Prague: one of the world's most magical cites ● Karlovy Vary-elegant spa town ● Exquisite gothic and baroque Cesky Krumlov ● Bratislava, including the historic Old Town ● Beautiful Pieniny National Park ● Budapest walking tour

Explore ancient Mesopotamia ● Visit the legendary city of Babylon ● Discover the awe-inspiring Ziggurat of Ur ● Wander through Baghdad's historic streets ● Visit the sacred city of Najaf ● Uncover UNESCO sites and Iraq's pivotal role in shaping world history.

Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao and hands-on Basque cooking class ● Roncesvalles pilgrim blessing and beech forest walk ● Roman road sections through Navarre and medieval Estella ● Cruz de Ferro stone ceremony in the mountains above Astorga ● Final approach into Santiago's Plaza del Obradoiro on foot ● Celtic Galicia — Roman walls of Lugo and O Cebreiro highlands ● Finisterre lighthouse — the Atlantic edge where the medieval world ended

Spanish colonial Manila and the walled city of Intramuros ● Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island World War II memorials ● Ifugao rice terraces near Banaue, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of hand-carved mountainsides ● Cebu's Spanish heritage and the Visayan heartland ● marine life encounters around Pamilacan Island ● Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park

Ladakh's high desert monasteries at 3,524 meters ● climb to Khardung La Pass at 5,470 meters ● Bhutan's annual Tsechu festival with masked dances ● Nepal's Kathmandu Valley UNESCO sites ● sunrise over eight Himalayan ranges from Nagarkot ● Tiger's Nest monastery viewpoint at 900 meters above Paro Valley

Amazon adventures ● The Pantanal-South America's wildlife marvel ● Rio de Janeiro-'the marvelous city' ● Colonial elegance ● Baroque churches, sacred art ● Thundering Iguacu Falls

Guided colonial Quito tour ● Four-night luxury Galapagos cruise ● Exciting guided shore excursions ● Condor spotting in Cajas National Park ● Beautiful, colonial Cuenca ● Ingapirca Inca ruins

Auckland: City Tour ● Waitomo Caves ● Rotorua: Whakarewarewa Thermal Reserve ● Wellington: Te Papa Museum ● Doubtful OR Milford Sound cruise ● Mt Cook scenic overflight

Maipo-heart of Chile's wine country ● Exploring Torres del Paine National Park ● Catamaran cruise through the icy waters of the Chilean fjords ● Chilean Lakes District ● Atacama Desert and Valley of the Moon ● Vibrant Santiago