The perfect Oaxaca City day trip: Hierve el Agua is nature’s infinity pool — calcified waterfalls, warm mineral pools, sweeping terraced hills and mountain views.

The Atlas Mountains stretch some 1,500 miles across northwest Africa — sunlit ridges, hidden canyons and weathered Berber villages where families tend terraced fields, churn butter and bake bread, all just about an hour from Marrakesh.