Belgium
* Antwerp
- Rubens house
- st. paul’s church
- red star line museum (emigration museum)
- chocolate nation
- Sunday bird market
- Vlaeykensgang (old alley)
- Museum aan de stroom – museum of Antwerp (with views)
- rockox house – renaissance house as an art gallery
- M HKA – contemporary art museum
- FotoMuseum – photography museum
- ModeMuseum – modern fashion museum
Mechelen
- kazerne dossin – museum about 1940s racism
- museum hof van busleyden – museum of mechelen in burgundian era
Tournai
- 12 & 14 rue barre st brice – 12th century houses
Dinant
Ypres
- in flanders field museum – world war museum with city views
- cloth hall
* Kasteel van Gaasbeek: Decorated renaissance castle
Alden Biesen Castle: castle with small museum
Chateau de Beloeil: castle with decorated interior
Castle of Freÿr: castle with decorated interior
Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Sarajevo
- latin bridge: where Franz Ferdinand was killed
- gallery 11/07/95
- yellow fortress (distant views)
- beys mosque
- sarajevo war tunnel: museum
- Sarajevo roses: marks on ground resembling blood
- city hall
- museum of crimes against humanity and genocide
- history museum of bosnia
- war childhood museum
- try krompirusa
- abandoned bobsled track
- Gazi Husrev-beg madrasa: sarajevo history
* mostar
- old bridge
- old bridge museum (views)
- old bazaar
- koskin-mehmed pasha’s mosque (views)
- museum of war and genocide victims
- biscevic house
- musilbegovic house
- crooked bridge
- war photo exhibition
- lucky most bridge (views)
Una national park: park with all the waterfalls
Banja luka
Jajce
- waterfall
- fortress
- watermills
Blagaj: famous monastery
* Kravica waterfalls
Pocitelj: small medieval town
Bulgaria
* Plovdiv
- Roman theatre
- regional ethnographic museum
- Balaban and Hindilyan houses
- nedkovich house & other houses
- nebet tepe: archaeological complex
- hisar kapiya: old gate
- st constantin and elena church
- archaeological museum
- historic museum
- museum-gallery philippopolis: museum of classical Bulgarian art
- ancient forum
- kapana (hipster neighbourhood)
Nessebar (on the black sea)
Sozopol (on the black sea)
Rila monastery
Sofia
- Alexander Nevski Cathedral
- sofia history museum
- national art gallery: Bulgarian art
- the red flat: life in communist bulgaria
Veliko tarnovo
- tsaravets fortress
- archaeological museum
- hadji nikoli inn museum: small art gallery
Koprivshtitsa
- Dimcho Debelyona House Museum (meh)
- Todor Kableshkov House Museum (ok)
- Georgi Benkovski House Museum
- Lyuben Karalevov House Museum (meh)
- Lyutov House Museum (meh)
- Nencho Oslekov House Museum
Rock Churches of Ivanovo
Troyan Monastery
Croatia
Split
- klis fortress: may be out of the way
- split archaeological museum
- split live museum
- play picigin
- museum of senses
Zagreb
- Zagreb cathedral
- Zagreb 360
- mirogroj cemetery
- 80s museum
- mimara museum: art museum
- museum of arts and crafts
- st mark’s church
- museum of contemporary art
- archaeological museum: has a mummy named Rosie
- museum of illusions
- image of war photography museum
- modern gallery
- art pavilion
- stone gate
- atelier Mestrovic: sculptures in artist’s house
- museum of hangovers
Dubrovnik
- lokrum island (nature) - has peacocks
- maritime museum
- museum of modern and contemporary art
- minceta fortress (views)
Zadar
- archaeological museum
- zadar pijaca: pag cheese, gligora cheese
- church of saint donaites
- zadar cathedral (views)
- gradska straza: building
- petar zoranic square
- museum of illusions
Rovinj
- grisia (neighbourhood)
- batana museum
Pula
- museum of contemporary art of istria
Plitvice lakes park
Rab island
- rab museum of sacred art: skull of st. Christopher
- eat rab cake
Rijeka
- Trsat Castle
- Rijeka City Museum
- PEEK&POKE Computer Museum
- Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
General
- kayaking
- wine tasting
- water sports
- boat ride
- cave tours
- cooking class?
Czechia
* Prague
- Prague castle
- john lennon wall
- old town hall tower (views)
- astronomical clock
- Charles bridge
- old jewish cemetery
- Spanish synagogue
- new town prague
- st vitas cathedral
- try becherovka
- eat pickled cheese
- national museum
- beer museum
- apple museum
- museum of communism
- strahov library
- city of prague museum
- mala strana (neighbourhood)
- national gallery
- museum of music
- jewish museum
- eat trdelnik, horice rolls
- mucha museum
- museum of decorative arts
- coffee museum
- miniatures museum
- speculum alchimiae: medieval alchemy lab
- vysehrad: historic fort
- clementium library
* cesky krumlov
- cesky krumlov castle
- st vitus cathedral
- minorite monastery: small monastery
- museum fotoatelier siedel: photography museum with decorated interior
- the regional museum
- cloak bridge
- revolving theatre
kutna hora
- sedlec ossuary
- Italian court: decorated palace
- gothic stone house & fountain
- hradek: silver museum
- church of the assumption of our lady
- church of st Barbara
- Jesuit college
karlstejn castle: decorated medieval castle
omolouc
- museum of Olomouc cheese
- hradisko monastery
- modern art museum
- Olomouc castle?
- archdiocesan museum
- regional museum in Olomouc: small museum
karlovy vary
- moser museum: glass museum
- hot spring colonnade
- park colonnade
- jan becher museum: Czech herbal liquor
lednice castle: romantic castle
valtice castle: rococo castle
bouzov castle: decorated medieval castle
telc
- underground tunnel tours
- watchtower views
- telc castle: renovated renaissance castle
- highlands museum: telc history museum
pilsen
- underground museum
- beer spa: spa with beer ingredients
- museum of west bohemia
- pilsen holocaust memorial
brno
- ossuary of church at st james
- spilberk castle: just for outside pics
- villa tugendhat: house by mies van der rohe
- Underground labyrinth
- Vegetable market
- Capuchin crypt
- House of the lords of lipa
- Plague column
- Spilberk castle: city of brno museum
- Museum of romani culture
Liberec
Mikulov: small but cute town
Znojmo: small baroque town
Litomysl: colourful town
- Castle: has decorated interior
Hradec kralove: cute colourful town
Denmark
Copenhagen
- Frederiksberg palace
- glyptotek
- museum of Copenhagen
- danish national gallery
Kronborg castle
* Odense
- hans Christian Anderson museum
- odense castle
- funen open air museum
- HCA’s birthplace
- odense city museum
Aalborg
- museum of contemporary art
- lindholm site and museum (outside the city)
- aalborg historical museum
- aalborghus castle (outside only)
* Aarhus
- cathedral (views)
- Viking museum
- women’s museum
- ARoS museum of modern art: looks cool
- Moesgaard museum: anthropology museum
- mollestein street
- den gamble by: living past museum
- deer park
Lyngby open air museum
* Faroe islands
- mykines puffin colony
- kallurin lighthouse
- gjogv town
- saksun town
- traelanipa: lake above a cliff – no waterfall
- Torshavn: large town
- national museum of the faroe islands
- lastasavn foroya (local art museum)
- Torshavn cathedral
- kirkjubour: medieval ruin town
- seal woman
* Egeskov castle
Ribe
- Viking Museum
- Viking Center
- Museum of Witch Hunt
England
* London
- leadenhall market: HP filming location
- the british library
- middle temple hall: Shakespearean home
- Buckingham palace
- tate modern (views)
- Charles dickens museum
- London mithreaum: roman london
- william morris gallery
- geffrye museum: museum of the home
- Kensington rooftop gardens
- Temple church
- St dunstan in the east
- Sir john soane museum
- Dr johnson’s house
- Garden at 120 (views)
Chester
- eastgate clock
- chester cathedral
- Grosvenor museum
- roman theatre
- chester castle ruin
* Hampton court palace
Chatsworth house
Bolton castle: medieval castle, where Mary queen of scots was held
* Bath
- American museum: art museum
- museum of bath architectures
- abbey tower (city views)
- bath abbey
- prior park (palladian bridge)
- thermae bath spa
- The Pump Room restaurant
* Stratford upon avon
- shakespeare’s birthplace
- anne hathaway’s cottage
- the new place: Shakespeare museum
- holy trinity church: shakespeare’s grave
- shakespeare’s schoolroom
- butterfly farm
- hall’s croft
- tudor world
- mary arden’s farm
- river walk
- street lamps from different countries
- MAD museum: mechanical museum
warwick castle: decorated renaissance castle
Oxford
- oxford university
- st mary’s tower (views)
- Christ church
- pitt rivers museum: oddities museum
- the story museum
- Bodleian library: within oxford university
- JRR Tolkien grave
- oxford castle: ruin
- ashmolean museum: antiquities museum with views
- Radcliffe camera
- magdalen college
- merton college
- bridge of sighs
- Blackwell's Rare Books
Leeds castle: romantic castle
* Haworth/Keighley
- bronte parsonage museum
- Haworth parish church
- cliffe castle: misc museum
- cabinet of curiosities: where the bronte brother bought opium that eventually lead to his death
- black bull pub: pub from the bronte era that is supposedly haunted
- old school room: bronte’s dad’s school room
- peninstone hill
- bronte chair: stone chair where the brontes would sit to tell stories, according to legend
- st Michael and all angels church – Bradford (charlotte, Emily burial)
- st mary’s churchyard – scarborough (anne burial)
York
- clifford’s tower
- york castle museum
- york minster
- jorvik Viking center
- shambles (medieval section)
- chocolate story (kit kat was invented in york)
- york city walls
- treasurer’s house: romantic house
- merchant adventurer’s hall: medieval hall
- barley hall: interactive medieval house
- york mansion house & Fairfax house: Georgian houses
Liverpool
- beatlemania
- british music experience
- Georgian quarter
- museum of liverpool
Canterbury
- canterbury cathedral
- canterbury tales at st Margaret’s church
- Canterbury roman museum
- beaney house of art and knowledge: oddities museum
- Canterbury castle ruin
- st augustine’s abbey
Castle combe
Lincoln: charming village
- Lincoln cathedral
- Lincoln castle
Weald and downland open-air museum
Chesterfield
- the shambles (medieval area)
- revolution house
- chesterfield museum
Bamburgh castle: large castle in northern england
Windsor castle: home of the queen
Dover castle
Berwick-upon-Tweed: cute town near the scottish border
Corfe castle
- corfe castle ruins
- corfe castle model village
Cambridge
- Fitzwilliam museum
- museum of computing history
- museum of science
- corpus clock
- st mary’s church tower (views)
- king’s college chapel
- wren library
- mathematical bridge
- the round church
St michael’s mount
Gloucester cathedral: HP filming location
Durham cathedral: HP filming location
Raby Castle: decorated romantic castle
* Chawton
- Jane austen house
- chawton house: owned by Jane Austen’s brother (oak room alcove was Jane’s favorite place to sit)
- clinkers: medieval houses
- st nicholas’s church: mother and sister are buried here
- walk to alton (austen’s favourite walk)
- Chawton garden house airbnb (used to be on brother’s estate’s grounds)
* Winchester
- Winchester cathedral: jane austen’s grave
- Winchester castle: 1000 year old castle
- wolvesey castle remains
- westgate museum: views
- 8 college st (where Jane Austen died)
* Lalock: P&P filming location, HP filming location
- lalock abbey
- king john’s hunting lodge: tea room with gardens
Kenilworth castle: where Elizabeth I would meet with Dudley. Ruin
Port Isaac: fishing village nearby where King Arthur was born
Truro: Cornish village
- truro cathedral
- healey’s Cornish cyder farm
- royal cornwall museum
Mousehole: super cute fishing village
Steventon/Basingstoke
- church (where Jane Austen attended for 25 years)
- The Vyne, Oakley Hall, Ashe House (places Jane Austen attended frequently), Deane House (where she met Tom Lefroy)
- Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery (exhibits on Austen – contact beforehand)
* Hatfield House
Bristol
- Clifton Village
- Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
- Georgian House Museum
- Old City
- SS Great Britain
- M Shed (Victorian Bristol)
Whitby *
- Whitby abbey
- St. Mary’s church
- Whitby beach
- Whale arch
- 6 royal crescent (where Dracula was written)
- Captain Cook museum
- Whitby jet stone
- Dracula experience (looks cheesy)
- Eden camp – military history
- Whitby museum
- Whitby lighthouse (has views)
Durham
- Durham cathedral
- Durham castle
- Durham museum (small)
- Museum of archaeology
- Beamish museum (living history – out of the way)
- The Bowes Museum (may be out of the way)
Robin Hoods Bay: cute seaside town
Norwich *
- Norwich cathedral
- Royal arcade
- Norwich market
- Elm hill (historical area – tombland, pig lane, erpingham gate)
- Pulls ferry
- Cow tower
- Norwich castle (exhibitions)
- Plantation garden
- Sainsbury centre for visual arts
- Museum of Norwich (industry)
- Guild hall
- Fye bridge – ducking site, and bishops bridge – where women crossed to burn at the stake. Lollar’s pit was used for holding, it’s now a pub
- St Peter Mancorft – has shacked used for humiliation
Stamford: medieval/Georgian town
- Burghley house – renaissance home, used in P&P
Rye: medieval town
- Ypres tower
- Landgate
- Bodiam castle ruin
- Nature reserve
Skipton
Polperro: Cute town
- Heritage museum
- Shell cottage
Penshurst Place
Wells
- Wells Cathedral
- Vicars Close (oldest residential street in Europe)
- Bishop's Palace and Gardens
Sutton Hoo
Lavenham
- Kentwell Hall
- Museum of East Anglian Life
- Guildhall
- Little Hall
- Crooked House
Ambleside
- Stagshaw Garden
- Armitt Library & Museum
- Bridge House
- Wray Castle
- Rydal Mount (William Wordsworth’s home)
Portsmouth
- Mary Rose Museum
- Southsea Castle
- Portchester Castle
- West Wittering Park
- Tichfield Abbey
- Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum
- Portsmouth Museum
- D-Day Museum
St Ives
Shaftesbury
- Gold Hill
- Shaftesbury Abbey
Burford: cute Cotswolds town
Bury St Edmunds
Little Moreton Hall: pretty Tudor home
Hastings
- Battle abbey
- Hastings castle
- Pier
- True Crime Museum
Winchcombe
- Belas Knap cairns
- Hayles fruit farm
- Sudeley Castle (interior is modern, has grave of Catherine Parr)
- Beautiful place to walk around the trails
Knaresborough: cute town
- Courthouse museum
- Chapel of our Lady of the Crag (looks cute)
- Old Manor House (1000 years old)
- Mother Shipton’s Cave/Petrifying Wall
Bakewell: town in peak district
Grasmere (town)
- Wordsworth Museum
- Dove Cottage (Wordsworth house)
- St Oswald’s Church (interesting)
- Wordsworth grave
- Town End area
- Grasmere gingerbread
Hill Top (Beatrix Potter’s house)
Moreton-in-Marsh (less cute Cotswolds town)
- Bell Inn (LOTR inspo)
- London House Antiques
Leeds (town)
- Kirkgate market
- Corn exchange
- Donkey sanctuary
- Kirkstall Abbey ruins
- Leeds cathedral
- Museum of medicine
Temple Newsam: regency home with farm
Harewood House: beautiful decorated home
Ely
- Oliver Cromwell house
- Ely cathedral
Petworth
Torquay
- Torre Abbey (history)
- Torquay Museum (has exhibit on Agatha Christie)
- Agatha Christie bust
- Greenway (Agatha Christie’s home) (out of the way)
- Oldway mansion (out of the way)
Wentworth Woodhouse: country house with interior details
Shibden Hall: decorated country home
Estonia
* Tallinn
- Kumu Art Museum (Estonian art)
- KGB Museum (Soviet spy museum)
- KGB Cells (Soviet cells)
- Pohjala brewery
- Maiasmokk Café – oldest café in Estonia
- Kadriorg art museum (non-estonian art)
- Estonian museum of applied art and design (modern)
- Estonian health care museum (learn about the human body)
- lounge24 radisson blue sky bar (views)
- maiden tower café
- Estonian history museum – great guild hall
- maarjamae palace – estonia discovery museum
- beer house (beer hall)
- patkuli viewing platform
- bastion underground passages
- st olaf’s church
- st catherine’s cloister – oldest building in Tallinn
- olde hansa medieval restaurant
- toompea hill
Garlic ice cream
Haapsalu: cute small town with castle
Finland
Helsinki *
- suomenlinna sea fortress & museum
- Helsinki city museum
- uspenski cathedral
- national museum of finland
- ateneum art museum
- sinebrychoff house museum
- museum of finnish architecture
- design museum Helsinki
- rock church (exterior)
- seurasaari open air museum
- museum of technology
Porvoo *
- porvoo museum
- albert edelfelt studio museum (5 miles out of the way)
- iso linnamaki ancient fortress (nature)
Turku
- aboa vetus & ars nova museum of history
- turku art museum
- turku castle
- luostarinmaki open air museum
Joensuu
Rauma: cute town
France
Montpellier
- musee fabre: art museum
- porte du peyrou
- chateau d’eau: water tower with view of roman aqueduct
- cathedral saint-pierre
- musee d’anatomie
- medicine university
- musee du vieux Montpellier
- hotel des tresoriers de france: used to be residence of king Louis xiii
- hotel des tresoriers de la bourse
- musee atger (drawing art museum)
- musee d’art brut
- Chateau de flaugergues: decorated mansion, a little out of the way
Nimes
- museum of roman history
- arena
- maison carree
- museum of old nimes
- la tour magne (views)
- jardins de la fontaine
- temple of Diana (actually a library)
Saint-laurent-des-arbres
- church/castle
- tour de ribas
Uzes
- medieval garden
- duche
- haribo museum (half hour walk from city)
Chateau d’amboise: decorated medieval castle, where Leonardo da vinci is buried
* Grasse
- perfume museum: Fragonard, molinard
- international perfume museum (w/ botanical gardens)
- notre dame de puy (has paintings by rubens, fragonard)
- jean honore fragonard village museum
- museum of the art and history of provence
Arles
- roman ruins (amphitheater, theatre, baths)
- van gogh walking tour map from visitor’s centre
- espace van gogh: hospital he lived in
- place Lamartine: yellow house he lived in
- cryptoportique: underground tunnels
- museum of antiquity: bust of Caesar made in his lifetime
- reattu museum: art museum in former priory
Turckheim: small village next to colmar
Avignon
- papal palace
- musee du petit palais: medieval art
- musee angladon: ancient art & local impressionist art
- fort saint-andre
- frigolet abbey: monks make own wine
- chateau de thouzon: ruin
- tour philippe-le-bel: views
Dijon
- touch owl plaques with your left hand for good luck (medieval tradition)
- ducal palace
- palais des beaux-arts
- notre dame
- saint benigne
- philippe le bon tower
- mulot & petitjean factory: gingerbread
- musee magin: house and art museum
- musee de la vie bourguignonne
Lille
- belfry (views)
- vieille bourse
- musee des beaux-arts
- eglise saint Maurice: gothic church
- notre dame de la treille
- tourist office (beautiful façade)
- citadelle: probably closed
- hospice comtesse museum: flemish history museum
- saint maurice church
- LAM: modern art museum, out of the way
- meert patisserie: try waffle with vanilla cream
- la piscine de roubaix: art museum
Carcassonne
- castle
- jousting during summer
- canal du midi cruise/tour
- musee de l’ecole: school museum
Saint paul de vence
- cimitiere: marc Chagall
- la colombe d’or: restaurant that many artists would eat at in exchange for paintings
- foundation maeght: modern art museum
- notre dame de la nativitie: smallest cathedral in france
- local history museum
- rosary chapel: painted by matisse
Rennes
- parliament building tours (French only except summer)
- mordelles gate: medieval
- cathedrale st pierre
- museum of Brittany (les champs libres)
Vannes
St-malo
- la cour la houssaye
- rue chat qui danse (street name)
- jacques cartier museum (explorer museum with 16th century life; scheduled tours)
- l’etoile du roy: pirate ship
- history museum of st malo and malouin
- corsair house: house museum from 1725
- sculptured rocks: Chemin des Rochers Sculptés, 35400 Saint-Malo
Angers
- castle and apocalypse tapestries
- chant du monde: contemporary tapestry
- terra botanica: plant theme park
- david d’angers gallery: sculpture
- musee des beaux-arts
- saint Maurice cathedrale
- la maison d’adam: handcraft shop
Chateau de brissac: decorated renaissance castle
Chateau de serrant: decorated renaissance castle
Toulouse
- foundation bemberg: art museum
- st sernin basilica
- jacobins museum
- musee des augustins: art museum
- capitol and interior
- hotel de bernuy: beautiful architecture
- les abattoirs: modern art museum (1945+)
- musee de Toulouse: museum of man and earth
- no 5 wine bar, “best wine bar in the world”
Albi
- musee Toulouse-lautrec
- berbie palace: sparse palace with gardens
- old alby’s house: photos
- pont vieux: photos
- collegiale saint-salvi: partially build in the 500s
- musee laperouse: artefacts from 1700 shipwreck
Troyes
- ruelle des chats
- musee d’art modern
- apothicairerie de l’hotel dieu le compte: apothecary museum
- eglise st-madeleine: beautiful interior
- musee saint-loup: art, natural history and architecture museum
- lili sculpture
- Musée de Vauluisant/Musee historique de Troyes
Honfleur
- saint catherine’s church: made of shipwrights
- maritime museum: history of honfleur
- mont-joli hilltop (views)
- musee Eugene boudin: impressionist museum
- butterfly house
- lighthouse
- saint leonard’s church
- ethnographical and popular arts museum: 16th century Normandy
- notre dame de grace
Riquewihr
- city dolder
- hansi house/museum: local artist
- try riquewihrienne, green sourkraut – only here
Kaysersberg
- climb to kaysersberg castle
Chateau du haut-koeningsbourg: decorated medieval castle overlooking Alsace wine region
Chateau d’azay le Rideau: renaissance/romantic chateau
Saint cirq lapopie: small medieval town
eguisheim
Arras: small town with large town square
Cagnes-sur-mer
- Renoir museum: where Renoir lived
- grimaldi castle museum
Chartres
- cimetiere st cheron (views)
- maison picassiete
- international stained glass centre
Colmar
- musee bartholdi: museum of the designer of the statue of liberty (there’s a statue of liberty in colmar)
- pfister house
- unterlinden museum: misc art and culture museum
- house of heads
- customs house
- schwendi fountain
Reims
- champagne jacquart mosaic
- view from mediatheque jean falala
- palace of tau
- st remi abbey
- franklin Roosevelt school: where world war II ended
- musee de la reddition: wwii museum
Paris
- galleries Lafayette rooftop
- square de montsouris
- le clos Montmartre: paris vineyards
- eglise st serge
- paris point zero
- colonnes de buren
- musee Montmartre
- saint Etienne du mont
- hotel dieu (go inside)
- moulin de la galette
- la campagne a paris: area
- musee de l’homme: anthropology museum
- musee marmatton monet
- musee jacquemart andre
- victor hugo house
- edith pilaf apartment
- Picasso museum
- bercy village (place near the library)
- Angelina hot chocolate
- cloitres des billettes
- colonnades at the palais royal
- café procope
Antibes
- Picasso Museum
- Absinthe museum
- Archaeology museum
Aix en Provence
- Atelier de Paul Cezanne
- Place d’Albertas
- Granet Museum - art
Nantes
- Chateau des ducs de Bretagne
- La villa occupada – offbeat art museum
- Les machines d’ile – modern sculpture
- Art museum of Nantes
- Place du bouffay – old town
Vitre
- Castle
- Château des Rochers-Sévigné
Annecy
- Annecy castle
- Palais de l’isle (small museum)
Nice
- Lascaris palace
- Matisse Museum
- Chagall Museum
- Palais Massena – small museum
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume
Arras
- Les Boves underground houses
- Robespierre House
Narbonne
- Palais neuf (art museum)
- Donjon gilles aycelin
- L’horreum underground tunnels
- Bishop’s palace archaeological museum
Chateau de Pierrefonds
Yvoire
- Garden of Five Senses
- Yvoire Castle
- House of History
Bayonne
- Cathedral
- Castle
- Basque Museum
Conques Romanesque village
Perouges Preserved medieval town
Belcastel: small medieval village
- Castle
- Ancient Trades Museum
Dieppe
- Dieppe Castle/Museum
- Dieppe Market (famous in France)
- Pollet area
- 19 Aout 1942 museum
Chateau de Val: medieval castle
Locronan: tiny but cute medieval town
Saint-Goustan: cute medieval town
Rocheforte-en-terre: cute medieval town
Concarneau: walled fishing village
Barr: cute Alsace town
Sauveterre-de-Rouergue: small medieval town
Josselin
Vezelay
Noyers
Beaune *
- Hotel Dieu
- Museum of Wine
Tours
- Compagnnonage Museum
- Museum of Fine Arts
- Hotel Gouin
- Chateau de Plessis-lez-Tours
Senlis: medieval town
Chateau de Brissac
St Jean de Luz: seaside town
Cassis: cute seaside town
Obernai: cute town
Ribeauville: cute town
Gerberoy: tiny but cute town
St Tropez
Landerneau: cute town
Perigueux: cute town
St Jean de Cole: cute medieval town
Sarlat: pretty medieval town
- Chateau de Milandes (Josephine Baker!!)
Lascaux Caves
Le Bec-Hellouin: small, cute village
Malestroit: small medieval town
Limoges
- Adrien Dubouche Museum (porcelain)
Saint-Emilion
- Monolithic Church (has underground and catacomb tours)
Ajaccio
- Bonaparte Residence
- Fesch Palace (art museum)
La Rochelle
Martel: cute old town
Metz
- German gate
- Art & History museum
Greece
* Athens
- Lycabettus Hill (has a funicular)
- Anafiotika
- Pnyx Hill (pictures)
- Pittaki Street
- Adrianou Street
- Museum of Cycladic Art
- Changing of the guard, parliament building, Sundays, 11:00
- National Archaeology Museum
- Athens Central Market
- Temple of Zeus
- National Garden
- Museum of Greek Folk Art
- Museum of Folk Art and Tradition
- Museum of Musical Instruments
- byzantine & christian museum
Mystras: old monastery
Thessaloniki
- white tower
- roman forum
- agios dimitrios
- old town
- rotunda
- ladadika: area
- museum of byzantine culture
- archaeological museum
- the Olympic museum
- agios pavlos church
- vlatadon monastery
- panagia chalkeon church
- temple of osios david: church from byzantine empire
- bey hamam: ancient baths
- trigoniou tower (views, city wall)
Pella: sparse but important archaeological site
Nafplio
- nafplio cathedral: venetian frescoes
- palamidi fortress
- lion of Bavaria: sculpture
- land gate
- arvanitia promenade: coastal walk
- acronafplia fortress: hilltop photo spot
- komboloi museum
- Peloponnese folklore museum
* Heraklion
- local delicacy bougasta
- historical museum of crete
- agios minas cathedral
- peseki: cute restaurant with completely cretian menu
- caves of matala
- gortyn archaeological site
Symi
- chorio (views)
- castle ruins
Paros
- panagia ekatontipiliani: byzantine church
- lefkes: pretty town
- venetian castle
Naxos
- portara
- castle w museum
- mountain villages
* Pyrgi
- chios mastic museum (type of tree)
Rethymno
- guora gate
- ecclesiastical museum (artefacts from the churches)
- history and folklore museum
- centre for Cretan folk art
Chania
- maritime museum
- folklore museum
- municipal garden goats
Corfu
- achilleion palace: decorated romantic palace
- pantokrator church
- old fortress ruins
- new fortress ruins
- st spyridon church
- palace of st Michael and st George (exterior – interior is Asian art)
* Santorini
- ancient thira ruins
- tomato industrial museum
- santorini wine museum
- open air cinema
- santorini brewing company donkey beer
- santo’s winery (lots of tasting)
* Rhodes
- Kallithea thermal springs (a bit out of the way)
- palace of the grand master of the knights
- archaeological museum of Rhodes
- petaloudes butterflies (june-august)
- street of the knights
- modern greek art museum
Lindos
- acropolis of lindos
- church of panagia
* Mycenae
* Meteora
Hydra
- leonard skinnard’s house
- kountouriontis: house museum
- st kyprianos chapel: made of mud and wine
- historical archives museum: early modern history
- museum of hydra
- visit kamini and vlychos
- prophet elias monastery: pretty hilltop monastery (cannot find pics)
- rafalias pharmacy
Aegina
- tower of markellos
- temple of aphaia
- paleahora: ruined capital
- agios nektarios monastery
- eat lots and lots of pistachios
- temple of apollo
Mykonos
- spot peter the pelican: an actual pelican
- delos archaeological site
- panagia tourliani: pretty monastery
- panagia paraportiani: church which is actually 5 churches
Chios
- chios town windmills
- archaeological museum
- byzantine museum
- citrus museum
- guistiniani museum
- agios giorgios church
nea moni monastery: looks like a must-see
anavatos abandoned town: site of the chios massacre
* agio galas: caves inhabited for thousands of years
Folegandros: cute town
Kardamyli: cute town by the sea
Monemvasia: cute town
Areopoli: cute tiny town
Vatheia: abandoned hilltop town
Olympia
Iceland
* Reykjavik
- the pearl (views), also has nature shows
- punk museum
- phallological museum
- arbaer open air museum
- selthrnares peninsula (about 5 miles long)
- nautholsvik beach: thermal beach
- hofdi house: reykjavik summit (cold war meeting)
- grotto lighthouse
- icelandic museum of rock n roll
- maritime museum
Ireland
Belfast
- Belfast castle
- crown liquor saloon
- salmon of knowledge statue
- ulster museum: misc museum
- irish republican history museum
- museum of orange heritage: Protestantism
- ulster folk museum: modern history
Dunguaire castle: decorated medieval castle (the one we stopped outside)
Kylemore abbey: romantic palace
Malahide castle: decorated medieval castle
Leap castle: low key decorated medieval castle
Dublin
- decorative arts and history museum
- national gallery of Ireland
- dublinia Viking experience
Slane castle: doesn’t look open for tours
Trim castle: castle ruin
* Waterford
- reginald’s tower: Viking exhibition
- medieval museum
- bishop’s palace: romantic palace with napoleon’s hair
- blaa bread
- house of Waterford crystal
- king of the Vikings: interactive experience
- Waterford castle: now a hotel
- Waterford treasures museum
Westport
- Westport house: romantic house
Killarney
- innisfallen island: island with ruins
- muckross house: romantic house
- muckross abbey
- ross castle: now a hotel
- statue of pirate queen grace o’malley
Killarney national park
The ring of Kerry
Donegal castle: sparse medieval castle
Ashford castle: now a hotel, where TV shows were filmed
Dunluce castle: castle ruin
Enniskillen castle: castle ruin with museum
Doe castle: castle ruin
Dingle: pretty village
Kinsale: pretty village
Cobh: pretty village
Howth
- Howth Castle (20th century interior)
- St. Mary’s Abbey
- 2 lighthouses
- Howth pier
- Howth market
- Cliff walk
Ennis: town that looks like Galway
Kilmakeder Church: ruined church, like Glendalough
Doolin: cute town
Italy
Milan
- cathedral
- last supper
- basilica san lorenzo
- galleria emmanuel
- sforza castle
- pinacoteca di brera
- brera
- naviglio
- leonardo's vineyard
- fandazione prada
- ambrosiana: library
- gallerie d’italia
- museo poldi pezzoli (art museum)
- sant ambrosio: church
- archaeological museum
- San Bernadino Ossuary
* Verona
- juliet's house
- basilica de san zeno
- verona arena
- castelvecchio
- giardino giusti
- roman theatre
- torre dei lamberti
- piazalle castel san pietro
- basilica of st anastasia
- piazza della erbe
- arco dei gavi
- porta borsari
- porta leoni
- della scala family tomb
- il pozzo dell'amore
- Verona cathedral
- Ponte pietra
- Castelvecchio bridge
- Piazza dei signori w statue of dante
* Herculaneum
* Tivoli
- villa d'este
- villa adriana
- villa gregoriana
* Orvieto
- museo claudio faina
- etruscan necropolis
- torre del moro
- archaeological museum
- albornoz fortress
- well of st patrick
* Cinque terre
Portovenere
- chiesa di san pietro
- castello doria
- san Lorenzo church
Perugia
- rocca paolina
- giardini carducci
- porte sole (views)
- etruscan well museum
- etruscan arch
* Venice
- Museo Leonardo da Vinci
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection
- San Giorgio Maggiore (views)
- Campanile (views)
- museo del merletto
- murano glass museum
- ca'macana
- burano
- t fondaco dei tedeschi (views)
- gallerie dell'accademia
- Ca'Pesaro gallery of modern art
- royal gardens
- palazzo contrarini del bovolo: views, 7 eur
- ca'd'oro
- ca’rezzonico
- duomo di murano (exterior)
* Rome
- Trajan's market
- Gianicolo Hill
- Altare della Patria
- Pantheon
- Domus Aurea
- theatre of marcellus
- baths of diocletian
- capitol hill
- national gallery of modern art
- national gallery of ancient art
- villa farnesia
- keats-shelley house
- museo leonardo da vinci
- palazzo spada
- piazza mattei
- baths of Caracalla
- porta san paolo
- arcibasilica di san Giovanni: beautiful interior
- piazza del popolo: santa maria del popolo has caravaggios
- St Domitilla Catacombs
- Augustus Mausoleum
- House of Augustus
- Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi
- Palazzo Corsini
- Palazzo Farnese
- Palazzo Barberini
* Florence
- Galleria dell'Accademia
- pasta making/food making tour
- costume gallery
- boboli gardens
- piazza della signoria
- bargello museum
- stibbert museum (armour)
- san miniato al monte
- san marco museum (monastery)
- bardini museum and gardens (with views)
- museo novecento (modern art)
- leonardo da vinci museum
- galileo museum
- museo san marco has the annunciation by fra’angelico?
- Arnolfo tower (best views)
- Brancacci chapel
Bologna
- la finestrala alla vicenza
- asinelli tower
- oldest university
* Ravenna
- basilica di san francesco
- ravenna art museum
- national museum of Ravenna
* Siena
- tower
- porta romana
- museum of torture
- pinacoteca nazionale di siena
- porta tufi
- pubblico palace
- palazzo salimbeni (outside only)
- facciatone (views)
- fortezza medicea
- fountain of joy
- museo dell’opera: religious art
San Gimignano
* Lucca
- buccellatto (lucca bread)
- torre guinigi 9:30-7:30
- museum of torture
- palazzo ducale
- porta san pietro
- sant'anna gate
- puccini's birth home
- bulwark Holly Croce
- porta santa maria
- villa guinigi museum
* Assisi
Pisa
- leaning tower of pisa
- duomo
- sant’antonio square jewel in wall
- piazza dei cavalieri: medieval town centre
- baptistery
- national museum of san matteo: art
- palazzo mediceo
- camposanto: cemetery
- museo dele sinope: original sketches of cemetery
- museo dell’opera del duomo: old decorations of the cathedral
- santa maria della spina
* Matera
- casa noha: history museum
- Madonna de idris: castle in rock
- matera cathedral
- matera bread
- musma: museum of modern art
- museum of medieval art
- chiesa san pietro barisano
- chiesa di san Nicola del greci
- casa grotto di vico solitario: history museum
- palombaro lungo: underground cathedral
- ancient path to montescaglioso
- chiesa del purgatorio: death-isnpired architecture
- palazzo lanfranchi belvedere
- san pietro caveoso
Ostia: ancient ruins
Turin
- church on the hill (views)
- cinema museum
- Egyptian museum (largest outside of Egypt)
- royal palace
- museum of ancient art (with views)
- porta palatina: roman gate
- piazza san carlo
- bicerin
- borgo medieval torino: fake medieval park
- palazzo carignano: museum of Italy reunification
- mont des capucins: views
- GAM: modern art museum
- piazza palazzo di citta: local markets
- piazza castello
- duomo of turin
- reggia di venaria reale: italy’s Versailles
- basilica di superga
- cathedral (shroud of turin)
* Vicenza
- basilica palladiana: first palladian window, views, art exhibits
- teatro olimpico: beautiful theatre
- palazzo chiericati: palace with small museum
- palladio museum
- la rotunda
- villa valmarana ai nani
- sanctuary of monte berico (views)
Miramare castle: decorated romantic castle
* Palermo
- Palermo cathedral
- palazzo dei normanni
- porta nuova: city gate
- capuchin catacombs
- giarbaldi gardens and ficus macrophylla
- cappella palatina: gilt chapel in church of martorana
- porta sant’agata
- archbishop’s palace: diocesan museum
- villa bonanno: gardens
- Fontana Pretoria: fountain of monsters
- museo riso: contemporary art
- chiesa di santa catarina: beautiful church
- chiesa di san guiseppe: baroque church
- palazzo constantino: full of art
- catacombs
- capella pallatina
Ossuary of san marino della battaglia
Procida: colorful seaside town
- terra murata: medieval part
- casale vascello: 16th century courtyard
- palazzo d’avalos: prison
- santa margherita nuovo: church
- museum casa di graziella: house museum of an author
- santa maria delle grazie
- santa maria della pieta
- museum of the sea
Camogli
- castello della dragone
- maritime museum: with traditional camogli house
Ostuni: cute white village
Arpino: small town
- acropolis di Civitavecchia
- torre de cicerona
Alberobello
- trullo sovrano: trulli museum
- casa d’amore: house with historical significance
- pasticciotto pastry
Monopoli
- castle of Charles V: outside only
- palmieri palace
Bracciano: lakeside town
- bracciano castle: decorated medieval castle
Varenna
- villa monastero: museum and garden
- castello di vezio
- chiesa di s Giovanni battista
Bergamo
- tempietto di santa croce: medieval temple with decorated interior
- old bishop’s palace
- capello colleoni
- bergamo cathedral
- museo donizettiani: composer museum in a former palace
- rocca di san vigilio: views
- basilica of santa maria maggiore
- torre civica: views
- natural history museum
- castello di san vigilio: ruin
- city gates
- academia carrara: art
Ragusa
- museo archaeological regionmale ibleo
- cathedral san Giovanni battista
- donnafufatta castle
- cathedral di san giorgio
Bellagio
- villa serbelloni gardens (must call ahead?)
- villa melzi and gardens
- basilica of san giacomo
- pescallo village (close by)
Mantua
- palazzo del te
- basilica di sant’andrea
- ducal palace
- rotunda di san Lorenzo
- castello san Giorgio
- mantua cathedral
* Naples
- castel sant’elmo (views) (funicular)
- Spanish quarter
- underground tours
- castel dell’ovo
- castel nuovo
- piazza del plebiscite
- archaeological museum
- museo di capodimonte: Italian art
- royal palace of Caserta: Italian Versailles
- palazzo reale
- naples cathedral
- catacombs of san gennaro
- piazza bellini
- cappella sansevero
- gesu nuovo: beautiful interior
- metro stations - art
Bari
- basilica di san Nicola (relics of santa claus)
- bari cathedral
- bari castle
- piazza mercantile
- museo archaeologico di santa scolastica: bari history
- pinacoteca metropolitana: art museum
- piazza del ferrarese
Lecce
- lecce amphitheater
- roman amphitheater (different)
- Carlo V castle with paper mache museum (specialty of Lecce)
- faggiano house museum
- museo provincial: local history
- MUST: contemporary art
- roman theatre museum
- city gates x4
- seminary museum (views)
* Bolzano
- santa maria maddalena church (views – on a vineyard)
- castel roncolo: decorated medieval castle
- castel mareccio: outside online
- flavo castle: now a restaurant
- visit otzi the ice man (south tyrol museum of archaeology – closed?)
- bolzano cathedral
- muri gries abbey
- maretsch castle: decorated medieval castle
- mercantile museum
- messner mountain museum: museum of mountains, 6 locations
- museion: modern art
- museum of nature south tyrol
Certaldo
- priori palace: contemporary art
- museum casa Boccaccio: writer, museum has views
- “castello” is town centre
- gates x3
- museum of sacred art
Cortona
- diocesan museum: has the “annunciation” by fra’angelico
- museo dell’accademia etrusca
- basilica santa margherita: views
- fortezza del girarfalco: views
- villa bramasole (house from under the Tuscan sun)
Ferrara
- estense castello
- city hall: history of the este family
- national archaeology museum
- international manhole cover museum
- piazza del municipio: used to be ducal palace courtyard
- palazzo schifanoia
- casa romei
- civic gallery of modern and contemporary art
- museum of the Risorgimento: reunification of italy
- jewish quarter
Modica
- modica chocolate
- cathedral of san Giorgio
- church of san pietro
- modica castle: exterior
- mercedari palace: civic museum
Cava d’ispica: ancient cave dwellings
Padua
- scrovegni chapel: looks like cistine chapel
- palazzo bo: university of padua, where many famous people graduates, including eleonora lucrezia cornaro piscopia, Copernicus, Erasmus
- palazzo della ragione
- baptistery next door to padua cathedral
- botanical garden
- st Anthony of padua (church)
- palazzo zuckermann: decorative arts museum
- MUSME: history of medicine
- ponte Molino: roman arch
- cruise to 3 famous villas
Volterra
- 7 city gates
- palazzo dei priori
- ecomuseum of alabaster
Positano
- museo archaeological romano: mini pompeii at positano
Ravello
- villa rufolo
- villa cimbrone gardens
Trieste
- roman theatre
- san giusto hill: roman ruins
- castello di san giusto
- museo civico revoltello: modern Italian art, views
- san giusto cathedral: also has ruins
Spello
- roman house
- villa costanzi
- villa dei mosaic
- belvedere
Spoleto
- bridge of the towers
- rocca alboronz: fortress
- mauri palace: now a library
- roman theatre
- cathedral
Villa romana del casale: ancient roman villa
Montepulciano
- fortress
- wine caves
- lions and griffins well
Cittadella
- captain’s house
- palazzo pretorio
- malta tower
Trento
- buonconsiglio castle
- diocesan museum
- spazio archaeological: old city of tridentum
- museo della SAT: museum of the alps
- palazzo della arbere: modern art
- mausoleum of cesare battisti
- palazzo londron
- monumental cemetery
Taormina
- greek theatre
- villa comunale gardens
- piazza del duomo
- piazza ix aprile
- palazzo corvaia
- roman theatre
Sabbioneta: small pristine renaissance town
Otranto
- castle
- church (skulls and mosaics)
- beach
Tellaro: Fishing village
Cefalu
- Museo mandralisca
- Beach
- Tempio Diana (ancient temple w views)
- La rocca (high climb)
- Lavatoio medieval – where medieval women washed their clothes
Pitigliano: cute tuscan town
- Tempietto: small cave temple
- Le Vie Cave – cave roads
- Palazzo orsini (has museums)
- Museo Archeologico all’aperto “Alberto Manzi” & grandone necropolis
Pistoia: medieval village
Modena
- Torre Ghirlandia (views)
- Palazzo Dei Musei
- Palazzo Comunale
Calcata Vecchia
Urbino
- Ducal Palace
- Raphael House
- Parco della Resistenza (views)
Piacenza
- Palazzo Farnese
- San Savino Church
- Chiesa San Francesco
- Duomo di Piacenza
Grazzano Visconti: small medieval town
Castell’Arquato: small medieval town
Faenza
- Museum of Ceramics
- Palazzo Milzetti
Santa Margherita: seaside town
Portofino
- Brown’s Castle
- San Martino Church
Gradara
- Gradara Castle (Paolo & Francesca)
- Underground caves
Tarquinia
- Necropolis of Tarquinia
- National Etruscan Museum
Vietri sul mare: cute town famous for tiles
Catania
- Castello Ursino
- San Nicolo Monastery
Syracuse
Noto
Treviso
- Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore (frescoes)
- Le Beccherie (Tiramisu was invented here)
- National Salce Collection Museum (museum of advertisements)
- Chiesa di San Francesco (frescoes)
- Entrance Gate
- Duomo (has Titian altarpiece and crypt)
Sermoneta: small medieval town
Collalto Sabino: small medieval town
Bosa
Cagliari
- Necropolis
- National Archaeology Museum
Sassari
- Museo Nazionale Sanna (history)
Latvia
Riga *
- st peter’s church viewing platform
- house of the blackheads
- three brothers
- Swedish gate
- black balsam drink
- Latvian war museum
- museum of occupation
- albert street (art nouveau buildings)
- corner house museum (KGB)
- national history museum of Latvia
- ethnographic open air museum of Latvia
- Latvian national museum of art
- riga art nouveau museum
- rozengrals medieval restaurant
Sigulda
- sigulda castle
- turaida castle
- tarzans adventure park
- gutmanis cave
Kuldiga
- kuldiga district museum
- live museum
Cesis
- cesis castle
- cesis manor house
Lithuania
Vilnius *
- uzupis neighbourhood
- museum of genocide
- gate of dawn
- gediminas tower (views)
- three crosses hill
- national museum of Lithuania
- palace of the grand dukes of Lithuania
- miracle tile (spin clockwise 3x for wish)
- church of sts peter and paul
- st anne church
- presidential palace (book in advance)
Kaunas *
- house of perkunas (exterior)
- presidential palace
- kaunas castle
- pazaislis monastery
- devil’s museum
- ninth fort museum
Klaipeda
- history museum of Lithuania minor
- blacksmith’s museum
- castle museum (not actually a castle)
- museum of clocks
- maridianas ship restaurant
Hill of crosses *
Trakai castle *
Luxembourg
Luxembourg city *
- bock casemats (caves)
- ducal palace (exterior)
- national museum of history and art
- city museum
- chocolate house
- museum of modern art (highly recommended)
Vianden
- castle: medieval castle
- vianden city history museum
- victor hugo house
Montenegro
Budva
Ulcinj
- museum of ulcinj
- salina bird reserve
- learn of don Quixote, written in ulcinj
Netherlands
den bosch *
- city hall (decorated)
- cathedral
- noordbrabants museum: dutch art
- design museum
- bosch centre
- bossche bol dessert
Alkmaar
- cheese museum
- beer museum
- beatles museum
- stedelijk museum (history and art)
Breda
- breda castle
- bouvigne castle (half hour walk)
- stedelijk museum (history)
Delft
- church has grave of vermeer
- new church: grave of William of orange & views
- museum prisenhof (history & art)
Den burg: seaside island
- house of antiquities
- beaches
- stitchting texels museum
Groningen
- Groningen museum (exhibition based)
- tea museum
- grid grafisch museum: printing
- open air museum het hoogeland
- menkemaborg estate
- fraeylemaborg estate (less exciting)
Haarlem
- corrie ten boom house: refuge home for jews during world war ii
- molen de adriaan: tours and views from top
- jopen brewery (or other local brewery)
The hague
- king’s working palace
- binnehof parliament building
- museum meermanno (book museum)
- madurodam war memorial
- panorama mesdag: 19th century 360 painting
- Escher in the palace (Escher was a math-based artist)
- peace palace
- museum voorlinden: contemporary art
- prison gate museum
Leiden
Maastricht
- Dominicanen bookstore: cool bookstore
- helpoort: oldest town gate in the Netherlands
- bonnefanten museum: art
- st peter’s caves: gothic era caves
Rotterdam
- the new institute: exhibit based museum
- the cubicle houses
- Netherlands architecture institute
- kunsthal
- yellow bridge
- delfshaven historic area
- havenmuseum: harbour museum
Utrecht
- dom tower (views)
- DOM under tour (city history)
- centraal museum: mixture of city culture
- speelklok museum
- ganzenmarkt tunnel
De haar castle *
Nijmegen (oldest city in NL)
- museum het valkhof: art
- afrika museum
- brewery de hemel
- infocentre WWII
- mueZIEum: blind for an hour
- de bastei: geographical history
Muiderslot *: medieval castle
Zaanse schans *
- de kaat mill, de gekroonde poelenburg, de zoeker (free), de bonte hen, het klaverbad, de bleeke dood (oldest smock mill in NL), de huisman (spices)
- clog workshop (small museum)
- cheese farm de catherinahoeve: cheese making demonstrations
- zaans museum
- windmill museum
- bakery museum (local sweet bread)
- cacaolab: chocolate making workshop
Amsterdam *
- history bike tour
- brouqerij’t IJ
- museum of sex
- cheese museum
- houseboat museum
- stedelijk museum (contemporary art)
- cat museum
- tropenmuseum (tropical areas only?)
- Amsterdam museum
- old & new churches
- erotic museum
- hemp museum
- royal palace
- cromhothuis house museum
Middelburg
- Abbey of Middelburg
- Zeeuws Museum (Zeeland)
Dordrecht: cute town
Hindeloopen: cute seaside town
Leeuwarden
- Fries Museum (art)
- Museumhuis van Eysinga
- National Museum of Ceramics
Naarden Vesting
- The Spanish house
- Hertenkamp (deer park)
Deventer
Norway
Tromso *
- cable car excursion (views)
- arctic cathedral
- polaria arctic experience centre
- polar museum
- olhallen pub
- tromso museum
- northern Norway art museum
- reindeer tour w/ Sami people
- tromso open air museum
Oslo *
- akershus fortress
- Viking ship museum
- oslo cathedral interior
- national museum of art, architecture, and design
- national museum (has the scream)
- munch museum
- royal palace
- damstredet/telthusbakken old town areas
- var frelsers (munch grave)
- oslo city museum
- norwegian museum of cultural history
- vigeland museum (sculptures)
Bergen *
- funicular (views)
- hanseatic museum: old trade
- pepperkakebyen: biggest gingerbread city
- bergenhus fortress
- old Bergen museum
- st mary church (oldest building in Bergen)
- Norwegian fisheries museum
- bryggen area
- KODE: art museum (4 museums total)
- university museum of Bergen cultural history collections
Alesund
- alesund museum
- art nouveau centre
- sunnmore open air museum
Trondheim
- rockheim museum: rock and pop
- munkholmen: Viking execution site and monastery
- archbishop’s palace museum
- nidaros cathedral
- Trondheim art museum: Norwegian art
- national museum of decorative arts
- sverresborg open air museum
- kristiansten fort: old fort used by nazis
- Trondelag folk museum
Roros: cute small town
Lofoten: pretty islands with fishing villages
Gudvangen
- Viking Valley Njardarheimr (actual Vikings?)
Notodden
Luster
Borgund
Skudeneshavn
- Maelandsgarden Museum (open air)
Stavanger
- Domkirke (in use since 1300s)
- City Museum
- Museum of Archaeology
- Swords in stone monuement (out of the way)
- Ovre Holmegate area
Kristiansand
- Kristiansand Museum (open air)
- Sorlandets Kunstmuseum (Norwegian art)
- Vest-Agder-Museum Gimle Gard manor museum
Lillehammer
- Maihaugen open air museum (has stave church)
- Bjornstjerne Bjonston’s home
Heddal Stave Church: beautiful
Fredrikstad: cute old city (may need to take ferry to get there)
Skudeneshavn: cute old city
Karmoy
- viking history center
- st olav’s church
- beach
Poland
Warsaw
- Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanow
Krakow
- Museum Gallery of the 19th Century Polish Art
Jelenia Gora
Ksaiz Castle
Portugal
Lisbon *
- miradouro (views)
- national tile museum
- belem tower
- jeronimos monastery
- museum of art, architecture, and technology
- praca do comercio square
- palacio dos marqueses da fronteira
- livraria Bertrand: world’s oldest bookstore
- carmo archaeological museum: church ruins
- rossio square
- elevador de santa justa (views)
- basilica da estrela
- castelo de sao Jorge
- ginjinha (berry liquor)
- pastel de nata
- fado singing
- Calouste Gulbenkian Museum: art
- ajuda national palace
- national pantheon
Porto
- bolsa palace
- libraria lello: pretty library
- clerigos tower (views)
- serra do pilar monastery
- rota do cha: tea house
Sintra *
- pena palace
- Moorish castle
- quinta de regaleira & gardens
- sintra palace
- monserrate palace
- cascais: nearby seaside town
Obidos
- ginja in chocolate cups
- obidos castle (exterior)
- sanhora da graca door
Coimbra
- machado de castro museum: history
- walled city centre
- bissayo barreto house museum
- santa clara-a-velha convent ruins
- santa cruz church
- seminario mayor de Coimbra
- joanina library: beautiful library
Guimaraes *
- guimaraes castle
- palace of the dukes of Braganza
- alberto sampaio museum: art
- martins sarmento: stone age archaeological site
- sao Francisco convent
- nossa senhora da oliveira monastery
Lagos *
Evora *
- church of st francis and bone chapel
- evora museum
- cathedral of evora
- casa pintadas: murals
- megaliths tour
- king manuel’s palace
- loios church
- cadaval palace
Aveiro
- salt spa
- aveiro museum
- vista alegre museum: porcelain
- art nouveau museum & city walk map
- ovos moles treat (NOT veggie)
Braga
- Palacio do Riao
- Museu Pio XII
- Museu dos Biscainhos house museum
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Braga Cathedral
- Nogueria da Silva Museum gardens
- Monastery of Sao Martinho de Tibaes
Lindoso: ancient buildings on stilts
Faro
- Se Cathedral
- Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo bone chapel
- Museu de Faro
- Centro Cultural de Faro (art galleries)
Lagoa: SandCity sand sculpture festival
Viana do Castelo
- Museum of Decorative Arts
- Convent of Sao Domingos
- Capelda de Nossa Senhora de Agonha
- Costume Museum (ethnography)
- Se Cathedral
- Santuario de Santa Luzia
- Montedor Windmills
Costa Nova: colorful beachside town
Nazare
- Funicular to upper part of town
- Ermida da Memoria
Monsaraz: cute little town
Funchal
Mafra
- Palacio de Mafra
- Monastery Library
- Iberian Wolf Recovery Center
Ericeira: cute seaside town
Tavira
- Igreja da Misericordia Tavira
Monsanto: medieval town
Romania
Bucharest
- patriarchal cathedral
- people’s palace (interior)
- revolution square
- dimitrie gusti national village museum (open air)
- Curate veche (statue of vlad the impaler)
- national museum of art
- museum of art collections
- museum of the Romanian peasant
- national museum of contemporary arts
- vilacrosse and macca passages
- macca house abandoned building (booked with combo tour only)
- pasajul victoria (rainbow umbrellas)
- sighet memorial exhibition (communism)
- national museum of history
- bellu cemetery
- roman athenaeum (exterior – inside is concert hall)
- romanian kitsch museum (Romanian culture)
Brasov
- council square
- black church
- tampa mountain (cable car available)
- catherine’s gate
- bear sanctuary (may be out of the way)
- rope street (skinny street)
- museum of brasov urban civilization (history)
- weaver’s bastion
Sibiu *
- brunkenthal national museum (art)
- catholic basilica
- orthodox church (interior)
- council tower (views)
- pharmacy museum (small)
- bridge of lies
- astra museum (open air)
- urban brewery
- house of arts
Sighisoara *
- sighisoara history museum (views)
- vlad the impaler’s birthplace
- scholar’s stairway
- church of the Dominican monastery (bust of Dracula)
Corvin castle: medieval, a bit bare
Cluj-napoca
- parcul cetatuia (views)
- Romulus vuia ethnographic park
- papanasi donuts
- Matthias corvinus birthplace (exterior)
- banffy palace museum of art
peles castle:* renaissance
bran castle:* medieval
Viscri: adorable town
Russia
St. Petersburg *
- State Hermitage Museum
- Russian Museum
- Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
- Catherine Palace
- Alexander Palace
- Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Petrogradsky District (architecture)
- Petrovskaya Akvatoria Scale model museum (history via models)
- Grand Peterhof Palace
- Bronze Horseman statue
- St. Isaac’s Cathedral
- Moika Palace
- Naval Cathedral
- Cabin of Tsar Peter the Great (first in St. Petersburg)
- Smolny Convent
- Faberge Museum
- Kunstkammer Museum (oddities)
- Mariinsky Theatre (Russian ballet)
Moscow *
- St Basil’s Cathedral
- Lenin Mausoleum
- Kremlin Red Square
- Tretyakovskaya Gallery (Russian painting)
- Izmailovo Kremlin (modelled after old Russia)
- Tsaritsyno Palace (home of Catherine the Great)
- Cathedral of Christ the Savior
- Cold War Museum
- Soviet Dacha Museum
- Institute of Russian Realist Art
- GULAG Museum (Russian genocide)
- Vodka Museum
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (large collection)
- Kuskovo Estate
- State Historical Museum
Sergiev Posad (Golden Ring)
- Holy Trinity-St Sergius Lavra
- Cherinigovsky skete (monastery)
- Peasant Life Museum
- Sergiev Posad History and Art Museum
Yaroslavl (Golden Ring)
- Transfiguration Monastery
- Cathedral of the Assumption
- Church of Elijah the Prophet
- Specialty is lacquer boxes
- Yar-Kremlin with small museums
Rostov Veliky (Golden Ring)
- Church of the Saviour-over-the-Galleries
- Cathedral of the Assumption
- Monastery of St Jacob Saviour
- Museum of Finift (enamel)
Vladimir (Golden Ring)
- Golden Gates
- Assumption Cathedral
- Demetrius Cathedral
- History Museum (small)
- Vodonapornaya Bashnya Museum (history through glass, has views)
- Chamber Official Palace (??)
Suzdal (Golden Ring)
- Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery frescoes
- Kremlin
- Monastery of Saint Euthymius
- Cathedral of the Nativity
- Church of the Transfiguration
- Ramparts
- Pokrovsky Monastery (women)
- Aleksandrovsky Muzhskoy Monastery (men)
- Deposition of the Robe Convent (views)
- Antipievskaya Church
- Uspenskaya Church (new)
- Museum of Wooden Architecture
Pereslavl-Zalessky (Golden Ring)
- Nikitsky Monastery
- Transfiguration Cathedral
- Goritsy Monastery of Resurrection
- Museum of Kettle (tea)
- Feodorvsky Convent
- Red Square
Kostroma (Golden Ring)
- Romanovsky Museum (art and history of Romanovs)
- Museum of Ancient Architecture
- Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery
- Bogoyavlensky Convent
- Museum Kostroma Sloboda (wooden buildings)
- Susaninsky Square
Ivanovo (Golden Ring)
- Stitching and Embroidery Factory
Veliky Novgorod
- St. Sofia’s Cathedral (oldest in Russia)
- Vitoslavlitsy Museum (open air)
Kazan *
- Epiphany Cathedral (views)
- Museum of Soviet Lifestyle
- Temple of All Religions
- Soyembika Tower
- Tatar food (chak-chak dessert)
- Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Hermitage (small Hermitage)
- Museum of the Republic of Tartarstan
- Museum of Chak-Chak
- Old Tatar Settlement
San Marino
San Marino
- vampire museum
- three towers
- basilica of san marino
- museum of san Francesco
- museum of agriculture culture
Scotland
Castle Stalker: medieval castle on island
Eilean Donan *
Portree (area)
- Skye Museum of island life
- Fairy pools
- Fairy glen
Orkney: ancient archipelago
Dundee
- V&A Dundee
- McManus Dundee Art Museum
- Claypotts Castle (medieval)
- Dundee Vaults
Shetland Islands
- Shetland Ponies
- Jarlshof
- Old Scatness
- Scalloway Castle
- Shetland Museum
Glasgow
- St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
- Provand’s Lordship medieval house
- People’s Palace (modern history)
- Hunterian Art Gallery
- Mackintosh House
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery
Dunnottar Castle: medieval ruin
Crathes Castle: neo-medieval?
Kirkcudbright
Falkland
Culross
Crail
Slovakia
Bratislava
- Bratislava castle (interior is boring)
- old town hall (views)
- Bratislava city museum
- primatial palace
- the blue church
Kosice
- Rodosto bastion (medieval torture)
- East Slovak museum
- Coat of arms (oldest in Europe)
Banska Stiavnica
- Old Castle
- New Castle
- Calvary
Sweden
Stockholm
- Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde
- Royal Palace
- Medieval Museum
visby
- gotland museum
- st Nicolai church ruin
- klinten (views)
malmo
gothenburg
- museum of art
- Swedish ship gothenburg
- museum of world cultures
- museum of gothenburg
- palm house botanical garden
ystad: small medieval town
uppsala *
- Uppsala castle
- gustavianum museum: world history collections
- gamla Uppsala: Viking Uppsala (a bit out of the way)
- museum of evolution
- Uppsala county museum
- old Uppsala museum
- Linnaeus museum
- disa open air farm
gammelstad
- visitor centre: history
- hagnan open air museum
Kalmar *
- Kalmar castle
- Kalmar lans museum (like vasa museum)
- west gate
Stockholm archipelago: nature
Birka: open air Viking city museum
Sigtuna *
- sigtuna museum
- runestones (ask for map at tourist office)
- lungstrom house museum
Skokloster castle: baroque castle
Gripsholm Castle
Vadstena: cute small town
Simrishamn: small colourful town
Vasteras
- Anundshög: archaeological site
- Frosakers Brygga viking village
- Kyrkbacken area
- Tido Castle
- Lots of other castles that don’t look too decorated on the inside
Eketorp Fort (medieval village)
Mörbylånga: small cute town
Smogen: cute seaside town
Albania
Gjirokaster
- Castle
- Ethnographic museum
- Zekati family house
- Skenduli house
- Underground
Tirana
- National Museum of History
- Mosaic of Tirana
- Bunk’art
Durres
- Tower & wall
- Amphitheatre
- Archaeological museum
Berat
- Ethnographic Museum
- Church of Saint Trinity
Korca
- Museum of Medieval Art
- Largest Orthodox church
Malta
Valletta *
- National Museum of Archaeology
- St. John’s Co-Cathedral
- Palace State Rooms
- Casa Rocca Piccola
- Barrakka Gardens
Mdina
- Mdina dungeons
- St. Agatha’s and Paul’s catacombs
- Norman House
Marsaxlokk
Rabat
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum: Neolithic structure
Victoria
Birgu
- Fort St. Angelo
- Inqusitor’s Palace (most haunted in Malta)
- 3 gates
- Malta Maritime Museum
- Sicolo-Norman House
Senglea
Cospicua
Cyprus
Paphos *
- Tombs of the Kings
- Kato Paphos archaeological park
- Paphos Castle
- Aphrodite’s Rock
- Tala Monastery Cat Park
- Agia Kyriaki Chrysopolitissa
Nicosia
- Levantis Museum (history)
- Cyprus Museum
Kalopanayiotis
- Lampadistis Monastery
- Byzantine Museum
Limassol
- Kolossi Castle
- Limassol Castle
Lefkara: cute village known for embroidery
Slovenia
Piran *
- Bell tower (views)
- Mermaid statue
- The Magical World of Seashells
- St. George’s Church
- Venetian House
- Tartini House (museum of violinist)
- 1st of May Square
- Museum of Underwater Activities
Ljublijiana *
- St. Nicholas Cathedral
- Union Beer Experience
- Neboticnek (views)
- Museum of Architecture and Design (in a castle)
Lipica Stud Farm: horses
Lake Bled
- Bled Island
- Bled Castle
- Mala Osojnica
- Bled Cream Cake
- Gingerbread Museum
Predjama Castle: cliff castle, looks boring inside
Koper: small seaside town, mini Piran
Maribor
- Maribor Castle (regional museum)
- Lent Area
- Old Vine (oldest living vine) – vine house has small history of wine and tastings
- Museum of National Liberation
Skofja Loka: pretty old town
- Skofka Loka castle (museum and views)
- Three Castle path
- Homan House (exterior? Has frescoes)
Ptuj (oldest town in Slovenia)
- Ptuj Castle (romantic interior)
Celje
- Old Count’s mansion (Slovenia)
- Celje castle (ruin)
Lake bohinj: cute lake with decorated church
Izola: pretty seaside city
Velika Planina: recreated village in the alps
Switzerland
Lavertezzo: cute town with swimmable river
Thun
Lausanne
- Lausanne cathedral (views)
- Collection de l’art brut (untrained artists)
- Hermitage foundation (exhibition based)
Gruyeres
- Gruyeres castle (medieval)
- HR Giger museum
Zermatt
- Matterhorn Museum
- Hinterdorfstrasse
Grindelwald: cute alpine town
Vevey
- Chaplin’s World (Charlie Chaplin museum)
- Musee Jenisch Vevey (prints/drawings)
St Gallen
- Abbey library
- Textile museum
- Art museum
- Historical and ethnological museum
Chillion castle: famous castle
Brienz
- Ballenger open air museum
Grimentz: beautiful old town
Gstaad: cute mountain town
Saint-ursanne: tiny but charming town
Auvernier: small cute town
Rapperswil
Chur
Guarda: tiny painted town
Morcote: quaint lakeside village
- Scherrer Garden
- Church of St Anthony the Great
Armenia
Yerevan
- History Museum of Armenia
- Tsitsernakaberd (genocide memorial)
Khndzoresk (caves)
Serbia
Belgrade *
- Belgrade Fortress
- Belgrade Underground
- National Museum of Serbia
- Skadarlija (Bohemian area)
- Museum of Nikola Tesla
- Zemun area
- Sava cathedral
- Marcus church
- Rakija (national drink)
Novi Sad
- Petrovaradin Fortress Catacombs
- Museum of Vojvodina (history)
- Bishop’s palace
- Museum of Unification
- Gallery of Matica Srpska
Ukraine
Kiev
- St. Volodymyr’s cathedral
- St. Sophia’s cathedral
- Chernobyl Museum
- Cave Monastery
- Museum of the Great Patriotic War
- St. Michael’s Monastery
- Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
- Holodomar Genocide Museum
- St. Andrew’s Church
Lviv
- Armenian Cathedral
- Museum of Folk Architecture
- National Museum and Memorial of Occupation
Kamianets Podilskyi
- Castle
- Dominican Monastery
- St Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Church of the Exultation of the Cross
Odessa
- Odessa Passage
- Catacombs
- Transfiguration Orthodox Cathedral
- Beach
Uzhhorod
- Castle (regional history)
- Museum of Folk Life and Architecture
- Holy Cross Cathedral
- Christ the Saviour Cathedral
Hungary
Sopron
- Storno House (art)
- Fidelity gate
- Fire tower (views)
- Fabricius House (Roman history)
Eger
- Eger Castle
- Beatles Museum
- Town Under the Town
- Minorite Church
- Basilica
- Serbian Church
- Marzipan Museum (marzipan art)
- Archbishop’s Palace
Budapest *
- Castle Hill
- Buda Castle
- Hungarian National Gallery
- Budapest History Museum
- The Cave Church
- Matthias Church
- Fisherman’s Bastion
- Museum of Terror (war history)
- House of Houdini
- Szechenyi Baths
- Cherry Palinka Liquor
- Royal Palace
- Chocolate Museum
Szeged: has a wide variety of architecture
Wales
Aberystwyth
- Castle
- Pier & Beach
- Ceredigion Museum (Welsh culture)
- Magic of Life Butterfly House
Conwy
- Conwy Castle
- Plas Mawr medieval house
- Smallest House in Britain
- Aberconwy historic house
- Castle Hotel
Cardiff *
- Cardiff Castle
- National Museum
- Castell Coch (may be out of the way)
- St Fagan’s Open Air museum
- Victorian arcades
- Animal wall
- Spiller’s (world oldest record store)
- Cardiff Story Museum
- Museum of Cardiff
Llandudno: Victorian beach town
Tenby: Colorful beach town
Gondar: fort archaeological site
Lamu Town
Serengeti *
Tbilisi *
Istanbul *
