Lonely Planet names 500 must-see places

The Roman Colosseum is the top European sight to put on your bucket list. Photo: AFP

Lonely Planet has come up with a list of the world’s top 500 sights. Pride of the Cambodian people, the Temples at Angkor, topped the list at number one. Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travelist highlights the locations around the world that the travel guide publisher’s team of experts believes every traveller must experience.

Registered on Unesco’s World Heritage list, the “Hindu Heaven on Earth” is a complex of more than 1,000 temples, shrines and tombs that is considered by Lonely Planet’s globetrotting community to top the bucket list of must-see places in the world.