Visit Trakai

Red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galve, home of the Karaim community and their kibinai pastries.

Visit Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city and former temporary capital. Explore the Old Town with its Gothic-style Kaunas Castle (14th-century fortress by the Nemunas River), see the Devil's Museum (unique collection of devil-themed art and sculptures), and walk along Laisvės Alėja (Freedom Avenue, a bustling pedestrian street lined with shops and cafes).

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

A German-built port on the Baltic, the ferry to the Curonian Spit and its sand dunes.

Lake city with a covered wooden bridge.

Explore Carcassonne, a fortified medieval city in southern France. Walk the double ring of ramparts of the Cité de Carcassonne (a UNESCO World Heritage site with 52 towers), admire the Basilica of Saints Nazarius and Celsus (known for its 12th-century stained glass and Gothic choir), and cross the Pont Vieux (a 14th-century stone bridge offering panoramic views of the city).

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

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