Eiffel Tower
An iron lattice monument completed in 1889 for the World's Fair, standing 330 metres tall and designed by Gustave Eiffel.
The Paris guide →- 02Mount Kilimanjaro
- 03Taj Mahal
- 04Grand Canyon National Park
- 05Louvre Museum
- 06Great Pyramid of Giza
Mount Kilimanjaro
Africa's high point stands alone above the plain at 5,895 metres, a dormant volcano carrying glaciers on a summit close to the equator.
The Moshi guide →
Taj Mahal
Shah Jahan commissioned this marble mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, and work ran from 1632 until the middle of the century.
The Agra guide →
Grand Canyon National Park
Four hundred and fifty kilometres of the Colorado River run through the park, in a gorge nearly thirty kilometres wide at its broadest and well over a kilometre deep.
The Grand Canyon Village guide →
Louvre Museum
The former royal palace holds roughly 35,000 works on display, including the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
The Paris guide →
Great Pyramid of Giza
3 million blocks, stood as the tallest structure on earth for close to four thousand years.
The Giza guide →- 07Matterhorn
- 08Great Barrier Reef
- 09Statue of Liberty
- 10Hagia Sophia
- 11Machu Picchu
Matterhorn
The mountain that put the Alps on a poster, 4,478 metres and standing alone, which is why the shape reads as a single tooth from every side.
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Great Barrier Reef
Coral runs for some two thousand kilometres along the Queensland coast, and this port is one of the main gateways onto it.
The Cairns guide →
Statue of Liberty
Ferries from Battery Park run to Liberty Island and on to Ellis, and one ticket covers both.
The New York guide →
Hagia Sophia
Built in 537 CE under Byzantine Emperor Justinian, this massive domed structure served as a cathedral, mosque, and museum before becoming a mosque again in 2020.
The Istanbul guide →
Machu Picchu
Fifteenth-century Inca citadel built around 1450 on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba River valley.
The Machu Picchu guide →- 12Colosseum
- 13Mount Fuji
- 14Petra
- 15Marrakesh Medina
- 16Serengeti National Park
Colosseum
The largest amphitheatre of the Roman world, completed in AD 80 under Titus and seating roughly 50,000 spectators.
The Rome guide →
Mount Fuji
Japan's highest peak at 3,776 metres, an active volcano last in eruption in 1707.
The Fujikawaguchiko guide →
Petra
Carved into rose sandstone by the Nabataeans from the fourth century BC, the capital of a caravan kingdom spreads across canyons and ridges far beyond its famous facade, with tombs, a colonnaded street, temples and a theatre.
The Wadi Musa guide →
Marrakesh Medina
Walls of red rammed earth enclose the old city, and the souks north of the main square split into lanes for leather, metalwork, spices and slippers.
The Marrakesh guide →
Serengeti National Park
Grass plains run unbroken to the Kenyan border, carrying close to two million wildebeest and zebra on an annual circuit that follows the rain.
The Arusha guide →- 17Angkor Wat
- 18Parthenon
- 19Iguaçu Falls
Angkor Wat
Suryavarman II raised this temple mountain in the twelfth century as a Vishnu sanctuary and his own funerary monument, and it has never been fully abandoned since.
The Siem Reap guide →
Parthenon
Athena's temple, completed in 432 BC, contains almost no straight lines: the columns swell and lean inward and the floor rises toward the middle, corrections that make it look perfectly regular from below.
The Athens guide →
Iguaçu Falls
Some 275 drops spread along nearly three kilometres of the Iguaçu river, split between Brazil and Argentina at the point where the water plunges into the Devil's Throat.
The Foz do Iguaçu guide →
