The cliff-and-cotton places
Pamukkale's travertines, Èze 427 meters up, Banff's glacial blue. The ones that look faked and aren't.
White travertine terraces filled with warm calcium-rich water, stacked above the Greco-Roman ruins of Hierapolis. The two together make one of Anatolia's strangest, most photographed places.
The Alhambra. The last Moorish kingdom in Iberia. Free tapas with every drink. The most romantic city in Spain, and most Spaniards will agree.
A British-era hill station 2,300 meters up in the Galyat, set against pine-forested ridges. Where Punjab goes to escape May heat and to see snow in January.
Medieval cliff-top village 427 meters straight up from the Mediterranean. Nietzsche walked the path up. The view is what he was looking for.
Canada's first national park. Lake Louise's turquoise, Moraine Lake at sunrise, the Icefields Parkway running 230 kilometers north to Jasper. Mountains the way the brochures promise but rarely deliver.