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

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

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

A power station turned free temple to modern art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A former prison that now houses the Constitutional Court.

Manueline stonework at its most extravagant, carved when Lisbon ruled the sea routes.

A catamaran along the volcano rim, hot springs and a swim at Red Beach.

Eight thousand square metres of gold mosaic, best seen when it is lit.

The Habsburg collection — the world's finest Bruegel room among it.

Modern art in a sculpture park above the Øresund, 35 minutes up the coast.

Rembrandt's Night Watch, Vermeer's light, and a building worth the ticket alone.

The reclining Buddha, and the birthplace of Thai massage.

The Joseon dynasty's main palace, under the granite ridge of Bugaksan.

One of the three finest acoustics in the world, and a tour that proves it.

The canal house on the Prinsengracht, and the rooms behind the bookcase.

Gilded spires and mirrored glass, and the Emerald Buddha at the heart of it.

The Terrace of Infinity — marble busts, and the whole Gulf of Salerno below.

Sixty-two steps up to a striped Arab-Norman façade above the piazza.

A calligraphy-wrapped torus that is Dubai's best building.

Wind towers and sandstone lanes — the Dubai before the oil.

A one-dirham wooden boat ride through the city's working heart.