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7 Most Instagrammable Spots in Meteora, Greece's Monasteries in the Sky

Six Eastern Orthodox monasteries built directly on towering sandstone pillars, Meteora is one of the most striking landscapes in Greece and a serious rival to any Cyclades island for a photo.

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7 Most Instagrammable Spots in Raja Ampat, Indonesia's Last Wild Reef

An archipelago of over 1,500 karst islands off Indonesian Papua, Raja Ampat holds some of the most biodiverse reefs on earth and a landscape unlike anywhere else in Southeast Asia.

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7 Most Instagrammable Spots in Zhangjiajie, China's Avatar Mountains

The sandstone pillar forest that inspired Avatar's floating mountains, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is one of the most photogenic landscapes in China.

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7 Most Instagrammable Spots in Huacachina, Peru's Desert Oasis

A palm-ringed lagoon surrounded by towering sand dunes in the Peruvian desert, Huacachina is one of the most photogenic detours in South America.

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7 Most Instagrammable Spots in Ubud, Bali

Rice terraces, a jungle swing, and a monkey-filled temple forest, Ubud's most-shared shots are all within a short scooter ride of each other.

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Chefchaouen's Blue Streets Are Morocco's Most Copied Instagram Backdrop

Every wall, staircase, and doorway in this Rif Mountains town is painted some shade of blue, and no two photographers seem to agree on why it started.

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Antelope Canyon's Light Beams Are Real, and Also Impossible to Shoot Without a Guide

A slot canyon in the Arizona desert turns sunlight into visible, solid-looking beams for a few weeks a year, and Navajo guides control every part of the visit.

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Cinque Terre's Five Villages Are Still Instagram's Hardest-Working Backdrop

Stacked pastel houses on a sheer cliff above the sea, Cinque Terre delivers the same striking composition from five different villages, and most visitors only ever see one properly.

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Lake Bled Is Europe's Most Reliably Perfect Photo, and It's Barely an Hour From an Airport

An island church, a cliffside castle, and the Julian Alps behind it all, Lake Bled composes itself into a near-identical, near-perfect shot from almost any angle.

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The Salar de Uyuni Mirror Shot Everyone's Copying, and When to Actually Get It

A thin film of rainwater over 10,000 square kilometres of salt turns Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni into the world's largest mirror, for about ten weeks a year.

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Why Jodhpur's Blue Rooftops Are Instagram's New Favourite Colour Story

Jodhpur's old city reads as one unbroken blue pattern from Mehrangarh Fort's ramparts, the elevated angle behind most of the shots actually circulating online.

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The Infinity Pools Currently Breaking Instagram

From a jungle canyon in Bali to a lantern-lit courtyard in Marrakech, three infinity pools currently doing the heaviest lifting on travel feeds, and what actually makes each frame work.