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483 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Almaty
A city of apple orchards and long cafe lunches with a 4,000 m mountain range at the end of the street - and ski lifts inside the city limits.
Amritsar
The spiritual heart of the Sikh world: the Golden Temple in its marble tank, a free kitchen feeding tens of thousands a day, and the Pakistan border 30 km away.
Amsterdam
A Golden Age port preserved almost whole - canal houses, bikes and world-class museums packed into a city you can walk across in an afternoon.
Anaheim
The town Disneyland built, with a citrus-warehouse downtown and Orange County's beaches half an hour away.
Anchorage
Alaska's front door - a plain-spoken city with a mountain range at the end of the bus line and moose on the bike path.
Andaman Islands
The best diving in India and its emptiest beaches, on islands that were a prison colony long before they were a holiday.
Angel Falls (Canaima)
The tallest waterfall on earth, falling off a lost world of a mountain into jungle no road reaches.
Angkor Wat (Siem Reap)
The largest religious monument ever built, at the heart of a lost capital you can spend three days getting lost in.
Antalya
A Roman harbour town under snow-capped mountains, with a beach at either end and the best-preserved theatre in the Mediterranean an hour up the road.
Antwerp
Rubens's home town, the world's diamond counter and the birthplace of Belgian fashion, all inside one walkable Flemish port.
Ardennes (Bastogne)
Belgium's forested south: kayak rivers and castle villages wrapped around the town the 101st Airborne refused to give up.
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