Itineraries

Across the Ore Mountains in seven stops: Freiberg’s silver capital, Annaberg’s Gothic churches, Seiffen’s toy villages and Bohemia’s Jáchymov, where the dollar got its name.

Around the Alps through the pile-dwelling listing: Lake Constance, the Federsee, Neuchâtel and Biel, the Jura lakes, the Ljubljana Marshes and Austria’s Carinthian waters.

Eleven old-growth beech forests in one European route: Sonian at Brussels’ edge, Germany’s national parks, the Carpathian tripoint and the Balkan ridges of the UNESCO listing.

The Western Front north to south in thirteen memory sites: the Ypres salient, Vimy Ridge, the Somme memorials, Verdun’s ossuary and forts, and the mountain front in the Vosges.

From Bruges to Amiens through twelve UNESCO belfries: Flemish giants, Wallonia’s watchtowers and the rebuilt towers of the French north, in one 300-km civic route.

Six anchors of the Qhapaq Ñan across Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina: temples, provincial capitals and frontier forts strung along the Inca royal road.

With the Zarafshan River from Panjakent to the Karakum fringe: Samarkand and Bukhara as anchors, Rabati Malik on the desert road, Varakhsha and Paykend in the sands.

East to west along the Chang’an–Tianshan Corridor: Xi’an’s palaces and pagodas, the Gansu grottoes, the oasis ruins of Turpan and the caravan towns of the Chu Valley.