This beautiful pictorial publication offers you a journey all around the world. It will present you with the most beautiful and the most interesting places on earth, with breathtaking historic treasures, artifacts of human hands, and also with admirable masterpieces of nature. Almost every place on earth has its own magic and history, but also its geologic and climatic conditions, its specific fauna and flora. Thanks to dizzying technical progress, people molded nature in various ways, but also damaged its balance. For this reason, we have to count protected nature zones among the beauties of our world. A lot of these places are attractive destinations for tourists as well as retreats for endangered animals and plants. Bisons, goannas or pandas would not survive without protected nature zones, national parks or biospheric reservations. This title is an invitation to the best places in the world. It offers practical advice for travelers as well as a chance to see so many of the many interesting places on five continents. Plenty of wonderful photographs and qualified texts give those of you keen on the beauties of the world a chance to explore.