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.

Bucharest: "The Little Paris of the East" ● The "painted monasteries" of Bucovina ● Bran Castle, mythical home of Dracula ● Famous Valley of the Roses ● Unsurpassed frescoes of Rila Monastery ● Sofia: City tour

Plitvice Lakes — 16 terraced emerald lakes and cascading waterfalls ● Hermitage of Blaca — cliff-clinging monastery reached by coastal boat on Brac ● Hvar summit hike to cave monastery above Adriatic island vineyards ● Napoleon's Road — stone-walled vineyard paths across Korcula's interior ● Mostar's reconstructed Ottoman bridge and Museum of War and Genocide Victims ● Kotor's medieval walls above the Mediterranean's only fjord

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

Vibrant Taipei ● Historical Tainan ● Seoul: city tour & the DMZ ● Welcome dinner at top of Namsan Seoul Tower ● Fast train to Busan - city tour ● Unique & beautiful Jeju Island Immersion in Korean culture, ancient & modern

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