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Cape Point: A Deep Dive
The cliff cape at the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula — geology, the historic and modern lighthouses, and the viewpoint that looks south to Antarctica.
Helvellyn: A Deep Dive
Two glacier-carved arêtes flank a vanished ice sheet's tarn at 950 metres, and the knife-edge crossing still claims lives most winters.
Cinque Torri: A Deep Dive
Five Triassic pillars crack a little more each year along their bedding planes; Torre Trephor already collapsed in 2004.
Preikestolen: A Deep Dive
Around 300,000 walkers a year stand on a billion-year-old gneiss platform that is slowly, inevitably retreating toward the fjord 604 metres down.
Read more →Trolltunga: A Deep Dive
A narrow tongue of rock juts straight from the cliff 700 metres above Lake Ringedal, reached only by 28 brutal kilometres on foot.
Read more →The Best Cliff-Edge Viewpoints in the World
One ledge has no fence and room for a crowd; another asks you to step across a gap onto a boulder over genuine void.
Read more →The Best Lighthouse Viewpoints in the World
These towers stand where the coast turns deadly, from Europe's most powerful beam off Brittany to the easternmost tip of North America.
Read more →The Best Volcano Viewpoints in the World
Stromboli has erupted every 10 to 30 minutes for two thousand years, and you can climb to 400 metres to watch it after dark.
Read more →The Best Night-Sky Stargazing Viewpoints
Bortle class 1 skies are vanishing fast; here are ten places, from a Namib reserve to the Atacama, where the dark still holds.
Read more →The Best Desert Viewpoints in the World
A 170-metre red dune climbed in half an hour delivers the defining Namib sunrise, one of ten deserts mapped here by their best light.
Read more →The Best Fjord Viewpoints in the World
A 30-metre platform cantilevers over Norway's longest fjord, one of ten inlets carved by Pleistocene ice on five continents.
Read more →The Best City Skyline Viewpoints
A tram climbs 396 metres in seven minutes to Hong Kong's canonical view; every great skyline has one spot every photographer uses.
Read more →The Best Sunrise Hikes Worldwide
Sri Lanka's 5,500-step night climb is lit by oil lamps and revered by four faiths at once; ten dawn pilgrimages worth the cold.
Read more →The Best Sunset Viewpoints in Europe
Caldera dust over Oia turns the light strange, and crowds claim the castle wall an hour early; ten European views that face the setting sun.
Read more →Top 10 Viewpoints on the Côte d'Azur
A cactus garden grows on a ruined medieval castle clinging to a vertical cliff, one stop on 150 kilometres of Riviera belvederes.
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