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814 placesAntigua
The ruined baroque capital of colonial Central America, with an erupting volcano close enough to watch from a tent.
Osaka
Japan's kitchen: a blunt, neon-lit merchant city where the eating is the itinerary, not the interval between sights.
Dolomites (Cortina d'Ampezzo)
The most theatrical rock in the Alps, with cable cars, staffed huts and wartime iron ladders that put you inside it without a rope.
4000 Islands (Don Det)
The stretch where the Mekong stops being a highway and becomes an archipelago, hiding the widest waterfall on earth and the only railway Laos ever built.
Aarhus
A student port where you walk a ring of coloured glass over the rooftops and a whole old Danish town has been reassembled street by street.
Abel Tasman (Nelson)
A Great Walk along golden coves and granite headlands that you can walk, paddle or join by water taxi.
Abu Dhabi
The Gulf's cultural capital: a marble mosque that stops traffic, a Louvre of its own on the beach, and the Empty Quarter a morning's drive inland.
Abu Simbel
Four 20-metre pharaohs cut from a cliff, then cut again into blocks and lifted clear of a rising lake.
Abuja
A whole capital city drawn up from scratch, sitting in the shadow of a 400-metre granite monolith.
Acadia National Park (Bar Harbor)
New England's only national park, where granite mountains drop straight into the North Atlantic above forty-five miles of car-free carriage roads.
Accra
Where Nkrumah declared Ghana free in 1957, and where West African music, street food and diaspora homecomings now meet.
Addis Ababa
Lucy, imperial cathedrals and the slow ritual of Ethiopian coffee in Africa's diplomatic capital.
Adelaide
The only Australian capital where serious wine country starts in the suburbs.
Adirondacks (Lake Placid)
The largest protected area in the contiguous United States, with no gate, no entry booth and towns living inside the line.
Agadir
Morocco's sunniest big beach, a whole city rebuilt from scratch around its bay after the 1960 earthquake.
Aitutaki
Home to what many travellers rate the most beautiful lagoon on Earth.
Aktau
A Soviet oil city with no street names, and behind it the chalk canyons and cliff-cut mosques of the Mangystau desert.
Akureyri
Iceland's northern capital, a fjord-head town with whales in the water and Myvatn an hour away.
Al Ain
A UNESCO date-palm oasis in the middle of town and a switchback mountain road on its doorstep.
Alanya
A Seljuk sultan's fortress on a headland, with a sandy beach on either side and the nightlife to match.
Alexandria
The city Alexander founded and Cleopatra ruled, now a faded, sea-sprayed Mediterranean port whose ancient wonders lie mostly underwater.
Algiers
A Mediterranean capital with an Ottoman Casbah and almost no tourists.
Alicante
A medieval castle on a sea rock, with a real Spanish city and the Costa Blanca's best tapas streets at its feet.
Alleppey
The Kerala backwaters at their most complete, and the one place where sleeping on the water is the point rather than a gimmick.
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When-first planning
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The honest verdicts
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