1 / 71
Choosing the World's Most Beautiful Places
They are the places that stop you in your tracks, the views that etch themselves into your memory for a lifetime: mountain peaks, desert valleys, ocean reefs. Each has a home in our list of the 70 Most Beautiful Places in the World, as recommended by a panel of explorers, scientists and travel journalists who make it their mission to visit the far reaches of our home planet.
How many have you been to?