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Tucked in a mountain valley between Gifu and Toyama, Shirakawa-go's steep, hand-thatched farmhouses have survived largely unchanged since the 17th century, and look it from every angle.
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Frozen in place since Cuba's 19th-century sugar boom went bust, Trinidad's cobbled centre of pastel townhouses and wrought-iron grilles has barely needed to change for the camera.
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The world's northernmost capital of its size packs a concrete cathedral, a steel sculpture shaped like a ship and a painted rainbow street into a centre small enough to cover on foot in an afternoon.
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Between a 14th-century covered bridge, a cliffside war memorial and a lake ringed by mountains, Lucerne packs an unusual amount of picture-postcard Switzerland into a compact old town.
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Spared major bombing in the Second World War, Kanazawa kept its Edo-period geisha and samurai quarters intact, giving it one of Japan's most photogenic historic cores outside Kyoto.
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A cluster of brightly painted 19th-century palaces scattered through misty hills just outside Lisbon has made Sintra one of Portugal's most photographed day trips.
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A short train ride from Tokyo, Hakone pairs open views of Mount Fuji over Lake Ashi with a volcanic valley, a lakeside torii gate and one of Japan's best-known open-air sculpture parks.
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Between a seafront drive, a mosaic-covered neighbourhood and streets still full of pre-1960s American cars, Havana packs an unusually consistent, saturated visual identity into a few square kilometres.
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From the cobalt walls of Jardin Majorelle to the storks nesting on El Badi Palace's ruined walls, Marrakech's most photogenic spots are concentrated within a walkable stretch of the medina.
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Between colourful Arctic houses, fjords full of drifting ice and a seed vault built into a mountainside, Svalbard offers a frame unlike almost anywhere else reachable on a scheduled flight.
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Portugal's southern coast built its visual identity on ochre limestone cliffs, sea caves and grottoes carved out along a stretch of Atlantic shoreline centred on Lagoa and Lagos.
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North of Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai built its visual identity on two radically different temples built by contemporary artists, along with a scattering of tea plantations and hill towns around them.
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