The capital of French Polynesia, Papeete is a veritable island paradise with bright cerulean waters, iconic overwater bungalows, and palm trees galore.

Jeddah sits along Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast and has long served as a gateway between the Arabian Peninsula and the wider world. For centuries, merchants, pilgrims, and travelers passed through its port on the way to Mecca, shaping a city known for openness and exchange.

Krong Battambang is a riverside city in northwestern Cambodia, known for its preserved colonial-era architecture, rice-growing countryside, and long connection to Cambodian arts and education.

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.

Sainte-Rose, located on the eastern coast of Réunion, is a small town where the island’s volcanic character is on full display.