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Europe · Asia · North America
Eight deltas shaped by water and work
From Botswana’s inland floodplains to Argentina’s tidal islands, eight deltas show rivers at work in very different ways: feeding fields, carrying boats, building marshes and supporting communities at the water’s edge.
Europe · Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse · Trollstigen
Eight drives between high passes and open ocean
Austria’s Grossglockner road climbs from wooded valleys to bare Alpine ground through a tight stack of bends. Australia’s Great Ocean Road follows surf beaches, slips into wet forest and returns to a limestone coast. These eight routes stand apart through the shape of the road, the land around it and the views that arrive with each change in direction.
Myrdal · Flåm · Bernina Pass
Eight Journeys Where the Way There Is the Point
At Myrdal, the Flåm Railway leaves Norway’s main line and begins an 866-metre descent towards the fjord. Tunnels, ledges and tight curves make the movement downhill more compelling than the arrival.
Europe · North America · Rhine Falls
The world’s 10 best accessible waterfalls, ranked
A great waterfall needs more than height or brute force. It needs a public route that lets people grasp its scale, whether from the bank, a platform, behind the water or across a gorge. This ranking weighs practical access alongside the force of the river and the landscape around it.
Europe · Asia · Central America
Eight cultivated landscapes, from Douro vines to Kericho tea
A dry-stone wall in Portugal holds vines to a schist slope. On Bali, water runs from mountain channels through temples and down a chain of rice fields. Below the Andes, old irrigation ditches carry meltwater to Malbec vines. These eight regions show farming not as a backdrop but in the walls, canals, food and daily work that give each landscape its form.
Asia · Europe · Middle East
Eight cities where cultures still share the street
A Hindu temple and a mosque stand among the shophouses of Singapore’s Chinatown. In Sarajevo, a short walk runs from an Ottoman bazaar to Habsburg-era façades. In these eight cities, history still shapes worship, trade, food and ordinary street life.
South America · Ecuador · Azores
Eight archipelagos where the boat still matters
A ferry from Bodø reaches Lofoten beneath granite ridges that rise almost straight from the Norwegian Sea. Across these eight archipelagos, ferries, island flights, small launches and expedition ships make arrival part of the place.
Asia · Thar Desert · Gobi, Mongolia
The world’s 10 most remarkable deserts, ranked
In Egypt’s White Desert, wind-blown sand has carved snow-white chalk into mushrooms, cones and solitary towers. This deliberately subjective ranking weighs access alongside landscape and distinctive character, so a spectacular place can fall when reaching it requires a serious expedition.
Brazil · India · Pantanal, Brazil
Top 5 wildlife encounters that keep animals wild
These five encounters differ in more than their headline animals: one unfolds from a riverboat, another from a jeep, snorkel, tundra vehicle or ranger-led walk. Each depends on a habitat that concentrates wildlife at certain times, but none offers a guaranteed sighting.
Ecuador · Peru · Mexico
Where Ecuador’s cacao changes form in Quito
At República del Cacao’s Quito factory, cacao arrives stripped of its tropical disguise. Growers have already harvested the pods, fermented the wet beans and dried them; the city’s work begins with sacks of dry cacao.
Africa’s national parks ranked: ten landscapes beyond the Big Five
Salt hardens across a vanished lake in Botswana. Atlantic surf meets rainforest in Gabon, while cliffs fall away from Ethiopia’s high plateau. These ten national parks show a continent far wider than the usual safari circuit.
Europe · Spain · Manises: City of Ceramics
Manises: Where Clay Still Marks the Town
On Carrer del Sagrari, eighteenth-century tiles sit beneath the windows of Casa Ferraro. Inside, the Museu de la Ceràmica de Manises traces the local work that made Manises known far beyond Valencia, then leads back out to workshops, a ceramics school and tiled public spaces.