Armenia's 'little Switzerland': forests, the Haghartsin monastery and Soviet-era spa villas.
Madeira's capital: wicker toboggans down from Monte, the flower market and Madeira wine lodges.
'Here Portugal was born': the castle of the first king and a UNESCO medieval centre.
Mallorca's capital: the seafront Gothic cathedral La Seu, Arab baths and the Tramuntana mountains behind.
The Black Sea port of the Byzantine Comnenes, the Hagia Sophia of Trabzon and the Sumela monastery on a cliff.
Roman mosaics, the Tombs of the Kings and the rock where Aphrodite came ashore.
A castle on a rock above the Vah with a Roman inscription from AD 179 carved into the cliff.
One of the six largest Roman amphitheatres, still hosting concerts and film festivals.
The Cathedral of St James built entirely of stone, four fortresses and the boat to Krka waterfalls.
Honey-coloured stone houses stepping down a hill above the Mesopotamian plain, with Syriac monasteries.
The old royal capital in a mountain valley, with former embassies and the monastery of St Peter.
A church on an island in an alpine lake, a castle on the cliff and cream cake on the shore.
Nissi beach and the sea caves by day, the clubbing capital of the eastern Mediterranean by night.
A Roman temple, a chapel lined with bones and whitewashed lanes inside walls, the capital of the Alentejo.
The Greek theatre where Aeschylus premiered and the island of Ortigia, once the rival of Athens.
A 12-kilometre sand beach, an old pirate town on a rock and the Ada Bojana river island.
A Livonian Order castle, a cobbled old town and Gauja National Park for canoeing and bobsleigh.
A red-brick island castle in Lake Galve and the kibinai pastries of the Karaim community.
Master Paul's 18-metre carved altar, the tallest Gothic altar in the world, inside a walled Spis town.
Rumi's tomb and the whirling dervishes, the Seljuk capital in the middle of Anatolia.
Chagall's birthplace, his house museum and the Slavianski Bazaar festival each July.
The Habsburg 'little Vienna' of Bukovina, with a UNESCO university that was once the Metropolitan's residence.
The Algarve capital, with a walled old town, storks nesting on the cathedral and the Ria Formosa lagoon.
Las Canteras city beach, the Vegueta colonial quarter and the house where Columbus stopped.
The Albanian Riviera resort opposite Corfu, with Butrint ruins and the Blue Eye spring nearby.
The pistachio and baklava capital of Turkey and the Zeugma museum of Roman mosaics.
The Bagrati cathedral, Gelati monastery and the Prometheus cave, in the capital of ancient Colchis.
The Vitkovice ironworks turned festival ground and the Stodolni street of a hundred bars.
Where the 1989 revolution began; Secession squares and the first European city lit by electric street lamps.
Hungary's largest church on a hill above the Danube bend, the old royal and religious capital.
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