Table Mountain Aerial Cableway, South Africa

Few places in the world wow like Table Mountain, the flat-topped monolith that serves as the backdrop for most tourists’ photos—and memories—of Cape Town. Completed back in 1929, the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway whisks nearly one million sightseers to the summit every year, rising roughly 1,000 metres in fewer than five minutes. The flat, even paths that crisscross the mountaintop provide sweeping vistas of downtown Cape Town, the Atlantic Ocean, and beyond.