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Louis XVI grandeur facing the Tuileries, with a Philippe Starck hand.

The world's great Impressionist collection inside a Beaux-Arts station.

A quietly radical tasting menu that changed how Paris eats.

A 33rd-floor washi-and-stone lobby floating above the Imperial Palace.

Tokyo's oldest temple, reached through a lantern-hung market street.

Six alleys of tiny bars, most seating six people at a squeeze.

Thousands of vermilion gates climbing a forested mountain.

A green corridor of towering bamboo that hums in the wind.

A discreet TriBeCa townhouse with a lantern-lit underground pool.

Five thousand years of art along the edge of Central Park.

The warm, flower-filled benchmark for American dining.

Art Deco Mayfair at its most self-assured, since 1856.

A power station turned free temple to modern art.

Whitewashed walls, bone marrow on toast, nose-to-tail cooking.

A 2,000-year-old dome with a hole open to the weather.

A salumeria where the tables sit between the cheese counters.

Gaudí's unfinished basilica, where the light does the work.

A long marble counter, white-jacketed waiters, faultless tapas.

Twenty acres of walled gardens inside the ramparts.

Cobalt-blue walls, cactus beds and Yves Saint Laurent's ashes.

Cathedral, mosque, museum, mosque again — 1,500 years of it.

Turquoise-tiled meyhane doing meze and rakı properly.

828 metres of tower, and the desert laid flat beneath it.

Emerald terraces cut by hand into a river valley.

Entered across a bridge into a lotus pond, above the Ayung River.

Enrique Olvera's mole madre, aged well past a thousand days.

The Casa Azul, left much as Kahlo lived in it.

Two glass cable cars to a granite dome above the bay.

White Deco façade facing the most famous beach in Brazil.

Milk-blue geothermal water in a black lava field.

Sheer cliffs, waterfalls and seals in a rain-fed fiord.

The direct route up Table Mountain — steep, sunny and unforgettable.

Pillowed glass windows above the harbour, atop a converted grain silo.

Africa's largest contemporary art museum, carved out of grain tubes.

Warm, sheltered coves shared with a colony of African penguins.

Victorian manor turned candlelit dining room with a lantern-lit garden.

Three floors of speakeasy: boxing-club décor, deep sofas, long drinks.

Basement jazz club with small plates and a house band that swings.

A former prison that now houses the Constitutional Court.

Vineyard lunch on a terrace facing the Simonsberg.

Colonial-era hotel beside the red-and-white lighthouse.