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Discover
Countries, collections, photographs and illustrated explanations in a clear entrance.
Start here
One project. Many ways to explore.
Start with a place, an idea or a journey. Here is how the pieces fit together.
Photo credit
Lasthib · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display.New ways into the project
Make it practical
Plan
A complete sequence from finding an experience to preparing the actual visit.
Make it yours
My Travels
Your visited places, wish list, ranked Top 100 and complete backup. Trip shortlisting is under Plan.
The five collections
1–100 · The Original 100
The Original 100, the starting point for the project.
101–200 · Honourable Mentions
Another hundred strong contenders for a list of your own.
201–300 · Extraordinary Discoveries
A broader world of remarkable places to investigate.
301–400 · Further Horizons
Another hundred landscapes, cities and cultural achievements that reward a closer look.
401–500 · The Wider World
A final hundred invitations to explore further and choose the places that matter to you.
Choose what you want to do next
A few clear paths through a world of ideas.
Shortlist and compare
Keep possibilities together from first inspiration to an editable plan.
Find your season
Choose a month, understand the trade-offs and find a window that fits.
Make a journey of it
20 illustrated itineraries, with bases, connections and room to breathe.
Ways of seeing
Interactive visual stories that make the familiar feel newly remarkable.
The travel answerbook
Useful comparisons for choices a ranking cannot make for you.
Your travel milestones
A private, illustrated record of the places you have experienced.
More ways to explore the world.
Start with a question, a place or something you want to do. These sections help you find the right next step.
Three different things you can save
Been there
Record that you have visited a place. You can do this for any of the 500, whether or not it belongs in your personal Top 100.
Want to visit
Keep a wish list without deciding its rank. It is a useful place for possibilities.
My Top 100
Choose the places that belong in your own collection, then order and revise them. A place can be in your list before or after you visit it.
Your data belongs to you
The personal tools work in your browser without an account. They do not automatically follow you to another device. Use the complete backup in My Travels to export a copy, then restore it elsewhere when needed.
A good next click
I have a country in mind
Find all the relevant entries and compare their practical notes.
I want to learn something
Read an illustrated essay or follow a five-chapter learning trail.
I want to plan a holiday
Start with a suggested journey or compare the pace of your own route.
I want a surprise
Let a photograph introduce a place before you see its name.
We are choosing together
Gather preferences and make a shared shortlist on one device.
I have names written down
Match your list to the collection and create an editable journey.
A World Connected
Understand
Anatomy of a Wonder
Twelve studies and thirty-six photographic chapters.
Explore
Connected ideas
Eight illustrated comparisons and a linked atlas filter.
Context
Wonders through time
Selected historical periods and a separate deep-time case study.
Look closer
The detail library
Find an observation to take into a visit.
Read
The reference desk
Useful sources, each with a reason to open it.
Choose together
Choose together
Portable group preferences without an account.