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17 moments Look at what the earth did Geology and landscape. It is there whether or not anybody comes.

Climb a rock in the middle of a waterfall Rhine falls Climb to the foot of the Old Man of Storr Old Man of Storr Find the line in a cliff where the dinosaurs ended Zumaia Hike along the top of the Cliffs of Moher Cliffs of Moher Look down into a spring nobody has found the bottom of Blue Eye Look down on a needle of chalk a novelist swore was hollow Étretat Make a stone float in the sea Porticello Ride the rim of a canyon seven hundred meters deep Gorges du Verdon Step ashore inside a volcanic crater out at sea Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo Step from column to column across the Giant's Causeway Giant's Causeway, County Antrim Step off a boat onto an island of basalt columns Staffa Step out over a drop on a floor of open grating Grindelwald First Walk the rim of a crater with a village at the bottom Sete Cidades Walk the rim of the crater that gave the world the word volcano Vulcano Walk through a gorge of green water on wooden boardwalks Vintgar Gorge Walk through the cliff to where a gorge ends at the sea Torrent de Pareis Walk up a meadow that stops at a sheer drop Seceda

22 moments Stand in something people built Somebody made this, and it outlasted them.

Climb a ski slope built on the roof of a working incinerator Copenhagen Climb a stair with one step for every day of the year Pollença Climb a tunnel inside a mountain to a tomb on its summit Njegoš Mausoleum Climb to a prehistoric fort that stops at an unfenced cliff Dún Aonghasa Count the windows stacked up a hillside in Berat Berat Cross to the island town where people with leprosy married anyway Spinalonga Duck into the tarred wooden alleys of a wharf that leans Bergen Get lost among seven million flowers at Keukenhof Keukenhof Go down into a cavern made of salt Turda Lean on the glass at the end of a platform pushed thirty meters out of a mountainside Stegastein Viewpoint Read the jokes the dead tell from their graves Săpânța Ride up a road that ties itself in a knot Sa Calobra Ring the wishing bell on the island in Lake Bled Lake Bled Spiral up a wooden ramp to the top of a beech forest without climbing a step Forest tower Stand under two steel horse heads thirty meters tall The Kelpies Step inside a monastery built into a cliff Ostrog Monastery Step through the walls where a church locked up couples who wanted a divorce Biertan Walk across a bridge one of its own engineers helped blow up Đurđevića Tara Bridge Walk across the roof of Palma's cathedral Palma Walk down to the first lighthouse in the Azores Farol do Arnel Walk the cobbles of a medieval citadel people still live in Sighișoara Walk the palace at Knossos where the labyrinth was said to be Knossos

5 moments Be there when it happens It has a time. Miss the night, the season or the hour and you miss it.

Beat the sun to a lighthouse at the far end of a peninsula Cap de Formentor Cycle between fields of flowers about to lose their heads Keukenhof Walk the lavender rows at sundown before the harvest Valensole Watch a geyser throw boiling water fifteen meters into the air Strokkur Watch the sun skim the sea at one in the morning Uttakleiv

13 moments Get there the hard way The way there is the point: by boat, on foot, over a pass.

Climb the steps to a hermitage on a rock in the sea San Juan de Gaztelugatxe Go ashore by dinghy on an island everybody had to leave Great Blasket Island Paddle a fjord a quarter of a kilometer wide with a thousand meters of rock on either side Gudvangen Paddle into a gorge on water the color of a swimming pool Lac de Sainte-Croix Paddle out at first light to an island built one stone at a time Our Lady of the Rocks Ride a ferry up a flooded gorge Lake Koman Ride a horse along the lakes of Killarney Killarney National Park Ride a steam train over the Glenfinnan Viaduct Glenfinnan Viaduct Ride every hairpin of the Transfăgărășan to the top Bâlea Lake Ride the wooden train that oranges paid for Sóller Walk around the Tre Cime at first light Tre Cime di Lavaredo Walk barefoot across the seabed to Mont-Saint-Michel Tombelaine Walk up a glacier in crampons, above where its ice ended thirty years ago Sólheimajökull

3 moments Get close to an animal On its own ground, not in an enclosure.

Head out to a whale a lookout on the cliff has already found Ponta Delgada Sit above the largest puffin colony on Earth Heimaey Sit among the puffins on an island nobody lives on Lunga

4 moments Get in the water Cold or hot, in it rather than beside it.

Bathe in a river that runs hot out of a hillside Reykjadalur Float in the gap between two continents Silfra Swim off the side of a boat in a calanque Calanques National Park Wade into a lagoon with pink in its sand Balos

2 moments Make it with your hands You leave with the thing, or with knowing how.

Blow glass at a furnace among houses moved here plank by plank Stockholm Row a Venetian boat standing up Venice

2 moments Eat and drink Food and drink you can only have there.

Eat oysters in sight of the beds they grew in Cancale Taste tea from the oldest plantation still working in Europe Gorreana

5 moments Sleep somewhere strange The night is the moment, not the thing you do the next day.

Sleep in a fisherman's cabin on stilts over the sea Reine Sleep in a mountain hut at the end of the road Tre Cime di Lavaredo Sleep in a mountain village snow cuts off most winters Theth Sleep on Mont-Saint-Michel after the crowds go home Mont-Saint-Michel Wake up in Norway on a ship that left Denmark the night before Copenhagen