Eleven new teams take off on a race around the world for one-million dollars in the premiere of the fourteenth season of The Amazing Race. The teams take off from the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base near Long Beach, California. They immediately receive a clue instructing them to fly to either Zurich or Milan and then travel by train to Locarno, Switzerland. Once in Switzerland, the teams travel to the Church of San Antonio. Upon signing a register, they receive a message from a priest with one of three departure times for the next morning: 7:15 A.M., 7:30 A.M. and 7:45 A.M. After camping out that night, the teams travel to the Verzasca Dam (Valle Verzasca) and face a Roadblock requiring "nerves and steel"-- a 70 story bungee jump. After completing this jump, the second-highest in the world, the teams travel by train to the Interlaken and search for Kleine Rugen Wiese. There, they take part in a task requiring them to join the local workforce and transport 200 pounds of cheese from an aging shed to the bottom of a hill. To aid in this task, teams don an an antique cheese rack, but many racers end up simply carrying cheese or sliding slowly down the hill when their cheese racks break. Upon completing this task, the teams receive a clue instructing them to travel to the last postal bus stop in the town of Stechelberg. They then listen for a group of yodelers to lead them to the leg's Pit Stop. In the end, two teams find themselves in an extremely close foot-race, with one falling just slightly behind and being eliminated....

The remaining teams set off from their Pit Stop in Stechelberg in the Burmese Alps and receive a clue instructing them to fly to Munich, Germany and then drive to Ruhpolding, where they will ride a cable car to the top of the mountain. A scramble for flights results in eight teams boarding the earliest-arriving flight, with two lagging behind. Upon reaching the mountain, racers are faced with a critical decision when adverse weather conditions affect the leg's Roadblock. One racer initially falls behind, only to surge ahead after making a choice that sets him apart from the pack. Another racer gets lost on the mountain. Later, racers drive 25 miles to Schonau am Konigsee and locate their next clue near the area of a bobsled track. They face a Detour requiring them to either complete an obstacle course with a Segway or engage in pie-throwing. Upon completing the Roadblock, the racers then have a woodcutter cut a small piece of wood that is stamped with a clue that turns out to be the Pit Stop clue. All racers hurry to the Schloss Hellbrunn (Hellbrunn Castle) in Salisburg, but one team is ultimately unable to recover from an earlier error and is eliminated from the race...

The eight remaining teams continue the race, this time braving the cold of Siberia. Teams become frustrating by a task that requires them to build a wall. One racer encounters a dead-end after taking a harrowing ride....

The eight remaining teams set off from the Vila Panoramic and receive a clue instructing them to fly through Moscow to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia and then travel to the hydroelectric dam depicted on the back of Russia's ten ruble note. Three teams gain an advantage by catching an early flight, leaving the remaining teams to fight it out to avoid last place.

Having shaken off the shock of the fourth elimination, the seven remaining teams set off from their Pit Stop at the Theater of Musical Comedy in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, and receive a clue instructing them to ride the Trans-Siberian Railway approximately 400 miles to the city of Norosibirsk and then take a taxi to the Pundt Tehnicheskogo Osmotra for their next clue.

The seven remaining teams depart from their Pit Stop at the "Siberian Colosseum," leaving the cold of Siberia and flying nearly 2,000 miles to the heat of Jaipur, India. Once there, they take taxis to the sacred tree Peepli Ka Pedh at the outskirts of Pula Village and dial a phone for a message directing them to their next destination.

in this interlude of the show.. The six remaining teams set off from the Jaigur Fort in Jaipur, India and receive a clue instructing them to fly nearly 2,000 miles to Phuket, Thailand. All teams arrive on the same flight and, once there, begin their search for a gorilla statue depicted in a picture they all receive.

The remaining five teams take off from their Pit Stop at the Wat Thep Nimit Temple in Phuket, Thailand and receive a clue instructing them to fly over 400 miles to Bangkok, Thailand. All teams catch the same flight and then travel by taxi to a local boatyard and search the grounds for their next clue, which turns out to be a Roadblock.

The five remaining teams resume the race, this time traveling to Guilin, China.

The final four teams continue on with their journey, this time racing to Beijing, China.

The race for the final three is on as the four remaining teams resume the race, continuing their journey through Beijing, China, the leg begun in the previous episode. Teams are made to stomach Chinese delicacies not at all to their taste. Jaime and Cara hit up hard against the language barrier, jeopardizing their chances of making it into the final three.

In the fourteenth season's finale, the final three teams set off from their Pit Stop at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, China and travel over 5,000 miles to Maui, Hawaii. There, they travel to beach access 118 where an exhausting task requires them prepare a pig for a luau. Two racers greatly struggle with this task.