The 1994 Winter Olympics town, with the Maihaugen open-air museum and the ski jump you can ride down.
Altbier in the 'longest bar in the world', Gehry's dancing towers at the harbour and the Konigsallee.
A 12th-century Romanesque cathedral with an astronomical clock and a university town of cobbles and bicycles.
Red wooden riverside warehouses and cobbled lanes, the second-oldest town in Finland.
Bach's church, the peaceful revolution of 1989 and the artists' halls of the old Spinnerei cotton mill.
Victorian arcades, the Royal Armouries and the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.
The Lindwurm dragon fountain and the warm waters of Lake Worthersee, the summer capital of Carinthia.
Pastel houses inside 13th-century walls above two sandy beaches on the Pembrokeshire coast.
The birthplace of winter tourism in 1864, two Winter Olympics and the Cresta Run.
Britain's smallest city: a cathedral in a hollow where the patron saint of Wales was born.
The 'Venice of the Alps': canals through a medieval old town and the cleanest lake in Europe.
Goethe's and Schiller's houses, the birthplace of the Bauhaus, and Buchenwald on the hill above.
Banksy's home town: a harbour city of street art, the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the SS Great Britain in dry dock.
One of the smallest capitals in the world, with grass roofs on the parliament peninsula of Tinganes.
Alfred the Great's capital: the longest Gothic nave in Europe and the Round Table hanging in the Great Hall.
Icebergs the size of cathedrals from the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier drift past the harbour.
Three medieval towers guard the old port; the Ile de Re is a bridge away.
Van Gogh's town, with a Roman amphitheatre still hosting bullfights and the Camargue at its edge.
Where two seas meet at the tip of Jutland, in the light that drew the Skagen painters.
The whale-watching capital of Iceland, with humpbacks and blue whales in Skjalfandi Bay.
The V&A Dundee on the Tay and the RRS Discovery, Scott's Antarctic ship, in a reinvented waterfront.
Denmark's oldest town, a Viking market from about 700 with crooked timber houses and storks on the roofs.
Rembrandt's birthplace and the oldest university in the Netherlands, with canals quieter than Amsterdam's.
Half-timbered Alsace at its prettiest, the Isenheim Altarpiece and the Alsace wine route on the doorstep.
Scandinavia's tallest cathedral, Linnaeus's garden and the Viking royal mounds at Gamla Uppsala.
A car-free village under the Matterhorn, with the highest cable car in Europe and year-round skiing.
The capital of the Highlands, ten minutes from Loch Ness and the Culloden battlefield.
Britain's second city has more canal miles than Venice, the Balti Triangle and Peaky Blinders' Black Country next door.
Vermeer's canals, Delft Blue pottery and the tomb of William of Orange in the New Church.
Samoa’s waterfront capital: the fish market, the Immaculate Conception cathedral and Sunday church singing.
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