Things to do around the world

🍋 Campania, Italy

Amalfi Coast

Cliff-hanging pastel villages, lemon groves and turquoise sea

🏘️ Liguria, Italy

Cinque Terre

Five pastel fishing villages strung along the cliffs

🌋 Campania, Italy

Pompeii

The Roman city frozen in time by Vesuvius in 79 AD

🗼 Tuscany, Italy

Pisa

The Leaning Tower and a perfect medieval square

🌅 Cyclades, Greece

Santorini

Whitewashed cliffs, blue domes and the world’s best sunset

🏖️ Cyclades, Greece

Mykonos

Whitewashed lanes, windmills and the Aegean’s best beaches

⛪ Thessaly, Greece

Meteora

Centuries-old monasteries atop soaring rock pillars

👑 Île-de-France, France

Versailles

The Sun King’s vast palace and its endless gardens

🏰 Normandy, France

Mont Saint-Michel

A medieval abbey crowning a tidal island

🍷 Centre-Val de Loire, France

Loire Valley

Fairytale châteaux and France’s finest wine country

🏰 Andalusia, Spain

Granada

The Alhambra palace and Spain’s last Moorish city

💃 Andalusia, Spain

Seville

Flamenco, Moorish palaces and orange-scented plazas

🏰 Greater Lisbon, Portugal

Sintra

Fairy-tale palaces in a misty, forested hill town

⛰️ Catalonia, Spain (near Barcelona)

Montserrat

A mountaintop monastery among saw-toothed peaks

🌬️ North Holland, Netherlands (near Amsterdam)

Zaanse Schans

Working windmills and wooden houses on the Zaan

🧖 Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

The Blue Lagoon

Milky-blue geothermal waters in a black-lava field

♨️ Southwest Iceland

The Golden Circle

Geysers, a continental rift and a thundering waterfall in one loop

🌊 County Clare, Ireland

The Cliffs of Moher

Ireland’s most dramatic Atlantic sea cliffs

🏞️ Upper Carniola, Slovenia

Lake Bled

A fairy-tale island church on an emerald alpine lake

💦 Central Croatia

Plitvice Lakes

Sixteen turquoise lakes linked by hundreds of waterfalls

🏰 Bavaria, Germany

Neuschwanstein Castle

The fairy-tale castle that inspired Disney

🏔️ Salzkammergut, Austria

Hallstatt

A storybook lakeside village beneath the Alps

🪨 Wiltshire, England

Stonehenge

The world’s most famous prehistoric stone circle

🏔️ Highlands, Scotland

The Scottish Highlands & Loch Ness

Brooding glens, lochs and the home of Nessie

🍷 Northern Portugal

The Douro Valley

Terraced vineyards and port wine along a winding river

🏛️ Central Greece

Delphi

The ancient oracle on the slopes of Mount Parnassus

🏞️ Lombardy, Italy

Lake Como

Villa gardens, pastel villages and a ferry between them

🏰 Rhine Gorge, Germany

The Rhine Valley

Castle-topped cliffs and wine villages along the river

⛰️ Cumbria, England

The Lake District

England’s lakes, fells and literary cottages

🏰 Castilla–La Mancha, Spain

Toledo

The walled “City of Three Cultures” above the Tagus

🏝️ Bay of Naples, Italy

Capri

Glamorous island of blue grottoes and sea-stack drama

♨️ Somerset, England

Bath

A honey-stone Georgian city built on Roman hot springs

🏖️ Southern Portugal

The Algarve

Golden cliffs, hidden sea caves and some of Europe’s best beaches

🕌 Andalusia, Spain

Córdoba

A Moorish masterpiece of candy-striped arches

💜 Provence, Southern France

Provence

Lavender fields, hilltop villages and Mediterranean light

🗻 Yamanashi & Shizuoka, Japan

Mount Fuji

Japan’s sacred snow-capped icon and the Fuji Five Lakes

🦌 Kansai, Japan

Nara

Japan’s first capital — a giant Buddha and free-roaming deer

🏝️ Bali, Indonesia

Nusa Penida

Dramatic cliffs, hidden beaches and manta rays

🌴 Bali, Indonesia

Ubud

Bali’s cultural heart — rice terraces, temples and jungle spas

🛥️ Quảng Ninh, northern Vietnam

Halong Bay

Emerald waters and thousands of limestone karst islands

🕌 Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Taj Mahal

The world’s most beautiful monument to love

🛕 Central Thailand (near Bangkok)

Ayutthaya

The ruined temples of Thailand’s old royal capital

♨️ Kanagawa, Japan (near Tokyo)

Hakone

Hot springs, lake views and Mount Fuji on the horizon

🏝️ Krabi Province, Andaman Sea, Thailand

Phi Phi Islands

Turquoise bays and limestone cliffs in the Andaman Sea

🛕 Siem Reap, Cambodia

Angkor Wat

The largest religious monument on earth

🌾 Lào Cai Province, Vietnam

Sapa

Emerald rice terraces and hill-tribe villages in the clouds

⛰️ Red River Delta, Vietnam

Ninh Binh

“Halong Bay on land” — limestone karsts over emerald rivers

🛕 Central Java, Indonesia

Borobudur

The world’s largest Buddhist temple at sunrise

🌋 East Java, Indonesia

Mount Bromo

A smoking volcano in a sea of sand at dawn

⛩️ Tochigi, Japan

Nikkō

Lavish shrines and waterfalls in the mountains north of Tokyo

🛕 Northern Thailand

Chiang Rai & the White Temple

Surreal modern temples in Thailand’s far north

🌋 Bali, Indonesia

Mount Batur

A sunrise volcano trek above the clouds in Bali

🪖 Near Seoul, South Korea

The Korean DMZ

The tense frontier between North and South Korea

🏮 Central Vietnam

Hoi An

A lantern-lit old town of silk, tailors and riverside charm

⛩️ Western Honshu, Japan

Hiroshima & Miyajima

A moving peace city beside an island of floating torii

🛕 Yucatán, Mexico

Chichen Itza

The great Maya pyramid and a Wonder of the World

🏖️ Quintana Roo, Mexico

Tulum

Clifftop Maya ruins above a turquoise Caribbean beach

🛕 State of México (near Mexico City)

Teotihuacán

Climb the vast pyramids of an ancient city

🏔️ Cusco Region, Peru

Machu Picchu

The lost Inca citadel high in the Andes

💦 Iguazú, Argentina & Brazil

Iguazú Falls

A thundering chain of 275 waterfalls in the jungle

🧂 Potosí, Bolivia

Uyuni Salt Flats

The world’s largest salt flat — a mirror to the sky

⛰️ Cusco Region, Peru

The Sacred Valley

Inca ruins and Andean markets on the way to Machu Picchu

🌈 Cusco Region, Peru

Rainbow Mountain

Striped peaks high in the Peruvian Andes

🏝️ Banderas Bay, Nayarit, Mexico

Marietas Islands

A hidden beach inside a protected island national park

🏖️ Quintana Roo, Mexico

Cancún & the Riviera Maya

Caribbean beaches, jungle cenotes and Maya ruins

🌊 Ontario, Canada

Niagara Falls

The thundering falls on the US–Canada border

🏞️ Banff National Park, Canada

Lake Louise & Moraine Lake

The turquoise jewels of the Canadian Rockies

🏔️ California, USA

Yosemite National Park

Granite giants, thundering waterfalls and ancient sequoias

🏜️ Arizona, USA

The Grand Canyon

A mile-deep chasm of layered rock, two billion years in the making

🎈 Central Anatolia, Turkey

Cappadocia

Fairy chimneys, cave hotels and a sky full of balloons

🤍 Denizli Province, Turkey

Pamukkale

Snow-white travertine terraces over an ancient spa city

🏛️ İzmir Province, Turkey

Ephesus

One of the best-preserved ancient cities in the Mediterranean

🏛️ Ma’an Governorate, Jordan

Petra

The rose-red city carved into desert cliffs

🏜️ Aqaba Governorate, Jordan

Wadi Rum

A Mars-like desert of red sand and towering rock

🐪 Erg Chebbi, Morocco

Merzouga & the Sahara

Towering golden dunes and nights under the stars

🛕 Giza, Egypt

The Pyramids of Giza

The last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World

🔵 Rif Mountains, Morocco

Chefchaouen

Morocco’s dreamlike blue-washed mountain town

🌊 Victoria, Australia

Great Ocean Road

A wild coastal drive to the Twelve Apostles

🏔️ Fiordland, New Zealand

Milford Sound

Sheer cliffs and waterfalls in New Zealand’s grandest fiord