Texas is a state where size meets story from high plains to coastal shores, every region brings something distinct to the table. In San Antonio, visitors can walk through centuries of layered history starting at the Alamo, a site of one of the most famous battles in the state’s fight for independence. The nearby San Antonio Missions, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, offers a deeper look into the Spanish colonial influence that shaped the region.

Liechtenstein is located in central Europe and is one of the smallest independent states in the world.

The southernmost island in the crescent-shaped Comoros archipelago. Encircled by a barrier reef, Mayotte is blessed with one of the world's perfect lagoons. In its lush forests, the fragrant yellow flowers of the ylang-ylang tree are picked to extract their perfumed oil. Against a backdrop of waterfalls and volcanic peaks on Mayotte, there is a feeling of rural tranquility.

Broadbeach is one of the fastest growing resort style shopping areas on the Gold Coast and has three major shopping areas; Pacific Fair, Oasis on Broadbeach, and the Pan Pacific and Conrad International Hotels - which are linked across the Gold Coast highway by monorail. The Cascade Water Gardens offer visitors an ideal picnic spot with free electric barbecues, children's playground, canal fishing and band rotunda - which offers free entertainment on the first Sunday of every month.

Sagres sits at the southwestern edge of continental Europe in Portugal’s Algarve region, where the Atlantic’s wide horizon meets rugged cliffs and open skies. For centuries this point was linked to maritime adventure and visitors can still feel that sense of discovery in the air. Here, people like Prince Henry the Navigator gathered cartographers, shipbuilders and astronomers in the 1400s to push beyond maps of the known world and shape the early Age of Discovery from Sagres’ dramatic headlands.