National Geographic Special - The World\'s Most Beautiful Places
seychelles AFRICA Beaches in the Seychelles—155 islands in the Indian Ocean almost 1,000 miles (around 1,500 km) from the Africa ...
60 RIVERS & SHORES newfoundland EASTERN CANADA Newfoundland’s coast welcomed the first Europeans—the Vikings—to the New Worl ...
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62 RIVERS & SHORES iguaçu falls PARANÁ, BRAZIL “Poor Niagara,” exclaimed First Lady Elea- nor Roosevelt on seeing Iguaçu Fal ...
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45 tahiti » FRENCH POLYNESIA Who wouldn’t want to be shipwrecked on Tahiti, the largest of 118 islands and atolls that make up F ...
48 cathedral cove » COROMANDEL PENINSULA, NEW ZEALAND The soft rocks at Cathedral Cove on New Zealand’s North Island yield gentl ...
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cannon beach COASTAL OREGON It was “the grandest and most pleasing pros- pect which my eyes ever surveyed,” said the 19th-centur ...
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51 neuschwanstein castle BAVARIA, GERMANY This fairy tale in stone—the inspiration for the castle in Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beau ...
“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its p ...
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72 CITIES & BEYOND machu picchu PERU By rights, it shouldn’t be there: the mist- shrouded heights of the Peruvian Andes are ...
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75 CITIES & BEYOND ENGLAND Dreaming spires, chiming bells, royal retreat, seat of learning, and—some would say—the most beau ...
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PORTUGAL Sintra is a picturesque, wooded hill town, leafy and cool in summer, mild in winter, and privy to beautiful views year- ...
« « 57 bergen » WESTERN NORWAY Wood and color are humble build- ing blocks, but in Bryggen—the 1,000-year-old district at the he ...
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