A French colonial river town under the Elephant Mountains, famous for pepper, salt pans and a slow riverfront that Cambodia's beach crowds pass by.
A small town in a valley of red rock spires and canyons in southern Bolivia, where Butch Cassidy's last robbery took place and horses are still the way to see the country.
A silver town at 2,750 m reached through a single-lane tunnel, half ruined since the 1900s and now home to a few hundred people, Huichol pilgrims and a lot of silence.
An Edo-period post town on the Nakasendō highway, preserved in 1968 by residents who agreed never to sell, rent or demolish, and best seen on the 8 km trail from Magome.
A hamlet of turf-roofed farmhouses on the Faroes' southern shore, once the islands' medieval capital, with a roofless 13th-century cathedral and a farm inhabited by the same family since 1550.
A cliff of hexagonal basalt columns hanging over the Azat River, curved like organ pipes, a short scramble below one of Armenia's most visited temples.
A limestone plateau eroded into a stone city of stacked discs and mushroom pillars, an hour from the Costa del Sol and seen by almost none of its visitors.
A limestone sinkhole 600 m from the sea, filled with turquoise water where fresh and salt water meet, with steps down from a free municipal park.
Twisted columnar basalt formations, the roots of old volcanic craters, scattered along the Jökulsá canyon, where the wind and river echo off the rock.
A near-perfect natural cone rising 120 m from the white floor of the Arizaro salt flat in the high Puna, so symmetrical it looks built.
A badlands of hoodoos, petrified logs and mushroom-capped rock in shale the colour of ash, with no trails and no signs.
Hundreds of rounded granite boulders, some balanced improbably on others, scattered across a shallow valley in the middle of the Northern Territory.