About

A guidebook index, rendered on a globe

Most travel sites bury the good places under ads, rankings and affiliate links. Wanderlens does one thing: it takes the shortlists that volunteer editors have already written for every country and region on Earth, and lets you spin through them. Continent, country, region, city. Land on a city and you get its sights, its weather and a few facts about the country you just entered.

Where the recommendations come from

Wikivoyage

The hierarchy and the picks · CC BY-SA 4.0

Every continent, country and region article names the cities and destinations its editors consider worth the trip. That editorial shortlist is what you drill through.

Wikipedia

Sights and photos · CC BY-SA 4.0

Geo-tagged articles around a city fill in individual sights, each with a short extract and a photo.

Wikidata

Coordinates · CC0

Resolves the exact location of a place when its guide entry omits one.

Open-Meteo

Geocoding and weather · CC BY 4.0

Turns a search term into a point, and gives current conditions plus a seven-day outlook.

Natural Earth

Country borders · Public domain

Public-domain country outlines drawn on the globe.

mledoze/countries + World Bank

Country facts · ODbL 1.0 / CC BY 4.0

Capital, languages, currencies and dialling code, plus the latest population figure.

Built with

Framework: Next.js App Router, React, TypeScript
Styling: Tailwind CSS v4 with a hand-built token layer
Globe: react-globe.gl on three.js, loaded only on the Explore page
Animation: Motion (Framer Motion)
Hosting: Vercel, no database, no environment variables

Wanderlens is open source under the MIT license. Read the code, file an issue or fork it on GitHub, or open the globe.