What are the most extraordinary travel experiences in the world? We asked a pair of internationally minded writers, a chef, an architect and a landscape photographer to debate the question and make a list of 25 must-have adventures for T. Their picks included: Taking in Antarctica’s sublime beauty and its penguin colonies; visiting three of the most important stops on the Silk Road in Uzbekistan; hiking Japan’s Kumano Kodo, a network of trails so sprawling that no two journeys will ever be alike; tasting wood-smoked sorcery at the restaurant Asador Etxebarri in Spain’s Basque country — and camping in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau, watching as its endless horizons become a vault of stars. See the full list at the link in our bio. In these photos: A colony of gentoo penguins mill about in Paradise Bay near Chile’s González Videla research base in Antarctica. Photo by @stefanruizphoto. The ornate Abdulaziz Khan madrasa in the caravan city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Photo by @felixodell. Nachi Falls, Japan’s tallest single-drop waterfall, serves as a backdrop to the fifth-century Buddhist temple and pagoda Seiganto-ji; together they represent just a small sampling of the myriad natural and built attractions that greet hikers along the seven trails of the ancient Kumano Kodo network. Photo by @craigmod. The Basque village of Axpe, roughly half an hour’s drive from Bilbao, where Asador Etxebarri is located. Photo by @gunnarknechtel. The Colorado Plateau stretches across an expanse including not only its namesake state but parts of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, as well as the whole of Navajo Nation. Alstrom Point is one of the most popular overlooks at Lake Powell and part of the vast Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah. Photo by @nickbondarev.