features
Teide National Park, Tenerife
La Guancha, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Spain's highest mountain, the volcano Mount Teide, 3,715 m, rises from a vast crater of lava fields and colourful rocks in the middle of Tenerife.
Natural features
Redwood National and State Parks
Westhaven-Moonstone, California, United States of America
Forests of coast redwoods, the tallest trees on earth, some over 110 m, along the foggy northern California coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Buildings
Reims Cathedral and the champagne houses
Reims, Marne, France
The Gothic cathedral where French kings were crowned for centuries, with more than 2,300 statues on its façade, including the famous 'Smiling Angel',…
Buildings
Vézelay Abbey
Avallon, Yonne, France
A Romanesque basilica on a hilltop above the Morvan countryside, once one of the great pilgrimage churches of Christendom and a starting point on the…
Walks and treks
Santo Antão hiking, Cape Verde
Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde
The most dramatic island of Cape Verde, with green valleys, cliff-side paths and terraced farms.
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.
Walks and treks
El Chaltén and Fitz Roy
Santa Cruz, Argentina
Argentina's 'trekking capital', a small village beneath the granite spires of Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre.