In our original Lonely Planet Ultimate Travel List post, we break down the top 225 places to see in the Lonely Planet Book. Our list only had 180, which meant that we had cut a few of them from the original post because we have no intention of visiting them: either they are so remote (or expensive) to get to, or that it entails actually climbing up mountains or other tasks we are not particularly thrilled about. However, some of the places on the list intrigued us so much that we actually wanted to include them in our Travel & Adventure list (aka bucket list).

Our first part of the blog had us visiting 33/180 collectively, or around 18% and we will tally that original number up to what we visited on this bottom 300 list to get the final number. As always, we will update these posts with new destinations as we come across them.

Lonely Planet Ultimate Travel List – Bottom 300

1. Museo del Prado – Madrid, Spain (we’ll probably only look at it from the outside)
2. Alcatraz – San Francisco, USA
3. Piazza del Campo – Siena, Italy
4. Postojna Cave & Predjama Castle – Slovenia
5. Rila Monastery – Bulgaria (actually saw this from a documentary and was actually cool)
6. The Bund – Shanghai, China (Ruby in June 2012)
7. Rijksmuseum – Amsterdam, Netherlands (my Dutch friends highly recommend this museum)
8. Pont du Gard Aqueduct – France (near Avignon)
9. Alcazar of Seville – Seville, Spain (a royal palace)
10. Singapore Zoo – Singapore (Ruby in 2000 and 2012)
11. Wadi Rum – Jordan
12. Luxor temple – Luxor, Egypt
13. Natural History Museum – London, England (ugh, missed a chance to go here, went to the Science museum instead but entrance is free!)
14. Cinque Terre – Italy
15. Borobudur – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
16. Duomo – Milan, Italy
17. Burj Khalifa – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
18. Bwindi National Park – Uganda (yes, gorillas again! Wild ones. As per The Points Guy, a trek here can cost upwards of $700!)
19. Silfra – Iceland (snorkel or dive between two continents: I would totally do it except the cold water is a bit of a turn off)
20. Citadelle la Ferriere – Haiti (a great historical building)
21. Itsukushima Shrine – Miyajima Island, Japan
22. Lincoln Memorial – Washington DC, USA (May 2015)
23. Chateau de Chenonceau – France (in a little town, but beautiful chateau nontheless)
24. Valley of the Moon – Chile (not sure we’ll ever get here, but it looks interesting enough)
25. September 11 Museum & Memorial (January 2016) – we went to the memorial but the museum costs a lot of money!
26. Perito Moreno Glacier – Argentina (almost close to Torres del Paine; maybe we’ll visit, maybe not)
27. Mt McKinley (Denali) – Alaska, USA (woohoo going there May 2017!)
28. Arenal Volcano – Costa Rica (a friend went there last year)
29. Asa Wright Nature Centre – Trinidad & Tobago
30. Picos de Europa National Park – Northern Spain (not sure we’ll get there but including it in the list too just in case)
31. Memento Park – Hungary
32. Death Valley National Park – Nevada, USA (almost went here during our Vegas 2015 trip but didn’t have time)
33. Ko Phi-Phi – Thailand
34. Eden Project – Cornwall, England
35. Waitomo Caves – New Zealand (near Rotorua)
36. St David’s Cathedral – Wales, United Kingdom
37. Dead Sea – Jordan/Israel/Palestine
38. Cologne Cathedral – Cologne, Germany
39. Cotopaxi National Park – Ecuador
40. Chatuchak Weekend Market – Bangkok, Thailand (March 2012)

The next 40…

1. 1. Capri – Italy

1. Bamburgh Castle – England
2. Lake Geneva- Switzerland (June 2016)
3. Cu Chi Tunnels – Vietnam (November 2012)
4. Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, Illinois (only from outside, it costs $25 to enter!)
5. Piton Mountains – St Lucia
6. Temppeliaukio Church – Helsinki, Finland
7. Petronas Towers – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2009)
8. Calakmul – Mexico (Mayan ruins)
9. Caernarfon Castle – Caernarfon, Wales
10. Ben Nevis – Scotland (2011)
11. Guggenheim Museum – Bilbao, Spain
12. Pulpit Rock – Norway (involves a hike, but whatever)
13. Bay of Fundy – Canada (seems interesting where the tide just changes in the blink of an eye)
14. Floating Reed Islands – Lake Titicaca, Peru
15. Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
16. Cape Cod National Seashore – Massachusetts, USA
17. Wat Pho – Bangkok, Thailand (March 2012)
18. Bheit She-an – Israel
19. Majorelle Garden – Marrakesh, Morocco
20. Bioluminescent Bay, Puerto Rico (September 2014) -kayaked here at night and it was great!
21. Tian Tan Buddha – Hong Kong, China (July 2009)
22. Alfama area – Lisbon, Portugal
23. Grotte de Lascaux – France
24. Kigali Memorial Centre – Rwanda
25. Jokhang Temple – Lhasa, Tibet
26. Museu del Oro – Colombia
27. Museum Quarter – Vienna, Austria
28. D-Day Beaches – France
29. Bialowieza Forest – Poland
30. N-Seoul Tower – Seoul South Korea (February 2012)
31. Grossglockner Road – Austria
32. Historic Center of Salvador – Brazil
33. Glacier Skywalk – Alberta, Canada
34. Monte Carlo Casino – Monte Carlo
35. Lahore Fort – Lahore, Pakistan
36. Mo’orea – French Polynesia
37. Himeji Castle – Kyoto, Japan
38. Sedlec Ossuary – Kutna Hora, Czech Republic (an hour from Prague, and is full of bones so quite amazing)
39. Blyde River Canyon – South Africa

And another 40…

1. Geysir – Iceland
2. Karlstejn Castle – Czech Republic
3. Danube Delta – Romania
4. Blue Ridge Parkway – Virginia/North Carolina, USA (Asheville, North Carolina July 30, 2016)
5. Brecon Beacons – Wales, United Kingdom
6. Belgrade Fortress – Belgrade, Serbia
7. PUnankha Dzong – Bhutan
8. Meeting of the Waters (meeting of Rio Negro and Rio Solimoes)- Manaus, Brazil
9. Baalbek – Lebanon
10. Jeronimos Monastery – Lisbon, Portugal
11. Tintern Abbey – Wales, United Kingdom
12. Pamukkale – Turkey
13. Diocletian’s Palace – Croatia
14. Cliffs of Moher – Ireland
15. Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela – Spain (Camino anyone?)
16. Komodo National Park – Komodo, Indonesia
17. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum – Glasgow, Scotland (only for the building exterior, but not necessarily the interior)
18. Cartagena Old Town – Colombia
19. Catherine’s Palace – near St Petersburg, Russia
20. Mt Rushmore – South Dakota, USA
21. Burgess Shale – near Banff, British Columbia, Canada
22. Loch Lomond – Scotland
23. Blue Hole – Belize
24. National Palace Museum – Taipei, Taiwan
25. Hadrian’s Wall – England
26. Swayambhunath – Kathmandu, Nepal
27. Tuol Sleng & Killing Fields – Phnom Penh, Cambodia (February 2012)
28. Standing Stones of Callanish – Scotland
29. Avebury Stone Circle – England
30. Malbork Castle – Poland
31. La Boca District – Buenos Aires, Argentina
32. Temple of the Tooth – Kandy, Sri Lanka
33. Bard National Museum – Tunis, Tunisia
34. Hallein Salt Mine – Halstatt, Austria
35. Khao Sok National Park – Thailand (near Phuket)
36. Mansudae Grand Monument – Pyongyang, North Korea
37. Etosha National Park – Namibia
38. Port Arthur – Australia
39. Jungfraujoch – Switzerland
40. Phu Quoc Island – Vietnam

1. Melk Abbey – Austria
2. Nazca Lines – Peru
3. Recoleta Cemetery – Buenos Aires, Argentina
4. Altun Ha – Belize
5. Titanic Belfast – Belfast, Northern Ireland
6. Zwinger – Dresden, Germany
7. Island of Iona – Scotland
8. Stirling Castle – Scotland
9. Zocalo Plaza – Mexico City, Mexico
10. St Fagans National History Museum – Cardiff, Wales
11. Eisriesenwelt Ice Cave – Werfen, Austria
12. Brandenburg Gate – Berlin, Germany
13. Amboseli National Park – Kenya
14. Banaue Rice Terraces – Banaue, Philippines
15. Carpathian National Nature Park – Ukraine
16. Aqueduct of Segovia – Segovia, Spain
17. Ipanema Beach – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (June 2014)
18. Everglades National Park – Miami, FL, USA
19. Sea of Galilee – Israel
20. Ostrog Monastery – Montenegro
21. Kinderdijk Windmills – Netherlands
22. Hal Saflieni Hypogeum – Malta
23. Taipei 101 – Taipei, Taiwan
24. Si Pha Don (Four Thousand Islands) – Laos
25. Church on the Spilled Blood – St Petersburg, Russia
26. San Blas Archipelago – Panama
27. Kiev Pechersk Lavra – Kiev, Ukraine (church)
28. Bucovina Monasteries – Romania
29. Black Forest – Germany
30. L’Anse aux Meadows – Canada
31. Mt Fuji – Tokyo, Japan
32. Kalon Minaret – Bukhara, Uzbekistan
33. Trakai Castle – Lithuania
34. Schilthorn – Switzerland
35. Griffith Observatory – Los Angeles, California, USA
36. Tower of London – London, England (2008)
37. Trinity College – Dublin, Ireland (March 2017)
38. Capital Castles – Luxembourg
39. Camp Nou – Barcelona, Spain
40. Panama Canal – Panama

1. Monet’s Garden – Giverny, France
2. Grouse Mountain – Canada (near Vancouver)
3. Graceland – Memphis, Tennessee (2016)
4. Plaza Mayor – Trinidad, Cuba
5. Colca Canyon – Peru
6. Spis Castle – Slovakia
7. Aletsch Glacier – Switzerland
8. Stingray City – Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
9. Foteviken Viking Reserve – near Malmo, Sweden
10. Wawel Castle – Krakow, Poland
11. Isla Mujeres – Cancun, Mexico
12. Fingal’s Cave – Inner Hebrides, Scotland
13. Leaning Tower of Pisa – Pisa, Italy
14. Oceanographic Museum of Monaco – Monaco
15. Oslo Opera House – Oslo, Norway
16. Rock of Cashel – Ireland
17. Grand Palace – Bangkok, Thailand (March 2013)
18. Independence National Historic Park – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (August 2016)

If you’ve made it this far within this mega post – thank you for sticking to the list! I can finally return this huge book to the library. Hopefully it will serve as a good list for you to read through and to achieve — it took me a long time to actually come through with it, and having to put the other posts in the back burner to complete it. You can also read Part One of Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel List on this link.