Named a best gift book. Best travel book of the year by the New York Times, entertainment weekly, associated press, house beautiful, business insider, the daily beast, forbes, fodor's. The points guy, seattle times and more. This is the comfort food of travel books. This book will sweep you off your feet, New York Times book review. Gorgeous, breathtaking, spectacular. Publishers weekly Patricia Schultz curates the world. When she published the original 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, she created not only a new kind of travel book but also a new way of thinking about our experiences and interests. Now Schultz captivates our hearts in the same compelling way her original book spoke to our minds. Moving from eloquent word to breathtaking image, she takes us on a visual journey of the best the world has to offer and as we turn the pages and pore over these images, we feel it all, joy, curiosity, awe, passion, nostalgia if we've been there , inspiration because we want to go and a profound and transforming sense of how lucky we are to live in a world filled with such beauty and wonder, to see tributaries of mist curling over the great wall, elephants grazing on the floor of the ngorongoro crater, the sun setting on the wild coast of Donegal, masked whirling dancers at a.