 In this 10-part BBC documentary series, architect and arts expert Dan Cruickshank takes a five month world tour visiting his personal selection of the eighty greatest man-made treasures (mostly buildings and artifacts) in 34 countries on all inhabited continents. The episodes cover: 1° Peru (Machu Picchu, Inca salt pans, Nazca Lines, Spider necklace of Sipán at Lamayeque and Chan Chan mud city at Trujilo) via Chile s Easter Island (the moai statues) to Brazil (Umhara Indian headdress at Cuiabá and Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio); 2° Mexico (the Mayan city of Paleque, the Toltecs  Giants of (Tollan) Tula and the painting Man, Controller of the Universe in Mexico city) to Central North America (in the USA: a colt revolver at Cortez and Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, Monticelo estate in Virginia and Statue of Liberty and Seagram Building in New York); 3° Australia (St. James church in Sidney and Kakadu rock art) trough Indonesia (Spirit houses and tau-tau in Torajaland, on Sulawesi island, and Borobudur Stupa on Java) and Thailand (Gold elephant at Ayutthaya) to Cambodia (Angkor Wat at Siem Reap and Stone Faces of Bayon at Angkor Thom); 4° Japan (Katana samurai sword in Tokyo, Himeji Castle and RyÅ?an-ji Zen Buddhist Garden at Kyoto) to China (Forbidden City and Summer palace park in Beijing, the Great Wall, the terracotta army in the imperial tomb at Xi an and Ming Dynasty porcelain in Shanghai); 5° India (durga at Kolkata, the traded spices of Cochin, Meenakshi temple at Madurai, Jantar Mantar observatory in Jaipur, and the Taj Mahal at Agra) to Sri Lanka (Sigiriya, giant Buddha statue at Polonnaruwa and Buddhas Tooth in Kandy); 6° Uzbekistan (Tiles of Samarkand and trading domes in Bukhara) trough Azerbaijan (the Fire Temple and Monastery at Surkhany, in Baku) and Iran (Imam mosque in Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persian rug in Shiraz, the Behistun Inscription in Kermanshah and Persepolis) to Syria (Al-Hamidiyah Souk in Damascus); 7° Jordan (the rock-carved Nabataean capital Petra and the Madaba Map) via the Jerusalem Temple Mount to Ethiopia (Axum Stelae,  The miracles of Mary  manuscript kept in the church of Debre Damo and Lalibela churches complex and - cross); 8° Mali (Great Mosque of Djenné and Dogon rock paintings and - mask at Sanga) trough Libya (Leptis Magna at Tripolia nd the Berber granary at Gasr Al-Hajj) to Egypt (Great Pyramid of Giza, burial mask of Pharaoh Tuthankamun, Nefertari s tomb in Luxor and Edfu temple); 9° Turkey (Derinkuyu underground city in Cappadocia and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul) trough Russia (Moscow metro, Solovetsky Monastery at Solovki and Peter the Great s cabin at St. Petersburg) and Poland (salt mine carvings at Wieliczka) to Germany (Volkswagen Beatle in Berlin and the Brno Chair at the Bauhaus in Dessau); 10° Bosnia (Ottoman Stari most- bridge in Mostar) trough Greece (Pantheon in Athens), Italy (Pantheon in Rome, Medici chapel in Firenze, Gran Canale in Venice) and Spain (Picasso s Guernica painting in Madrid and the Moorish Alhambra palace in Granada) to France (Chartres cathedral) and Home.