10 amazing foreign national parks to visit in 2026

Not everyone can be national-parks completists – people who have visited all 63 of the major U.S. ones (and yes, many such individuals exist.) But for those who have indeed crossed ’em off, where to venture next?

Well, it might be time to grab that passport. The next logical step is to start visiting national parks in other countries – the ecological wonderland of the Galapagos Islands, Croatia’s electric-blue Plitvice Lakes, perhaps Kaz Dağları in Turkey (a setting in Homer’s “The Iliad”), as scenic as it is difficult to pronounce.