Santa Claus Village on the Arctic Circle, reindeer sleighs and northern lights from September to March.
King John's Castle on the Shannon and the Milk Market, in the city of Angela's Ashes.
The Ars Electronica Center on the Danube, Linzer torte and a steel city turned culture capital.
A fishing town of pubs and trad sessions at the end of the Dingle Peninsula, the westernmost point of Europe.
The pebble beach, the Palace Pier and the Royal Pavilion, an Indian-style palace built for a Regency prince.
A 12th-century Romanesque cathedral with an astronomical clock and a university town of cobbles and bicycles.
The Frauenkirche rebuilt from rubble, the Zwinger's Old Masters and the Elbe skyline Canaletto painted.
Pastel houses inside 13th-century walls above two sandy beaches on the Pembrokeshire coast.
The Kaiserburg above a rebuilt medieval city, the Nazi rally grounds and the Nuremberg trials courtroom.
The Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums in a valley of vineyards, with the Black Forest an hour away.
Cezanne's town of fountains and plane trees, with Mont Sainte-Victoire on the horizon he painted sixty times.
Dylan Thomas's 'ugly, lovely town', with the Gower Peninsula's beaches on the doorstep.
A car-free village under the Matterhorn, with the highest cable car in Europe and year-round skiing.
The base for the Ring of Kerry, with Killarney National Park, its lakes and red deer next to town.
The city of three cultures on a rock above the Tagus, with El Greco, a synagogue and a Damascene steel trade.
Philips' company town turned design city: Dutch Design Week, Strijp-S and the Van Abbemuseum.
Kronborg, Hamlet's Elsinore, guarding the narrowest point of the Oresund opposite Sweden.
A Hanseatic town of roses and ruins inside 3.4 km of medieval wall on Gotland.
The oldest Dutch city, on the Meuse between Belgium and Germany, where the EU treaty was signed in 1992.
The home of golf and Scotland's oldest university, with a ruined cathedral above the sea.
Walk the complete Roman and medieval walls and the two-tier Tudor shopping galleries of the Rows.
The July jazz festival, the Freddie Mercury statue and Chillon castle along a lakeside promenade.
The Jet d Eau, the United Nations and the Red Cross, on the lake where the Rhone leaves the Alps.
The cathedral where Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170, the destination of Chaucer's pilgrims.
Scandinavia's tallest cathedral, Linnaeus's garden and the Viking royal mounds at Gamla Uppsala.
Five original Viking ships in the museum and the cathedral where Danish monarchs have been buried since 1400.
The 1994 Winter Olympics town, with the Maihaugen open-air museum and the ski jump you can ride down.
The winter-cycling capital of the world and the Air Guitar World Championships, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
Alfred the Great's capital: the longest Gothic nave in Europe and the Round Table hanging in the Great Hall.
The seafood capital of Scotland and the ferry port for Mull, Iona and the Hebrides.
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