A mile-deep canyon, slot canyons that glow, a river bent into a perfect horseshoe, and red-rock arches and hoodoos — the most cinematic corner of the United States.

Cliffs that hang over fjords a kilometre below, a boulder wedged in the sky, and red fishing cabins beneath the jagged peaks of the Arctic.

Pastel houses stacked above the sea, fishing harbours painted every colour, and clifftop towns that look hand-tinted — Europe's most photogenic places to lose an afternoon.

The most thunderous, the tallest, and the widest curtains of falling water on the planet — from a mile-wide wall of spray to a cascade that drops nearly a kilometre.

Cathedrals of books — a barrel-vaulted hall of 200,000 volumes, a baroque ceiling fresco above the shelves, and a glowing canyon of stacked pages.

The Japan of a thousand postcards — a tunnel of vermilion gates, a pagoda framing Mount Fuji, a torii that floats on the tide, and a bamboo forest that filters the light green.

The greatest works of the ancient world — a city in the clouds, a temple carved from a rose-red cliff, the last wonder still standing, and statues that watch an empty sea.

Places on Earth that look like another planet — a mirror that stretches to the horizon, forests of stone, blood-red dunes and trees that bleed.

The castles that look like they were drawn for a storybook — turrets on mountain crags, a palace painted like a sunset, and an abbey rising from the sea.

Eighteen islands of green cliffs, waterfalls that fall straight into the sea, and turf-roofed villages at the end of the road — the wild, wind-scoured heart of the North Atlantic.