Brussels' ornate guildhall square, UNESCO-listed.
Six hundred traditional hanok houses on a hill between two palaces, still lived in, with Seoul’s towers behind the tiled roofs.
The grandest of Seoul’s five Joseon palaces, with a changing-of-the-guard ceremony and hanbok rental for free entry.
Monumental, tightly-controlled capital.
Nine giant steel spheres from Expo 58 — Brussels’ space-age landmark.
Prague’s 14th-century stone bridge lined with 30 baroque saints — walk it at dawn before the crowds and buskers arrive.
The largest ancient castle complex in the world, with St Vitus Cathedral, the Golden Lane cottages and the hourly guard change.
The least populated capital in the world - a domed capitol on a hill in Melekeok, built in 2006 for a few hundred people.
A Georgian port town around the Berkeley Memorial clock, rebuilt after fire and hurricane, with Brimstone Hill fortress along the coast.
A Portuguese colonial capital on the equator, pastel and peeling, with cocoa plantations in the hills behind it.
The capital Myanmar built from farmland in 2005 and moved to overnight: twenty-lane highways with almost nothing on them, and an Uppatasanti Pagoda one foot shorter than Shwedagon.
Cobbled capital of stone arches, the botanical gardens where Bligh’s breadfruit was planted, and Fort Charlotte above.
Sleepy colonial island capital.
Riverside old town below the cliffs.
Wooden colonial capital and markets.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Sleek modern-art museum in Vaduz.
The largest church in the world, a marble replica of St Peter’s standing in the African bush.
A horseshoe harbour of Georgian houses and fish-scale roof tiles, with Fort George above and spice markets below.
The Prince of Liechtenstein’s home on a crag above the capital — closed inside, but the hillside path gives the postcard view.
Bissau's faded colonial centre.
Futurist petrol station shaped like an aeroplane — icon of Asmara’s modernism.
Whole streets of flamboyant Jugendstil facades — Europe’s densest collection.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Sixteenth-century stone house that served as Andorra’s parliament for 300 years.
Soaring 1949 basilica with a green-tiled roof and pointed arches inspired by Congolese huts — Brazzaville's landmark.
Three 1979 spheres-on-spires on the seafront, with a revolving viewing deck 120 m above the Gulf.
Coral-stone lanes and the Old Friday Mosque on the Indian Ocean.
Kuwait’s largest mosque, with a 26-metre dome, Andalusian-style tiling and space for 10,000 worshippers.
Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peter’s spire, ringed by Europe’s finest Art Nouveau streets.
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