Around the World in 80 Treasures is a 10 episode series by the BBC and presented by Dan Cruickshank originally aired in February, March, and April 2005. The title is a reference to Around the World in Eighty Days, the classic adventure novel by Jules Verne.

In this series, Cruickshank takes a five month world tour visiting his choices of the eighty greatest man-made treasures, including buildings and artifacts. His tour takes him through 34 countries and 6 of the 7 continents (he does not visit Antarctica).

In addition to seeing some of the world's greatest treasures, Cruickshank tries many different kinds of food including testicle, brain, and insects. His means of transportation included airplanes, trains, camel, donkey, foot, bicycle, scooter, hang glider, and boats.

A tie-in book of the same title was also published, written as a journal during the trip and containing much behind-the-scenes detail on the making of the programme in addition to Cruikshank's reflections on the treasures themselves.

|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"###! # !! Type !! Treasures###|-###| 24 || Building || Monticello, Seagram Building, St. James Church, Spirit Houses, Angkor Wat, Himeji castle, Meenakshi temple, Taj Mahal, The trading domes, Imam mosque, Petra, Temple Mount, Rock churches of Lalibela, Great Mosque of Djenné, Berber Granary, Great Pyramid of Giza, Edfu temple, Hagia Sophia, Peter the Great's cabin, Solovetsky Monastery, Parthenon, Pantheon, Medici chapel, the Alhambra, Cathedral of Chartres###|-###| 7 || City || Machu Picchu, Chan Chan, Palenque, Forbidden City, Persepolis, Leptis Magna, Derinkuyu underground city###|-###| 5 || Statue/Sculpture || Christ the Redeemer, The Giants of Tula, Statue of Liberty, Terracotta Army, Durga, Giant Buddha,###|-###| 2 || Painting || Man, Controller of the Universe, Circumcision Paintings of Songho, Paintings at Nefertari's tomb, Guernica###|-###| || Other structures || The Axum Stelae, Moscow Metro, Polish Salt Mines, Mostar bridge, Grand Canal###|-###| || Other || Holy Land Mosaic, Illuminated Manuscripts of Debre Damo, The Lalibela Cross, The Dogon Mask, Tutankhamun's Death Mask, VW Beetle, Bauhaus Chair --> Cruickshank's fondness of architecture is self-evident, with many of his chosen treasures being buildings or other man-made structures.

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 Ryōan-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. Written by KGF Vissers