Architecture of City Bucket List

Lithuania’s interwar capital: a Gothic castle, the Devil’s Museum and Europe’s largest concentration of modernist architecture.

Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peter’s spire, ringed by Europe’s finest Art Nouveau streets.

Cafe-lined riverside old town.

Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.

Futuristic, fast-built steppe capital.

One of the oldest continuously inhabited sites.

Venetian walls around the last divided capital in Europe — cross the Green Line on foot from one side to the other.

Colourful colonial town frozen in time.

UNESCO silver-mining town folded into an old volcanic caldera.

Ancient desert city of windcatchers.

Glide the 17th-century canal ring past gabled merchant houses, houseboats and 1,500 bridges — the city as it was meant to be seen.

Belarus’s best-preserved historic centre, with two castles above the Neman.

Portugal’s ancient university town, with the baroque Joanina Library, black-caped students and mournful fado.

Crooked wooden wharf houses of the old Hanseatic trading quarter.

Stockholm’s medieval old town of narrow lanes and the Royal Palace.

Punt along the Backs past King’s College Chapel and the Bridge of Sighs, then drink in the pub where DNA was announced.

Silver-mining city of candy-coloured houses stacked up a ravine, with streets in tunnels and student minstrels serenading the alleys.

Lake city with a covered wooden bridge.

Cobbled colonial town of pink Gothic church spires and rooftop bars, repeatedly voted the best small city in the world.

Honey-coloured college quads, the Bodleian Library and the dining hall that inspired Hogwarts, all walkable in an afternoon.

Walk the medieval city walls, the Shambles’ overhanging shops and York Minster, the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe.

The only walled city north of Mexico — cobbled streets, the Chateau Frontenac and a French-speaking old town that feels like Europe.

Gaudi’s dragon-backed house on Passeig de Gracia — bone-like balconies, a scaled roof and not a straight line inside.

Red-sandstone castle ruin above the old town of Heidelberg and the Neckar valley.

Gaudi’s hillside park of mosaic dragons, twisted stone colonnades and a serpentine bench overlooking Barcelona.