A Nomad's Guide

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A curated guide to the world’s most remarkable places, and a record of the ones you have been to.

Find a collection that speaks to you, mark the places you have already been, and watch your map fill in. Every collection counts what it holds, so you can always see how much of it is still ahead of you.

Places in the guide
7,384
Collections to work through
263
The world map in A Nomad's Guide: a globe covered in pins, the visited ones green, with a panel open on Petra showing its collections and the date it was visited.

Most travel apps remember where you went. A Nomad’s Guide knows what you have not yet reached.

Places worth the trip, already chosen

The places in the guide were picked and written up by hand rather than scraped off a map. Lists somebody sat down and made sit beside every country, region and category.

Know what you missed

Every collection carries its own total, so the places you have not reached sit on the same screen as the ones you have. That total is what makes a collection something you can finish.

Something to show for where you have been

Explorer through Legend, in every collection you touch, struck as badges you can hold up and share. Your first visit into a collection earns the first rank, so the case starts filling straight away.

See where other travellers went

Every place carries how many people have collected it, so the crowd’s own record sits on the page beside the guide’s. It is where travellers go, not a list of what is famous.

Always have a next place to go

Weighted against what you have already collected: how near a place is, which collections you are closest to closing, and the countries you have never set foot in. Nothing here is guessed by a model.

Find out how you travel

Read off your own record, with the number that earned it beside every claim: the category you collect far more often than the guide offers it, or whether you go for the landmarks or the corners.

All of that is free, including every collection in the guide.

How it works

Civil Rights Movement

7 of 11

64

LGBTQ+ Heritage

3 of 11

27

Scenic Train Rides

1 of 5

20

Step 1 of 4

Find a collection worth finishing

Countries, categories, and lists somebody sat down and made. Each one counts what it holds, so you can see the whole of it before you have collected any of it.

What there is to collect

Countries, regions, categories, and lists picked by hand. Every one of them counts what it holds, so you always know how much is left.

Civil Rights Movement

11 places

LGBTQ+ Heritage

11 places

Scenic Train Rides

5 places

UNESCO World Heritage

29 places

Adventure

113 places

Alabama

14 places

Alaska

23 places

Albania

23 places

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Personalize your Guide

Every collection in the guide is free. Premium adds your own trips, your own lists, and the places you add yourself.

Save your trips as journeys

Group the visits from one trip. Your route is drawn in the order you travelled, with your journal and photos alongside it. Share it as a link, or export a PDF.

Backstreet ramen

12 of 18Yours

67

Dad’s shortlist

4 of 9Yours

44

Build your own collections

Make your own lists, counted and ranked like every collection in the guide. Share one as a link, and turn it off whenever you like.

Add places we have missed

Tap the map to drop a pin instead of typing coordinates. Your place joins the right country and category collections, and counts towards them.

Premium also combines map filters, so you can narrow the world by your own collections and trips.

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