Stirling Castle ● Blair Atholl Distillery ● Loch Ness ● Highland Safari ● Scone Palace ● Meeting Pedigree Highland Cattle

The Victorian Gothic extravagance of Cardiff Castle ● underground descent into Big Pit guided by former miners ● Walking behind the cascading curtain of Sgwd yr Eira in Waterfall Country ● St Govan's Chapel wedged into the sea cliffs, followed by a boat to Ramsey Island's seabird colonies ● The summit of Snowdon by Britain's only rack-and-pinion railway ● Tynwald Hill and the summit of Snaefell on the Isle of Man

Guided colonial Quito tour ● Otavalo Valley - cultural centre ● Famed 'Avenue of Volcanos' ● Overnight at historic hacienda ● Cotopaxi Forest Reserve

Gold Museum, Lima ● Scenic Nazca Lines overflight ● Mysterious Machu Picchu-a must see! ● Exploring the "Sacred Valley of the Incas" ● Scenic 'vistadome' train to Cuzco ● Beautiful, ancient Cuzco

Krakow's Wawel Castle and medieval market square ● Wieliczka's subterranean salt cathedral ● Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial ● Warsaw's rebuilt Old Town and Museum of Polish Jews ● Gdansk's European Solidarity Centre ● Malbork's massive Teutonic fortress

Charming, historic Cartagena ● Lively Bogota ● Verdant Hills ● coffee plantations Unspoiled villages, friendly locals Cathedral of Salt ● Colonial treasures

Barcelona: Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance ● Santiago de Compostela: Place of Pilgrimage ● Bilbao's Guggenheim ● Arab, Jewish, Christian, Roman, Visigothic legacies

George Town's UNESCO-listed multicultural streetscapes, where Chinese clan houses, Hindu temples and colonial landmarks share the same block ● Cameron Highlands tea estates and mossy montane forest on the roof of the peninsula ● Singapore's Marina Bay and the story of a city-state that reinvented itself in a generation ● Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka Square and the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia ● Ipoh's colonial railway station, limestone cave temples and celebrated local cuisine ● Langkawi mangrove and wildlife cruise through ancient karst formations on the Andaman Sea

Halifax's historic harbour and Victorian Public Gardens ● Cabot Trail's spectacular coastal drive through Cape Breton Highlands ● Fortress of Louisbourg's immersive 18th-century French colonial experience ● Anne of Green Gables Heritage Place and PEI's red sand beaches ● Bay of Fundy's world-record tides at Hopewell Rocks ● Grand-Pré National Historic Site