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№ 1 Tram

Eléctrico 1 · Tramline along the banks of the river Douro

№ 2 Tram

Tram 2 · Tramline along plenty of sights worth seeing (get off at Hoofddorpplein)

№ 12 Tram

Eléctrico 12 · Tramline following a circular route through Lisbon

№ 15 & № 16 Trams

Historischen Straßenbahn 15 & 16 · Historical tramlines

№ 18 Tram

Eléctrico 18 · Tramline to the Tramcar Museum

№ 22 Tram

Eléctrico 22 · Tramline traversing the emblematic streets of Porto’s city centre

№ 23 Tram

Linka 23 · Nostalgic Tatra T3 tramline

№ 28 Tram

Eléctrico 28 · Tramline through Lisbon’s prettiest historic & residential quarters

№ 41 Tram

Linka 41 · Historical tramline

№ 94 Bus

Discover some of London’s most popular neighbourhoods, all on a single bus route

№ 100 Bus

Bus 100 · Hop-on-hop-off bus for WelcomeCard & CityTourCard holders

Aachen Cathedral

Aachener Dom · Charlemagne’s sacral centre of the Holy Roman Empire

Aare Swimming

Aareschwimmen · Swim the river Aare from Altenbergsteg bridge to the Lorraine swimming pool

Aarhus Art Museum

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum · Art museum with Olafur Eliasson’s Your Rainbow Panorama on its roof

Aarhus Cathedral

Aarhus Domkirke

ABBA The Museum

Museum dedicated to Agnetha, Björn, Benny & Anni-Frid

Abbey Church of St Margarethen

Stiftskirche St. Margarethen

Abbey Library of St Gall

Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen · Most exquisite late baroque library

Abbey of Beaulieu-en-Rouergue

Abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue

Abbey of Bec-Hellouin

Abbaye du Bec-Hellouin

Abbey of Cluny

Abbaye de Cluny · Abbey with a museum of art & archaeology

Abbey of Frauenwörth

Abtei Frauenwörth

Abbey of La Sauve-Majeure

Abbaye de La Sauve-Majeure

Abbey of Lorsch

Kloster Lorsch

Abbey of Montmajour

Abbaye de Montmajour

Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel

Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel

Abbey of St Hildegard

Abtei St. Hildegard · Abbey church with 19th-century Beuron School murals

Abbey of Thoronet

Abbaye du Thoronet

Abbey of Val-Dieu

Abbaye du Val-Dieu · Divine brewery

ABC Museum

Museo ABC · Museum of drawing & illustration

Abegg Foundation

Abegg-Stiftung · Museum of textiles & applied art

Aberconwy House

14th-century merchant’s house

Abri of Cap Blanc

Abri de Cap Blanc

Academy Building

Academiegebouw · Former convent church, home to Leiden University since 1581

Academy of Arts

Akademie der Künste

Achensee Railway

Achenseebahn · Narrow-gauge steam-powered rack railway

Adelskerk Church

Adelskerk · Church with a magnificent tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst

Admont Abbey

Stift Admont · Abbey featuring the largest library hall in the world

Aduarderzijl

Nothing specific to see here but Aduarderzijl is definitely worth a detour

AEG Turbine Factory

AEG-Turbinenfabrik · Coolest turbine factory ever, by architect Peter Behrens

Aeroscopia

Musée Aeroscopia · Aeronautical museum

Aeroseum

Cold War museum

Affenberg Salem

Primate zoo featuring 200 free-roaming Barbary macaques

Affenwald

Affenwald Straußberg · Primate zoo

Ahlenmoor

Moor information centre & narrow-gauge railway

Air and Space Museum

Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace · Aviation museum

Airborne at the Bridge

Exhibition dedicated to the Battle of Arnhem (1944)

Airborne Museum Hartenstein

Museum dedicated to the Battle of Arnhem (1944)

Aircraft Museum Zeltweg

Militärluftfahrtmuseum Zeltweg

Airfield Farm & Gardens

Air Museum Kbely

Letecké muzeum Kbely

Airport Tempelhof

Flughafen Tempelhof · Airport terminal by architect Ernst Sagebiel

Airspace Surveillance Tower 7O1

Luchtwachttoren 7O1 · 15½-m-high Cold War watchtower for spotting Soviet airplanes

Ajuda Botanical Garden

Jardim Botânico da Ajuda

Ajuda National Palace

Palácio Nacional da Ajuda · Neoclassical palace

Akershus Fortress

Akershus festning

Albertina

Art museum, home to Albrecht Dürer’s hare

Albertina Modern

Museum of modern art

Albertinum

Art from romanticism to the present

Albert Schweitzer House

Maison Albert Schweitzer · Museum dedicated to Albert Schweitzer

Albrecht Dürer’s House

Albrecht-Dürer-Haus

Albrechtsburg Castle

Albrechtsburg · 15th-century castle, in use as porcelain manufactory from 1710 to 1863

Albula Railway Adventure Trail

Bahnerlebnisweg Albula · Hike along the Albula Railway, from Preda via Bergün to Filisur & the Landwasser Viaduct

Albula Railway Museum

Bahnmuseum Albula · Museum dedicated to the Graubünden railways

Aldus Manutius’ House

Aldo Manuzio · Coolest printer ever lived here

Alfa Romeo Museum

Museo Storico Alfa Romeo

Alhambra

Alimentarium

Museum dedicated to food & nutrition

Alkmaar Cheese Market

Kaasmarkt Alkmaar · Running around with cheese on Friday mornings

Alkmaar Cheese Museum

Hollands Kaasmuseum · Museum dedicated to cheese

Allard Pierson Museum

Museum dedicated to archaeology, history of books, cartography, graphic design, Jewish cultural history & zoology

Allied Museum

Alliiertenmuseum · How enemies became friends

Allwetterzoo Münster

Almudena Cathedral

Catedral de la Almudena

Alnwick Castle

Aka Hogwarts

Alnwick Garden

Beware of the Poison Garden

Alpenzoo

Alpine zoo

Alpineum Museum

Alpine dioramas

Alpirsbach Monastery

Kloster Alpirsbach

Alsatian Museum

Musée Alsacien

Alster Boat Trips

Alsterschippern

Alsterhaus

Iconic luxury department store

Altar of the Fatherland

Altare della Patria · The national monument to Victor Emmanuel II

Alte Galerie

Fine art from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century

Alte Mainbrücke

Bridge with statues of St John of Nepomuk & eleven other saints

Alte Nationalgalerie

Romantic & impressionist paintings & sculptures

Alte Oper

Concert hall

Alte Pinakothek

Altes Museum

Museum of classical antiquities by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Altonaer Museum

Regional history museum

Altzella Monastery Park

Klosterpark Altzella

Amalienbad Pool

Amalienbad · Art nouveau & art deco indoor swimming pool

Amalienborg Palace

Amalienborg Slot

Ambras Castle

Schloss Ambras

Amerongen Castle

Kasteel Amerongen · 17th-century manor house where German Emperor Wilhelm II signed his abdication papers

Amersfoort Zoo

Dierenpark Amersfoort · Small zoo

Amiens Cathedral

Cathédrale d’Amiens

Ammersoyen Castle

Kasteel Ammersoyen · Medieval fortress

Ampelmann Shop

Ampelmann Berlin · Ampelmännchen everywhere

Amphitheatre

Amphithéâtre · 2nd-century Roman theatre

Amphitheatre

Arènes de Nîmes · Well-preserved 1st-century Roman theatre

Amphitheatre

Amphitheater · 2nd-century Roman theatre

Amsterdam Canal Cruise

Rederij Lovers

Amsterdam City Archives

Stadsarchief Amsterdam · Office building by architect Karel de Bazel

Amsterdam Museum

Local history museum

Amsterdam Water Supply Dunes

Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen · Nature reserve

Anastasis Church

Église Anastasis · Modern church by architect Álvaro Siza

Anatomical Museum

Anatomisches Museum · Home to the skeleton depicted in De humani corporis fabrica (1543)

Ancher House

Anchers Hus · Artist’s house

The Anchor

Iconic riverside pub on the river Cam

Ancient Appian Way

Via Appia Antica

Ancient Ostia

Ostia Antica

Angermuseum

Anglesey Abbey

Jacobean-style house with gardens & a working watermill

Anker Clock

Ankeruhr · Art nouveau clock by painter & sculptor Franz Matsch

Anne Frank Centre

Anne Frank Zentrum · Exhibition that focuses on the diary & the story of the life of Anne Frank

Anne Frank House

Anne Frank Huis · Museum dedicated to Anne Frank, her diary, and the secret annex

Ansbach Residence

Residenz Ansbach

Antikenmuseum Basel

Museum of Mediterranean antiquities

Antonín Dvořák Museum

Muzeum Antonína Dvořáka · Museum dedicated to composer Antonín Dvořák

Antonite Church

Antoniterkirche · The second copy of Ernst Barlach’s angel Der Schwebende hangs here

Antwerp Cathedral

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal

Antwerp Zoo

Zoo Antwerpen

Apenheul

Primate zoo

Apsley House

The Duke of Wellington’s Georgian London home

Aquarium Berlin

Aquàrium de Barcelona

Aquarium Geomar

Aquarium Museum

Aquarium-Muséum

Aqua Terra Zoo

Haus des Meeres

Aquatis

Europe’s largest freshwater aquarium

AquaZoo

Zoo with mostly aquatic mammals & birds

Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum

Zoo, aquarium & natural history museum

Arc de Triomphe

Arch celebrating Napoleon’s victory in the Battle of Austerlitz (1806)

Arcen Castle Gardens

Kasteeltuinen Arcen

Archaeological Museum

Musée Archéologique

Archaeological Museum

Museo Archeologico

Archaeological Museum

Archaeologisches Museum

Archaeological Museum

Museum für Archäologie Schloss Gottorf

Archaeological Museum Frankfurt

Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt

Archaeological Museum Hamburg

Archäologisches Museum Hamburg

Archaeological Museum of Catalonia

Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya

Archaeological Park Xanten

Archäologischer Park Xanten

Archaeology Museum

Archäologiemuseum

Archeon

Living history museum

Archiginnasio Palace

Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio · Palazzo featuring an anatomical theatre

Architecture Museum Schwaben

Architekturmuseum Schwaben

Architekturzentrum Wien

Architecture museum

Arch of Constantine

Arco di Costantino · Arch celebrating Constantine’s triumph over Maxentius in 312 A.D.

Arch of Peace

Arco della Pace

Arch of Titus

Arco di Tito · Arch celebrating Titus’ triumph in the siege of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

Arctic Train

43-km-long railway line connecting Narvik to Riksgränsen

Ardèche Railway

Train de l’Ardèche · Heritage railway line

Ardennes American Cemetery

Cimetière militaire américain de Neuville-en-Condroz · World War II cemetery

Ardgillan Castle

Arenenberg Castle

Schloss Arenenberg · Home of Hortense de Beauharnais, Napoleon’s stepdaughter & sister-in-law, Queen Consort of Holland

Arentshuis

Areuse Gorges

Gorges de l’Areuse · 11⅖-km-long hike to Boudry along the gorgeous Saut de Brot bridge

Argos

Bubbles by architect Zaha Hadid

Ariana Museum

Musée Ariana · Ceramics & glass museum

ArkDes

Architecture & design centre

ARKEN

Museum for Moderne Kunst · Contemporary art museum

Arlberger Bergbahnen

Cable cars & chairlifts

Arlberg Via Ferrata

Arlberger Klettersteig · The Arlberger Klettersteig is one of the most demanding Alpine tours

Armistice Memorial

Mémorial de l’Armistice · You’ll find the Compiègne Wagon in the museum close to the memorial

Armoury

Rüstkammer · See the Turkish Chamber

Armoury

Zeughaus · Museum of Tyrolean cultural history

Army Museum

Musée de l’Armée

Army Museum

Armémuseum · Military history museum

Army Museum Žižkov

Armádní muzeum Žižkov

Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery

Airborne-begraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery for servicemen killed in the Battle of Arnhem (1944)

Arolsen Palace

Residenzschloss Arolsen · Baroque palace & birthplace of Emma zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, Queen Consort to King Willem III of the Netherlands

Arp Museum

Contemporary art museum by architect Richard Meier

Ars Electronica Center

Museum of the future

Art and History Museum

Musée d’art et d’histoire · Œuvres d’art et des objets historiques

Art and History Museum

Musées d’art et d’histoire · Museum of archaeology, fine art & applied art

Art & History Museum

Musée Art & Histoire

Artilleriet

The other Swedish furniture store

Artis Zoo

Artis · The oldest zoo in the Netherlands

Arts Society of Hannover

Kunstverein Hannover

Ashmolean Museum

Asian Art Museum

Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Assier Castle

Château d’Assier

Aston Hall

Jacobean house

Astrid Lindgren’s World

Astrid Lindgrens Värld · The book was better

Astrup Fearnley Museum

Astrup Fearnley Museet · Contemporary art museum by architect Renzo Piano

Atomium

Atta Cave

Atta-Höhle · Dripstone cave

Aubette 1928

Aubette

Audley End House and Gardens

Audley End Miniature Railway

Enchanted railway line for kids

Augsburg Railway Park

Bahnpark Augsburg

Augusta Raurica

Archaeological living history museum

August Horch Museum

Car museum

Augustinerkirche

Augustinermuseum

Augustinian Monastery

Augustiner-Chorherrenstift · Old Palace that houses the Julius Exter Art Gallery & the Maler am Chiemsee Gallery

August Macke House

August Macke Haus · Museum dedicated to painter August Macke

August Trophy

Trophée d’Auguste

Augustus Bridge

Augustusbrücke · Bridge by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann

Augustusburg Castle

Schloss Augustusburg · One of the few castles in the world that hold a Cranach altarpiece & a motorcycle museum at the same time

Augustusburg Funicular

Drahtseilbahn Augustusburg

Augustusburg Palace

Schloss Augustusburg · Rococo palace

Aula Palatina

Konstantinbasilika · Emperor Constantine’s throne hall

Aulteribe Castle

Château d’Aulteribe

Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art

Volkskundemuseum Wien

Austrian National Library

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek · The State Hall is rather impressive

Austrian Open-Air Museum Stübing

Österreichische Freilichtmuseum Stübing · Living history museum

Austrian Postal Savings Bank

Österreichischen Postsparkasse · Post office by architect Otto Wagner

Austrian Sculpture Park

Österreichischer Skulpturenpark · Contemporary sculpture park

Autobahnkirche Siegerland

Church by architect Michael Schumacher

Autobau

Car museum

Automobile Museum

Cité de l’Automobile · The Schlumpf collection

Automobile Welt Eisenach

Museum dedicated to the history of the Automobilwerk Eisenach car factory

Automuseum Prototyp

Car museum

Autostadt

Auto- und Uhrenwelt

Autoworld

Car museum

Autrique House

Maison Autrique · Art nouveau house by architect Victor Horta

Aventine Keyhole

Buco della Serratura · Key hole that offers a magnificent view onto the Basilica of St Peter

Aviation History Museum

Flyhistorisk Museum

Babbacombe Model Village

Miniature village & railway

Babelsberg Palace

Schloss Babelsberg · Gothic Revival castle

Bach House

Bachhaus · Museum dedicated to composer Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach Museum

Bach-Museum · Museum dedicated to composer Johann Sebastian Bach

Baden Museum of History

Historisches Museum Baden · Local history museum

Badenweiler Roman Bath Ruins

Römische Badruine Badenweiler

Baden-Württemberg House of History

Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg · Regional history museum

Badeparadies Schwarzwald

Badeschiff

Floating swimming pool with a unique panoramic view of the river Spree, the Oberbaumbrücke & Berlin’s iconic TV tower

Badisches Landesmuseum

Art & regional history museum

Bagatti Valsecchi Museum

Museo Bagatti Valsecchi

Bains des Pâquis

Outdoor swimming pool

Ballenberg Open-Air Museum

Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg · Living history museum

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Baltic

BAM

Musée des Beaux-Arts · Art museum

Bamberg Art Gallery

Stadtgalerie Bamberg

Bamberg Cathedral

Bamberger Dom

Bamberg Historical Museum

Historisches Museum Bamberg

Bamberg State Library

Staatsbibliothek Bamberg

Bamburgh Castle

Bank of England Museum

Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery

Cimetière militaire britannique de Banneville-la-Campagne · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Baptistry of San Giovanni

Battistero di San Giovanni

Bar A Ginjinha

A Ginjinha · Tiny street bar serving ginjinha, a local cherry liqueur

Barbara Baths

Barbarathermen

Barbara Tower

Barbaraturm · 22-m-high observation tower

Barbier-Mueller Museum

Musée Barbier-Mueller · Tribal art museum

Barcelona Cathedral

Catedral de Barcelona

Barcelona Diocesan Museum

Museu Diocesà de Barcelona

Barcelona Museum of Modernism

Museu del Modernisme de Barcelona

Barcelona Pavilion

Pabellón alemán · German national pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Barcelona Zoo

Zoo de Barcelona

Bargello National Museum

Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Barkenhoff

Museum dedicated to Heinrich Vogeler, co-founder of the Worpswede artists’ colony

Barnaart House

Huis Barnaart · Early-19th-century mansion with Empire-style furnishings

Barracco Museum

Museo Barracco

Bartolotti House

Huis Bartolotti · 17th-century merchant’s house with an impressive rococo hall

Basel City Walks

Old Town Walks · Five walking tours to explore Basel’s old town

Basel Historical Museum

Historisches Museum Basel · Local history museum

Basel Minster

Basler Münster · Romanesque church

Basel Paper Mill

Basler Papiermühle · Museum for paper, writing & printing

Basel Zoo

Zoo Basel

BASF Visitor Center

BASF-Besucherzentrum · Chemistry exhibition

Basilica della Salute

Basilica di Sant’Ambrogio

Basilica of Our Lady

Basilique Notre-Dame · Gothic Revival church, built 1852–57

Basilica of Our Lady Star of the Sea

Basiliek van Onze Lieve Vrouw Sterre der Zee · Romanesque church

Basilica of Saint-Denis

Basilique cathédrale de Saint-Denis · Medieval abbey church

Basilica of Scherpenheuvel

Basiliek van Scherpenheuvel · Baroque church with altarpieces by Theodoor van Loon

Basilica of St John

Basilika St. Johann · Baroque church by architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel

Basilica of St Lawrence

Basilica di San Lorenzo · Renaissance church & burial site for the Medici family

Basilica of St Martin

Basilika St. Martin · Baroque church with an organ by Joseph Gabler

Basilica of St Nicholas

Basiliek van de Heilige Nicolaas · Late 19th-century church

Basilica of St Paul outside the Walls

Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura · Not just a church named after St Paul: the tomb of St Paul is here

Basilica of St Peter

Basilica di San Pietro

Basilica of Sts Agatha and Barbara

Basiliek van de Heiligen Agatha en Barbara · A smaller version of St Peter’s in Rome, built 1865–92

Basilica of St Servatius

Basiliek van Sint Servaas

Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers

Basilika Vierzehnheiligen · Church by architect Balthasar Neumann

Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity

Basílica da Santíssima Trindade · Modern church by architect Alexandros Tombazis

Basilica Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Bassermannhaus Museum

Museum Bassermannhaus für Musik und Kunst · Museum of music & fine arts, closed for renovation

Bastei Bridge

Basteibrücke · The Bastei is the most famous rock formation in Saxon Switzerland

Bastogne Barracks

World War II museum

Bastogne War Museum

Bata Store

Prodejny Baťa · The famous Moravian shoemaker’s shop

Batavialand

Museum dedicated to land reclamation & seafaring, featuring a replica of the East Indiaman Batavia

Baths of Caracalla

Terme di Caracalla

Bauernbarock-Kirche

Bauhaus Archive

Bauhaus-Archiv · Closed for renovation until 2025

Bauhaus Dessau

School by architect Walter Gropius

Bauhaus Museum Dessau

Museum dedicated to the 20th century’s most important school of design

Bauhaus Museum Weimar

Bauhaus-Museum Weimar · Museum dedicated to the 20th century’s most important school of design

Bauhaus University Weimar

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar · School by architect Henry van de Velde

Bauhaus Walk

Bauhaus-Spaziergang · Walk along historic Bauhaus sites

Bauhaus Workshop Museum Dornburg

Bauhaus-Werkstatt-Museum Dornburg

Baur Foundation

Fondation Baur · Museum of Far Eastern art

Bauschänzli

Pentagonal island in the Limmat with a Biergarten & restaurant

Bautzen Memorial

Gedenkstätte Bautzen · Former Stasi prison

Bautzner Straße Memorial

Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße · Former Stasi prison

Bavarian Forest Treetop Walk

Baumwipfelpfad Bayerischer Wald

Bavarian National Museum

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Bavarian Railway Museum

Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum

Bavarian Zugspitze Railway

Bayerische Zugspitzbahn · Germany’s highest rack railway (2,650 m)

Bayeux Tapestry

Tapisserie de Bayeux · 68⅜-m-long 11th-century tapestry depicting the Norman conquest of England in 1066

Bayeux War Cemetery

Cimetière militaire britannique de Bayeux · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Bayreuth New Palace

Neues Schloss Bayreuth

B.C. Koekkoek House

B.C. Koekkoek-Haus · Museum dedicated to painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

The Bear Inn

Since 1242

Bear Park

Bärengraben · Eltern haften für ihre Kinder

Bebenhausen Monastery

Kloster Bebenhausen · Medieval Cistercian monastery

Bedřich Smetana Museum

Muzeum Bedřicha Smetany · Museum dedicated to composer Bedřich Smetana

Beer Garden Tschechen & Söhne

Biergarten Tschechen & Söhne · Open-air café

Beethoven House

Beethoven-Haus · Museum dedicated to composer Ludwig van Beethoven

Begijnhof

Almshouses for beguines

Beguinage

Begijnhof

Behnhaus-Drägerhaus Museum

Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus

Bekonscot Model Village

England in the 1930s at a 1:10 scale

Belchen Cable Car

Belchen-Seilbahn

Belém Cultural Centre

Centro Cultural de Belém · Cultural centre by architects Vittorio Gregotti & Manuel Salgado

Belém Tower

Torre de Belém · Landmark tower with typical Manueline decoration

Belfry

Belfort

Belfry

Belfort · It’s a tower

Belfry

Beffroi

Belgian Chocolate Village

Belgian Military Cemetery

Belgische militaire begraafplaats · World War I cemetery

Belvedere 21

Contemporary art museum

Belvedere Castle

Schloss Belvedere · Castle, park & orangery

Belvederegarten

Belvedere in Charlottenburg’s Palace Gardens

Belvedere im Schlossgarten Charlottenburg · Pavilion by architect Carl Gotthard Langhans, housing porcelain from Frederick the Great’s manufactory

Belvedere of São Pedro de Alcântara

Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara · Garden with a panoramic view across the city

Belvedere on Klausberg

Belvedere auf dem Klausberg

Belvedere on Pfingstberg

Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg

BELvue Museum

Museum dedicated to Belgium & its history

Benrath Palace

Schloss Benrath · 18th-century palace by architect Nicolas de Pigage

Bentheim Castle

Burg Bentheim · Medieval hilltop castle

Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery

Cimetière militaire canadien de Bény-sur-Mer · World War II cemetery

Berardo Collection

Museu Coleção Berardo · Contemporary art museum

Berchtesgaden Castle

Schloss Berchtesgaden

Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen · Former Nazi concentration camp

Bergen op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery

Canadese oorlogsbegraafplaats · World War II cemetery

Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Bergen Railway

Bergensbanen · 371-km-long railway line connecting Bergen to Oslo

Berger Memorial

Berger-Denkmal · 20-m-high tower providing a wonderful view of the Ruhr Valley

Bergisel Ski Jump

Bergiselschanze · Ski ramp with tower-top café & viewing terrace by architect Zaha Hadid

Bergius Botanic Garden

Bergianska trädgården

Berlin Cathedral

Berliner Dom · 19th-century church by architects Julius Raschdorff

Berlin City Models

Berlin Stadtmodelle · Four models of Berlin’s inner city for urban development

Berliner Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art

Kindl · Contemporary art gallery

Berliner Philharmonie

Concert hall by architect Hans Scharoun

Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial

Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen · Former Stasi prison

Berlinische Galerie

Contemporary art museum

Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité

Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité · Medical science museum

Berlin Park Railway

Berliner Parkeisenbahn · Minimum-gauge pioneer railway

Berlin Radio Tower

Berliner Funkturm · Berlin’s not-so-cool broadcast tower

Berlin River Cruise

Reederei Riedel · Boat trips on the Spree & Landwehr Canal

Berlin TV Tower

Berliner Fernsehturm · Television tower nicknamed St Walter (Ulbricht) for its cross-shaped reflection of the sun

Berlin Wall Memorial

Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer · Former border strip & documentation centre

Berlin Wall Trail

Berliner Mauerweg · 160-km-long hiking & cycling trail that runs along the former patrol road

Bern Cathedral

Berner Münster · Gothic cathedral, built 1421–1893

Bern City Theater

Stadttheater Bern · Opera, drama & ballet performances

Bern Historical Museum

Bernisches Historisches Museum · Local history museum

Bernina Express

The highest railway across the Alps, from Chur to Tirano

Besançon Cathedral

Cathedrale de Besançon · Cathedral with an astronomical clock

Bethlehem Chapel

Betlémská kaple · Jan Hus’ church

Beuren Open-Air Museum

Freilichtmuseum Beuren · Living history museum

Beuron Abbey

Erzabtei St Martin zu Beuron · The Mercy Chapel is a fine example of the 19th-century Beuron School style

BFI Southbank

Film buffs will enjoy the British Film Institute’s mediatheque

Bible Museum

Bibelmuseum

Bibliotheca Augusta

Herzog August Bibliothek · Home to the Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis

Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica

Library of Hermetic philosophy

Bibliotheca Thysiana

17th-century library, open by appointment only

Bibliotheca Wittockiana

Book arts & bookbinding museum

Bica Funicular

Ascensor da Bica · Funicular railway to Largo Calhariz

Bicycle Snake

Cykelslangen · Bicycle bridge

Biesbosch Museum

Biesbosch Museumeiland

Big Pit National Coal Museum

Bildhalle

Contemporary photography gallery

Bindweide Visitor Mine

Besucherbergwerk Grube Bindweide · Authentic drift mine

Biology Center Linz

Biologiezentrum Linz · Natural history museum

Bioparc València

Biosphere Potsdam

Biosphäre Potsdam · Indoor rainforest

Bird Park Avifauna

Vogelpark Avifauna

Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Birnau Minster

Basilika Birnau · Baroque pilgrimage church

Bishop Edward King Chapel

Modern chapel by architect Níall McLaughlin

Bishop’s Bridge

Pont del Bisbe · Gothic Revival bridge crossing a street in the Gothic Quarter

Bishop’s Palace Garden

Jardim do Paço Episcopal

BlackBox Cold War

BlackBox Kalter Krieg

Black Forest Museum

Schwarzwaldmuseum

Black Forest Open-Air Museum

Schwarzwälder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof · Living history museum

Black Forest Treetop Walk

Baumwipfelpfad Schwarzwald

Blackwell’s Bookshop

Blakesley Hall

Tudor house & gardens

Blarney Castle

Blegny Mine

Blegny-Mine · Authentic shaft mine with underground galleries accessible to visitors

Blenheim Palace

Baroque palace, built 1705–22 as a reward for John Churchill, the victor of Blindheim (1704)

Bletchley Park

Home of the World War II codebreakers

Bloemendaal War Cemetery

Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal · Dutch World War II cemetery

Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway

Chemin de fer-musée Blonay-Chamby · Narrow-gauge railway line

Blond Amsterdam

Tableware by Femque & Janneke

Bluebell Railway

Heritage railway line

BMW Museum

Car museum

Boboli Gardens

Giardino di Boboli

Bocholt Textile Factory

TextilWerk Bocholt · Industrial heritage museum

Bock Casemates

Casemates du Bock

Bocq Railway

Chemin de Fer du Bocq · Heritage railway line

Bodega de Posthoorn

Delightful old-fashioned café

Bode Museum

Bode-Museum · Sculpture & Byzantine art museum

Bodleian Library

Divinity School & Duke Humfrey’s Library are must-sees

Bodoni Museum

Museo Bodoniano · Type & printing museum

Bogstad Manor

Bogstad gård

Bohus Fortress

Bohus Fästning

Bois du Cazier

Former mining site

Bois-du-Luc

Former mining site

Bokrijk Open-Air Museum

Openluchtmuseum Bokrijk · Living history museum

Bolhão Market

Mercado do Bolhão

Bolo Museum

Musée Bolo · Nerdvana

Bom Jesus do Monte

Sanctuary with a baroque stairway

Bonanza Coffee Roasters

Café serving coffee from its own roastery

Bonaparte House

Musée national de la maison Bonaparte

Bonck House

Huis Bonck · 17th-century merchant’s house

Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway

Bonnefantenmuseum

Art museum by architect Aldo Rossi

Book Burning Memorial

Denkmal zur Erinnerung an die Bücherverbrennung · Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well

The Book of Kells Exhibition

Both the medieval manuscript & the library’s 18th-century Long Room are quite magnificent

The Bookshop

Here you can buy your copy of Diary of a Bookseller from the author himself

Bootshaus Ulm

Bo Palace

Palazzo del Bo · Home to the oldest anatomical theatre in the world (1595)

Bordeaux Cathedral

Cathédrale Saint-André

Borderland Museum Bad Sachsa

Grenzlandmuseum Bad Sachsa · Former inner German border museum

Borderland Museum Eichsfeld

Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld · Former inner German border museum

Border Memorial Hötensleben

Grenzdenkmal Hötensleben · Former inner German border

Border Museum Schifflersgrund

Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund · Former inner German border museum

Borges Labyrinth

Labirinto Borges · Maze designed in honour of the writer Jorge Luis Borges

Borghese Gallery

Museo Galleria Borghese · Works by Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael, Bernini & Canova

Borgund Stave Church

Borgund stavkyrkje · Norway’s most visited stave church, built around 1180

Borg Verhildersum Estate

Borg Verhildersum · 14th-century moated manor house with a formal garden

Borkumer Kleinbahn

Bornstedt Crown Estate

Krongut Bornstedt · The Italian village of Potsdam

Boros Collection

Sammlung Boros · Contemporary art packed in a World War II bunker

Borough Market

Botanical Gallery

Galerie de Botanique · Herbarium with botanical exhibition

Botanical Garden

Botanisk Have

Botanical Garden

Jardí Botànic

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten · The Chinese garden is quite nice

Botanical Garden

Jardin botanique

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten Frankfurt

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanical Garden

Botanisk Have

Botanical Garden

Musée et jardins botaniques

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanical Garden

Botanisk hage

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten der Universität Wien

Botanical Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanic Garden

Botanic Garden

Jardim Botânico

Botanic Garden

Botanische Tuin

Botanic Garden

Botanic Garden

Botanischer Garten

Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum

Botanischer Garten & Botanisches Museum

Botanic Garden Zuidas

Botanische Tuin Zuidas

Botanika

Asiatic garden

Bothmer Palace

Schloss Bothmer · England in Mecklenburg

Böttcherstraße

Expressionist architecture

Bouges Castle

Château de Bouges

Bourbaki Panorama

Panorama by Edouard Castres depicting the Franco-Prussian War

Bourges Cathedral

Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges

Bourse de Commerce

Contemporary art museum

Bourtange Fortress

Vesting Bourtange · Reconstructed stronghold with ramparts, moats, ravelins, &c.

The Box

Art & local history museum

Boxty House

Totally Irish restaurant

Bozar

Palais des Beaux-Arts · Cultural venue by architect Victor Horta

Braga Cathedral

Sé de Braga

Brandenburg Gate

Brandenburger Tor · Iconic city gate by architect Carl Gotthard Langhans

Brandenburg Gate

Brandenburger Tor · The other one

Brasserie Julien

Art nouveau restaurant

Bratwurst Röslein

Nuremberg Bratwurst & Sauerkraut

Brede Manor

Brede Hovedbygning

Brede Works

Brede Værk · Museum with a focus upon the industrialisation of Denmark

Breitachklamm

Bremen Town Musicians

Bremer Stadtmusikanten · Sculpture by artist Gerhard Marcks

Bremerhaven Zoo

Zoo am Meer

Brera Art Gallery

Pinacoteca di Brera

Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery

Cimetière militaire canadien de Bretteville-sur-Laize · World War II cemetery

Breuninger

Iconic luxury department store

Břevnov Monastery

Břevnovský klášter

Brewery Museum

Brauerei-Museum · Museum dedicated to the Dortmund beer industry

Brickworks Museum

Ziegeleimuseum Lage · Industrial heritage museum

Bridge of Sighs

Bridge of Sighs

Ponte dei Sospiri

Brienz Rothorn Railway

Brienz Rothorn Bahn · Steam-powered rack railway to Planalp & Mount Rothorn

British Library

From Magna Carta & Gutenberg’s Bible, to the music of the Beatles

British Museum

Brittany American Cemetery

Cimetière militaire américain de Saint-James · World War II cemetery

Brocken Railway

Brockenbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line to Mount Brocken’s summit

Bröhan Museum

Bröhan-Museum · Art nouveau, art deco, and functionalism

Brohl Valley Railway

Brohltalbahn

Bronbeek Museum

Museum Bronbeek · Colonial museum dedicated to the Dutch East Indies & the KNIL army

Brookwood American Cemetery

World War I cemetery

Brookwood Military Cemetery

Commonwealth World War I & II cemetery

Brother Klaus Field Chapel

Bruder-Klaus-Feldkapelle · Modern chapel dedicated to St Nicholas of Flüe, by architect Peter Zumthor

Brother Klaus Trail

Bruderklausenweg · 20-km-long hiking trail to Flüeli-Ranft

Broughton Castle

Bruchsal Palace

Schloss Bruchsal · Baroque palace by architect Balthasar Neumann, noted for its stairway

Brücke Museum

Brücke-Museum · Museum dedicated to the Die Brücke art movement

Brucknerhaus

Concert hall

Brühl’s Terrace and Dresden Fortress

Brühlsche Terrasse und Festung Dresden

Brú na Bóinne

Megalithic burial site with three passage tombs

Brunssum War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Brusio Circular Viaduct

Viadotto elicoidale di Brusio · Supercool single-track nine-arched stone spiral railway viaduct

Bucerius Kunst Forum

Art gallery

Buchenwald Memorial

Gedenkstätte Buchenwald · Former Nazi concentration camp

Buchheim Museum

Expressionist art museum

Buckingham Palace

Open to the public every summer

Buddenbrook House

Buddenbrookhaus

Buen Retiro Park

Parque de El Retiro

Buffet Trześniewski

Trześniewski · This sandwich shop’s most popular sandwich is Speck mit Ei

Bundesbank Bunker Museum

Bundesbank-Bunker

Bundeskunsthalle

Art & Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany

Bunker Museum

Bunkermuseum

Bunratty Castle & Folk Park

Burg Badenweiler

Burg Castle

Schloss Burg · Refurbished medieval castle

Bürgel Ceramics Museum

Keramik-Museum Bürgel

Bürger Museum

Local history museum

Bürgerpark

Municipal park

Burgers’ Zoo

Probably the most beautiful zoo in the Netherlands

Burghausen Castle

Burg Burghausen

Burgholzhof Observation Tower

Aussichtsturm Burgholzhof

Burg Hülshoff

Museum dedicated to poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Burgtheater

Theatre by by architects Gottfried Semper & Karl von Hasenauer

Burg Vischering

The Burrell Collection

Bussy-Rabutin Castle

Château de Bussy-Rabutin

Butterfly House

Schmetterlinghaus

Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery

Cimetière britannique de Cabaret-Rouge · Commonwealth World War I cemetery

Cabo da Roca

There is no further to the left on the map of continental Europe

Cadillac Castle

Château de Cadillac

Cadolzburg Castle

Burg Cadolzburg

Ca’ d’Oro

Renaissance palazzo housing the Franchetti Gallery

Caen Memorial museum

Mémorial de Caen · World War II museum

Café A Brasileira

Formerly a café serving Brazilian coffee to the intelligentsia, now a coffee shop for tourists

Café Adrianos

Adrianos Bar & Café

Café Americain

The living room of Amsterdam, serves breakfast, lunch & dinner

Café Bachmann

Confiserie Bachmann

Café Boréal

Boréal Coffee Shop · Really good coffee (and cake)

Café Central

Trotsky & Freud used to be regulars here

Café Charlemagne

The local dish: Zoervleis

Café de Burcht

Grand café at Leiden’s most intimate square, close to the citadel

Café de Grancy

Café de Jaren

Café de l’Evêché

Cheese fondue venue

Café De Reiger

Café des Deux Moulins

Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain

Café Die Bergstation

The Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte served here comes with a great view

Café Die Kokerei

Café Diglas

Seit 1875

Café Dudok

The apple pie from Dudok’s patisserie is quite delicious

Café Dudok

The apple pie from Dudok’s patisserie is quite delicious

Café Dudok

The apple pie from Dudok’s patisserie is quite delicious

Café ElbFaire

Weltcafé ElbFaire · Vegetarian organic food café at the Ecumenical Forum

Café Frauentor

Where Thomas Klier bakes Thüringer Schmandkuchen every day

Café Frühling

Café Goudkantoor

Former tax office in northern Mannerist style, now a café

Café Graaf Floris

Don’t leave Utrecht without having coffee & appelbol here

Café Hammingh

Café Herrdegen

Konditorei Herrdegen · Bakery known for its Baumkuchen cake & Mannemer Dreck cookies

Café Herr Hase

Herr Hase · Coffee bar serving coffee from its own roastery

Café Hofbäckerei

K.u.K. Hofbäckerei Café · Get your Linzer Torte here at Linz’s oldest bakery

Café Hofburg

The place for Kaiserschmarren, the Emperor’s favourite pancake

Café Husaren

For coffee & hagabullen

Café Kaffistova

Traditional Norwegian cuisine

Café Kandler

Café serving home-made Bachtaler & Leipziger Lerche pastry

Café Karin

Breakfast all day!

Café Knigge

Konditorei Knigge

Café Kranzler

Coffee roastery The Barn now runs the place

Café Kronenhalle

Kronenhalle · Upmarket restaurant & bar with paintings by Chagall, Picasso & Miró

Café Kuchentratsch

Kuchentratsch · Grandma-style traditional German coffee & cake

Café La Couronne d’Or

La Couronne d’Or

Café Landtmann

Posh café serving apple strudel from Schönbrunn Palace’s bakery

Café Lloyd

Lloyd Caffee · Café & roastery housed in the former HAG Coffee Factory by architect Hugo Wagner

Café Louvre

Café Luxembourg

Café Majestic

Belle-époque café

Café Martha

Café Meierei

Brewery & inn

Café Metropol

Modern café serving regional products

Café Moscow

Café Moskau

Café Mozart

The Salzburger Nockerl is worth waiting for

Café Mozart

Café Munding

Munding

Café Museum

Former hangout for Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele & others

Café Niederegger

The marzipan & nut cake from Niederegger’ patisserie is quite good

Café Odeon

Art nouveau café

Café Olivier

Belgian beer café in a former church

Café Oudaen

Stadskasteel Oudaen · Brewery & Grand Café

Café Paris

Café Poffertjes en Pannekoeken

Dutch restaurant with a distinctive un-Dutch look & feel

Café Residenz

Their Hofbackstube offers an apple strudel baking course

Café Rhyschänzli

Rhyschänzli Buvette

Café Romand

Traditional Swiss cuisine

Café Sacher

Home of the Sachertorte

Café Sacher

Home of the Sachertorte

Café Sacher

Home of the Sachertorte

Café Savoy

A refined café — but don’t accept a table upstairs

Café Speicherstadt

Speicherstadt Kaffeerösterei · Café serving coffee from its own roastery

Café Sprüngli

Confiserie Sprüngli · It’s a famous confectionery as well

Café Stecker

Konditorei Stecker

Café Strauss

A tranquil resting place at the Friedrichwerder Cemetery

Café Teestübchen im Schnoor

Teestübchen im Schnoor · Tea room serving home-made cakes

Café Tomaselli

Café-wise, Salzburg can’t get much better

Café Tribeka

Tribeka · Hipster café

Café Ugly Duck

Eetcafé Ugly Duck

Café Zum Arabischen Coffe Baum

Zum Arabischen Coffe Baum · Germany’s oldest coffee shop, closed until further notice

Cairn of Barnenez

Cairn de Barnenez

Cálem Cellars

Caves Cálem · Port cellar — if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian · Museum of Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Islamic & oriental art, old coins, and European painting & decorative arts

Cambrian Coast Railway Line

Scenic railway along the coastline, via Dovey Junction to Pwllheli

Cambridge American Cemetery

World War II cemetery

Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Press Museum

Camera Work

Photographic art gallery

Camp Adventure

Climbing park & observation tower

Campo del Moro Park

Campo del Moro

Campus Galli

Medieval constructing like 1200 years ago

Camp Vught National Memorial

Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught · Former Nazi concentration camp

Canadian National Vimy Memorial

Mémorial national du Canada à Vimy · World War I memorial by sculptor Walter Allward

Cannenburch Castle

Kasteel Cannenburch · 18th-century castle

Canterbury Cathedral

Cantonal Museum of Fine Art

Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts

CAPC

Centre d’arts plastiques contemporains · Contemporary art museum

Ca’ Pesaro

Contemporary art gallery

Cape St Vincent

Cabo de São Vicente · The end of continental Europe (on this side, at least)

Capitoline Museums

Musei Capitolini · The bronze sculpture of the Capitoline she-wolf is here

Cap San Diego Museum Ship

Cap San Diego · Cargo steamer, built 1961

Capuchin Crypt

Kapuzinergruft · Imperial crypt of the Habsburgs

Caputh House

Schloss Caputh

Cardiff Castle

Cardiff Story Museum

Ca’ Rezzonico

Museum of 18th-century Venice

Cargaleiro Museum

Museu Cargaleiro · Museum dedicated to ceramic artist & painter Manuel Cargaleiro

Carisbrooke Castle

Medieval castle & Edwardian-style garden

Carl Bosch Museum

Carl Maria von Weber Museum

Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Museum · Museum dedicated to composer CMvW

Carl Nielsen Childhood Home

Carl Nielsens Barndomshjem

Carlo Goldoni’s House

Casa di Carlo Goldoni

Carmo Archaeological Museum

Museu Arqueológico do Carmo

Carnac Megalithic Site

Alignements de Carnac

Carnavalet Museum

Musée Carnavalet · Museum dedicated to the history of Paris

Carolina Rediviva

Home to the Codex argenteus

Carriage Museum

Kutschenmuseum Auerstedt · Closed until further notice

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge

Carrières de Lumières

Carris Museum

Museu da Carris · Public transport museum

Carrouges Castle

Château de Carrouges

Car & Tractor Museum

Auto & Traktor Museum · 150 tractors & 200 cars & motorbikes

Casa Batlló

House by architect Antoni Gaudí

Casa da Música

Concert hall by architect Rem Koolhaas

Casa dos Bicos

A 16th-century survivor of the 1755 earthquake with a typical facade

Casa Martelli

Casa Vicens

The first home designed by architect Antoni Gaudí

Casino Marino

Castell Coch

Castelnau-Bretenoux Castle

Château de Castelnau-Bretenoux

Castle and Ramparts of Carcassonne

Château et remparts de la cité de Carcassonne

Castle Church

Schlosskirche · Martin Luther made his 95 theses public on the main door of this church

Castle Museum

Schlossmuseum · Local history museum, closed for renovation until 2024

Castle of If

Château d’If

Castle of the Counts

Gravensteen

Castletown House

Catacombs of St Callixtus

Catacombe di San Callisto

Cathedral Museum

Dom-Museum Bremen · Cathedral Museum

Cathedral Museum

Dommuseum

Cathedral of Saint Nicholas

Kathedraal van de Heilige Nikolaas · Greek Orthodox cathedral with a magnificent interior

Cathedral of St Bavo

Kathedrale Basiliek Sint Bavo · Church by architect Joseph Cuypers

Cathedral of St Gall

Stiftskirche St. Gallen · Baroque church

Cathedral of St James

Dom zu St. Jakob

Cathedral Treasury

Domschatzkammer · Home to the bust of Charlemagne

Cauchie House

Cauchie Huis · Art nouveau house by architect Paul Cauchie

Cave of Pair-non-Pair

Grotte de Pair-non-Pair

Caves of Han

Grottes de Han

Cecilienhof Country House

Schloss Cecilienhof · A great place for a conference

Celestial Vault

Hemels Gewelf · Artwork by James Turrell

Cenacle Church

Cenakelkerk · Early-20th-century church with a magnificent dome

Center of Contemporary Art Geneva

Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève · Contemporary art gallery

Centovalli Railway

Ferrovia delle Centovalli · Scenic railway line to Domodossola

Centraal Museum

Art museum

Centre Charlemagne

Museum dedicated to Charles the Great & the history of Aachen

Centre de la Photographie Genève

Photographic art gallery

Centre del Carme

Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel

Museum dedicated to Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Centre Pompidou

Contemporary art museum by architects Richard Rogers & Renzo Piano

Centre Pompidou Metz

Contemporary art museum

Cerralbo Museum

Museo Cerralbo

Chabot Museum

Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Henk Chabot

Chagall Museum

Musée national Marc Chagall

Chaîne Tower

Tour de la Chaîne

Chamberí Metro Station

Estación de Chamberí · Madrid Metro ghost station

Chamber of Crafts

Gewerbehaus · Weser Renaissance trade chamber

Chambord Castle

Château de Chambord

Champmol Charterhouse

Chartreuse de Champmol · Home to the Well of Moses

Champs-sur-Marne Castle

Château de Champs-sur-Marne

Changing the Guard

45 minutes of British pageantry

Chapel Bridge

Kapellbrücke · Iconic covered bridge

Chapelle des Moines

Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut

Chapel by architect Le Corbusier

Chapel of Reconciliation

Kapelle der Versöhnung · Chapel by architects Peter Sassenroth & Rudolf Reitermann

Chapel of the Apparitions

Capelinha das Aparições · The 1917 apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima to the three little shepherds took place here

Chapters Bookstore

Chareil-Cintrat Castle

Château de Chareil-Cintrat

Charles Bridge

Karlův most · Bridge with statues of St John of Nepomuk & 29 other saints

Charles de Gaulle Memorial

Mémorial Charles de Gaulle · Museum dedicated to the first President of the Fifth Republic

Charles Dickens Museum

Charlier Museum

Musée Charlier · Art museum

Charlottenburg Palace

Schloss Charlottenburg · Rococo palace of Sophia Charlotte, the first Queen Consort in Prussia

Charlottenhof Villa

Schloss Charlottenhof · Neoclassical villa by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Chartres Cathedral

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres

Château d’Angers

Home to the Tapestry of the Apocalypse

Château d’Auvers-sur-Oise

The Impressionist Vision exhibition is okay-ish

Château d’Azay-le-Rideau

Château de Chantilly

Château de Chenonceau

Château de Courson

Château de Fontainebleau

Must-see royal & imperial palace

Château de Maintenon

Château de Malmaison

Private residence of Napoleon & Joséphine

Château de Menthon-Saint-Bernard

Château de Prangins

18th-century castle

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

Baroque palace by architect Louis Le Vau, with a garden by landscape architect André le Nôtre

Château de Villandry

Renaissance house & gardens

Château du Hohlandsbourg

Châteaudun Castle

Château de Châteaudun

Chatsworth House

Lavish stately home with noted art collection

Checkpoint Bravo

Former inner German border crossing

Checkpoint Charlie

Former inner German border crossing

Cheisacher Tower

Cheisacherturm · 25-m-high wooden observation tower

Chemist Van der Pigge

Drogisterij Van der Pigge · The shop’s interior has changed very little since its opening in 1849

Chemnitz Museum of Industry

Industriemuseum Chemnitz · Industrial heritage museum

Chemnitz Park Railway

Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz · Minimum-gauge pioneer railway

Chemnitz Tram Museum

Straßenbahnmuseum Chemnitz

Chemnitz Zoo

Tierpark Chemnitz

Chester Beatty Library

Manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books & decorative arts

Chetham’s Library

Chiemgau Railway

Chiemgaubahn · The train to the Chiemsee Railway

Chiemsee Railway

Chiemsee-Bahn · The steam tram to the Chiemsee

Chiemsee-Schifffahrt

The ship to the Herreninsel & the Fraueninsel

Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore

Chiesa di San Giorgio Maggiore

Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli

Renaissance church by architect Pietro Lombardo

Chilehaus

Brick expressionism office building by architect Fritz Höger

Chillon Castle

Château de Chillon · Medieval fortress on the shores of Lake Geneva

Chinese Garden

Chinesischer Garten · Traditional Chinese garden with various pavilions

Chinese Garden

Chinagarten

Chinese House in Sanssouci Park

Chinesisches Haus im Park Sanssouci · Chinoiserie rococo pavilion

Chinese Pavilion

Kina slott

Chiswick House & Gardens

Chocolate Museum

Schokoladenmuseum Köln

Chocolatería San Ginés

Possibly the most popular place for chocolate con churros

Chocolaterie Bitter & Zart

Chocolate shop & café

Chorin Abbey

Kloster Chorin · Brick gothic architecture

Christ Church Cathedral

Cathedral with a mummified cat & rat, known locally as ‘Tom & Jerry’

Christ Church Cathedral

Christiansborg Palace

Christiansborg Slot · The Gobelin tapestries in Great Hall are quite nice

Christmas Village

Weihnachtsdorf · Käthe Wohlfahrt’s christmas shop that is open year round

Christuskirche

Art nouveau church

Christys

Buy your bowler hat here

Churchill War Rooms

Church of Garmerwolde

Kerk van Garmerwolde · 13th-century church with a freestanding climbable tower

Church of Hornhuizen

Kerk van Hornhuizen · Church with a climbable tower which offers a great view of the Wadden Sea

Church of Noordbroek

Kerk van Noordbroek · Church with a detached tower & and a superb organ by Arp Schnitger

Church of Our Lady

Liebfrauenkirche · Church with stained-glass windows by artist Alfred Manessier

Church of Our Lady

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk

Church of Our Lady

Église Notre-Dame · Gothic church

Church of Our Lady

Frauenkirche · Thank God it was rebuilt in 2005

Church of Our Lady

Vor Frue Kirke · Neoclassical church by architect Christian Frederik Hansen

Church of Our Lady

Frauenkirche · Brick Gothic church

Church of Our Lady

Liebfrauenkirche · Gothic church

Church of Our Lady before Týn

Kostel Matky Boží před Týnem

Church of Peace

Friedenskirche · Church by architects Fritz Schupp & Martin Kremmer, who also designed the Zollverein & Rammelsberg mines

Church of Peace

Friedenskirche · Byzantine Revival church by architect Ludwig Persius

Church of San Nicolás de Bari and San Pedro Mártir

Iglesia de San Nicolás de Bari y San Pedro Mártir · The Sistine Chapel of Valencia

Church of São Lourenço

Igreja de São Lourenço · Azulejo tile-adorned church

Church of St Anthony of Lisbon

Igreja de Santo António de Lisboa · Church that stands on the place where Saint Anthony was born

Church of St Bernadette of Banlay

Église Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay · Brutalist church by architects Paul Virilio & Claude Parent

Church of St Francis

Igreja de São Francisco

Church of St John

Sint-Jan · The 72 stained-glass windows are the highlight of European glass painting

Church of St Lawrence

Laurenskerk · Rotterdam’s only surviving medieval building

Church of St Leodegar

Hofkirche St. Leodegar · Renaissance church with an organ featuring a rain machine

Church of St Leopold

Kirche am Steinhof · Art nouveau church by architect Otto Wagner

Church of St Mary the Virgin

Church of St Peter

Église Saint-Pierre

Church of St Peter

Peterskirche München

Church of St Peter

Église Saint-Pierre des Chartreux · Carthusian church with a superb organ

Church of St Philibert

Église Saint-Philibert · Romanesque church

Church of the Holy Spirit

Heiliggeistkirche

Church of the Infant Jesus

Kostel Pražského Jezulátka · Church famous for its statue of Jesus at the age of 4–5 years

Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord

Kostel Nejsvětějšího Srdce Páně · Modern church by architect Josip Plečnik

Church of the Redeemer

Heilandskirche · Byzantine Revival church by architect Ludwig Persius

Church of the Sacred Heart

Herz-Jesu-Kirche · Modern church by Allmann Sattler Wappner architects

Church of Wies

Wieskirche · A perfect example of Bavarian rococo architecture

Cibeles Fountain

Fuente de Cibeles

CIMA

Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art · Museum of self-playing musical instruments

Cinémathèque française

Film archives & museum by architect Frank Gehry

Circle Bridge

Cirkelbroen · Pedestrian bridge by artist Olafur Eliasson

Circus Maximus

Circo Massimo

Cismar Monastery

Kloster Cismar

Cistercian Museum Walkenried Monastery

ZisterzienserMuseum Kloster Walkenried

Citadel

Zitadelle · Fortress & local history museum

Cité de la Mode et du Design

Fashion & design museum

Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine

Architecture museum

Cité de l’espace

Cité des sciences et de l’industrie

Science & technology museum

Cité internationale de la tapisserie

Museum dedicated to tapestry-making in Aubusson

Cité radieuse

Unité d’habitation · Brutalist architecture by Le Corbusier

Cité radieuse

Unité d’habitation · Brutalist architecture by Le Corbusier

City Art Centre

City Brewery De Koninck

Stadsbrouwerij De Koninck

City Castle

Stadtschloss · Closed for renovation until 2030

City Chambers

City Hall

Rathaus

City Hall

Stadhuis · One of the oldest city halls in the Low Countries

City Hall

Rådhus · City hall by architect Martin Nyrop, inspired by Sienna’s Palazzo Pubblico

City Hall

Stadhuis · City hall with an impressive Renaissance facade

City Hall

Rådhus · Where the the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony takes place

City Hall

Rathaus · Flemish Gothic town hall by architect Friedrich Schmidt

City Hall

Stadthaus · City hall by architect Gottfried Semper

City Halls

City Museum

Stadtmuseum

City Museum at Fembo House

Stadtmuseum im Fembo-Haus

City Museum Weimar

Stadtmuseum Weimar · Local history museum

City of Paris Fine Art Museum

Petit Palais · Fine art museum

City of Paris Museum of Modern Art

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris · Contemporary art museum

City of Prague Museum

Muzeum hlavního města Prahy

City Palace

Potsdamer Stadtschloss · Ceci n’est pas un château

City Tower

Stadtturm

Clarté Building

Immeuble Clarté · Prototype Unité d’habitation by architect Le Corbusier

Claude Monet’s House and Gardens

Maison et jardins de Claude Monet

Clemenskirche

Baroque church by architect Johann Conrad Schlaun

Clemens Sels Museum Neuss

Clementinum

Klementinum · A great baroque library, but the guided tour is quite disappointing

Clérigos Tower

Torre dos Clérigos

Clervaux Castle

Château de Clervaux · Home to Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man photographic exhibition

Cliffs of Moher

Clifton Cathedral

Brutalist church by architect Ronald Weeks

Climate House Bremerhaven

Klimahaus Bremerhaven · Climate museum

Clock Museum

Uhrenmuseum · Seven hundred clocks from around the globe

Clock Tower

Zytglogge · 13th-century city tower

Clock Tower

Uhrturm

Clock Tower

Torre dell’Orologio

Cloister of Fréjus Cathedral

Cloître de la cathédrale de Fréjus

Cloister of La Psalette

Cloître de la Psalette

Cloister of Puy-en-Velay Cathedral

Cloître de la cathédrale du Puy-en-Velay

Cluny Museum

Musée de Cluny · Home to the famous The Lady & the Unicorn tapestries

Cobra Museum

Museum dedicated to the Cobra art movement

Coin Cabinet

Münzkabinett

Coin Cabinet

Münzkabinett

Colditz Castle

Schloss Colditz · Former POW camp

Collectie De Groen

Fine art gallery

Collection de l’Art Brut

Outsider art museum

Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace

Colloredo-Mansfeldský palác · Baroque city palace

Cologne Cable Car

Kölner Seilbahn · Cable car from the Zoo to the Rheinpark

Cologne Cathedral

Kölner Dom · Gothic cathedral, built 1248–1880

Cologne City Museum

Kölnisches Stadtmuseum · Local history museum

Cologne Sculpture Park

Skulpturenpark Köln · Contemporary sculpture park

Cologne Zoo

Kölner Zoo

Colonna Palace

Palazzo Colonna

Colosseum

Colosseo

Column of the Great Army

Colonne de la Grande Armée · Actually a monument for Napoleon

Comics Art Museum

Musée de la Bande Dessinée

Command Bunker Kemmel

Commandobunker Kemmel · Cold War command centre

Compiègne Palace

Palais de Compiègne · Built by Louis XV & XVI & remodelled by Napoleon I & III

Compton Verney

Art gallery & park

Computer Museum

Computermuseum

Concertgebouw

Concert hall praised for its excellent acoustics

Concertgebouw Brugge

Concert hall

Conciergerie

Prison that held, among others, Marie Antoinette & Robespierre

Confeitaria Arcádia

Artfully crafted chocolates

Confeitaria Nacional

Don’t even think about skipping this famous confectionery

Congress Graz

Concert hall

Consolidation Mine

Zeche Consolidation · Home to artist Werner Thiel’s collection of mining artefacts

Consortium Museum

Contemporary art museum

Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceição

Azulejo tile-adorned convent

Convent of Christ

Convento de Cristo

Convent of La Tourette

Couvent de La Tourette · Priory by architect Le Corbusier

Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia

Klášter svaté Anežky České · Medieval & early Renaissance Bohemian art museum

Convent of St John

Kloster St. Johann · Abbey church with Carolingian frescoes

Conwy Castle

Medieval fortress

Copenhagen Concert Hall

Koncerthuset · Concert hall by architect Jean Nouvel

Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre

Nikolaj Kunsthal · Contemporary art gallery

Copenhagen Zoo

København Zoo · Zoo with an elephant house by architect Norman Foster

Corbusierhaus

Unité d’habitation · Brutalist architecture by Le Corbusier

Cordings

Upmarket town & country outfitters

Corinium Museum

Corpus

A journey through the human body

Corrie ten Boom House

Corrie ten Boomhuis · Museum dedicated to The Hiding Place, the subject of a book by Corrie ten Boom

Corvey Abbey

Schloss Corvey · Former imperial abbey

Cosmonaut Centre

Kosmonautenzentrum · Sigmund Jähn was here

Cottbus Memorial Prison

Gedenkstätte Zuchthaus Cottbus · Former prison for political prisoners

Coucy Castle

Château de Coucy

Coudenberg Palace

Palais du Coudenberg

Country Surgeon Micro Museum

Court Church

Hofkirche · Church with the tomb of Emperor Maximilian I

Court Garden

Hofgarten

Couven Museum

Couven-Museum · Upper middle class domestic culture in the 18th & 19th centuries

Covent Garden

Coventry Cathedral

Modern cathedral & ruins of the previous one

Coventry Transport Museum

Motor cars, motorcycles & bicycles

Cranach Courtyards and Houses

Cranach-Höfe und Cranach-Häuser · Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder & Christian Döring

Crich Tramway Village

Home of the National Tramway Museum

Cricket Church

Igreja de São Lourenço

Croagh Patrick

Holy mountain

Cruquius Museum

Home to the worlds’ largest steam engine ever built, used to empty the Haarlemmermeer polder

Crystal Palace

Palacio de Cristal

Cube Houses

Kijk-Kubus · Cube-shaped house by architect Piet Blom

Cultural Centre

Maison de la Culture

Cutty Sark

Cuypershuis Museum

Cuypershuis · Museum dedicated to architect Pierre Cuypers

CWGC Experience

Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s visitor centre

Cycling through Water

Fietsen door het water

Czech Museum of Music

České muzeum hudby

Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site

KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau · Former Nazi concentration camp

Dachau Palace

Schloss Dachau

DAF Museum

Car museum

Dählhölzli

Zoo

Dalheim Monastery

Kloster Dalheim · Museum of monastic culture

Dallmayr Delicatessen

Restaurant, bar & grill, and café-bistro

Da Matteo

Matts Johansson’s café, roastery & bakery

Dancing House

Tančící dům · Office building by architects Vlado Milunič & Frank Gehry

Danish Architecture Center

Dansk Arkitektur Center

Danish Jewish Museum

Dansk Jødisk Museum

Danish Museum of Science & Technology

Danmarks Tekniske Museum

Danish Music Museum

Musikmuseet

Danish Poster Museum

Dansk Plakatmuseum

Danish Railway Museum

Danmarks Jernbanemuseum

Danish War Museum

Krigsmuseet · Military history museum

Dankwarderode Castle

Burg Dankwarderode · Medieval exhibition

Danube Swabian Museum

Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum

Danube Tower

Donauturm

DART

Dublin Area Rapid Transit · Scenic train line along Dublin’s picturesque coast

Dartmouth Steam Railway

Heritage railway line

DASA Working World Exhibition

DASA Arbeitswelt Ausstellung · Museum dedicated to the past, present & future of work & working conditions, especially safety

Das Minsk Kunsthaus

Museum dedicated to art from the former GDR

Das Steingut

Farm refreshments by Sabine & Uwe Hähnel

Dauner Maare

DB Museum

Railway museum

DB Museum Halle

Railway museum

DB Museum Koblenz

Railway museum

D-Day Story

World War II museum

DDR Museum

Museum dedicated to the German Democratic Republic

DDR Museum Pforzheim

Museum dedicated to the German Democratic Republic

DDR Museum Pirna

Uncritical sentimental journey down memory lane for East Germans

De 9 Straatjes

Nine picturesque streets with quirky shops & eateries

Děčín Castle

Zámek Děčín

Děčín Zoo

Zoologická zahrada Děčín

De Doelen

Concert hall

Deer Moat

Jelení příkop · Wild glen with a modern pedestrian tunnel by architect Josef Pleskot

De Haar Castle

Kasteel de Haar · Gothic Revival castle, built 1892–1912 by architect Pierre Cuypers

De Hoge Veluwe National Park

De Hoge Veluwe

Deichtorhallen

Contemporary art gallery

Dekema State

16th-century manor house

De La Warr Pavilion

Modernist contemporary art gallery by architects Erich Mendelsohn & Serge Chermayeff

Delikatessen Frankowitsch

Sandwich bar

De Oosterpoort

Concert hall

De Pont Museum

De Pont · Contemporary art museum

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

Publicly accessible art depot by MVRDV architects

De Quack House

Huis De Quack · House by architect Jan de Quack

Der Aa Church

Der Aa-kerk · Medieval church with baroque spire & an organ by Arp Schnitger

De Ruien

Antwerp’s sewer system

Designist

Design shop

Design Museum

Design Museum Brussels

Design Museum Danmark

Designmuseum Danmark

Design Museum Dedel

Design Museum Den Bosch

Design Museum Gent

Design Museum of Barcelona

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

Deutsch-Deutsches Museum Mödlareuth

Former inner German border (Tannbach)

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Opera house

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Opera house

Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein

Heritage railway line

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum

Medical & public health museum

Deutsches Klingenmuseum

Museum dedicated to blade weapons, knives & cutlery

Deutsches Museum

Science & technology museum

Deutsches Museum Bonn

Contemporary masterpieces of science & technology

Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim

Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum

Transport museum

Deutsches Nationaltheater

Where the Weimar Republic was proclaimed

Deutsches Raiffeisenmuseum

Museum dedicated to cooperative pioneer Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

Deutsches Sport & Olympia Museum

Sports & olympic museum

The Devastated City

De Verwoeste Stad · Sculpture by Ossip Zadkine to commemorate the bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940

D’Haus

Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus · Theatre

DialogMuseum

Experience being blind

Dialogue in the Dark

Dialog im Dunkeln · Experience being blind

Didcot Railway Centre

Die Glocke

Concert hall

DieselHouse

Museum dedicated to diesel engines

Dijon Cathedral

Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne de Dijon · Burial site of Philip the Good

Dilsberg Fortress Ruins

Burgfeste Dilsberg

Diocesan Museum

Diözesanmuseum · Home to the Staurothek, a cross relic dating back to the 10th century

Diözesanmuseum

Discovery Museum

Science & technology museum

Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft

Doberan Minster

Doberaner Münster · Brick gothic architecture

Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds

Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände

Documentation Centre of Everyday Culture of the GDR

Dokumentationszentrum Alltagskultur der DDR · Museum dedicated to daily life in the German Democratic Republic

Doge’s Palace

Palazzo Ducale

Dokumentation Obersalzberg

Dokumentation Obersalzberg

Dolder Railway

Dolderbahn · 1⅓-km-long rack railway towards Adlisberg

Dolfinarium

Europe’s biggest marine mammal park

Döllnitz Railway

Döllnitzbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line

Dom Cathedral

Domkerk

Dome Church

Dôme des Invalides · Church with Napoleon’s tomb

Dome of St Blasien

Dom St. Blasien

Dom Fernando II e Glória Frigate

Fragata Dom Fernando II e Glória · Portugal’s last sailing warship

Domies Toen

Botanical garden & teahouse

Dominicanen Bookshop

Boekhandel Dominicanen

Dom Museum Wien

Museum housing the cathedral’s sacred & historic treasures

Domnick Collection

Sammlung Domnick · Contemporary art museum

DomQuartier

Dom Tower

Domtoren · The highest church tower in the Netherlands

DOMunder

Underground discovery tour through 2,000 years

Domus Aurea

Dom zu Salzburg

Doorwerth Castle

Kasteel Doorwerth · 17th-century castle

Dordrechts Museum

Art museum featuring six centuries of Dutch painting

Dornburg Palaces

Dornburger Schlösser · Three palaces (old, rococo & Renaissance) & a baroque garden

Dornier Museum

Aerospace museum

Dorpskerk Church

Dorpskerk · Church with a tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst

Dort Patrician’s House

Dordts Patriciërshuis · Late 18th-century home of an upper-class family

Dovecot Studios

Tapestry manufactory & gallery

Dover Castle

Dowager’s Palace

Wittumspalais · Duchess Anna Amalia’s palace

Down House

The home of Charles Darwin

Drachenburg Castle

Schloss Drachenburg · Gothic Revival castle, built 1882–84

Drachenfels Railway

Drachenfelsbahn · Germany’s oldest rack railway

Drachmann House

Drachmanns Hus

Dragon Gorge

Drachenschlucht · Walking path through splendid rock formations

Dr. Carl Benz Car Museum

Automuseum Dr. Carl Benz · Museum dedicated to automotive pioneer Carl Benz

Dreikönigskirche

Baroque church by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann

Drentsche Aa National Park

Nationaal Park Drentsche Aa · 11-km-long hiking trail along the Drentsche Aa brook, a meandering stream that changes name near every village it flows past

Drents Museum

Art & regional history museum

Dresden Cathedral

Hofkirche · Church with a Silbermann organ & the heart of Augustus the Strong

Dresden City Art Museum

Städtische Galerie Dresden

Dresden City Museum

Stadtmuseum Dresden

Dresden Energy Museum

Dresdner Energie-Museum

Dresden-Neustadt City Walk

Erich Kästner Viertel · Walking tour through writer Erich Kästner’s neighbourhood

Dresden Park Railway

Dresdner Parkeisenbahn · Minimum-gauge pioneer railway

Dresden Technical Collections

Technische Sammlungen Dresden · Science & technology museum

Dresden Transport Museum

Verkehrsmuseum Dresden

Dresdner Molkerei Gebrüder Pfund

The most beautiful dairy in the world

Droog Design

Droog · Shop, café & bedroom

Drop Forge Hendrichs

Gesenkschmiede Hendrichs · Industrial heritage museum

Drottningholm Palace

Drottningholms Slott

Dublin Castle

Dublin Zoo

Ducal Museum

Herzogliches Museum

Ducal Palace Museum

Schlossmuseum Braunschweig · Looks like a palace, is a shopping mall, contains a museum

Ducal Palace of the Bragança

Paço dos Duques de Bragança

Ducal Vault

Fürstengruft · Goethe & Schiller mausoleum

Duchess Anna Amalia Library

Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek · Library noted for its Rococo Hall

Duivenvoorde Castle

Kasteel Duivenvoorde · 17th-century castle

Duke Anton Ulrich Museum

Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum · Art museum

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Contemporary art gallery

Dundee Science Centre

Science museum for kids

Duno Estate

Landgoed Duno · The prospect from the moraine is great

Düppel Museum Village

Museumsdorf Düppel · Living history museum

Durham Cathedral

Norman cathedral

Dutch Mining Museum

Nederlands Mijnmuseum

Dutch Open-Air Museum

Nederlands Openluchtmuseum · Living history museum

Dutch Quarter

Holländisches Viertel · Small neighbourhood with a distinctive Dutch look & feel

Dutch Silver Museum

Nederlands Zilvermuseum · Silver objects dating from 1600 to this day

Dutch Steam Engine Museum

Nederlands Stoommachinemuseum

Dutch Synagogue

Hollandse Synagoge · Moorish Revival synagogue

Dutch Water Museum

Nederlands Watermuseum · Museum dedicated to water management & purification

DZ Bank

Office building with a spectacular atrium by architect Frank Gehry

The Eagle and Child

Inklings C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien used to come here

Early Christian Museum

Museo Nazionale Paleocristiano

East Indiaman Götheborg

Ostindiefararen Götheborg

East Lancashire Railway

Heritage railway line

Ebbelwei Express

Ebbelwei-Expreß · Sightseeing tramline

Eckartsberga Labyrinth

Irrgarten Eckartsberga · Super-difficult 3,000 m² maze

Ecomare

Seal sanctuary

Edam Cheese Market

Kaasmarkt Edam · Tourist event on Wednesday mornings

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Zoo

Edmund Gorge

Edmundova soutěska

Edwin Scharff Museum

EFA Mobile Zeiten

Car museum

Egeskov Castle

Egeskov Slot

Eggenberg Palace

Schloss Eggenberg · The highlight of the state rooms is the Planetary Room

Egyptian Museum

Museo Egizio

Egyptian Museum of Barcelona

Museu Egipci de Barcelona

Ehrenbreitstein Fortress

Festung Ehrenbreitstein · 19th-century Prussian fortress

Ehrenburg Palace

Schloss Ehrenburg

Ehrenfriedersdorf Tin Mine

Zinngrube Ehrenfriedersdorf · Industrial heritage museum

Eichberg Tower

Eichbergturm · 53⅕-m-high observation tower

Eidsborg Stave Church

Eidsborg stavkyrkje · One of the best preserved stave churches, built around 1250

Eiffel Tower

Tour Eiffel · Entrance arch to the Universal Exposition of 1889

Einsiedeln Abbey

Kloster Einsiedeln · Monastery with an impressive baroque church

Einstein House

Einstein-Haus · Museum dedicated to physicist Albert Einstein

Einstein Tower

Einsteinturm · Solar observatory by architect Erich Mendelsohn

Eise Eisinga Planetarium

The oldest working orrery in the world

Eisenbahnwelten

Garden railway

Eis Fontanella

Spaghetti ice cream was invented here

Eisl Eis

Ice cream made from sheep’s milk

Ekebergparken Sculpture Park

Ekebergparken

Elbe River Cruise

Sächsische Dampfschiffahrt · Saxon Switzerland paddle steam boat cruise

Elbphilharmonie

Slightly expensive landmark concert hall with a Klais organ, by Herzog & de Meuron architects

Electropolis Electricity Museum

Musée Electropolis

The Elephant House

Elisabeth Orphanage Museum

Elisabeth Weeshuis Museum · The first purpose-built orphanage in the Netherlands

Elisa Fountain

Elisenbrunnen · By architects Johann Peter Cremer & Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Ellingen Residence

Residenz Ellingen

Eltham Palace and Gardens

Eltz Castle

Burg Eltz · 12th-century castle

Ely Cathedral

Elztalmuseum

Local history museum

Emigration Museum Ballinstadt

Ballinstadt Auswanderermuseum · Museum dedicated to emigration to the New World

Energy Factory Knappenrode

Energiefabrik Knappenrode · Industrial heritage museum

Engadine Museum

Museum Engiadinais · Regional history museum

Engels House

Engels-Haus · Museum dedicated to philosopher Friedrich Engels

English Garden

Jardin Anglais · Park featuring a floral clock

English Garden

Englischer Garten · Of the three stationary waves in Munich the Eisbachwelle provides the coolest surf spot

Ensérune Archaeological Site

Site archéologique d’Ensérune

Ephraim Palace Museum

Museum Ephraim-Palais · Rococo city palace, closed for renovation

EPIC

The Irish Emigration Museum · Museum dedicated to Irish emigration

Epinal American Cemetery

Cimetière américain d’Épinal · World War II cemetery

Erasmus Experience

Get to know Rotterdam’s greatest thinker at the Public Library

Erlebnisbahn Templin-Fürstenberg

Rail bike tours

Erlebnisbahn Zossen–Mellensee

Rail bike tours

Ernest Renan’s House

Maison d’Ernest Renan

Ernst Barlach Haus

Museum dedicated to sculptor Ernst Barlach

Ernst Fuchs Museum

Villa by architect Otto Wagner, now a museum

Ernst May House

Ernst-May-Haus · Social housing by architect Ernst May featuring a Frankfurt Kitchen

Escher in Het Paleis

Museum dedicated to artist M.C. Escher

Esperanto Museum

Esperantomuseum · Esperantomuzeo kaj Kolekto por Planlingvoj

Essen Cathedral

Essener Dom · Home to the Golden Madonna of Essen

Estates Theatre

Stavovské divadlo · Opera, drama & ballet performances

Esterházy Palace

Schloss Esterházy · Baroque palace

Etaples Military Cemetery

Cimetière militaire britannique d’Étaples · Commonwealth World War I cemetery

Ethnographical Museum Dresden

Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden

Ethnographical Museum Herrnhut

Völkerkundemuseum Herrnhut

Ethnographic Museum

Národopisné muzeum

Ethnographic Museum

Völkerkundemuseum

Ethnography Museum Geneva

Musée d’ethnographie de Genève

Ethnological Museum

Ethnologisches Museum · Ethnographic stuff from Africa, Asia, America & Oceania

ETH Zurich

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich · Polytechnic by architect Gottfried Semper

Ettal Monastery

Kloster Ettal

Eugène Delacroix Museum

Musée National Eugène-Delacroix · Museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix

Euromast

185–m-high tower by architect Huig Maaskant

European Hansa Museum

Europäisches Hansemuseum · Museum dedicated to the history of the Hanseatic League

European Museum of Modern Art

Museu Europeu d’Art Modern

European Museum of Modern Glass

Europäisches Museum für Modernes Glas

Eusebius Church

Eusebiuskerk · Medieval church

Eva van Hoogeveenhof

Almshouse for chaste maidens & honourable widows

Ewsum Tea Garden

Theeschenkerij Ewsum

Exeter Cathedral

Expatiory Chapel

Chapelle expiatoire · Mausoleum for guillotined King Louis XVI & Queen Marie Antoinette

Experimenta

Science & technology museum

Experimentarium

Science & technology museum

Experiminta

Science museum for kids

Extavium

Science museum for kids

EYE Film Museum

EYE Filmmuseum

Ezinge Village Walk

Ezinge · Mound village with a 13th-century church with a detached tower

F60 Visitor Mine

Besucherbergwerk F60 · The horizontal Eiffel Tower of Lusatia

Fabrique des Lumières

Digital art centre

Fado Museum

Museu do Fado · Portuguese melancholic songs & guitar music

Fagus Factory

Fagus-Werk · Functionalist factory by architects Walter Gropius & Adolf Meyer

Falkirk Wheel

Rotating boat lift

Fallon & Byrne

Restaurant, food hall & wine cellar

Familistère

Social palace built by industrialist Jean-Baptiste André Godin for his utopian cooperative community

Famine Memorial

Monument to the Great Famine (1845–49) by Rowan Gillespie

Fantaisie Palace Garden Museum

Gartenkunst-Museum Schloss Fantaisie

Fantoft Stave Church

Fantoft stavkirke · Replica of the original 1100s church, which was burned down by some asshole in 1992

Farmhouse Museum

Bielefelder Bauernhausmuseum

Farmhouse Museum

Bäuerliches Wohnmuseum · One of Liechtenstein’s oldest wooden homesteads

Farmleigh House

Art gallery, working farm & official Irish State guest house

Faro de Moncloa

92-m-high observation tower

Fashion & Lace Museum

Musée Mode & Dentelle

Fashion Museum Hasselt

Modemuseum Hasselt

Faunia

Zoo & botanical garden

Federsee Museum

Federseemuseum · Archaeological open-air museum

Feldberg Cable Car

Feldbergbahn

Feldbergsteig Trail

Feldbergsteig · 12½-km-long circular hiking trail

Felix Nussbaum House

Felix-Nussbaum-Haus

Felsenreitschule

Edelweiß, Edelweiß

Ferdinandeum

Tyrolean State Museum focusing on Dutch & local art and the history of Tyrol

Ferropolis

City of iron

Festival Hall

Festspielhaus · Concert hall in a former railway station

Festungsbahn

Funicular railway to Hohensalzburg Fortress

FFA Museum

Fliegermuseum Fahrzeugmuseum Altenrhein · Aircraft & motorcar museum

Fichtelberg Cable Car

Fichtelberg Schwebebahn

Fichtelberg Railway

Fichtelbergbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line

Field Marshals’ Hall

Feldherrnhalle

FIFA World Football Museum

For those who like football

Figure découpée

Sculpture by Pablo Picasso

Film Museum Potsdam

Filmmuseum Potsdam · Museum dedicated to the Babelsberg studios

Fine Arts Museum

Musée des Beaux-Arts

Finstergrund Visitor Mine

Besucherbergwerk Finstergrund

Fish Church

Feskekörka · Indoor fish market

Fitzbillies

Cake shop serving Chelsea buns

Fitzwilliam Museum

Fine printed books here, including the complete set of William Morris’ Kelmscott Press books

Flåm Railway

Flåmsbana · 20-km-long railway line connecting Myrdal to Flåm

Flatow Tower

Flatowturm · 46-m-high Gothic Revival observation tower

Flood Museum

Watersnoodmuseum · Museum dedicated to the North Sea flood of 1953

Florence American Cemetery

Cimitero americano di Firenze · World War II cemetery

Florence Cathedral

Santa Maria del Fiore · The landmark cathedral with the majestic dome

Florence Nightingale Museum

Flørli Stairway

Flørlitrappene

Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial

KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg · Former Nazi concentration camp

Foam

Photography museum

Focke Museum

Focke-Museum · Art & local history museum

FocusTerra

Geology museum

Folk Life Museum

Volkskundemuseum

Folklore Museum

Volkskunde Museum

FOMU

Fotomuseum Antwerpen · Museum for photography

Fondation Beyeler

Contemporary art museum by architect Renzo Piano

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography exhibitions

Food Hallen

Foodhallen · International indoor food market

Fools Tower

Narrenturm · The Natural History Museum’s pathological-anatomical collection

Forchtenstein Castle

Burg Forchtenstein

Fort de Brégançon

Fort de la Pompelle Museum

Musée du Fort de la Pompelle

Fort Eben-Emael

Forth Bridge

Iconic cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth

Fortified Town of Mont-Dauphin

Place forte de Mont-Dauphin

Fort Napoleon

Fortress

Fortnum & Mason

For afternoon tea & knickerbocker glory

Fort Pampus

Fort on an artificial island, built 1887–97

Fortress of Salses

Forteresse de Salses

Fort Saint-André

Fort Schoenenbourg

Fort de Schoenenbourg · Maginot Line fortress

Fortuny Palace

Palazzo Fortuny

Forum Baths

Thermen am Viehmarkt

Forum Groningen

Big building with a 45-m-high rooftop terrace

Forum of Augustus

Foro di Augusto

Forum of Caesar

Foro di Cesare

Forum of Swiss History

Forum Schweizer Geschichte · Swiss history museum

Forum Willy Brandt

Exhibition dedicated to politician Willy Brandt

Foteviken Museum

Fotevikens Museum · Living history museum featuring Vikings

Fotodok

Photographic art gallery

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

Photographic art gallery

Fotografiska

Photography exhibitions

Fotomuseum Winterthur

Museum for photography

Fougères-sur-Bièvre Castle

Château de Fougères-sur-Bièvre

Foundling Museum

Art museum

Foyles

Five floors of books

Fraeylemaborg Estate

Fraeylemaborg · 18th-century moated manor house & garden

Framlingham Castle

12th-century citadel

Fram Museum

Frammuseet

François Duesberg Museum

Musée François Duesberg · Decorative arts museum

Franconian Gallery

Fränkische Galerie · Paintings by Lucas Cranach & sculptures by Tilman Riemenschneider

Franconian Open-Air Museum

Fränkisches Freilandmuseum · Living history museum

Frankfurt Art Association

Frankfurter Kunstverein

Frankfurt River Cruise

Panoramafahrt Frankfurt

Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Alte Börse

Frankfurt Transit Museum

Verkehrsmuseum Frankfurt · Museum dedicated to the evolution of mass transit in Frankfurt

Frankfurt Zoo

Zoo Frankfurt

Frans Hals Museum

17th-century paintings from Haarlem, especially by Frans Hals

Frans Hals Museum HAL

Contemporary art museum

Franziskanerkirche

Franziskanerkirche

Franz Kafka’s Head

Hlava Franze Kafky · Kinetic bust of writer Franz Kafka by artist David Černý

Franz Marc Museum

Expressionist art museum

Frauenbad Stadthausquai

Art nouveau outdoor swimming pool for women only

Fraumünster

Church with stained-glass windows by Augusto Giacometti & Marc Chagall

Fredensborg Palace

Fredensborg Slot

Freedom Museum

Vrijheidsmuseum · World War II museum

Freiberg Cathedral

Freiberger Dom St. Marien · Church with a Silbermann organ

Freiberg Silver Mine

Silberbergwerk Freiberg

Freiburg City Walk

Freiburg · The Bächle, the small canals in the old town, are lovely

Freiburg Minster

Freiburger Münster

Freilichtmuseum Lindlar

Open-air museum

Freilichtmuseum Neuhausen ob Eck

Open-air museum

Freitag Flagship Store

Individual recycled freeway bags shop by Spillmann Echsle Architects

French Cathedral

Französischer Dom · Weekly organ concertos

French Museum of Photography

Musée Français de la Photographie

Freudenberg City Walk

Freudenberg · Historic town with half-timbered houses

Frida & Fred

Children’s museum by architects Hemma Fasch & Jakob Fuchs

Fridericianum

Contemporary art gallery

Friedenstein Castle

Schloss Friedenstein

Friedrichstein Palace

Schloss Friedrichstein · Home to the Hessian Hunting & Military History Collection

Friedrichswerder Church

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche · Gothic Revival church by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Frisian Resistance Museum

Fries Verzetsmuseum · Museum dedicated to the Frisian resistance in World War II

Fromagerie Quatrehomme

Cracking cheese, Gromit!

Frøslev Camp Museum

Frøslevlejrens Museum · World War II prisoner of war camp

Fugger and Welser Museum

Fugger und Welser Erlebnismuseum

Fuglsang Art Museum

Fuglsang Kunstmuseum

Funen Village

Den Fynske Landsby

Funeral Museum

Bestattungsmuseum

Fürstliches Residenzschloss

Fürther Miniaturwelten

Model railway

FutureLand

Exhibition dedicated to the Port of Rotterdam

Futurium

Interactive exhibits on vital issues for the future

G2 Kunsthalle

Contemporary art gallery

Gaasbeek Castle

Kasteel van Gaasbeek

Gaia Cable Car

Teleférico de Gaia

Gaia Zoo

GAK

Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst · Contemporary art gallery

Galerie des Gobelins

The tapestry manufactory

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst

Contemporary art gallery

Galerie p98a

Erik Spiekermann’s typographic workshop

Galeries Lafayette

Iconic luxury department store

Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert

19th-century shopping centre

Galician Centre of Contemporary Art

Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo · Contemporary art museum by architect Álvaro Siza

Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze

Home to Michelangelo’s David

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

One of the world’s oldest shopping malls

Gallerie dell’Accademia

Gallerie d’Italia

Art museum

Gallerie d’Italia

Art museum

Gallerie d’Italia

Art museum

Gallery of Evolution

Grande Galerie de l’Évolution · Grand parade of stuffed animals

Gallery of Fine Arts

Galerie des Beaux-Arts

Gallo-Roman Museum

Gallo-Romeins Museum

Gamla Linköping Open-Air Museum

Friluftsmuseet Gamla Linköping · Living history museum

Garda Museum

Small museum of policing in Ireland

Garden of Five Senses

Jardin des Cinq Sens · Sensory garden

Garden of Plants

Jardin des Plantes · Botanical garden

Garden of Remembrance

Garden Society of Gothenburg

Trädgårdsföreningen · One of the best-preserved 19th-century parks in Europe

Gardens of the World

Gärten der Welt · Gardens from five continents

Garment Museum

Museo del Traje

Gasometer Oberhausen

Exhibition centre

Gasometer Pforzheim

360° panorama by Yadegar Asisi

Gaudí Experiència

Gauforum

Former Nazi office buildings & rally grounds by architect Hermann Giesler

Gaupne Old Church

Gaupne gamle kyrkje

GDR Watchtower

DDR-Grenzwachturm · One of the 302 Berlin Wall observation towers

Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn

Gedenkstätte Steinhof

Former Nazi medical crimes site

Geierlay Suspension Bridge

Hängeseilbrücke Geierlay · Germany’s most beautiful suspension bridge

Gelateria Crème de la Crème

Gelato café Crème de la Crème · Honza Hochsteiger’s ice cream is just perfect

Gelateria Fassi

Ice-cream parlour specialized in sanpietrini

Gelateria Loom

Loom gelateria · Ice-cream parlour

Gelateria Maxim’s

Italian ice-cream parlour

Gelateria Paolo Bortolotti

Paolo Bortolotti · Italian ice-cream parlour

Gelateria Suso

Gelatoteca Suso · Possibly the best ice-cream parlour in Venice

Gelateria Venezia

Eiscafé Venezia · Italian ice-cream parlour

Gelateria Zanoni & Zanoni

Zanoni & Zanoni · Italian ice-cream parlour

Gelati Tellhof

Italian ice-cream parlour

Gemäldegalerie

European painting from the 13th to the 18th century

General Maczek Memorial

Generaal Maczek Memorial · World War II memorial dedicated to General Stanisław Maczek & the 1st Polish Armoured Division

GeoFort

Fortress island dedicated to maps & navigation

Geological and Mineralogical Museum

Geologisches und Mineralogisches Museum

Geological Museum

Geologisk Museum

Geological Museum

Geomuseum

George Sand’s House

Maison de George Sand

George’s Street Arcade

Georgian House

Georg Kolbe Museum

Museum dedicated to sculptor Georg Kolbe

Georg Schäfer Museum

Museum Georg Schäfer · Home to Max Liebermann’s Altmännerhaus in Amsterdam

Gerhard Marcks House

Gerhard-Marcks-Haus · Museum dedicated to sculptor Gerhard Marcks

German Architecture Museum

Deutsches Architekturmuseum

German Bee Museum

Deutsches Bienenmuseum Weimar · Museum dedicated to bee-keeping

German Cathedral

Deutscher Dom · Exhibition dedicated to German parliamentary democracy

German Church

Christinae kyrka

German Clock Museum

Deutsches Uhrenmuseum

German Cookery Book Museum

Deutsches Kochbuchmuseum · Closed until further notice

German Customs Museum

Deutsches Zollmuseum

German Emigration Center

Deutsches Auswandererhaus · Museum dedicated to emigration to the New World

German Film Museum

Deutsches Filmmuseum

German Football Museum

Deutsches Fußballmuseum · Boring

German Historical Museum

Deutsches Historisches Museum · National history museum, closed until the end of 2025

German Inland Waterways Museum

Museum der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt · Museum dedicated to the history of inland navigation

Germanisches Nationalmuseum

German Leather Museum

Deutsches Ledermuseum · Museum dedicated to all things leather but Lederhosen

German Maritime Museum

Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum

German Mining Museum

Deutsches Bergbau-Museum · The visitor mine is awesome

German Museum of Books and Writing

Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum

German Museum of Technology

Deutsches Technikmuseum · Planes, trains & automobiles, and more

German National Library

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek · German Exile Archive 1933–45

German Naval Museum

Deutsches Marinemuseum · Das Boot & more

German Oceanographic Museum

Deutsches Meeresmuseum

German Pharmacy Museum

Deutsches Apotheken-Museum

German Photography Museum

Deutsches Fotomuseum

German Resistance Memorial Center

Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand · Exhibition dedicated to the German resistance against the Nazis

German Röntgen Museum

Deutsches Röntgen-Museum · Museum dedicated to the history of the development of X-rays

German Spy Museum

Deutsches Spionagemuseum · Espionage museum

German Steam Locomotive Museum

Deutsches Dampflokomotiv Museum

German Textile Museum

Deutsches Textilmuseum

German Tool Museum

Deutsches Werkzeugmuseum · Tools from the Stone Age to the 21st century

German War Cemetery

Cimitero militare germanico della Futa · World War II cemetery

German War Cemetery

Cimetière militaire allemand de La Cambe · World War II cemetery

German War Cemetery

Duitse militaire begraafplaats · World War I cemetery, home to The Mourning Soldiers by Emil Krieger

German War Cemetery

Duitse militaire begraafplaats · World War II cemetery

German War Cemetery

Duitse militaire begraafplaats · World War I cemetery

German War Cemetery

Duitse militaire begraafplaats · World War I cemetery, home to The Grieving Parents by Käthe Kollwitz

German War Cemetery

Duitse militaire begraafplaats · World War II cemetery for German soldiers & Dutch collaborators

German Watch Museum

Deutsches Uhrenmuseum

Gernheim Glassworks

Glashütte Gernheim · Industrial heritage museum

Gerstner K.u.K. Hofzuckerbäcker

Kaiserlich & Königlich

Gewandhaus Leipzig

Concert hall by architect Rudolf Skoda

Gewerbemuseum

Museum of applied art

Gezellehuis

Literary museum dedicated to poet Guido Gezelle

Ghent City Museum

Stadsmuseum Gent · Local history museum

Giacometti Hall

Giacometti-Halle · Probably the world’s most beautiful police station

Giant’s Causeway

Gioia

Pierre & Higinia Espic make excellent ice cream & crêpes

Giotto’s Bell Tower

Campanile di Giotto

Giverny Museum of Impressionism

Musée des impressionnismes Giverny

Glacier Berthillon

Ice-cream parlour

Glacier Express

The world’s slowest express train, from St. Moritz to Zermatt

Glacier Garden

Gletschergarten Luzern · Glacier museum featuring kettle holes from the last Ice Age

Gladstone Pottery Museum

The Gladstone China Works are the last Victorian pottery factory

Gladstone’s Land

Glanum Archaeological Site

Site archéologique de Glanum

Glasgow Cathedral

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Glasgow School of Art

The Mackintosh Building will be closed until further notice

Glasgow Science Centre

Glasgow Women’s Library

Glasnevin Cemetery Museum

Not a very lively museum

Glass Museum

Nationaal Glasmuseum

Glass Museum

Museo del Vetro

Glass Studio of the National Glass Museum

Glasblazerij van het Nationaal Glasmuseum

Gleirschklamm

Glengoyne Distillery

Glienicke Bridge

Glienicker Brücke · Cold War spy swap site

Globe Museum

Globenmuseum · Terrestrial & celestial globes, mainly from before 1850

Globe of Science and Innovation

Globe de la Science et de l’Innovation · Exhibition dedicated to the world of particles

Glockenspielhaus

The carillon plays at 11h, 15h & 18h

Glockenwelt Burg Greifenstein

Gloria Funicular

Ascensor da Glória · Funicular railway to the belvedere of São Pedro de Alcântara

Gloucester Cathedral

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway

Heritage railway line

Glyptotek

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek · Antiquities and Danish & French art of the 19th century

Gnandstein Castle

Burg Gnandstein

Gnandstein Castle

Burg Gnandstein

The Gobbins Cliff Path

Goethe and Schiller Archive

Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv · Literary archive

Goetheanum

Anthroposophical HQ

Goethe House

Goethe-Haus · Picture gallery dedicated to the Goethezeit, the Age of Goethe

Goethe House

Casa di Goethe · Museum dedicated to writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe Museum

Goethe-Museum · Museum dedicated to writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe National Museum

Goethe-Nationalmuseum · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s residence

Goethe’s Garden House

Goethes Gartenhaus · Goethe’s first residence in Weimar

Goethe Tower

Goetheturm · 43-m-high observation tower

Goethe Trail

Goetheweg · Walking trail to the Pfeishütte

Goethe Trail

Goetheweg · 16-km-long hiking trail to Mount Brocken’s summit & back

Goetz Collection

Sammlung Goetz · Contemporary art museum by Herzog & de Meuron architects

Goldau–Rigi Kulm Railway

Zahnradbahn Goldau–Rigi Kulm · Rack railway to Mount Rigi

Goldene Waage

Reconstructed renaissance house (2018)

Golden Horseman

Goldener Reiter · Monumental equestrian statue of Augustus the Strong

GoldenPass Panoramic

Panoramic train to Zweisimmen

Golden Roof Museum

Museum Goldenes Dachl

Gondola to Hexentanzplatz

Kabinenbahn Hexentanzplatz

Gorcums Museum

Art & local history museum

Gornergrat Railway

Gornergrat Bahn · Rack railway to the Gornergrat

Goslar City Walk

Goslar · Medieval town with over 1,500 half-timbered houses

Göteborgs Konsthall

Gothenburg Belting Works

Göteborgs Remfabrik

Gothenburg Botanical Garden

Göteborgs botaniska trädgård

Gothenburg Cathedral

Domkyrkan

Gothenburg Concert Hall

Göteborgs konserthus

Gothenburg Museum of Art

Göteborgs konstmuseum

Gothenburg Natural History Museum

Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum

Gothenburg Opera

Göteborgs Operan

Gottfried Silbermann Museum

Silbermann was the most important Saxon organ builder

Gotthard Panorama Express

Panoramic train to Lugano

Gottorf Globe

Gottorfer Globus · Reconstructed planetarium in a baroque garden

Gouda Cheese Market

Kaasmarkt Gouda · Cheese trading by clapping hands (‘handjeklap’) on Thursday mornings

Government Bunker

Dokumentationsstätte Regierungsbunker

GPO Witness History

Exhibition on the General Post Office during the 1916 Easter Rising

Gramont Castle

Château de Gramont

Grand Canal Theatre

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre · Some energy supplier’s theatre by architect Daniel Libeskind

Grand Commandery Alden Biesen

Landcommanderij Alden Biesen

Grand Ducal Palace

Palais grand-ducal · Open to the public every summer

Grande Arche de la Défense

Modern arch that used to celebrate fraternity but no longer does

Grand Garden

Großer Garten

Grand Palais

Art gallery

Grand-Place

Brussels’ central square, noted for its decorative & aesthetic wealth

Grand Théâtre de Genève

Opera & ballet house

Grand Trianon

Little palace of pink marble & porphyry, by architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart

Granitz Hunting Lodge

Jagdschloss Granitz

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Grão Vasco National Museum

Museu Nacional Grão Vasco

Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich

The polytechnic’s collection of prints & drawings

Grassi Museum of Applied Arts

Grassimuseum

Grassi Museum of Ethnology

Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde

Graz Castle

Grazer Burg · Castle with a double spiral staircase

Graz Cathedral

Grazer Dom

GrazMuseum

Local history museum

Great Beguinage

Groot Begijnhof

Great Central Railway

Heritage railway line

Great Orme Bronze Age Mines

Bronze Age copper mines

Great Orme Tramway

Historic funicular tramway to the Great Orme summit

Great St Mary’s

The tower of Great St Mary’s offers the best view in Cambridge

Great Synagogue of Stockholm

Stockholms Stora synagoga · Moorish Revival synagogue

Great Tower

Tour Magne

Grebbeberg War Cemetery

Militair Ereveld Grebbeberg · Dutch World War II cemetery

Green Vault

Grünes Gewölbe · Augustus the Strong’s baroque treasury

Grenzhus Schlagsdorf

Former inner German border

Grenzland-Draisine

Rail bike tours

GRID Graphic Museum

GRID Grafisch Museum · Printing museum

Grimeton Radio Station

Grimeton Radiostation · Long-wave wireless telegraphy station

Grimm World

Grimmwelt · Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm

Gripsholm Castle

Gripsholms slott

Groeninge Museum

Groeningemuseum · Art museum

Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery

Canadese oorlogsbegraafplaats · World War II cemetery

Groninger Museum

Art & design museum

Großcomburg Monastery

Kloster Großcomburg

Große Kunstschau

Local art museum

Grossmünster

Romanesque church with stained-glass windows by artist Sigmar Polke

Großsedlitz Baroque Garden

Barockgarten Großsedlitz · Augustus the Strong’s Saxon Versailles

Grote Kerk

15th-century church

Grote Kerk

15th-century church with an organ by Arp Schnitger

Grottes de Remouchamps

Underground caves

Grotto Railway

Grottenbahn · Enchanted underground railway line for kids

Grundtvig’s Church

Grundtvigs Kirke · Expressionist church by architects Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint & Kaare Klint

Grunewald Hunting Lodge

Jagdschloss Grunewald · Nearly thirty paintings by the Lucases Cranach to be found here

Gruuthusemuseum

Local history museum

Gruyères Castle

Château de Gruyères · 13th-century castle made of cheese

Guédelon Castle

Guédelon

Guggenheim Museum

Contemporary art museum by architect Frank Gehry

Guildford Cathedral

Cathedral by architect Edward Maufe, built 1936–66

Guimarães Castle

Castelo de Guimarães

Guindais Funicular

Funicular dos Guindais · Funicular railway to Ribeira

Guinness Storehouse

The brewery where the Black Stuff comes from

Gunfire Brasschaat

Military history museum

Gunnebo House and Gardens

Gunnebo Slott och Trädgårdar

Günter Grass House

Günter Grass-Haus

Günter Litfin Memorial

Gedenkstätte Günter Litfin · Memorial dedicated to one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall

Gurten Funicular

Gurtenbahn

Gurten Toboggan

Rodelbahn Gurten

Gusen Memorial

KZ-Gedenkstätte Gusen · Former Nazi concentration camp

Gustave Moreau Museum

Musée Gustave Moreau · Artist’s house dedicated to symbolist painter Gustave Moreau

Gustavianum

History of science museum featuring an anatomical theatre, closed for renovation until 2024

Gustav III’s Pavilion

Gustav III’s paviljong

Güstrow Cathedral

Dom zu Güstrow · The third copy of Ernst Barlach’s angel Der Schwebende hangs here

Güstrow Palace

Schloss Güstrow

Gutenberg Museum

Musée Gutenberg · Museum dedicated to letterpress printing

Gutenberg Museum

Gutenberg-Museum

Haarlem City Walk

Haarlem

Habsburg Castle

Schloss Habsburg · Ancestral seat of the Habsburgs

Hackenberg Fortress

Ouvrage Hackenberg · Maginot Line fortress

HADAG Harbour Ferries

HADAG-Hafenfähren

Hadamar Memorial Museum

Gedenkstätte Hadamar · Former Nazi euthanasia programme site

Hafelekar Cable Car

Hafelekarbahn

HafenCity InfoCenter

Hague Museum of Photography

Fotomuseum Den Haag · Photographic art gallery

Hahnenklee Stave Church

Stabkirche Hahnenklee · Church by architect Karl Mohrmann

Halberstadt Cathedral

Dom zu Halberstadt

Halle 14

Contemporary art gallery

Halle Gate

Porte de Hal

Hall of Fame

Ruhmeshalle

Hall of Knights

Ridderzaal · 13th-century government building, closed for renovation until 2026

Hall of Liberation

Befreiungshalle · Memorial commemorating the Wars of Liberation (1813–15)

Hall of Peace

Friedenssaal im Historischen Rathaus · The Treaty of Münster, part of the Peace of Westphalia, was signed here

Hallwyl Museum

Hallwylska museet · The home of Count & Countess Walther & Wilhelmina von Hallwyl

Hal Över Weser & Harbour Cruise

Hal över Weser- und Hafenrundfahrt

Hamburger Bahnhof

Contemporary art museum

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Art museum, home to Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Hamburg Harbour Cruise

Barkassen-Meyer Hafenrundfahrt

Hamburg State Opera

Hamburgische Staatsoper · Opera house

Ham House and Garden

17th-century house recognized for its superb collection of paintings, furniture & textiles

Hamleys

Toy shop with way too many toys

Hampton Court Palace

Handwerkerhof

HangarBicocca

Contemporary art centre

Hangman’s Bridge

Henkersteg

Haniel Museum

Industrialist Franz Haniel’s home, featuring an exhibition dedicated to his iron & mining company

Hannover Colliery

Zeche Hannover · Industrial heritage museum

Hanover State Museum

Landesmuseum Hannover · Art & regional history museum

Hansa Coking Plant

Kokerei Hansa · Once one of the largest coking plants in the Ruhr region

Hans-Peter Porsche Traumwerk

Model railway & tiny toy collection

Harbour Entrance

Hafeneinfahrt · The view from the lighthouse is nice

Härkeberga kaplansgården

The local chaplaincy, now a museum

Harrods

Over-the-top department store with a great food hall

Hartheim Castle Memorial

Lern- und Gedenkort Schloss Hartheim · Former Nazi euthanasia programme site

Härtsfeld Railway

Härtsfeld-Museumsbahn

Harzbob Toboggan Run

Rodelbahn Harzbob

Harzdrenalin

The zip line alongside the Rappbode dam is pretty cool

Harzer Baumkuchenhaus

Hermann Schröder’s Baumkuchen (‘tree cake’) is a typical German spit cake

Harzkristall Glassworks

Glasmanufaktur Harzkristall

Harz Museum Wernigerode

Harzmuseum Wernigerode · Regional history museum

Harz Railway

Harzquerbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line

Harz Tree Top Trail

Baumwipfelpfad Harz

Hasta Ice Cream

Ice-cream parlour

Haus am Horn

Bauhaus house by architect Georg Muche

Haus am Waldsee

Exhibition space for international contemporary art

Haus Cleff

Closed for renovation

Haus der Geschichte

German history from the end of World War II to the present

Haus der Kunst

Haus der Stadtgeschichte

Local history museum

Haus Hohe Pappeln

Architect Henry van de Velde’s house

Haus im Schluh

Museum dedicated to artists Martha & Heinrich Vogeler

Haus Lange and Haus Esters Museums

Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters · Two villas by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Hausmann Tower

Hausmannsturm

Haus Wertheym

The only house that survived the 1944 bombing of Frankfurt

Haus zum Kirschgarten

18th- & 19th-century home of an upper-class family

Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle

Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg

Havelský Market

Havelské tržiště · Outdoor market

Haxenhaus

Haxen & Bratwurst

H-Bahn Dortmund

Hängebahn Dortmund · Driverless suspended monorail system

H.C. Andersen Museum

H.C. Andersen’s Birthplace

H.C. Andersens Hus

H.C. Andersen’s Childhood Home

H.C. Andersens Barndomshjem

HDA

Haus der Architektur · House of architecture

HEART

Herning Museum of Contemporary Art · Contemporary art museum

Heddal Open-Air Musem

Heddal bygdetun · Living history museum

Heddal Stave Church

Heddal stavkyrkje · The largest of the surviving stave churches, built around 1250

Heerlijkheid Mariënwaerdt

Baron & Baroness Van Verschuer’s estate

Heeswijk Castle

Kasteel Heeswijk

Heidecksburg Palace

Residenzschloss Heidecksburg

Heidelberger Kunstverein

Contemporary art gallery

Heidelberg Funicular

Heidelberger Bergbahnen

Heidelberg Palace

Schloss Heidelberg · Renaissance castle ruin

Heinrich Heine Trail

Heinrich Heine-Weg · 24-km-long hiking trail to Mount Brocken’s summit & back

Heinz Nixdorf Museum

Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum · The world’s biggest computer museum

Heizhaus Railway Museum

Eisenbahnmuseum Heizhaus

Helbling House

Helbinghaus

Hellabrunn Zoo

Tierpark Hellabrunn

Hellbrunn Palace

Schloss Hellbrunn · Palace with great trick fountains

Helmhaus

Contemporary art gallery

Helmond Castle

Kasteel Helmond

Hembrug Museum

Former ordnance factory

Hemisfèric

Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library

Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience

Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery

Cimetière américain Henri-Chapelle à Hombourg · World War II cemetery

Henrichenburg Ship Lift

Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg · Industrial heritage museum

Henrichshütte Ironworks

Henrichshütte Hattingen · Industrial heritage museum

Hepworth Wakefield

Art gallery by architect David Chipperfield

Herberg Tiengemeten

Small hotel on the deserted island Tiengemeten

Hercules Monument

Herkules · Monument to the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles

Herder Church

Herderkirche · Church that houses an altarpiece triptych by the Lucases Cranach

Hereford Cathedral

Cathedral with a chained library

Hergé Museum

Musée Hergé · Museum dedicated to life & work of the creator of Tintin

Hermannsdenkmal

Rather large monument celebrating Mr Hermann, who defeated the Romans in 9 A.D.

Hermesvilla

Empress Elisabeth’s villa by architect Karl von Hasenauer

Hermitage

Art museum

Hermitage Court

Eremitage · Two palaces with a lovely garden

Hermitage Foundation

Fondation de l’Hermitage · Art museum

Hermitage Palace

Eremitageslottet · Baroque palace

Hernen Castle

Kasteel Hernen · 16th-century castle

Herrenchiemsee New Palace

Neues Schloss Herrenchiemsee

Herrenhausen Gardens

Herrenhäuser Gärten · 50-ha-large baroque garden

Herrenleite Field Railway Museum

Feldbahnmuseum Herrenleite · Museum dedicated to industrial narrow-gauge railways

Hertford Bridge

Crossover between Venice’s Rialto Bridge & the Bridge of Sighs

Hessenpark Open-Air Museum

Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark · Living history museum

Hessian State Museum

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt · Art & regional history museum

Hestad Chapel

Hestad kapell

Het Arnhemse Bakkertje

Artisanal baker of the grofje, a local specialty

Het Hoogeland Open-Air Museum

Openluchtmuseum Het Hoogeland · Living history museum

Heureka

Sculpture by Jean Tinguely

Heusden Village Walk

Heusden · Walking tour through the reconstructed fortified city

HfG Archive

HfG-Archiv · Exhibition on the Ulm School of Design (1953–68)

Highclere Castle

You say Downton Abbey, I say Totleigh Towers

Highland Wildlife Park

Highline 179 Suspension Bridge

Highline 179

Hildesheim Cathedral

Mariendom Hildesheim

Hillside Railways

Dresdner Bergbahnen · Funicular & suspension railways

Himmelssteig Trail

Himmelssteig · Hiking trail

Himmerod Abbey

Abtei Himmerod

The Hirschsprung Collection

Den Hirschsprungske Samling · Danish art from the 19th & 20th centuries

Historial of the Great War

Historial de la Grande Guerre

Historial of the Great War

Historial de la Grande Guerre

Historical Museum

Historisk museum

Historical Museum

Musée historique

Historical Museum Bremerhaven

Historisches Museum Bremerhaven · Local history museum

Historical Museum Frankfurt

Historisches Museum Frankfurt

Historical Museum Haarlemmermeer

Historisch Museum Haarlemmermeer · Regional history museum

Historical Museum of the City of Leipzig

Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig

Historical Museum of The Hague

Haags Historisch Museum · Local history museum

Historical Museum of the Liberation

Museo storico della Liberazione · World War II museum

Historical Museum of the Palatinate

Historisches Museum der Pfalz · Regional history museum

Historic Elevator

Historischer Personenaufzug

Historic Windmill

Historische Mühle · Windmills look better when they stand next to farmhouses

Historisches Museum Luzern

Regional history museum

Historisches Museum Thurgau

Regional history museum

Historium Bruges

Historium Brugge

History Museum

Historisches Museum Bielefeld

History Museum

Museum für Geschichte · Styrian history museum

History of Science Museum

HMS Belfast

HMS Caroline

HMS Unicorn

Sailing frigate of 46 guns

Hochburg Castle

Hochburg bei Emmendingen

Höchstädt Palace

Schloss Höchstädt · Museum of German Faience

Hoensbroek Castle

Kasteel Hoensbroek

Hoesch Museum

Hoesch-Museum · Museum dedicated to the Dortmund iron & steel industry

Hofbräuhaus

Munich’s most famous tavern, owned by the State of Bavaria

Hofburg

The imperial apartments of the Habsburgs

Hofburg Chapel

Hofburgkapelle · Home to the Hofmusikkapelle

Hof Meermansburg

Leiden’s largest almshouse

Hoge Kempen National Park

Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen · Nature reserve

Hohenbaden Old Castle

Altes Schloss Hohenbaden

Hohenneuffen Fortress Ruins

Festungsruine Hohenneuffen

Hohensalzburg Fortress

Festung Hohensalzburg

Hohenschwangau Castle

Schloss Hohenschwangau

Hohenstaufen Hill

Berg Hohenstaufen · Hill with a view & fortress ruins of the Staufer dynasty’s family seat

Hohentwiel Fortress Ruins

Festungsruine Hohentwiel · Fortress ruins with an impressive vista across Lake Constance

Hohenwerfen Fortress

Burg Hohenwerfen

Hohenzieritz Palace

Schloss Hohenzieritz

Hohenzollern Castle

Burg Hohenzollern · Ancestral seat of the Imperial House of Germany & the Royal House of Prussia

Hoheward Landscape Park

Landschaftspark Hoheward · Former slag heap, now an urban park

Hohe Warte

40-m-high observation tower

Holkham Hall

Stately home with ornate interiors & walled garden

Hollandsche Schouwburg

Holocaust memorial

Höllental Railway

Höllentalbahn

Holmenkollen Ski Museum

Holmenkollen Skimuseet

Holocaust Memorial

Holocaust-Mahnmal · Memorial to the murdered Jews of Austria

Holocaust Names Memorial

Holocaust Namenmonument · Memorial dedicated to the over 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust

Holsten Gate

Museum Holstentor

Holten Canadian War Cemetery

Canadese oorlogsbegraafplaats · World War II cemetery

Holy Cross Abbey

Holyrood Park

Arthur’s Seat provides great views of Edinburgh & the Lothians

Holy Spirit Guest House

Pelstergasthuis · Almshouse

Holy Stairs

Scala Sancta

Holy Trinity Church

Dreifaltigkeitskirche · Baroque church

Holywell Music Room

Honig Breethuis

19th-century paper manufacturer & merchant’s house

Hooglandse Kerk

15th-century Gothic church

Hoogovens Museum

Hoogovensmuseum · Industrial heritage museum dedicated to the IJmuiden steelworks

Hoogovens Stoom IJmuiden

Heritage railway line touring the IJmuiden steelworks

Hoorn Cheese Market

Kaasmarkt Hoorn · Tourist event on Thursday afternoons

Hopperstad Stave Church

Hopperstad stavkyrkje · One of the oldest stave churches, probably dating from around 1140

Hop & Stork

Chocolate & coffee

Horchateria Santa Catalina

Try horchata, a traditional drink made from tiger nuts, sugar & crushed ice

Horniman Museum & Gardens

Horseshoe Estate

Hufeisensiedlung · Modernist housing estate by architect Bruno Taut

Horta Museum

Musée Horta · Art nouveau house by architect Victor Horta

Hortus Botanicus

One of the oldest botanical gardens in Europe

Hortus Botanicus

The oldest botanical garden in the Netherlands

Hortus Haren

Botanical garden

Hortus Overzee

Botanical garden

Hospital Museum

Krankenhaus-Museum · Museum dedicated to the history of psychiatry

Hôtel de la Marine

The former Naval Ministry by architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel

Hotel New York

We like the restaurant here

Hottot-les-Bagues War Cemetery

Cimetière militaire britannique de Hottot-les-Bagues · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

House at the Black Madonna

Dům U Černé Matky Boží · Former department store by architect Josef Gočár, now an exhibition on Czech cubism

House at the Golden Ring

Dům U Zlatého prstenu · Museum featuring an exhibition on Prague of Charles IV

Household Cavalry Museum

House of Alijn

Huis van Alijn · Museum exploring customs, traditions & rituals from the recent & distant past

House of Austrian History

Haus der Geschichte Österreich · Austrian history from the end of World War I to the present

House of Brandenburg-Prussian History

Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte · Regional history museum

House of European History

Maison de l’histoire européenne

House of Georges Clemenceau

Maison de Georges Clemenceau

House of Illustration

House of Industrial Heritage

Haus für Industriekultur · Printing museum

House of Photography

Dům fotografie · Photographic art gallery

House of Silk Culture

Haus der Seidenkultur

House of the Binns

House of the Wannsee Conference

Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz · Memorial site dedicated to the persecution & murder of the European Jews in World War II

House of the Weimar Republic

Haus der Weimarer Republik · Museum dedicated to the Weimar Republic (1918–33)

House of World Cultures

Haus der Kulturen der Welt · Congress hall by architect Hugh Stubbins

Houses of Seven Countries

Zevenlandenhuizen · Seven houses in different European architectural styles (1894) by architect Tjeerd Kuipers

Housesteads Roman Fort & Hadrian’s Wall

Roman fort & defensive wall to separate the Romans from the barbarians

Hove Church

Hove kyrkje

Hoxton Street Monster Supplies

Purveyor of quality goods as specified in the Monster Retailer’s Act of 1827, Clause 14, Subsection 5, Revision (b)

Huelsmann Museum

Museum Huelsmann

Hüfingen Roman Bath Ruins

Römische Badruine Hüfingen

Huis Bergh Castle

Kasteel Huis Bergh · Medieval castle housing the medieval art collection of industrialist Jan Herman van Heek

Huisje van Sluijmer

Three-by-five-meter seven-storey modern house

Huis Marseille

Museum for photography

Huis Ten Bosch

Japanese theme park which recreates a Dutch town

Humboldt Forum

Reconstructed Prussian palace

Hundertwasser House

Hundertwasserhaus · Apartment building by artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser & architect Joseph Krawina

Hunebed Centre

Hunebedcentrum · Archaeological museum dedicated to Dutch dolmens

Hungerburg Funicular

Hungerburgbahn · Funicular railway

Hunsrückbahn-Wanderweg

16-km-long footpath connecting Emmelshausen to Boppard

Hunsrück-Museum

Hunsrück Railway

Hunsrückbahn · 15-km-long scenic railway connecting Boppard to Emmelshausen

Hunterian Museum

Hunterian Zoology Museum

Hunting and Agriculture Museum

Jagdmuseum und Landwirtschaftsmuseum

Hunting Lodge Falkenlust

Jagdschloss Falkenlust · Rococo hunting lodge by architect François de Cuvilliés

Huygens’ Hofwijck

Constantijn & Christiaan Huygens’ country estate, by architect Jacob van Campen

Hyde Park

Ibsen Museum

Ibsenmuseet

Ice Cream Farm De Jong

IJsboerderij De Jong · Nel de Jong’s super-duper ice-cream parlour is the perfect destination for a walk or cycle tour from Leiden

Icon Museum

Ikonenmuseum · Museum dedicated to Christian Orthodox icons

Igel Column

Igeler Säule

Igor Stravinsky Fountain

Fontaine Igor Stravinsky · Fountain by Jean Tinguely & Niki de Saint Phalle

IKEA Museum

Museum dedicated to IKEA, housed in the first IKEA store (1958)

IKOB

Internationale Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien · Museum of Contemporary Art

Illum

Iconic luxury department store

Illums Bolighus

Danish design sold here

Il vivandiere

Great choice of local Tuscan dishes & good wines

Imperial Baths

Kaiserthermen

Imperial Carriage Museum

Kaiserliche Wagenburg

Imperial Castle

Reichsburg

Imperial Castle of Nuremberg

Kaiserburg Nürnberg

Imperial Cathedral St Bartholomew

Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus · Medieval cathedral

Imperial Court Pavilion

Otto Wagner Hofpavillon Hietzing · Metropolitan railway station for Emperor Franz Joseph by architect Otto Wagner

Imperial Furniture Collection

Hofmobiliendepot · Furniture museum

Imperial Palace

Kaiserliche Hofburg

Imperial Palace of Goslar

Kaiserpfalz Goslar · They keep the imperial throne in the basement

Imperial Treasury

Kaiserliche Schatzkammer · Home to the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire

Imperial War Museum

Imprenta Municipal

Centre dedicated to the graphic arts

Industrial Museum Herrenwyk

Industriemuseum Geschichtswerkstatt Herrenwyk

In Flanders Fields Museum

Inland Railway

Inlandsbanan · 746-km-long railway line to Gällivare

Institute for the History of Frankfurt

Institut für Stadtgeschichte · Municipal archive

Intercultural Museum

Interkulturelt Museum

Inter IKEA Group

Contrary to popular belief, IKEA is not a Swedish company

International Maritime Museum

Internationales Maritimes Museum

International Museum of the Reformation

Musée international de la Réforme · Three cheers for Calvinism

Irish Architectural Archive

Irish Jewish Museum

Museum to celebrate the miracle of Jewish survival in an Irish context

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Irish National Heritage Park

Open-air museum

Irish Whiskey Museum

Island in the Mur

Murinsel · Artificial island by artist Vito Acconci

Islands Brygge Harbour Bath

Havnebadet Islands Brygge · Outdoor swimming pool

Isle of Wight Steam Railway

Heritage railway line

Ittingen Charterhouse

Kartause Ittingen · Former Carthusian monastery, now the Ittinger Museum

IWM Duxford

Imperial War Museum

IWM North

Imperial War Museum

Jacobite Steam Train

66-km-long railway line connecting Fort William to Mallaig

Jan Bouman House

Jan Bouman Haus · Small museum dedicated to the history of Potsdam’s Dutch Quarter

Jan Pesijnshof

17th-century almshouse

Japanese Garden

Japanse Tuin · The Japanese Garden in Clingendael Park is open only eight weeks in the year

Japan Museum Sieboldhuis

Japanmuseum Sieboldhuis · Ethnographic museum dedicated to Japan

Jardies’ House

Maison des Jardies · Léon Gambetta lived here

Jardins de la Fontaine

Jardins do Palácio de Cristal

Jenisch House

Jenisch Haus

Jerónimos Monastery

Mosteiros dos Jerónimos · Manueline monastery

Jerusalem House

Jerusalemhaus · Where Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem, the model for Goethe’s Werther, shot himself

Jerusalem Synagogue

Jeruzalémská synagoga · Moorish art nouveau synagogue

Jesuit Church

Jesuitenkirche · Baroque church with a decent organ

Jesuit Church

Jesuitenkirche · Baroque church

Jesuitenkirche

Baroque church

Jet d’Eau

Geneva’s 140-m-high landmark fountain

Jetée de la Compagnie

Funky open-air bar

Jeu de Paume

Museum for photography & video

Jewish Museum

Joods Museum · Museum of past & present Dutch Jewish life in all its facets

Jewish Museum

Židovské muzeum v Praze · Information & Reservation Centre

Jewish Museum

Jüdisches Museum

Jewish Museum Berlin

Jüdisches Museum Berlin

Jewish Museum Frankfurt

Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt

Jewish Museum London

Jewish Museum Munich

Jüdisches Museum München

Jewish Museum of Switzerland

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Jewish Museum of Venice

Museo Ebraico di Venezia

Jewish Museum Vienna

Jüdisches Museum Wien

Jewish Town Hall

Židovská radnice · Rococo town hall with a Hebrew clock that moves anticlockwise

Jheronimus Bosch Art Center

Joanine Library

Biblioteca Joanina · Baroque library with a most noble floor

Joan Miró Foundation

Fundació Joan Miró

Johannes Klais Orgelbau

The organ builders who built the Elbphilharmonie organ

Johannisburg Palace

Schloss Johannisburg

Johann Jacobs Museum

Museum dedicated to global interdependence, trade routes, and coffee & cocoa

John Knox House

John Rylands Library

A beautiful library

Jonction

Pointe de la Jonction · Confluence of the rivers Rhône & Arve, two streams of different colour

Jonkerbos War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats Jonkerbos · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Jopie Huisman Museum

Museum dedicated to painter Jopie Huisman

Jorvik Viking Centre

Indoor theme park

Josephinum

Collections of the University of Vienna’s Medical Faculty

Jüberg Tower

Jübergturm · 23-m-high observation tower

Julita manor

Julita gård · Sweden’s largest open-air museum

Julius Exter’s House

Künstlerhaus Exter · Artist’s house

Julius Meinl am Graben

Upmarket gourmet shop

Jungfrau Railway

Jungfraubahn · Rack railway to Europe’s highest railway station

Jura Museum

Kaapse Bossen

Forest with a 25-m-high observation tower

KaDeWe

Kaufhaus des Westens · Iconic luxury department store

Kaeserberg Model Railway

Chemins de fer du Kaeserberg · 2-km-long model railway populated by 120 trains

Kaiserkrone

The place to take a selfie as Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche

Kaiser Wilhelm Museum

Art museum

Kalmar Castle

Kalmar Slott

Kamenický motoráček

Heritage railway line

Kammeroper

Opera house

Kampenwand Cable Car

Kampenwandseilbahn

Kanal

The Centre Pompidou in Brussels

Kander Valley Railway

Kandertalbahn · Heritage railway line

Kanu Aktiv Tours

Rubber rafts for hire to paddle down the river Elbe

Karl Foerster House

Karl Foerster Haus · Home & garden of plantsman Karl Foerster

Karlín Music Theatre

Hudební divadlo Karlín

Karl Marx Ampelmännchen

Traffic light with images of philosopher Karl Marx

Karl Marx Bookshop

Karl-Marx-Buchhandlung · Sadly closed

Karl-Marx-Hof

Marxist housing estate with an exhibition on Red Vienna

Karl Marx House

Museum Karl-Marx-Haus · Museum dedicated to the first Marxist philosopher

Karl Marx Monument

Karl-Marx-Monument · Sculpture by Lev Kerbel from the time that Chemnitz was Karl-Marx-Stadt

Karlsaue Park

Staatspark Karlsaue

Karlskirche

Baroque cathedral

Karlsplatz Pavilion

Otto Wagner Pavillon Karlsplatz · Metropolitan railway station featuring an exhibition dedicated to architect Otto Wagner

Karlsruhe Botanical Gardens

Botanischer Garten Karlsruhe

Karlštejn Castle

Hrad Karlštejn

Kassel City Museum

Stadtmuseum Kassel · Local history museum

Kastrup Sea Bath

Kastrup Søbad · Outdoor swimming pool

Katharinenkirche

Mausoleum for Emperor Ferdinand II

Käthe Kollwitz House

Käthe Kollwitz Haus · Museum dedicated to artist Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz Museum

Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum · Museum dedicated to artist Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz Museum

Museum dedicated to artist Käthe Kollwitz

Katwijk Museum

Katwijks Museum · Local history museum with a fine collection of paintings

Kaupanger Stave Church

Kaupanger stavkyrkje · The largest stave church in the Sogn region

Kazerne Dossin

Holocaust museum & memorial

Keble College

Gothic Revival architecture

Kedleston Hall

18th-century mansion with Adam interiors, colonial history & vast parkland

Keltenmuseum Hallein

Kempten Residence

Residenz Kempten

Kenilworth Castle

Castle ruin & Elizabethan knot gardens

Kensington Gardens

Kensington Palace

Kenwood House

Keramion

Ceramics museum

Keringhuis

Exhibition dedicated to the Maeslantkering storm surge barrier

Kerkrade Botanical Garden

Botanische Tuin Kerkrade

Kettle’s Yard

Contemporary art gallery

Keukenhof

7 million spring-flowering bulbs

Kew Gardens

Kew Palace

Kids Marina

Boats for kids

Kiekeberg Open-Air Museum

Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg · Living history museum

Kiekkaaste

Birdwatching hide

Killesberg Railway

Killesbergbahn · Minimum-gauge park railway

Killesberg Tower

Killesbergturm · 42-m-high observation tower

Kilmainham Gaol Museum

Prison for Irish republicans jailed by the British (1796–1921) & by the Irish (1922–24)

Kinderdijk Windmills

Kinderdijk · Dutch water management since 1738

King Albert Museum

König-Albert-Museum · Museum housing the Chemnitz Art Collections

Kingdom of Railways

Království železnic · Model railway

King Frederick Augustus Tower

König-Friedrich-August-Turm · 28-m-high observation tower

King’s College Chapel

King’s House on Schachen

Königshaus am Schachen · The Alpine holiday home of of King Ludwig II of Bavaria

Kinsky Palace

Palác Kinských · Asian & African art museum

Kirchheim Palace

Schloss Kirchheim

Kirchner Museum Davos

Museum dedicated to painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Kirms-Krackow House

Kirms-Krackow-Haus · Upper middle class domestic culture in the 18th & 19th centuries

Kirnitzsch Valley Tramway

Kirnitzschtalbahn

Kistefos

Contemporary art museum & sculpture park

KKL Lucerne

KKL Luzern · Concert hall

Klausen Synagogue & Ceremonial Hall

Klausová synagoga & Obřadní síň · Exhibition dedicated to Jewish customs & traditions

Kletterwald Aachen

Climbing park

Kletterwald Bad Marienberg

Climbing park

Kletterwald Königstein

Climbing park

Klingspor Museum

Klingspor-Museum · Book art, typography & calligraphy of the 20th & 21st centuries

KL-Natzweiler Museum

Musée du KL-Natzweiler · Former Nazi concentration camp

Klopstock House

Klopstockhaus · Museum dedicated to poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Kloster Brunshausen

Klosterneuburg Monastery

Stift Klosterneuburg · Home to an altarpiece by goldsmith Nicholas of Verdun

Klosterwirt

KM21

Contemporary art gallery

Knoblauch House Museum

Museum Knoblauchhaus · Museum dedicated to the Biedermeier era in Berlin

Knol’s Koek

Knols Koek · Get your Groninger sukadekoek & oude wijvenkoek here

Kochberg Castle

Schloss Kochberg · Where Goethe worshipped Charlotte von Stein, before bedding the more comfortable Christiane Vulpius

Koekela

Homemade cakes & cookies

Koldinghus

Kolumba

Religious art museum by architect Peter Zumthor

Komische Oper Berlin

Comic opera house

Kongernes Jelling

Home of the Viking kings

Königstein Fortress

Festung Königstein · 16th-century citadel

Königs Wusterhausen Hunting Lodge

Schloss Königs Wusterhausen

Konnopke’s Imbiß

Berlin’s best currywurst sold here

Kon-Tiki Museum

Kon-Tiki Museet · Museum dedicated to explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s expeditions

Konzerthaus

Concert hall by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Kootwijkerzand Observation Tower

Uitkijktoren Kootwijkerzand · 13½-m-high tower overlooking Western Europe’s largest sand drift

Köpenick Palace

Schloss Köpenick · Exhibition space for the Museum of Decorative Arts

Korean Garden

Koreanischer Garten · Traditional Korean scholars’ garden with two pavilions

Korenbeurs

Former market hall in neoclassical style, now a supermarket selling Groninger koek

Kossa Military Museum

Militärmuseum Kossa · This is where the Russians planned to conduct World War III

Köstritzer Schwarzbierhaus

Thüringer food & decent dark beer served at a fine-looking half-timbered house

Kramer Widow’s Apartment

Kramer-Witwen-Wohnung

Kraszewski Museum

Kraszewski-Museum · Museum dedicated to writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Krebsbach Valley Railway

Krebsbachtalbahn · Heritage railway line operating an Uerdingen railbus

Kreuzkirche

Kriebstein Castle

Burg Kriebstein

Krimml Waterfalls

Krimmler Wasserfälle · Austria’s highest waterfalls

Krøderbanen Railway

Krøderbanen

Kröller-Müller Museum

Contemporary art museum

Kronborg Castle

Kronborg Slot · Hamlet’s castle (“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”)

Kufstein Fortress

Festung Kufstein

Kügelgenhaus

Museum of Dresden romanticism

Kulturama

Museum of mankind

Kulturen

Kulturen’s Östarp

Kulturens Östarp

Kulturhistorisches Museum

Kulturpalast

Modernist concert hall with a mural depicting the road to socialism

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art

Kunsthal Aarhus

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Contemporary art gallery

Kunsthal Helmond

Photography & art gallery

Kunsthal Kade

Art gallery

Kunsthalle

Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau · Art gallery

Kunsthalle Bern

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Bremen

Art museum

Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Emden

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Erfurt

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Harry Graf Kessler

Contemporary art gallery

Kunsthalle Mainz

Contemporary art gallery

Kunsthalle Mannheim

Contemporary art museum

Kunsthalle München

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Münster

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Nürnberg

Contemporary art gallery

Kunsthalle Rostock

Contemporary art gallery

Kunsthalle St. Annen

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Vogelmann

Contemporary art museum

Kunsthalle Weishaupt

Art gallery

Kunsthalle Winterthur

Contemporary art gallery

Kunsthalle zu Kiel

Art museum

Kunsthall Oslo

Kunsthal Rotterdam

Contemporary art gallery

Kunsthaus Bregenz

Contemporary art gallery by architect Peter Zumthor

Kunsthauscafé

Kunsthaus Dahlem

Contemporary art gallery

Kunsthaus Dresden

Contemporary art gallery

Kunsthaus Graz

Contemporary art museum by architects Peter Cook & Colin Fournier

Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster

Contemporary art museum

Kunsthaus Nürnberg

Kunst Haus Wien

Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s museum

Kunsthaus Zürich

Art museum

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Museum of fine art, antiquities, & other stuff

Kunsthofpassage Dresden

The singing drain pipes in the Courtyard of Elements are worth a detour

Kunst im Rohnerhaus

Museum housing mainly contemporary art by regional artists

Kunst im Tunnel

Contemporary art gallery

Kunstinstituut Melly

Contemporary art gallery

Künstlerhaus Bremen

Contemporary art gallery

Künstlerhaus Graz

Contemporary art gallery

Kunstmuseum Basel

Switzerland’s most significant art museum

Kunstmuseum Bonn

Contemporary art museum

Kunstmuseum Brandts

Kunstmuseum Den Haag

Contemporary art museum by architect H.P. Berlage

Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen

Contemporary art museum

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

Art museum

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Contemporary art museum

Kunstmuseum Thun

Art museum

Kunstmuseum Thurgau

Art museum

Kunst Museum Winterthur

Art museum

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Contemporary art museum

Kunstpavillon

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20

Contemporary art museum by Dissing+Weitling architects

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21

Contemporary art museum by architect Julius Raschdorff

Kvernes Stave Church

Kvernes stavkirke

Kyburg Castle

Schloss Kyburg · Medieval fortress

Kyffhäuser Monument

Kyffhäuser-Denkmal · Monument to Emperor Wilhelm I

La Boqueria Market

Mercat de la Boqueria

Labour Museum

Arbeidermuseet

La Boverie

Art museum

Lace Factory Museum

Museum de Kantfabriek · Museum dedicated to machine-made bobbin lace

Lace Museum

Museo del Merletto

Lake Constance Cruise

Vorarlberg Lines

Lake Constance Cruise

Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe

Lake Dwelling Museum

Pfahlbaumuseum · Reconstructed lake dwellers’ settlement

Lake Geneva Cruise

Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman · Belle-époque paddle steam boat cruises

Lake Geneva Cruise

Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman · Belle-époque paddle steam boat cruises

Lake Geneva Museum

Musée du Léman · Museum dedicated to Western Europe’s largest lake

Lake Königssee

Königssee · The boat trip to St Bartholomew’s Church is just lovely

Lake Lucerne Cruise

Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees · Boat trips from Lucerne to Flüelen

Lake Zurich Cruise

Zürichsee Schifffahrtsgesellschaft

LAM

Lisser Art Museum · Art museum in which each work is in some way related to food or consumption

LaM

Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut · Museum for modern, contemporary & outsider art

Lamego Museum

Museu de Lamego · Paintings by Grão Vasco, Flemish tapestries, and, of course, azulejos

La Motte Tilly Castle

Château de La Motte Tilly

Landesgalerie Linz

Contemporary art museum

Landesmuseum Bonn

Art & regional history museum

Landesmuseum Mainz

Art & regional history museum

Land of Legends

Sagnlandet · Archaeological living history museum

Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord · Former ironworks, now an urban park

Landshut Town Residence

Stadtresidenz Landshut

Landwasser Viaduct

Landwasserviadukt · Single-track six-arched curved railway viaduct leading directly into a tunnel

Langdon Cliffs

Magnificent coastal site overlooking the English Channel

Langen Foundation

Contemporary art gallery by architect Tadao Ando

La Pedrera

Casa Milà

La Piscine

Art museum

La Roche House

Maison La Roche · Villa by architect Le Corbusier

La Scala

Teatro alla Scala

Lascaux

Lascaux

Laténium

Archaeological museum

Lauenstein Castle

Burg Lauenstein

Lauriston Castle

Lausanne Cathedral

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Lausanne · 13th-century Gothic church

Lausanne History Museum

Musée historique Lausanne · Local history museum

Lauwersmeer National Park

Nationaal Park Lauwersmeer · Nature reserve

Lavaux-Saint-Anne Castle

Château Lavaux-Sainte-Anne

Lavra Funicular

Ascensor do Lavra · Funicular railway to Rua Câmara Pestana

Law Library

Rechtswissenschaftliche Bibliothek · Library by architect Santiago Calatrava

Lázaro Galdiano Museum

Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Le Bon Marché

Iconic luxury department store

Ledaal Museum

Ledaal

Léger Museum

Musée national Fernand Léger

Lego House

Home of the Brick (way more fun than Legoland down the road)

Legoland

Horribly expensive theme park featuring Lego

Lehmbruck Museum

Museum dedicated to sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Leiden American Pilgrim Museum

See how the Pilgrim Fathers lived in Leiden before founding their American colony

Leiden Canal Tour

Bootjes en Broodjes · Take a canal cruise or rent a boat

Leiden Citadel

Burcht van Leiden · Fairly straightforward citadel providing a spectacular view of the city

Leiden Loop City Walk

Leidse Loper · Circular walking tour through the old town of Leiden

Leidse Schouwburg

The oldest theatre in the Netherlands

Leighton House Museum

Frederic Leighton’s purpose-built studio-house

Leistikowstraße Memorial

Gedenkstätte Leistikowstraße · Former Soviet remand prison

Lenbachhaus

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus · Art museum

Lentos Art Museum

Lentos Kunstmuseum · Contemporary art museum

Leonardo da Vinci Museum

Museo Leonardo da Vinci

Leonhardi Museum

Leonhardi-Museum · Contemporary art gallery

Leopold Museum

Contemporary Austrian art museum

Le Puy Cathedral

Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Puy

Lessing House

Lessinghaus · Museum dedicated to writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Letná Beer Garden

Zahradní pivnice Letenské sady

Leu Ferry

Münster-Fähre · For bridge phobics

Liberation Museum Zeeland

Bevrijdingsmuseum Zeeland · World War II museum

Liberty

Library of Birmingham

Library by architect Francine Houben

Library of the Former Imperial Free City

Ehemals Reichsstädtische Bibliothek · 13,000 historical books in thick leather bindings, all behind glass

Libreria Brac

Bookshop & vegetarian restaurant

Lichfield Cathedral

The Lady Chapel contains some of the finest medieval Flemish Painted Glass in existence

Lichtenstein Castle

Schloss Lichtenstein

Lichtenwalde Castle

Schloss Lichtenwalde

Liebermann Villa

Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee · Museum dedicated to painter Max Liebermann

Liebieghaus

Sculpture museum

Liechtenstein City Palace

Stadtpalais Liechtenstein · Neoclassical & Biedermeier art

Liechtenstein Garden Palace

Gartenpalais Liechtenstein · Artworks from the early Renaissance to the High Baroque

Liechtenstein Museum of Fine Arts

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein · The princely art museum

Liechtenstein National Museum

Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum · Art & regional history museum

Liechtenstein Treasure Chamber

Schatzkammer Liechtenstein · The princely valuables

Liège Cathedral Treasury

Trésor de Liège

The Lighthouse

Lightship 12 Noord Hinder

Lichtschip 12 Noord Hinder

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

Britse militaire begraafplaats Lijssenthoek · Commonwealth World War I cemetery

Lilienstein Mesa

Lilienstein

Lillehammer Art Museum

Lillehammer Kunstmuseum

Limburg Cathedral

Dom zu Limburg

Limburgs Museum

Limekiln Fortress

Ouvrage Four à Chaux · Maginot Line fortress

Lincoln Cathedral

Lindau City Museum

Stadtmuseum Lindau · Art & local history museum

Lindenhof

Hilltop esplanade overlooking the river Limmat

Linden-Museum Stuttgart

Ethnographic museum

Lindenstraße Memorial

Gedenkstätte Lindenstraße · Former Nazi, Soviet & Stasi prison

Linderhof Palace

Schloss Linderhof

Linnaeus Garden

Linnéträdgården · Botanical garden

Linnaeus Museum

Linnémuseet · Museum dedicated to botanist Carl Linnaeus

Linz Harbour Cruise

Linzer Hafenrundfahrt

Linz Schlossmuseum

Schlossmuseum Linz · Upper Austria’s historical museum

Lion Monument

Löwendenkmal · Monument dedicated to some 1,000 Swiss Guards defending King Louis XVI in 1792

Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold

Art & regional history museum

Lisboa Story Centre

Multimedia exhibition displaying the history of Lisbon

Lisbon Botanical Garden

Jardim Botânico de Lisboa

Lisbon Cathedral

Sé de Lisboa · Romanesque & Gothic cathedral

Lisbon Oceanarium

Oceanário de Lisboa · Aquarium

Lisbon Zoo

Jardim Zoológico

Liselund

18th-century palace

Liszt House

Liszt-Haus · Composer Franz Liszt’s house from 1869 to 1886

The Little Mermaid

Den lille Havfrue · Statue by sculptor Edvard Eriksen

The Little Museum of Dublin

Museum telling the story of Dublin in the 20th century

Little Pheasant Castle

Fasanenschlösschen

Liverpool Beatles Museum

Livraria Lello

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world

Llanberis Lake Railway

Llanfairpwll Railway Station

Railway station with the world’s longest station sign

Lobkowicz Palace

Lobkowiczký palác · The House of Lobkowicz private art collection

Locmariaquer Megalithic Site

Site des mégalithes de Locmariaquer

Locomotion

Railway museum

Locorama

Railway museum

Loenen War Cemetery

Nationaal Ereveld Loenen · Dutch World War II cemetery

Loevestein Castle

Slot Loevestein · 14th-century castle noted for its most prominent prisoner, Hugo Grotius

Loggia dei Lanzi

Lokwelt Freilassing

Railway museum

Lommedalsbanen Railway

Lommedalsbanen · 700-m-long heritage railway line that operates on Sundays in summer

Lom Stave Church

Lom stavkyrkje

London Eye

London Mithraeum

Ancient Roman temple of Mithras

London Museum of Water & Steam

Museum dedicated to London's water supply & steam pumping engines

London Review Bookshop

London Transport Museum

London Wall

Loos House

Looshaus · Functionalist office building by architect Adolf Loos

The Lord’s Chapel

Herrgottskirche · Church that houses an altar by Tilman Riemenschneider

Lorelei

Loreley · Careful, captain

Loreto

Loreta · Baroque pilgrimage site

Loreto Chapel

Loretánská kaple

Lorraine American Cemetery

Cimetière militaire américain de Saint-Avold · World War II cemetery

Lößnitz Valley Railway

Lößnitzgrundbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line

L’Osteria di Giovanni

The Latini’s serve an excellent Bistecca alla Fiorentina, the foremost local dish

Lotte House

Lottehaus · The home of Charlotte Buff, the model for Lotte in Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst · Contemporary art museum

Louis Vuitton Foundation

Fondation Louis Vuitton · Contemporary art gallery by architect Frank Gehry

Louvre-Lens

Musée du Louvre-Lens · Art museum

Louvre Museum

Musée du Louvre · Home to Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo & Liberty Leading the People

Louwman Museum

Car museum by architect Michael Graves

Löwenburg Castle

Löwenburg · Mock-medieval ruin, built 1793–1801

Lower Belvedere

Unteres Belvedere · Art gallery

Lucerne Nature Museum

Natur-Museum Luzern · Natural history museum

Ludwig Forum Aachen

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst · Contemporary art museum

Ludwig Roselius Museum

Northern European fine & decorative art

Ludwigsburg Favorite Palace

Schloss Favorite Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg Residential Palace

Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg · One of the largest Baroque palaces to survive in its original condition

Ludwig’s Church

Ludwigskirche · Baroque church by architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel

Ludwigslust Palace

Schloss Ludwigslust

Luisenpark

Park with Chinese garden

Luisium Palace

Schloss Luisium · Classicist country house with an English landscape garden

Luma Arles

Cultural campus by architect Frank Gehry

Lütetsburg Castle Park

Schlosspark Lütetsburg · Count of Innhausen & Knyphausen’s garden

Lutheran Museum

Luther Museum · Museum dedicated to the history of the Lutheran Church in the Netherlands

Luther House

Lutherhaus · Museum dedicated to religious reformer Martin Luther

Luther House

Lutherhaus · Museum dedicated to the history of the Reformation

Luther’s Birthplace

Luthers Geburtshaus

Luther’s Death House

Luthers Sterbehaus

Luther’s Parental Home

Luthers Elternhaus

Luxembourg American Cemetery

Cimetière militaire américain de Hamm · World War II cemetery

Luxembourg Cathedral

Cathédrale Notre-Dame

Luxembourg City Museum

Lëtzebuerg City Museum · Local history museum

Luxembourg Gardens

Jardin du Luxembourg · Public park, inspired by the Boboli Gardens in Florence

Luxembourg Museum

Musée du Luxembourg · Art gallery in a Louis XIII-style palace

Luzern–Interlaken Express

Scenic train line along five lakes & over the Brünig Pass

LWL Museum for Art and Culture

LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur

LWL Museum of Natural History

LWL-Museum für Naturkunde

LWL Open-Air Museum Detmold

LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold · Living history museum

LWL Open-Air Museum Hagen

LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen · Living history museum

Lyonel Feininger Gallery

Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie · Museum dedicated to painter Lyonel Feininger

MAC

Metropolitan Arts Centre · Art gallery

Mackintosh House

Madeleine Church

Église de la Madeleine · Church that looks like a Greek temple, dedicated to to the glory of Napoleon’s army & Mary Magdalene

Mädler Passage

Mädler-Passage · Shopping mall

Madrid Railway Museum

Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid

Madrid Zoo Aquarium

Zoo Aquarium de Madrid

Madurodam

Holland in miniature

Mafra National Palace

Palácio Nacional de Mafra · Palace with a beautiful library & a church with six organs

Magdalen College

Magnin Museum

Musée Magnin · Art collector’s home

Magritte Museum

Musée Magritte · Museum dedicated to surrealist artist René Magritte

MAHB

Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Baron-Gérard · Art & history museum

Maihaugen Open-Air Museum

Maihaugen · Living history museum with, among other things, the stave church from Garmo

Mainau Island

Insel Mainau · Outstanding floral display

Main Tower

Frankfurt’s highest vantage point

Maisel Synagogue

Maiselova synagoga · Exhibition dedicated to Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 10th–18th centuries

Maison Antoine

Classic Belgian fries, since 1948

Maison Blanche

Villa by architect Le Corbusier

Maison Carrée

Maison Deyrolle

A kind of natural history museum shop

Maison Losseau

Art nouveau house by architect Paul Saintenoy

Maison radieuse

Unité d’habitation · Brutalist architecture by Le Corbusier

Maisons Castle

Château de Maisons · 17th-century palace by architect François Mansart

Maison Tavel

Local history museum

Majolica House

Majolikahaus · Cheery landmark building by architect Otto Wagner

MAK

Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst · Museum of applied art for Wiener Werkstätte stuff

Malahide Castle and Gardens

Malmö Art Museum

Malmö Konstmuseum · Art museum

Malmöhus Castle

Malmöhus Slott · Renaissance castle with everything the Malmö Art Museum didn’t care about

Malmö Konsthall

MAMAC

Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain

Manchester Jewish Museum

Mangturm Tower

Mangturm · 12th-century tower with a colourful roof, to protect & defend the harbour

MAN Museum

Manneken Pis

Mannheim Baroque Palace

Barockschloss Mannheim · 18th-century residence of the prince-electors of the Palatinate

Manufactum

Upmarket shop for stuff that isn’t crap

Manufacture du Chocolat

Alain Ducasse’s chocolate manufactory

Manufacture of Dreams

Manufaktur der Träume

Marble Church

Marmorkirken · Rococo church by architect Nicolai Eigtved

Marble House

Marmorpalais · Neoclassical palace

Marburg Art Museum

Kunstmuseum Marburg · Art museum

Marburg Castle

Landgrafenschloss

Marburger Kunstverein

Art gallery

Marchivum

Local history museum

Marechaussee Museum

Marechausseemuseum · Museum dedicated to the Dutch military police (the author of this website was the last RNLMP conscript)

Maredsous Abbey

Abbaye de Maredsous

Margarethenhöhe

Margarethe Krupp’s garden city

Margravial Opera House

Markgräfliches Opernhaus

Maria am Gestade

Gothic church

Maria Chapel

Marienkapelle · Gothic church featuring (copies of) Adam & Eve by Tilman Riemenschneider

Maria Laach Abbey

Benediktinerabtei Maria Laach · Romanesque abbey with workshops for ironwork, sculpture & ceramics

Mariazell Basilica

Basilika Mariazell

Mariazell Railway

Mariazellerbahn

Marie Louise Colliery

Marie Louise Stolln

Marienberg Fortress

Festung Marienberg

Marienburg Castle

Schloss Marienburg

Mariendom Neviges

Brutalist church by architect Gottfried Bühm

Marienfelde Refugee Center Museum

Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde · Refugee transit camp for GDR citizens

Marienkirche

Marines Museum

Mariniersmuseum · Military museum

Marionette Theatre Schönbrunn Palace

Marionettentheater Schloss Schönbrunn · Puppet theatre

Maritiman

Maritime Museum

Schifffahrtsmuseum

Maritime Museum

Museu de Marinha · A nautical flashback to the Age of Discoveries

Maritime Museum

Maritiem Museum

Maritime Museum

Sjöhistoriska museet

Maritime Museum and Aquarium

Sjöfartsmuseet

Maritime Museum of Denmark

Museet for Søfart

Maritime Museum of Ílhavo

Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo · At the museum’s codfish aquarium you can see what bacalhau looks like when it’s not on your plate

Market Hall

Saluhallen

Market Hall

Markthal · The Sistine Chapel of Rotterdam, by MVRDV architects

Market Square

Marktplatz · Square surrounded by Renaissance-style buildings

Markiezenhof

Local history museum

Märkisches Museum

Local history museum, closed until 2028

Märklineum

Model train shop

Marksburg Castle

Marksburg · 12th-century castle

Markthalle Acht

Food hall

Markthalle Basel

Food hall

Markthalle im Viadukt

Food hall & restaurant

Markthalle Neun

Food hall

Marktkirche

Marktplatz

Weekly market on Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays

Marl Chemical Park

Chemiepark Marl · Industrial culture tours on Tuesdays & Saturdays

Marmottan Monet Museum

Musée Marmottan Monet · Paintings by Claude Monet & other impressionists

Marsh’s Library

18th-century, perfectly preserved library of the early Enlightenment

Marta Herford

Museum for art, architecture & design by architect Frank Gehry

Martin Bodmer Foundation

Fondation Martin Bodmer · Inexplicably cool library by architect Mario Botta

Martin-Gropius-Bau

Exhibition centre by architects Martin Gropius & Heino Schmieden

Martini Church

Martinikerk · Church with a supercalifragilistic organ

Martini Tower

Martinitoren · 97-m-high climbable tower providing a stunning view of the city

Marx-Engels Monument

Marx-Engels-Denkmal · Sculpture of Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels by Ludwig Engelhardt

Mary Rose

Henry VIII’s favourite ship, lost in 1545, recovered in 1982

MAS

Museum aan de Stroom

MASI Lugano

Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana · Art museum

Master Builder’s House

Baumeisterhaus · Restaurant with a lovely Renaissance facade

Masters’ Houses

Meisterhäuser · Bauhaus Meisterhäuser by architect Walter Gropius

Masthugget Church

Masthuggskyrkan

Mathallen Food Hall

Mathallen

Mathematical Bridge

Mathias and Anna Sophie Gasteiger’s House

Künstlerhaus Gasteiger

Mathildenhöhe

Art nouveau artists’ colony

Matisse Museum

Musée Matisse

Matterhorn Gotthard Railway

Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn · Narrow-gauge railway line to Visp & Zermatt

Maulbronn Monastery

Kloster Maulbronn · Medieval monastery with a Gothic church

Mauritshuis

Home to Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

Mausoleum of Augustus

Mausoleo di Augusto

Mauterndorf Castle

Burg Mauterndorf

Mauthausen Memorial

KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen · Former Nazi concentration camp

Max Ernst Museum

Museum dedicated to Dadaist & surrealist painter & sculptor Max Ernst

Maximilianmuseum

McManus Galleries

Art gallery & museum

Meatballs for the People

Forget the Swedish meatballs from IKEA & get real köttbullar here

Media Museum

Internationales Zeitungsmuseum · Discover the past, the present & the future of media

Medici Chapels

Cappelle Medicee

Medieval Dungeons

Mittelalterliche Lochgefängnisse

Medieval Museum

Medeltidsmuseet

Meersburg Castle

Burg Meersburg · Medieval castle

Meersburg New Palace

Neues Schloss Meersburg · Baroque palace by architect Balthasar Neumann, with a rococo interior by Franz Anton Bagnato

Meersburg Prince’s Little House

Fürstenhäusle Meersburg · Biedermeier-era house dedicated to poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Meijendel Valley

Meijendel · Take a hike through the dunes

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meißen · Europe’s oldest porcelain manufactory (1710)

Meistersingerhalle

Melanchthon House

Melanchthonhaus · Museum dedicated to religious reformer Philipp Melanchthon

Melk Abbey

Stift Melk

Memorial 1815

Mémorial 1815 · Memorial commemorating the Battle of Waterloo

Memorial Museum in the Runden Ecke

Museum in der Runden Ecke · Former Stasi office

Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy

Musée Mémorial de la Bataille de Normandie · World War II museum

Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917

Memorial of Esterwegen

Gedenkstätte Esterwegen · Former Nazi concentration camp

Memorial Steinwache

Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Steinwache · Former Gestapo prison

Memorial to the 17 June 1953 Uprising

Denkmal 17. Juni 1953 · Memorial commemorating the East German protest march

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas · Holocaust memorial

Memorium Nuremberg Trials

Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse

Mendelssohn House

Mendelssohn-Haus

Mendo Bookshop

Mendo · Candy shop for book aficionados

Menin Gate

Menenpoort · Last Post ceremony at 8 p.m.

Menkemaborg Estate

Menkemaborg · 18th-century moated manor house & garden

Mensa Moltke

University canteen by architect Jürgen Mayer

Mercat Central

Mercedes-Benz Museum

Car museum

Merghelynck Museum

18th-century mansion

Merian Gärten

Botanical garden

Merkers Visitor Mine

Erlebnis Bergwerk Merkers

Merkur Funicular

Merkur Bergbahn

Merseyside Maritime Museum

The Mesdag Collection

De Mesdag Collectie · Painters Hendrik Willem & Sientje Mesdag’s private collection

Mestlin Village Walk

Mestlin · Socialist model village

Metz Cathedral

Cathédrale de Metz · Church with stained-glass windows by painter Marc Chagall

Meunier Museum

Musée Meunier · Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Constantin Meunier

MGK Siegen

Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen · Contemporary art museum

Mia & Hermann Hesse House

Mia- und Hermann-Hesse-Haus · Home of writer Hermann Hesse & his first wife Mia

Micropia

Museum of microbes

Middelheim Museum

Middelheimmuseum

Mien Ruys Gardens

Tuinen Mien Ruys · Thirty gardens by plantswoman Mien Ruys

Mierlo War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Mies van der Rohe House

Mies van der Rohe Haus · Landhaus Lemke, by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Miffy Museum

Nijntje Museum · Children’s museum starring Miffy

Migros Museum of Contemporary Art

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst · Contemporary art museum

Milan Castle

Castello Sforzesco

Milan Cathedral

Duomo di Milano

Mildenberg Brickyard Park

Ziegeleipark Mildenberg · Industrial heritage site

Mildenstein Castle

Burg Mildenstein

Miljoenenlijn

Heritage railway line operating an Uerdingen railbus

Millau Viaduct

Viaduc de Millau

Millesgården

Art museum & sculpture garden

Mill Museum The Falcon

Molenmuseum De Valk · Flour mill (1743), now a museum

Milsbeek War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

MIMA

Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art · Contemporary art museum

Mine Museum

Mijnmuseum

Minett Park

Industrial heritage site & railway line

Miniatur-Elbtal

Miniaturpark Die Kleine Sächsische Schweiz

Miniatur Wunderland

The world’s largest model railway

Mining and Technology Park

Bergbau-Technik-Park · Discover industrial culture in Saxony

Mining History Centre

Centre Historique Minier

Mining Museum Oelsnitz

Bergbaumuseum Oelsnitz

Mining Museum Schauinsland

Museums-Bergwerk Schauinsland

Miniworld Rotterdam

Rotterdam in miniature, with lots of model trains

Minoritenkirche

Mirabell Garden

Mirabellgarten

Mirow Palace

Schloss Mirow

The Mitchell Library

Mittelbau-Dora Memorial

KZ-Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora · Former Nazi concentration camp

MMK

Museum für Moderne Kunst · Contemporary art museum by architect Hans Hollein

Mocenigo Palace

Palazzo Mocenigo

Modellbahnland Erzgebirge

Model railway

Modellbundesbahn

Model railway depicting the German Federal Railway in the summer of 1975

Model Railway Wiehe

Modellbahn Wiehe · Model railway

Moderna Museet

Contemporary art museum

Moderna Museet Malmö

Contemporary art museum

Modern Art Gallery

Galleria d’Arte Moderna

Modern Art Oxford

Moesgaard Museum

Mohrfels Mill

Muerbelsmillen · Milling museum

Molecule Men

Landmark sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky

Molli Railway

Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn Molli · Heritage railway line

Mompesson House

18th-century townhouse

MoMu

ModeMuseum

Monastery and Imperial Palace of Memleben

Kloster und Kaiserpfalz Memleben

Monastery of Alcobaça

Mosteiro de Alcobaça

Monastery of Batalha

Mosteiro da Batalha

Monastery of Pedralbes

Monestir de Pedralbes

Monastery of Saorge

Monastère de Saorge

Monastry of St Florian

Stift St. Florian · Come for the baroque library, stay for the great organ

Mönchehaus Museum Goslar

Contemporary art museum

Mönchsberg Lift

Mönchsbergaufzug · Lift to the Museum of Modern Art

Mondriaan House

Mondriaanhuis · The birth house of Piet Mondrian

Money Museum

Geldmuseum · The Deutsche Bundesbank’s museum

Mons Memorial Museum

War museum

Monsterroller Braunlage

Ride down Mount Wurmberg on a monster scooter

Montal Castle

Château de Montal

Mont-Blanc Tramway

Tramway du Mont-Blanc · Rack railway to Nid d’Aigle, at the foot of the Bionnassay glacier

Montcaret Archaeological Site

Site archéologique de Montcaret

Møntergården

Montjuïc Castle

Castell de Montjuïc

Montmaurin Archaeological Site

Site archéologique de Montmaurin

Montparnasse Tower

Tour Montparnasse · Observation deck overlooking Paris from a height of 200 meters

Mont Sainte-Odile

Abbay & Pagan Wall

Monument of the Battle of the Nations

Völkerschlachtdenkmal

Monument to King Frederick II of Prussia

Denkmal König Friedrich II. von Preußen · Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great

Monument to the Great Fire of London

MOOF Museum

Museum of Original Figurines · Smurfs & other collectibles from vintage cartoons

Mook War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Moorish Castle

Castelo dos Mouros · 8th-century castle built by the Moors

Moritzburg Castle

Schloss Moritzburg · Baroque palace by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann

Moses Bridge

Mozesbrug

Mosigkau Palace

Schloss Mosigkau · Rococo palace & garden nicknamed Kleine Sanssouci

Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba

Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba

Mothwurf

Upmarket shop for dirndls & lederhosen

Mothwurf

Upmarket shop for dirndls & lederhosen

Moulagenmuseum

3D wax reproductions of diseased parts of the body

Mount Brocken

Brocken · Northern Germany’s highest peak (1,141 m)

Mount Zugspitze

Zugspitze · Germany’s highest peak (2,962 m)

MOW

Museum de Oude Wolden · Art & regional history museum

Mozart House

Mozarthaus · Mozart lived there from 1784 to 1787

Mozart’s Birthplace

Mozarts Geburtshaus

Mozart’s Residence

Mozart-Wohnhaus

Mucem

Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée

Mucha Museum

Muchovo muzeum · Museum dedicated to artist Alphonse Mucha

MUDAC

Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains · Museum of contemporary design & applied arts

Mudam

Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean · Contemporary art museum by architect I.M. Pei

Mudflat Hike

Wadlooptocht · 12-km-long mudflat hike to Ameland island

Mudflat Hike

Wadlooptocht · 20-km-long mudflat hike to Schiermonnikoog island

Mudia

Art experience

Mühlbauer Hat Makers

Mühlbauer Hutmanufaktur · Cheaper hats are sold elsewhere

Mühlenhof Open-Air Museum

Mühlenhof-Freilichtmuseum · Living history museum

Mühlerama

Industrial mill, museum for eating culture, and baking school

MU Hybrid Art House

MU · Contemporary art gallery

Muiderslot Castle

Muiderslot · The most beautiful & best kept medieval castle in the Netherlands

Mulhouse Zoo

Parc zoologique et botanique

MuMa

Musée d’art moderne André Malraux · Contemporary art museum

MUMOK

Museum Moderner Kunst · Contemporary art museum

Munch Museum

Munchmuseet · Museum dedicated to painter Edvard Munch

Münchner Platz Memorial

Gedenkstätte Münchner Platz · Former Nazi & GDR courthouse, prison & execution site

Münchner Stadtmuseum

Mundaneum

The birthplace of Paul Otlet’s Universal Decimal Classification

Munich Cathedral

Münchner Dom · Gothic church with Renaissance domes

Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism

NS-Dokumentationszentrum München

Munich Residence

Residenz München

Municipal Art Gallery

Städtische Galerie Bremen · Contemporary art gallery

Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Arts

Stadtgalerie Kiel

Municipal House

Obecní dům · Art nouveau building decorated by leading artists & sculptors

Municipal Library

Městská knihovna · Library & art gallery by architect František Roith

Municipal Library Stuttgart

Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart · Library by architect Eun Young Yi

Municipal Museum

Städtisches Museum Braunschweig · Art & local history museum

Municipal Museum

Stadtmuseum

Municipal Museum

Stadtmuseum · Local history museum

Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst · S.M.A.K.

Münster Cathedral

St.-Paulus-Dom · Burial site of Kanonenbischof Bomben-Bernd, i.e. Bernhard von Galen

Munster Church

Munsterkerk · Romanesque church renovated by architect Pierre Cuypers

Münster City Museum

Stadtmuseum Münster · Local history museum

MUSA Museum

Contemporary art gallery

Musea Zutphen

Stedelijk Museum Zutphen & Museum Henriette Polak

Musée de la Céramique

Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air

Sculptures from the second half of the 20th century

Musée de l’Elysée

Museum for photography

Musée de l’Imprimerie

Type & printing museum

Musée de l’Orangerie

Impressionist & post-impressionist art museum that houses Monet’s Nymphéas

Musée de Montmartre

The Renoir Gardens are lovely

Musée des arts et métiers

Science & technology museum

Musée des Beaux-Arts

Musée d’Orsay

Impressionist & post-impressionist art museum

Musée du Charmey

Art & local history museum

Musée Gruérien

Local history museum

Musée Guimet

Asian art museum

Musée Jacquemart-André

Second Empire mansion packed with Renaissance art

Musée Jenisch Vevey

Museum of prints & drawings

Musée L

Museum of the Walloon university in the purpose-built city of New Leuven

Musée Le Secq des Tournelles

Wrought iron art museum

Museo Correr

Museo del Novecento

Museo del Patriarca

Museo di San Marco

Museo Galileo

Museon

Culture & science museum for kids

Museo Vincenzo Vela

Sculptor Vincenco Vela’s plaster-cast collection

Museum aan het Vrijthof

Museum for photography

Museum Abteiberg

Contemporary art museum

Museum Alexandrowka

Former Russian colony

Museum am Dom

Museum am Modersohn-Haus

Museum dedicated to painters Otto & Paula Modersohn-Becker

Museum am Rothenbaum

Ethnographic museum

Museum and Crypt of the Capuchin Friars

Museo e Cripta dei Frati Cappuccini

Museum Arnhem

Contemporary art & design museum

Museum Art of the West Coast

Museum Kunst der Westküste · Paintings from 1830 to 1930 & contemporary art

Museum at the A

Museum aan de A · Regional history museum

Museum at the Market Square

Museum beim Markt · Museum of applied art

Museum August Kestner

Egyptian & Graeco-Roman art, applied art, and modern design

Museum Barberini

Art museum

Museum Beelden aan Zee

Contemporary sculpture museum

Museum Belvédère

Contemporary art museum

Museum Berggruen

Museum Berggrün · Contemporary art museum

Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

World War II museum

Museum Boerhaave

Rijksmuseum Boerhaave · Museum dedicated to the history of science & medicine

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Closed for renovation until 2029

Museum Brandhorst

Contemporary art museum

Museum Bredius

Art museum

Museum Broeker Veiling

Sail-through vegetable auction

Museum Buurtspoorweg

Heritage railway line operating a Wismar railbus

Museum Carré d’Art

Carré d’Art Musée · Contemporary art museum by architect Norman Foster

Museum Catharijneconvent

Religious art museum

Museum Das Maximum

DasMaximum KunstGegenwart

Museum De Buitenplaats

Contemporary figurative art museum

Museum de Fundatie

Art museum

Museum De Lakenhal

Art & local history museum, home to Lucas van Leyden’s The Last Judgement

Museum De Waag

Local history museum

Museum De Weem

Museum dedicated to painter Henk Helmantel

Museum DKM

Contemporary art museum

Museum Drachten

Museum Dr8888 · Contemporary art museum

Museum Dräi Eechelen

Musée Dräi Eechelen · Fortress

Museumfabriek

The museum of nothing in particular

Museum Fluxus

Museum dedicated to the Fluxus art movement of the sixties

Museum Folkwang

Art museum by architect David Chipperfield

Museum for Architectural Drawing

Museum für Architekturzeichnung · Architecture museum

Museum for Communication

Museum für Kommunikation · Postal & telecom museum

Museum for Communication

Museum für Kommunikation · Postal & telecom museum

Museum for Hamburg History

Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte · The scale 1:32 model railway here is great

Museum for Industrial Culture

Museum Industriekultur

Museum for Lace and Fashion

Cité de la dentelle et de la mode

Museum for Sepulchral Culture

Museum für Sepulkralkultur · Not a very lively museum

Museum Franz Gertsch

Museum dedicated to artist Franz Gertsch

Museum Frieder Burda

Contemporary art museum by architect Richard Meier

Museum Friedland

Refugee transit camp for POWs, GDR citizens & asylum seekers

Museum Fünf Kontinente

Ethnographic museum

Museum für Archäologie

Archaeological museum, closed until 2026

Museum für Gestaltung

Design museum

Museum für Naturkunde

Natural history museum

Museum Gouda

Local history museum

Museum Gunzenhauser

Contemporary art museum

Museum Haarlem

Local history museum

Museum Haus Konstruktiv

Contemporary art museum

Museum Het Dolhuys

Psychiatry museum in a former madhouse

Museum Het Schip

Architecture museum dedicated to the Amsterdam School

Museum Het Sterkenhuis

Local history museum

Museum Het Valkhof

Art & archaeology museum

Museum Histaruz

Historical archive of the university hospitals

Museum Hof van Busleyden

Museum dedicated to the history of the Burgundian Netherlands

Museum Hoge Woerd

Local archaeology museum

Museum House Doorn

Museum Huis Doorn · The last German Emperor Wilhelm II lived in exile here

Museumhuis Van Eysinga

18th-century mansion in Louis XVI style

Museu Militar de Lisboa

Colonel Luis Albuquerque runs the place

Museu Militar do Porto

Museum displaying Portugal’s miniature army

Museum im Bellpark

Art, photography & local history gallery

Museum im Grafenschloss

Museum im Kulturspeicher

Art museum

Museum in Bad Pyrmont Castle

Museum im Schloss Bad Pyrmont · Art & local history museum

Museum Insel Hombroich

Museum in the Castle Church

Museum in der Schlosskirche · Religious art museum

Museum in the Kulturbrauerei

Museum in der Kulturbrauerei · Museum dedicated to everyday life in the GDR

Museum in the Majolika

Museum in der Majolika · Ceramics museum

Museum Jan

Contemporary art museum

Museum Judengasse

Europe’s oldest Jewish ghetto

Museum Judenplatz

Museum Kaap Skil

Maritime history museum

Museum Kalkwerk Lengefeld

Museum Kampa

Contemporary art museum

Museum Koenig

Museum König · Zoological museum

Museum Kranenburgh

Contemporary art museum

Museum Kunstpalast

Art museum

Museum Küppersmühle

Contemporary art museum

Museum Kurhaus Kleve

Museum Langmatt

Impressionist art museum

Museum Leuven

Museum Lindwurm

19th-century home of an upper-class family

Museum Ludwig

Contemporary art museum

Museum Maxhütte

Museum Mayer van den Bergh

Museum Medeiros e Almeida

Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida · Art collector’s home

Museum Meermanno

Museum dedicated to the book as an object

Museum MORE

Art museum dedicated to modern realism

Museum MORE Ruurlo Castle

Museum MORE Kasteel Ruurlo · Museum dedicated to painter Carel Willink

Museum Nagele

Local history museum dedicated to Nagele’s post-war modernist architecture

Museum Nassau-Oranien

Oranienstein Palace houses a museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch royal family

Museum Naturalis

Natural history museum, home to the world’s coolest T-Rex

Museum Niederösterreich

Museum dedicated to Lower Austria’s history & nature

Museum Nienoord

Manor house & carriage museum

Museum No Hero

Art museum

Museum of Ancient Seafaring

Museum für Antike Schifffahrt · Museum dedicated to the Roman Rhine fleet

Museum of Antiquities

Musée des Antiquités

Museum of Applied Arts

Museum Angewandte Kunst · Museum by architect Richard Meier

Museum of Applied Arts Cologne

Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln · Arts & crafts from the Middle Ages to the 20th century

Museum of Archaeology

Major religious artefacts of Celtic & Early Christian Ireland

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Museum of Archeaology

Arkeologisk museum

Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Museum of Art and Cultural History

Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte · Museum featuring a bit of everything

Museum of Art and Cultural History

Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Schloss Gottorf · Another copy of Ernst Barlach’s angel Der Schwebende hangs here

Museum of Art and Industry

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Museum of Bread and Art

Museum Brot und Kunst

Museum of Burgundian Life

Musée de la Vie bourguignonne · Regional history museum

Museum of Ceramics

Keramikmuseum · Villeroy & Boch’s historical collections

Museum of Childhood

Museum of Classical Archaeology

Museum of Communication

Museum für Kommunikation · Postal & telecom museum

Museum of Communism

Muzeum komunismu · Museum dedicated to life in communist-era Czechoslovakia

Museum of Contemporary Art

Museet for Samtidskunst

Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen

Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

MARCO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma

Museum of Country Life

Museum of Cultural History

Kulturgeschichtliches Museum

Museum of Cultures

Museum der Kulturen · Ethnographic museum

Museum of Cultures

Museo delle Culture

Museum of Decorative Arts

Kunstgewerbemuseum · Museum of applied art

Museum of Decorative Arts

Musée des Arts décoratifs · Decorative art museum

Museum of Decorative Arts

Uměleckoprůmyslové museum · The glass collection is great

Museum of Decorative Arts and Design

Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design

Museum of Dentistry

Zahnmuseum · Exhibition encouraging dentophobia

Museum of Design and Fashion

Museu do Design e da Moda · Temporarily closed

Museum of Early Industrialization

Museum für Frühindustrialisierung · Industrial history museum

Museum of East Asian Art

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst · Art from China, Korea & Japan

Museum of Edinburgh

Museum of Ethnography

Etnografiska museet

Museum of European Cultures

Museum Europäischer Kulturen · Ethnographic museum

Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

Östasiatiska museet

Museum of Fine Arts

Kunstmuseum Bern

Museum of Fine Arts

Musée des Beaux-Arts

Museum of Fine Arts

Bündner Kunstmuseum

Museum of Fine Arts

Musée des Beaux-Arts · Home to the tombs of Philip the Bold, John the Fearless & Margaret of Bavaria

Museum of Fine Arts

Museum der bildenden Künste

Museum of Fine Arts

Musée des Beaux-Arts

Museum of Fine Arts

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai · Art museum by architect Victor Horta

Museum of Fine Arts

Musée des Beaux-Arts

Museum of Fine Arts

Museu de Belles Arts de València

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent · Paintings from the Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century

Museum of Franconia

Museum für Franken · Art & regional history museum

Museum of Friesland

Fries Museum · Mata Hari was Frisian

Museum of Gothenburg

Göteborgs stadsmuseum

Museum of Half-timbered Architecture

Fachwerkmuseum im Ständerbau · Architecture museum

Museum of Hessian History

Hessisches Landesmuseum · Regional history museum

Museum of History

Historisches Museum Hannover

Museum of Hunting and Nature

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

Museum of Industry

Industriemuseum

Museum of Ixelles

Musée d’Ixelles · Closed for renovation until 2025

Museum of Jewish Art and History

Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme

Museum of Lacquer Art

Museum für Lackkunst

Museum of Lisbon

Museu de Lisboa · City museum

Museum of Literature Ireland

Museum of Liverpool

Museum of London

Museum of London Docklands

Museum of Making

Industrial heritage museum

Museum of Mankind

Musée de l’Homme · Ethnographic museum

Museum of Medical & Pharmaceutical History

Medizin- und Pharmaziehistorische Sammlung

Museum of Medicine

Musée de la Médecine

Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

Medelhavsmuseet

Museum of Military History

Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr

Museum of Military History

Heeresgeschichtliches Museum · They have Franz Ferdinand’s car from Sarajevo here

Museum of Military History at Berlin-Gatow

Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin · Military aviation museum

Museum of Miniatures

Muzeum miniatur · Micro miniature art museum

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Musée d'art moderne et contemporain

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain

Museum of Modern Art

Museum der Moderne

Museum of Modern Literature

Literaturmuseum der Moderne · German modern literature, that is

Museum of Music

Museu de la Música

Museum of Musical Instruments

Museum für Musikinstrumente

Museum of Music Automatons

Museums für Musikautomaten · Museum of self-playing musical instruments

Museum of National History

Det Nationalhistoriske Museum

Museum of Natural History

Naturkunde-Museum Bamberg · The Hall of Birds is pretty cool

Museum of Natural History

Museum für Naturkunde

Museum of Natural History

Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle

Museum of Natural Sciences

Muséum des Sciences naturelles · Natural history museum

Museum of Nature and Environment

Museum für Natur und Umwelt

Museum of Nature and Technology

Haus der Natur

Museum of Oriental Art

Museo d’Arte Orientale

Museum of Oslo

Bymuseet

Museum of Our Lord in the Attic

Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder · 17th-century house with a catholic church hidden on the top floor

Museum of Oxford

Museum of Photography

Museum für Fotografie

Museum of Prehistory and Early History

Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte

Museum of Printed Textiles

Musée de l’Impression sur Etoffes

Museum of Printmaking

Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée

Museum of Prints, Drawings and Photographs

Kupferstich-Kabinett

Museum of Prints and Drawings

Kupferstichkabinett

Museum of Public Transport

Muzeum městské hromadné dopravy

Museum of Roman Civilization

Museo della Civiltà Romana

Museum of Roman History

Musée de la Romanité · Contemporary art museum by architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc

Museum of Romanticism

Museo del Romanticismo

Museum of Rome

Museo di Roma

Museum of Russian-German Cultural History

Museum für russlanddeutsche Kulturgeschichte · Museum dedicated to Germans who immigrated to Russia & returned to Germany generations later

Museum of Sacred Art

Musée d’Art sacré · Religious art museum

Museum of St Peter’s Abbey

Museum St. Peter

Museum of the 20th Century

Museum van de Twintigste Eeuw

Museum of the Americas

Museo de América

Museum of the Ara Pacis

Museo dell’Ara Pacis · Museum housing the Altar of Augustan Peace

Museum of Theatre Puppets

Theaterfigurenmuseum

Museum of the Bavarian Kings

Museum der bayerischen Könige

Museum of the Canals

Museum Het Grachtenhuis · Dedicated to the history of Amsterdam & its canals

Museum of the City of Brussels

Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles · Local history museum

Museum of the History of Barcelona

Museu d’Història de Barcelona

Museum of the History of Catalonia

Museu d’Història de Catalunya

Museum of the History of Science

Musée d’histoire des sciences

Museum of the Home

Museum of the Jewellery Quarter

Jewellery workshop

Museum of the National Bank of Belgium

Musée de la Banque nationale de Belgique

Museum of the Printing Arts

Museum für Druckkunst · Printing museum

Museum of the Shroud

Museo della Sindone · The Holy Shroud, that is

Museum of the Surrender

Musée de la Reddition · World War II museum

Museum of Things

Museum der Dinge · Small museum spotlighting mass production & industrial manufacturing in the 20th & 21st centuries

Museum of Transport and Communications

Museu dos Transportes e Comunicações

Museum of Tyrolean Regional Heritage

Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum · Panelled parlours, historic Tyrolean costumes, and cribs & cots

Museum of Walloon Life

Musée de la Vie wallonne

Museum of Work

Museum der Arbeit · Labour history museum

Museum of World Culture

Världskulturmuseet · Ethnographic museum

Museum of World Cultures

Museum der Weltkulturen · Ethnographic museum

Museum of World Cultures of Barcelona

Museu de Cultures del Món · Ethnographic museum

Museum on The Mound

Museum Ostwall

Contemporary art museum

Museumpark Orientalis

Open-air museum saving you a journey to the Holy Land

Museum Paulina Bisdom van Vliet

19th-century home of an upper-class family

Museum Paul Tetar van Elven

Artist’s house featuring paintings & porcelain

Museum Prinsenhof Delft

Art & local history museum

Museum Remise

Verkehrsmuseum Remise · Public transport museum

Museum Rietberg

Non-Western art museum

Museum Rijswijk

Art & local history museum hosting paper & textile biennales

Museum Rockoxhuis

Museum Rotterdam

World War II museum

Museum Schiefes Haus

Museum dedicated to typographer Paul Renner & models of watermills

Museum Schloss Moyland

Museum Schnütgen

Medieval art museum

Museum Schokland

Museum Ship

Museumsschiff · Closed for renovation

Museums of the Far East

Musées d’Extrême-Orient · Closed until further notice

Museum Sophiahof

Dutch East Indies colonial & postcolonial museum

Museum Speelklok

Museum of self-playing musical instruments

Museum Steam Tram Hoorn–Medemblik

Museumstoomtram Hoorn–Medemblik · Heritage railway line

Museum Swaensteyn

Local history museum

Museum Tinguely

Museum dedicated to sculptor Jean Tinguely

Museum Tucher Mansion and Hirsvogel Hall

Museum Tucherschloss und Hirsvogelsaal

Museum Ulm

Art & design museum

Museum Van Loon

17th-century residence of an upper-class family

Museum Vieille Montagne

Museum dedicated to the history of Kelmis & Neutral Moresnet (1816–1920)

Museum Vleeshuis

Museum Volkenkunde

Ethnographic museum

Museum Voorlinden

Contemporary art museum

Museum Vrolik

Anatomical collection dedicated to human anomalies

Museum Wiesbaden

Art & nature museum

Museum Wilhelm Busch

German Museum for Caricature & the Art of Drawing

Museum Zeughaus

Art & cultural history museum

Museum zu Allerheiligen

Art & local history museum

Musical Instruments Museum

Musée des instruments de musique

Musikmuseum

Switzerland’s largest collection of musical instruments

Musiktheater

Concert hall

Musikverein

Concert hall praised for its excellent acoustics

Muskauer Park

Muskau Forest Railway

Waldeisenbahn Muskau

MUSME

Museo di Storia della Medicina in Padova · Medical science museum

Mu.ZEE

Belgian art dating from 1830 to the present day

Muzeum Susch

Contemporary art museum

Myth of Germania

Mythos Germania · Exhibition dedicated to Hitler’s plans for Berlin’s redevelopment

Nahverkehrsmuseum Dortmund

Public transport museum

Náprstek Museum

Náprstkovo muzeum · Museum of Asian, African & American cultures

Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum

Schmalspurbahnmuseum

National Aquarium Denmark

Den Blå Planet

National Archaeological Museum

Museo Archeologico Nazionale

National Archaeological Museum

Museo Arqueológico Nacional

National Archaeological Museum

Musée d’Archéologie nationale

National Archives

National Army Museum

National Art Museum of Catalonia

Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

National Automobile Museum

Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile

National Botanic Gardens

National Coach Museum

Museu Nacional dos Coches · Museum of horse-drawn carriages

National Coal Mining Museum

National Concert Hall

National Famine Monument

Monument to the Great Famine (1845–49) by John Behan

National Firefighters Museum

Nationaal Brandweermuseum

National Fisheries Museum

Nationaal Visserijmuseum

National Galleries of Palazzo Spinola

Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola

National Gallery of Denmark

Statens Museum for Kunst · Art museum

National Gallery of Modern Art

Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

National Holocaust Museum

Nationaal Holocaust Museum · Due to open in 2024

National Hunting Grounds of Mafra

Tapada Nacional de Mafra

National Justice Museum

Museum dedicated to crime & punishment

National Library of France

Bibliothèque nationale de France · Library that holds the globes of Louis XIV & some books as well

National Library of Technology

Národní technická knihovna · Library by Projektil architects

National Library of the Netherlands

Koninklijke Bibliotheek · The Highlights Exhibition offers a broad picture of Dutch history & culture

National Lifeboat Museum

Nationaal Reddingmuseum

National Marionette Theatre

Národní divadlo marionet · Puppet theatre

National Maritime Museum

Scheepvaartmuseum

National Maritime Museum

2,000 years of maritime history

National Maritime Museum Cornwall

Smaller national maritime museum housing the National Small Boat Collection

National Maritime Museum of Ireland

Maritime heritage museum housing lots of ships in bottles

National Memorial Fort Breendonk

Nationaal Gedenkteken van het Fort van Breendonk · Former Nazi concentration camp

National Memorial on Vítkov Hill

Národní památník na Vítkově · Memorial for Czechoslovakia

National Military Museum

Nationaal Militair Museum · Military history museum featuring lots of hardware

National Mining Museum

Musée National des Mines de Fer Luxembourgeoises

National Mining Museum Scotland

National Museum

Nasjonalmuseet · Museum of art, architecture & design

National Museum

Národní muzeum · Historical Museum & Natural History Museum

Nationalmuseum

Art museum

National Museum Cardiff

National Museum Machado de Castro

Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro

National Museum of Agriculture

Národní zemědělské muzeum

National Museum of Ancient Art

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga · Art from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century

National Museum of Anthropology

Museo Nacional de Antropología

National Museum of Antiquities

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden · Top-notch archaeological museum noted for its Egyptian collection

National Museum of Archaeology

Museu Nacional de Arqueologia

National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo

Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant’Angelo

National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts

Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias

National Museum of Contemporary Art

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado

National Museum of Costume

Museu Nacional do Traje · Costumes from the 18th century to the present day

National Museum of Decorative Arts

Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas

National Museum of Denmark

Nationalmuseet · Archaeological & ethnographic museum

National Museum of Education

Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum · Museum dedicated to the history of education in the Netherlands

National Museum of Ethnology

Museu Nacional de Etnologia · Ethnographic museum

National Museum of Flight

National Museum of History and Art

Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art

National Museum of Ireland

Decorative arts & history museum, with a special focus on the 1916 Easter Rising

National Museum of Musical Instruments

Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali

National Museum of Natural History

Musée national d’histoire naturelle

National Museum of Natural History and Science

Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência

National Museum of Oriental Art

Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale

National Museum of Photography

Nederlands Fotomuseum

National Museum of Prehistory

Musée National de Préhistoire

National Museum of Rural Life

National Museum of Science and Technology

Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci

National Museum of Science and Technology

Tekniska museet

National Museum of Scotland

National Museum of the Palazzo di Venezia

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

National Museum of the Royal Navy

National Museum of XXI Century Arts

MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo · Centre for the contemporary art & architecture

National Museum Zurich

Landesmuseum Zürich · Swiss art & history museum

National Opera & Ballet

Nationale Opera & Ballet

National Opera House

National Palace of Pena

Palácio Nacional da Pena · 19th-century romanticist palace

National Palace of Queluz

Palácio Nacional de Queluz · 18th-century rococo palace

National Palace of Sintra

Palácio Nacional de Sintra · Medieval palace

National Pantheon

Panteão Nacional · Former church, now a mausoleum

National Park Line

Nationalparkbahn · The train to the Loreto Chapel in Rumburk

Nationalpark-Schiff Borkum

National Print Museum

Printing museum

National Railway Museum

Museu Nacional Ferroviário

National Renaissance Museum

Musée national de la Renaissance

National Roman Legion Museum

National Sanctuary of Christ the King

Santuário Nacional de Cristo Rei · Dominus noster Iesus Christus universorum rex

National Slate Museum

National Technical Museum

Národní technické muzeum · Science & technology museum

National Theater

Nationaltheater Mannheim

National Theatre

Brutalist theatre by architect Denys Lasdun

National Theatre

Národní divadlo · Opera, drama & ballet performances

National Theatre Museum

Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança

National Tile Museum

Museu Nacional do Azulejo · Portuguese pars pro toto

National Transport Museum of Ireland

National Wallace Monument

National War Museum

National Waterfront Museum

National Wool Museum

Nations Park Gondola Lift

Telecabine Lisbon · Means of aerial transportation intended for tourist purposes

Natural History Museum

Naturhistorisches Museum

Natural History Museum

Museum für Naturkunde

Natural History Museum

The Dead Zoo

Natural History Museum

Musée d’histoire naturelle · Vertébrés du monde

Natural History Museum

Muséum d’histoire naturelle

Natural History Museum

Naturkundemuseum

Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum

Naturhistorisk museum

Natural History Museum

Natuurhistorisch Museum

Natural History Museum

Museo di Storia Naturale

Natural History Museum

Naturhistorisches Museum · Home to Venus of Willendorf

Natural History Museum Basel

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Natural History Museum Erfurt

Naturkundemuseum Erfurt

Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona

Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona

Naturbad Riehen

Outdoor swimming pool by Herzog & de Meuron architects

Natureum

Naturkundemuseum Potsdam

Natural history museum

Natuurhistorisch Museum

Naumburg Cathedral

Naumburger Dom · Romanesque church

Nausicaá National Sea Center

Nausicaá Centre National de la Mer · Sea aquariums

Nautineum

Naval Museum

Marinemuseum

Naval Museum

Marinmuseum

Naval Museum

Museo Naval · Don’t forget to ask them about Admiral Piet Heyn

Nazaré Funicular

Ascensor da Nazaré

Nazare Lighthouse

Farol da Nazaré · The place to watch the giant waves

Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre

Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit · Former Nazi forced labour camp

Nebra Ark

Arche Nebra · Planetarium dedicated to the Nebra sky disk

Nederweert War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Neidhart Festsaal

Secular frescoes depicting Minnesinger Neidhart von Reuental

Nelson Monument

England expects that every man will do his duty

NEMO Science Museum

Science museum for kids, by architect Renzo Piano

Neresheim Abbey

Abtei Neresheim · Abbey with a church by architect Balthasar Neumann

Neroberg Mountain Railway

Nerobergbahn · Funicular railway

Netherlands American Cemetery

Amerikaanse begraafplaats Margraten · World War II cemetery

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid · Avoid the place if you don’t speak DUtch

Neuburg Palace

Schloss Neuburg

Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History

Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel · Art & local history museum

Neue Galerie

Fine art from the 19th century to the present day

Neue Galerie

Neue Nationalgalerie

Contemporary art museum by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial

KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme · Former Nazi concentration camp

Neue Pinakothek

Neuer Börneplatz Memorial Site

Gedenkstätte Börneplatz · Holocaust memorial

Neuer Zollhof

Office buildings by architect Frank Gehry

Neues Museum

Archaeological & Egyptological museum, home to Mrs Nefertiti

Neues Museum Nürnberg

Neues Museum Weimar

Art museum

Neufert House

Neufert Haus · House by architect & Bauentwurfslehre author Ernst Neufert

Neumünster

Baroque church

Neuschwanstein Castle

Schloss Neuschwanstein · Romanesque revival castle, built 1869–86

Nevers Faience Museum

Musée de la Faïence

New Älvsborg Fortress

Nya Älvsborgs Fästning

New Biochemistry Building

Not all Oxford University buildings are old

New Cathedral

Mariendom · The largest church in Austria

New Chambers of Sanssouci

Neue Kammern von Sanssouci · Frederick the Great’s rococo-style guest house

New Church

Nieuwe Kerk · Church with Admiral Michiel de Ruyter’s tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst & a superb organ by Hans Wolff Schonat

New Church

Nieuwe Kerk · Burial site of William I of Orange

New Church

Nieuwe Kerk · Church by architect Jacob van Campen

New City Hall

Nová radnice · Art Nouveau city hall with a paternoster lift

New College

Perpendicular Gothic architecture

New Gallery

Neue Galerie · Contemporary art museum

Newgrange

New Guardhouse

Neue Wache · Greek Revival building by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, now a memorial to the victims of war & dictatorship, home to Käthe Kollwitz’s Mother with her Dead Son

New Hall Art Collection

The New Institute

Het Nieuwe Instituut · Museum for architecture, design & digital culture

New Old Town

Neue Altstadt · Reconstructed old town (2018)

New Palace

Neues Palais · Frederick the Great’s really big palace

New Pavilion in Charlottenburg’s Palace Gardens

Neuer Pavillon im Schlossgarten Charlottenburg · Neoclassical villa by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel

New Residence

Neue Residenz · Residence with Imperial Hall & State Gallery, and hotshots’ apartments

New Saxon Gallery

Neue Sächsische Galerie

New Stage

Nová scéna · Laterna magika, opera, ballet & drama performances

New Synagogue

Neue Synagoge · Moorish Revival synagogue by architect Eduard Knoblauch

New Synagogue

Neue Synagoge · Synagogue by architects Rena Wandel-Hoefer & Wolfgang Lorch

New Town Hall

Neues Rathaus

Niederfinow Boat Lift

Schiffshebewerk Niederfinow · Actually two boat lifts: one dating from 1934, the other one from 2022

Niehove Village Walk

Niehove · The most beautiful village in the Netherlands

Niesen Funicular

Niesenbahn · One of the longest & highest funiculars in the world

Nietzsche Archive

Nietzsche-Archiv · Überlieschen’s house, with an art nouveau interior by architect Henry van de Velde

Nightingale Mine

Zeche Nachtigall · Industrial heritage museum

Nijenhuis Castle

Kasteel Het Nijenhuis · Art museum

Nikolaikirche

Nissim de Camondo Museum

Musée Nissim de Camondo · Decorative art museum

Nobel Peace Center

Nobels Fredssenter

Nobel Prize Museum

NONAM

Nordamerika Native Museum · Museum dedicated to the arts & cultures of the indigenous peoples of North America

Noordbrabants Museum

Noordeinde Palace

Paleis Noordeinde · Royal palace by architect Jacob van Campen

Noordpolderzijl

Hamlet close to the Wadden Sea, featuring a small seaport & a living-room café

Noord-Veluws Museum

Mainly impressionist paintings from the Veluwe

Nordic Museum

Nordiska museet · Cultural history museum

Nordico Stadtmuseum

Local history museum

Nordic Watercolour Museum

Nordiska Akvarellmuseet

Nordiska Kompaniet

Luxury department store

Nordiska Kompaniet

Luxury department store

Nordkirchen Palace

Schloss Nordkirchen · Guided tours on Sundays

Nordsee Aquarium Borkum

Nordstern Tower

Nordsternturm · Museum dedicated to the former Nordstern colliery

Nore Stave Church

Nore stavkirke

Normandy American Cemetery

Cimetière américain de Colleville-sur-Mer · World War II cemetery

North Cape

Noordkaap · The northernmost tip of the Dutch mainland

North Caves

Grotten Noord

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Heritage railway line

Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection

Flysamlingen

Norwegian Aviation Museum

Norsk Luftfartsmuseum

Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum

Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum

Norwegian Maritime Museum

Norsk Maritimt Museum

Norwegian Museum of Cultural History

Norsk Folkemuseum · Open-air museum with, among other things, the stave church from Gol

Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

Norsk Teknisk Museum

Norwegian Museum of Travel and Tourism

Norsk Reiselivsmuseum

Norwegian Olympic Museum

Norges Olympiske Museum · For sports freaks

Norwegian Petroleum Museum

Norsk Oljemuseum

Norwegian Postal Museum

Norges Postmuseum

Norwegian Printing Museum and Norwegian Canning Museum

Norsk grafisk museum og Norsk hermetikkmuseum · Industrial heritage museum

Norwegian Railway Museum

Norsk jernbanemuseum

Norwich Cathedral

Nossen Castle

Schloss Nossen

Nostalgiezug

Nostalgic train to Filisur, pulled by a RhB Ge 6/6ᴵ or Ge 4/4ᴵ locomotive

Notre Dame

Notre-Dame de Paris · Gothic cathedral, closed until further notice

Nottingham Contemporary

Contemporary art gallery

NS Documentation Center

NS-Dokumentationszentrum · Former Gestapo prison

Nuclear Power Plant Zwentendorf

Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf · Brand-new, never-used 1970s nuclear power plant

Nuremberg Zoo

Tiergarten Nürnberg

Nyborg Castle

Nyborg Slot · Closed for renovation until the end of 2027

Nyhavn

The old harbour with the colourful houses

Nymphenburg Palace

Schloss Nymphenburg · Baroque palace known for its Gallery of Beauties, featuring 36 portraits of beautiful young women

Oberer Kuhberg Memorial

KZ-Gedenkstätte Oberer Kuhberg · Former Nazi concentration camp

Oberhofen Castle

Schloss Oberhofen

Oberpollinger

Iconic luxury department store

Oberweißbach Mountain Railway

Oberweißbacher Bergbahn · Funicular railway line

Óbidos City Walk

Óbidos · Picturesque medieval town with a azulejo tile-adorned town gate

Oceanogràfic

Ochsenhausen Monastery

Kloster Ochsenhausen · Monastery with an impressive baroque church

Öchsle Railway

Öchsle-Bahn · Heritage railway line

Odense Zoo

Œuvre Notre-Dame Museum

Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame

Oevelgönne Museum Harbour

Museumshafen Övelgönne

Offenes Kulturhaus

Contemporary art gallery

Ogre Fountain

Kindlifresserbrunnen · 16th-century fountain with a child-eating ogre statue

Oiron Castle

Château d’Oiron

Old Botanical Garden

Alter Botanischer Garten · Arboretum & medieval herb garden

Old Cathedral

Ignatiuskirche · Anton Bruckner used to be organist here

Old Church

Oude Kerk · Church & contemporary art museum

Old Church

Oude Kerk · Church with Admiral Maarten Tromp’s tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst

Old Court

Alte Hofhaltung

Oldenburg State Museum

Landesmuseum Oldenburg · Art & cultural history museum

Old Jewish Cemetery

Starý židovský hřbitov

Old Lighthouse

Alter Leuchtturm · Germany’s oldest lighthouse

Old Masters Picture Gallery

Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister · Home to the Sistine Madonna

Old Masters Picture Gallery

Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister · Home to Rembrandt’s portrait of Saskia

Old-New Synagogue

Staronová synagoga · The oldest extant synagogue in Europe

Old Observatory

Oude Sterrewacht · Join a walk-in tour to see the historic telescopes

Old Observatory

Alte Sternwarte · Baroque observatory, closed to the public

Old Pumping Station

Altes Pumpwerk · Former sewage pumping station, now a museum

Old St Alban Memorial

Gedenkstätte Alt St. Alban · You will find a copy of The Grieving Parents by Käthe Kollwitz here

Old St Nicholas Church

Alte Nikolaikirche · Medieval church

Old Synagogue

Alte Synagoge

Old Synagogue

Alte Synagoge · House of Jewish culture

Oldtimer Museum Rügen

The Old Town

Den Gamle By

Old Town Hall

Altes Rathaus · The Ludwig Collection contains Meißen porcelain & Strasbourg faience

Old Town Hall

Altes Rathaus

Old Town Hall

Staroměstská radnice · The astronomical clock is pretty impressive

Old Voss Steam Railway

Gamle Vossebanen

Ole Rømer Observatory

Ole Rømer-Observatoriet

Oliver St John Gogarty

Traditional Irish bar

Olympic Bell Tower

Olympia-Glockenturm · Exhibition on the Olympic Games of 1936 & the history of the site

The Olympic Museum

Le Musée Olympique · For sports freaks

Olympic Tower

Olympiaturm

Omniversum

Wide-screen film theatre that shows films on a giant domed screen

O’Neill’s Pub & Kitchen

Traditional Irish pub

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwebasiliek

Oostvaardersplassen

Open-Air Museum

Frilandsmuseet · Living history museum

Open-Air Museum

Freilichtmuseum · Living history museum

Open Air-Museum Kommern

Freilichtmuseum Kommern · Living history museum

Open-Air Museum Molfsee

Freilichtmuseum Molfsee · Living history museum

Open-Air Museum of Alsace

Écomusée d’Alsace · Living history museum

Opéra Bastille

The opera house you were really looking for is Palais Garnier

Opera Duomo Museum

Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

Opera House

Opernhaus

Opera House

Oper Graz

Oradour-sur-Glane Memorial Centre

Centre de la mémoire · Museum dedicated to the massacre of 1944

Orangery Palace

Orangerie · Home to the Cabinet of Astronomy & Physics

Orangery Palace

Orangerieschloss · Palace featuring an exhibition of some fifty 19th-century copies of paintings by Raphael

Oranienbaum Palace

Schloss Oranienbaum · Dutch classicist palace with a baroque garden

Oranienburg Palace Museum

Schlossmuseum Oranienburg

Orbit Slide

Orchard Tea Garden

Afternoon tea venue

Ordensburg Vogelsang

Former Nazi estate

Ordrupgaard Museum

Ordrupgaard

Ore Mountains Railway

Erzgebirgische Aussichtsbahn · Heritage railway line

Orgelpark

Organ concert hall

Orient Museum

Museu do Oriente · Museum of Asian art

Ornamental Cast Iron Museum Büdelsdorf

Eisenkunstguss Museum Büdelsdorf

Orsanmichele

Osborne House

Queen Victoria’s palatial holiday home

Oscarsborg Fortres

Oscarsborg festning

Oscarshall

Royal summer residence open to the public every summer

Oskar Reinhart Collection

Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz · Art museum

Oslo Cathedral

Oslo domkirke

Oslo Concert Hall

Oslo Konserthus · Concert hall noted for its lousy acoustics

Oslo Jewish Museum

Jødisk Museum Oslo

Oslo Opera House

Operahuset Oslo

Oslo Transport Museum

Sporveismuseet

Ospizio Bernina

From Ospizio Bernina it’s a 7¾-km walk around Lago Bianco to Alp Grüm

Osterkirche

Brutalist church by architects Günther Domenig & Eilfried Huth

Østerlars Church

Østerlars Kirke · The largest & oldest of Denmark's seven round churches

Österreichische Werkstätten

Shop selling Wiener Werkstätte & art nouveau stuff

Oster Valley Railway

Ostertalbahn

Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden

Art & regional history museum

Ottobeuren Abbey

Benediktinerabtei Ottobeuren · The Swabian Escorial

Our Lady in Distress

Kapel Onze Lieve Vrouwe ter Nood · World War II memorial chapel by architect Jos Schijvens

Our Lady of Peace Chapel

Chapelle Foujita · Chapel by painter Léonard Foujita

Our Saviour’s Church

Vor Frelsers Kirke · Baroque church with an external spiral winding staircase

Ouwehands Zoo

Ouwehands Dierenpark · Hans is not a big fan

Overbeck Museum

Overbeck-Museum · Museum dedicated to painters Fritz & Hermine Overbeck

Overloon War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Overloon War Museum

Oorlogsmuseum Overloon · World War II museum

Overlord Museum

World War II museum

Oxford Museum of Natural History

Oxford University Press Museum

Oyfo Technology Museum

Oyfo Techniekmuseum · Technology museum

Ozeaneum

Pairi Daiza

Zoo

Palace Garden

Paleistuin · Noordeinde Palace’s garden

Palace Het Loo

Paleis Het Loo · 17th-century royal palace

Palace of Holyroodhouse

Palace of Monserrate

Palácio de Monserrate · 18th-century Gothic Revival palatial villa

Palace of Tears

Tränenpalast · Former inner German border crossing

Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy

Palais des ducs et des États de Bourgogne · Home of Philip the Good & other Burgundian dukes

Palace of Versailles

Château de Versailles · King Louis XIV’s palace

Palace of Westminster & Big Ben

Palace Square

Schlossplatz

Palácio da Bolsa

Stock exchange in neoclassical style

Palacio de Velázquez

Palais de la découverte

Science museum

Palais de Rumine

Archaeology & History Museum, Geology Museum, and Zoology Museum

Palais de Tokyo

Contemporary art museum

Palais Epstein

City palace by architect Theophil Hansen

Palais Garnier

Second Empire opera house

Palais Jacques Cœur

Palais-Royal

Cardinal Richelieu’s palace by architect Jacques Lemercier

Palais Stoclet

Lavish stately home by architect Josef Hoffman, not open to the public

Palatinate Museum

Kurpfälzisches Museum · Home to Tilman Riemenschneider’s Windsheim Altar

Palatine Hill

Palatino · The hill where it all started after Romulus had killed Remus

Palau de la Música

Palau de la Música Catalana

Art nouveau concert hall by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía

Performing arts centre by architect Santiago Calatrava

Palau Güell

Palazzo Barberini

Palazzo Corsini

Palazzo Davanzati

Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Palazzo Doria Pamphilj

Art museum

Palazzo Grassi

Contemporary art museum

Palazzo Madama

Museum of ancient art

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Vecchio Museum

Museo di Palazzo Vecchio

Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy Gallery

Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée · A mecca of bones & organs: 650 or so skeletons here

Palmengarten

Botanical garden

Panometer Dresden

Panorama Baroque Dresden or Dresden 1945

Panometer Leipzig

360° panorama by Yadegar Asisi

Panorama am Zoo

Panorama Mesdag

Panorama of the Scheveningen seaside as it was in 1881

Panorama Museum

Home to Werner Tübke’s Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany

Panorama Museum

Cycloramic painting by Johann Michael Sattler of Salzburg around 1829

Panorama The Wall

Panorama Die Mauer · Panorama by Yadegar Asisi depicting the Berlin Wall

Panorama Trail

Panoramaweg · 45⅖-km-long hiking trail (4 stages) around Baden-Baden

Panoramic Elevator of the Pfaffenthal

Ascenseur Panoramique du Pfaffenthal

Panthéon

Former church housing Foucault’s pendulum & a mausoleum

Pantheon

Paper Mill Alte Dombach

Papiermühle Alte Dombach · Industrial heritage museum

Papststein Mesa

Papststein

Papyrus Museum

Papyrusmuseum · Papyri from antique & early medieval Egypt

Paradeplatz

Square in the centre of the Planken shopaholic zone

Paradies

Ornamental garden featuring a cascading waterfall

Parc La Grange

Park featuring a rose garden

Paretz House

Schloss Paretz

Paris Catacombs

Catacombes de Paris · Underground ossuaries

Parish Church of St Sebastian

Pfarrkirche St. Sebastian · The church made famous by Ravensburger puzzle #13645

Paris Zoo

Parc Zoologique de Paris

Park Cave

Parkhöhle · Underground tunnels

Parker Library

Park Güell

Park of Saint-Cloud

Domaine national de Saint-Cloud · Jardin remarquable

Park on the Ilm

Park an der Ilm · 48-ha landscape garden

Parliament House

Haus der Bürgerschaft · House of Glass (1966) by architect Wassili Luckhardt with a sculpture garden

Parque de São Roque

City park with a maze

Passage

19th-century shopping centre

Patek Philippe Museum

Horology museum

Pâtisserie Buhler

La Maison du Kougelhopf

Patisserie Holtkamp

Patisserie best known for its croquettes

Patisserie Jan de Groot

Banketbakkerij Jan de Groot · The place to get Bossche bollen

Patisserie La Duquesita

Oriol Balaguer is a pretty good pastry cook

Pâtisserie Ladurée

Upscale patisserie specialized in macarons

Patisserie Manteigaria

Manteigaria · Patisserie noted for its pastel de nata

Patisserie Oberlaa

Kurkonditorei Oberlaa

Patisserie Pastéis de Belém

Pastéis de Belém · Patisserie that makes an excellent pastel de nata

Pâtisserie Pierre Hermé

Try his chocolate cake

Pâtisserie Stohrer

The oldest patisserie of Paris

Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum

Museum dedicated to painter Paula Modersohn-Becker

Pavillon Le Corbusier

Pavilion by architect Le Corbusier

Pavillon Press

Pavillon-Presse · Printing museum

P.C. Hooftstraat

Upmarket fashion shops

Peace Palace

Vredespaleis · Courthouse by architect Louis Cordonnier

Pearse Museum

Peat Colony Museum

Veenkoloniaal Museum · Regional history museum

Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum

Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde · Peenemünde is where the Germans developed the V2 rocket

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Collezione Peggy Guggenheim

Pembroke Lodge

Afternoon tea in the Butler’s Pantry

Pendennis Castle

Henry VIII’s finest coastal fortress

People’s Palace

The People’s Story Museum

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Cimetière du Père Lachaise · Popular necropolis

Pergamon Museum

Pergamonmuseum · Home to the Pergamon Altar and the Ishtar Gate & Processional Way

Peterborough Cathedral

Petersberg Citadel

Zitadelle Petersberg · The baroque fortress where Napoleon met Goethe

Petit Trianon

Neoclassical country house by architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel

Petřín Funicular

Lanová dráha na Petřín

Petřín Observation Tower

Petřínská rozhledna · A small version of the Eiffel Tower

Petworth House

Pey-Berland Tower

Tour Pey-Berland

Pfaffenstein Mesa

Pfaffenstein · Your children will love the Barbarine legend

Pfänder Cable Car

Pfänderbahn · Mount Pfänder offers a great view of Lake Constance

Pfeishütte

Mountain inn at the end of the Goethe Trail

Pforzheim Jewellery Museum

Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim

Phaeno Science Center

Philara Collection

Sammlung Philara · Contemporary art museum

Philharmonie de Paris

Concert hall by architect Jean Nouvel

Philharmonie Luxembourg

Philips Museum

Museum dedicated to the history of the Philips light bulb factory

Philosopher’s Garden

Philosophengärtchen · Idyllic garden along the walking trail up Mount Heiligenberg

Phoenix Park

Piazza della Minerva

Piazza with Bernini’s sculpture Elephant & Obelisk

Piazza della Repubblica

Piazza Navona

Piazza with Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers

Piazza San Marco

Picasso Museum

Museu Picasso · Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Pablo Picasso

Picasso Museum

Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso · Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Pablo Picasso

Picasso Museum

Musée national Picasso · Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Pablo Picasso

Picasso Museum

Musée national Pablo Picasso

Pickford’s House

Architect Joseph Pickford’s Georgian home

Picture Gallery of Sanssouci

Bildergalerie von Sanssouci · Home to Caravaggio’s Doubting Thomas

Pierrefonds Castle

Château de Pierrefonds · Gothic Revival castle, built 1857–85 by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Pilatus Mountain Railway

Pilatusbahn · The steepest rack railway in the world

Pilgrimage Church of St Coloman

Wallfahrtskirche St. Coloman

Pillnitz Castle

Schloss Pillnitz

Pilotta Palace

Palazzo della Pilotta · Home to the National Gallery & the Palatine Library

Pinakothek der Moderne

Pinkas Synagogue

Pinkasova synagoga · Memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust from the Czech lands

Pint Shop

Pinzgau Local Railway

Pinzgauer Lokalbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line to Krimml

Pirna-Sonnenstein Memorial

Gedenkstätte Pirna-Sonnenstein · Former Nazi euthanasia programme site

Pitti Palace

Palazzo Pitti

Pitt Rivers Museum

Cabinets of wonder

Pizzeria Da Martino

Pizzeria Li Rioni

Pizzeria Mastro Fidelio

Pizzeria serving German König Ludwig beer

Plaça de la Verge

Square with the Túria fountain (1976) by Manuel Silvestre de Edeta

Place de la Bastille

Square with a column celebrating the second French revolution

Place de la Concorde

An excellent place to decapitate your nation’s aristocracy

Place des Vosges

Lovely Louis XIII-style square

Place du Tertre

Café-lined square with painters & buskers

Place Vendôme

Square with a Trajan’s Column lookalike celebrating Napoleon’s victories

Plague Column

Pestsäule · Baroque monument to the victims of the Great Plague in 1679

Planetarium Calouste Gulbenkian

Planetário Calouste Gulbenkian

Planetarium Hamburg

Indoor cosmos

Planetarium Mannheim

Indoor cosmos

Plantin-Moretus Museum

Museum Plantin-Moretus · The workshop of the world-famous 16th-century printer

Plas Mawr

Town house of the golden Elizabethan Age

Plassenburg Castle

Plassenburg

Playing Collection

Klingende Sammlung · Historic musical instruments

Plaza Mayor

Point Alpha Memorial

Gedenkstätte Point Alpha · The inner German border at the Fulda Gap

Polar Museum

Poldi Pezzoli Museum

Museo Poldi Pezzoli

Polish Museum

Polenmuseum · Museum of Polish culture & history

Polman House

Museumhuis Polman · Modernist house

Polybahn

Funicular railway to the polytechnic

Pomeranian State Museum

Pommersches Landesmuseum · Art & regional history museum

Pomeranzen Garden

Pomeranzengarten · Renaissance garden

Pompeiianum

Pompejanum

Pont du Gard

Ponte Vecchio

Pontifical Villas

Palazzo Pontificio

Pont Neuf

The oldest bridge across the river Seine

Porcelain Collection

Porzellansammlung · Please mind Dürer’s rhinoceros

Porsche Museum

Car museum

Porta Nigra

Port Cable Car

Teleférico de Barcelona

Portikus

Contemporary art gallery

Port Museum Hamburg

Hafenmuseum Hamburg

Porto Cathedral

Sé do Porto

Port Sunlight Village

Victorian village built to house Lever’s Sunlight Soap factory workers

Portuguese Centre of Photography

Centro Português de Fotografia

Portuguese Synagogue

Portugese Synagoge · 17th-century synagogue

Port Wine Museum

Museu do Vinho de Porto

Porzellan Museum Frankfurt

Museum dedicated to porcelain from the Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur

Postal Museum

Postal Museum

Postmuseum · The princely stamp collection

Pöstlingberg Tram

Pöstlingbergbahn

Pöstlingberg Tram Museum

Pöstlingbergbahn-Museum · Public transport museum

Postmuseum

Postal museum

Potsdam Museum

Art & local history museum

Poundbury

The Prince of Wales’ vision of Britain

Powder Tower

Prašná brána · Medieval city gate

Power Station Ermen & Engels

Kraftwerk Ermen & Engels · Industrial heritage museum

Praça do Comércio

Waterfront square with a statue of King José I

Prado Museum

Museo del Prado · The most important museum in the world for European painting

Prager Straße

Modernist architecture everywhere!

Prague Castle

Pražský hrad · The largest ancient castle in the world

Prague Zoo

Zoo Praha

Prater

Vienna’s funfair #nogoarea

Prater Museum

Pratermuseum · Museum dedicated to the history of Vienna’s funfair (est. 1766)

Pravčice Gate

Pravčická brána · Pretty large natural arch

Prehistoric Village

Prehistorisch Dorp · Living history museum

Preßnitz Valley Railway

Preßnitztalbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line

Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde

Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde · Prince Eugen’s art collection

Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics

Keramiekmuseum Princessehof · Chinese porcelain and art nouveau & art deco ceramics

Prince William V Gallery

Galerij Prins Willem V · Prince William V of Orange’s art gallery

Prinsentuin Garden

Prinsentuin · Renaissance garden

Printemps

Iconic luxury department store

Printen Bakery Klein

Printenbäckerei Klein · Printen are the specialty from Aachen

Prison Gate Museum

Museum de Gevangenpoort · Museum dedicated to crime & punishment across the centuries

Prison Museum

Nationaal Gevangenismuseum · Museum dedicated to crime & punishment, and the history of the Veenhuizen penal colony

Procession of Princes

Fürstenzug · Mural representing the history of the Wettins, Saxony’s ruling family, as a procession of riders

Prora Documentation Centre

Dokumentationszentrum Prora

Prora-Zentrum

Prosper II Mine

Zeche Prosper · Industrial history tours on selected Sundays

Provand’s Lordship

Prunn Castle

Burg Prunn

Puerta de Alcalá

Pulchri Studio

Artists’ association’s art gallery

Pully Museum

Contemporary art gallery

Pulpit Rock

Preikestolen · Rock formation 604 meters above the majestic Lysefjord

Punta della Dogana

Contemporary art museum

Puppet Theatre

Schauspielhaus und Figurentheater

Puyguilhem Castle

Château de Puyguilhem

Pyramid of Austerlitz

Pyramide van Austerlitz · Pyramid celebrating Napoleon’s victory in the Battle of Austerlitz (1806)

Pyramid of Caius Cestius

Piramide di Caio Cestio

Quai Branly Museum

Musée du quai Branly · Art of non-European cultures

Quart Towers

Torres de Quart

Quedlinburg Cathedral

Stiftskirche St. Servatii zu Quedlinburg · Romanesque church

Quedlinburg City Walk

Quedlinburg

The Queens Hall

Concert hall

The Queen’s House

Querini Stampalia Foundation

Fondazione Querini Stampalia · Historic house museum & library

Radbod Mine

Zeche Radbod · Industrial history tours on selected Sundays

Radboud Castle

Kasteel Radboud · 13th-century castle

Radcliffe Observatory

Radio Kootwijk

Former radio transmission station & transmitter town

Raetian Museum

Rätisches Museum · Regional history museum

Raiffeisenhaus

Museum dedicated to cooperative pioneer Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

Railbike des Hautes Fagnes

Railbike Hohe Venn

Railroad Depot of National Technical Museum

Železniční depozitář Národního technického muzea

Railway Museum

Cité du Train

Railway Museum

Musée du chemin de fer

Railway Museum

Spoorwegmuseum · A must-see

Railway Museum

Railway Museum Bochum

Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum · Railway museum operating a Wismar railbus

Railway Museum Schwarzenberg

Eisenbahnmuseum Schwarzenberg

Rambouillet Castle

Château de Rambouillet

Rammelsberg Mining Museum

Rammelsberg · Authentic drift mine with underground galleries accessible to visitors

Rammenau Baroque Castle

Barockschloss Rammenau

Ramtorenschip Buffel

Randa Suspension Bridge

Hängebrücke Randa · 494-m-long hanging bridge

Ranville War Cemetery

Cimetière militaire britannique de Ranville · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Rappenloch Gorge

Rappenlochschlucht · Gorgeous gorge

Rastatt Favorite Palace

Schloss Favorite Rastatt

Rastatt Residential Palace

Residenzschloss Rastatt · The Treaty of Rastatt was signed here in 1714

Rathfarnham Castle

Rath Museum

Musée Rath · Art gallery

Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum · Ethnographic museum

Ravensbrück Memorial Museum

Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück · Former Nazi concentration camp

Recklinghausen Substation

Umspannwerk Recklinghausen · Electricity museum

Red Cross Museum

Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge · Museum dedicated to humanitarian action

Red Cross Museum

Rotes Kreuz Museum

Red Dot Design Museum

Museum showcasing decently designed products

Red House

Rotes Haus · Baroque house that takes you on a trip back into the 18th century

Red Star Line Museum

Museum dedicated to emigration to the New World

Reformation Wall

Mur des Réformateurs · Line-up of the Reformation’s founding fathers, except for Luther & Zwingli

Reich Aviation Ministry

Reichsluftfahrtministerium · Former Nazi office building by architect Ernst Sagebiel, with Max Lingner’s 1952 mural Aufbau der Republik

Reichenbach Falls

Reichenbachfälle · Where Sherlock Holmes died before he was resurrected

Reichenbach Funicular

Reichenbachfallbahn · Funicular railway to the Reichenbach Falls

Reichstag

You can visit the dome but advance registration is required

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery

Britische Ehrenfriedhof · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Reims Cathedral

Cathédrale de Reims

Reims Palais of Tau

Palais du Tau à Reims

Reina Sofia Museum

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía · Home to Pablo Picasso’s Guernica & other contemporary art

Rembrandt House Museum

Museum Het Rembrandthuis · Rembrandt’s home & workshop

Republic of Kugelmugel

Republik Kugelmugel · Micronation by artist Edwin Lipburger

Residenz Gallery

Residenzgalerie · European paintings from the 16th to 19th centuries

Residenz Palace

Residenz · The Prince-Archbishop’s state rooms

Resistance Museum

Verzetsmuseum · Museum dedicated to the Dutch resistance in World War II

Restaurang Tvåkanten

Restaurang Tvåkanten · Modern Swedish cuisine

Restaurant Alter Simp

Local German cuisine

Restaurant Altes Tramdepot

Altes Tramdepot · Restaurant & brewery

Restaurant Au Vieux Bruxelles

Au Vieux Bruxelles · Traditional Belgian cuisine

Restaurant Bacalhau

Bacalhau

Restaurant Bärenwirt

Bärenwirt · Traditional Austrian cuisine

Restaurant Bouillon Chartier

Bouillon Chartier · Decent meals at a reasonable price

Restaurant Bremer Ratskeller

Bremer Ratskeller · Town hall canteen since 1405

Restaurant Cal Pep

Cal Pep does completely amazing tapas

Restaurant Casa Montaña

Casa Montaña

Restaurant Čestr

Restaurace Čestr · Restaurant serving Fleckvieh cattle

Restaurant Chäsalp

Chäsalp · Cheese fondue venue

Restaurant Chez ma Cousine

Chez ma cousine · Chicken restaurant

Restaurant Claar

Club Claar

Restaurant Concordenhaus

Concordenhaus · Regjonal northern German cuisine

Restaurant Cruz Blanca Vallecas

Cruz Blanca Vallecas · The local dish cocido madrileño is quite good here

Restaurant Damm-atrà

Ristorante milanese Damm-atrà

Restaurant D’Bacalhau

Restaurante D’Bacalhau · This place specializes in bacalhau, salted codfish

Restaurant De Kas

Harvested in the morning, on your plate in the afternoon

Restaurant De Machinist

De Machinist

Restaurant Der Pschorr

Der Pschorr

Restaurant Der Steirer

Der Steirer · Traditional Styrian cuisine — try Tafelspitz

Restaurant Der Wasserschout

Der Wasserschout

Restaurant Dishoom

Dishoom · From Bombay with love

Restaurant Ebbelwoi Unser

Ebbelwoi Unser · Bürgerliche Küche

Restaurant El Rall

Restaurante El Rall · Fabulous paella

Restaurant Figlmüller

Home of the schnitzel

Restaurant Gelbes Krokodil

Gelbes Krokodil

Restaurant Gifthüttli

Gifthüttli · Traditional Swiss pub

Restaurant Gressholmen Kro

Gressholmen Kro · It takes only eleven minutes by ferry from the city to this peaceful island

Restaurant Grosser Kiepenkerl

Grosser Kiepenkerl · Traditional Westphalian cuisine

Restaurant Helvetia

Traditional Swiss cuisine

Restaurant In den Bierbengel

Out of the variety of desserts, wentelteefjes is what you want

Restaurant Kartoffelkneipe

Kartoffelkneipe · Deftige Küche, i.e. decent local food, with potatoes

Restaurant Keller’s

Keller’s Weinrestaurant · Traditional German cuisine — try Saure Nierchen or Pfälzer Bauernsülze

Restaurant Knollen & Citroenen

Knollen & Citroenen · Traditional Dutch cuisine

Restaurant Kornhaus

Kornhaus · Bauhaus-style restaurant by architect Carl Fieger

Restaurant Kronborg

Smørrebrød here

Restaurant Lab-44

Lab-44

Restaurant La Bota

The perfect spot for a cosy dinner, at an affordable price

Restaurant La Pepica

Restaurante La Pepica · The best paella of Valencia

Restaurant La Vache à Carreaux

La Vache à Carreaux · French cuisine

Restaurant Le Cirio

Le Cirio

Restaurant Lokál Dlouhááá

Lokál Dlouhááá

Restaurant Lokál Hamburk

Lokál Hamburk

Restaurant Lokál U Bílé kuželky

Lokál U Bílé kuželky

Restaurant Maffenbeier

Gaststätte Maffenbeier · Local German cuisine

Restaurant Mangiare

Mangiare · Italian restaurant

Restaurant Margarete

Margarete · Frankfurter Grüne Soße available here

Restaurant Moeders

Moeders · Traditional Dutch cuisine

Restaurant Mundart

Bavarian nouvelle cuisine

Restaurant N.B. Sørensen

N.B. Sørensen brasseri

Restaurant Neefies

Eeterij Neefies · Cosy restaurant with excellent food

Restaurant Noma

Noma · Four-time World’s Best Restaurant

Restaurant Nota Bene

Nota Bene

Restaurant Nuovo Macello

Trattoria del Nuovo Macello

Restaurant Parqiet

Parqiet · Breakfast & lunch

Restaurant Pelikan

Traditional Swedish cuisine

Restaurant Pfistern

Zunfthausrestaurant Pfistern · Traditional Swiss cuisine with Mediterranean influences

Restaurant Pinkus Müller

Pinkus Müller · Traditional Westphalian restaurant serving beer from its own brewery

Restaurant Rauner

Rauner

Restaurant Reinthaler’s Beisl

Reinthaler’s Beisl · They only accept cash

Restaurant Rosengarten

Good food & great view

Restaurant Skagen

Skagen Restaurant · Traditional Norwegian cuisine

Restaurant Smaka

Smaka · Try the köttbullar with mashed potatoes & lingon berries

Restaurant Smalhans

Smalhans · Neighbourhood eatery with healthy, home-made food at the right price

Restaurant Stiftskeller

Stiftskeller

Restaurant Stoop & Stoop

Eetcafé Stoop & Stoop

Restaurant Stuhlmacher

Gasthaus Stuhlmacher · Traditional Westphalian cuisine

Restaurant Waag

Waag · Nice restaurant in the former weigh house by architect Pieter Post

Restaurant Walliser Kanne

Walliser Kanne · Traditional Swiss cuisine

Restaurant Wartsaal

Wartsaal · Serves two dishes only: one vegetarian, one meat

Restaurant Weeva

Woon- en eethuis voor allen · Be sure to order poffert for dessert

Restaurant Zeughauskeller

Zeughauskeller · Traditional Swiss cuisine

Restaurant Zum fidelen Affen

Gastwirtschaft Zum fidelen Affen · Jolly Monkey Tavern

Restaurant Zum Roten Ochsen

Gasthaus zum Roten Ochsen

Restaurant Zum Schwan

Gasthaus Zum Schwan · Restaurant serving culinary specialities from Frankfurt

Rheineck–Walzenhausen Rack Railway

Bergbahn Rheineck–Walzenhausen · Railway line that takes Witzweg hikers from Walzenhausen to Rheineck

Rheinsberg House

Schloss Rheinsberg · Frederician rococo palace on the banks of Lake Grienickersee

Rhine Falls

Rheinfall · Europe’s largest waterfall

Rhine Swimming

Rheinschwimmen · Swim the river Rhine to Germany & beyond

Rhododendron Park

Rhododendron-Park · Botanical garden

Rhone American Cemetery

Cimetière américain de Draguignan · World War II cemetery

Rhybadhysli Breite

Rheinbad Breite · Swimming in the river Rhine

Rialto Bridge

Ponte de Rialto

Richard Wagner Museum

Museum dedicated to composer Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner Museum

Museum dedicated to composer Richard Wagner

Richard-Wagner-Stätten

Richelieu Library

Bibliothèque nationale de France site Richelieu · The Labrouste reading room & Rondel gallery are especially beautiful

Richmond Barracks

Exhibition centre to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising

Richmond Park

Rickmer Rickmers Museum Ship

Museumsschiff Rickmer Rickmers · Sailing cargo ship, built 1896

Riddarholmen Church

Riddarholmskyrkan · The final resting place of the Swedish kings

Ried Express

Chemin de Fer Touristique du Rhin · Heritage railway line

Rietveld Pavilion

Rietveldpaviljoen · Photographic art gallery by architect Gerrit Rietveld

Rietveld Route

Rietveldroute · 5-km-long walking tour dedicated to architect Gerrit Rietveld

Rietveld Schröder House

Rietveld-Schröderhuis · Modernist house by architect Gerrit Rietveld

Rijksmuseum

Home to Rembrandt’s Night Watch

Rijksmuseum Twenthe

Art museum

Rinascente

Iconic luxury department store

Rinascente

Iconic luxury department store

Ringebu Stave Church

Ringebu stavkyrkje

Risten–Lakvik Museum Railway

Risten–Lakviks Järnväg

Ritten Cable Car

Rittner Seilbahn · Cable car to Oberbozen

Ritten Railway

Rittner Bahn · Narrow-gauge tramway to Oberbozen

The River Café

River & Rowing Museum

Rowing museum by architect David Chip

Riverside Museum

Rjukan Railway

Rjukanbanen · Heritage railway line

Robert Schumann House

Robert-Schumann-Haus · Museum dedicated to composer Robert Schumann

Robert-Sterl-Haus

Museum dedicated to painter Robert Sterl

Rochlitz Castle

Schloss Rochlitz

Rock of Cashel

Röda Sten Art Centre

Röda Sten Konsthall

Rodin Museum

Musée Rodin · Rodin’s sonnets in stone

Rødne Fjord Cruise

Rødne fjordcruise

Rødven Stave Church

Rødven stavkirke

Roentgen Memorial

Röntgen-Gedächtnisstätte

Rohan Palace

Palais Rohan · The Museum of Fine Arts is really fine

Röhrig Mine

Röhrigschacht · Authentic shaft mine with underground galleries accessible to visitors

Röhsska Museum

Röhsska museet · Museum of design & craft

Roland Statue

Roland · Statue signifying Bremen’s town privileges

Romainmôtier Abbey Church

Abbatiale de Romainmôtier · Romanesque church

Roman City Carnuntum

Römerstadt Carnuntum

Roman Forum

Foro Romano · The political, administrative & religious centre of ancient Rome

Roman House

Römisches Haus · The Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach’s retreat, built 1792–97 under Goethe’s supervision

Roman Museum

Römermuseum · Vienna in Roman times

Roman Museum Lausanne-Vidy

Musée romain de Lausanne-Vidy · Local history museum

Romano-Germanic Museum

Römisch-Germanisches Museum · Archaeological museum

Roman Theatre

Teatro Romano · Archaeological museum dedicated to Lisbon’s Roman theatre

Roman Theatre

Théâtre Antique

Roman Villa Otrang

Römische Villa Otrang

Romeleåsens Dressincykling

Römer

Medieval town hall

Römerberg

Square with reconstructed half-timbered houses (1986)

Rorschach–Heiden Rack Railway

Zahnradbahn Rorschach–Heiden · Rack railway from Rorschach to Heiden, the starting point for the Witzweg hiking trail

The Rose

Definitely one of our favourites for afternoon tea

Rose Garden

Rosengarten · Bunch of flowers

Rosenau Palace

Schloss Rosenau

Rosenborg Castle

Rosenborg Slot · Renaissance castle

Rosendael Castle

Kasteel Rosendael · Early-20th-century manor house with a lovely garden

Rosendal Palace

Rosendals slott

Rosendal’s Garden

Rosendals Trädgård · Garden with greenhouse café & artisanal bakery

Rosengart Collection

Sammlung Rosengart · Art museum

Rosersberg Palace

Rosersbergs slott

Roskilde Cathedral

Roskilde Domkirke

Rossio Square

Praça do Rossio · Square with typical Portuguese pavement

Rothenburg ob der Tauber City Walk

Rothenburg ob der Tauber · Germany’s best-preserved medieval walled city

Rotterdam Harbour Cruise

Spido Havenrondvaart

Rotterdam Routes

Rotterdam city walks

Rotterdam Zoo

Diergaarde Blijdorp

Round Church

Round Square

Plaza Redonda

Round Tower

Rundetaarn · 34⅘-m-high tower with a spiral ramp

Royal Academy of Arts

Royal Air Force Museum

Royal Air Force Museum

Royal Albert Hall

Promming place

Royal Alcázar of Seville

Real Alcázar de Sevilla

Royal Army and Military History Museum

Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments

Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salon · The astronomical clock rocks

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Royal Delft

De Porceleyne Fles · Delft Blue earthenware manufactory

Royal Dramatic Theatre

Dramaten · Some of the performances have English subtitles

Royal Library

Kongelige Bibliotek

Royal Library of Belgium

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique · Illuminated manuscripts from the Library of the Dukes of Burgundy

Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace

The Royal Mile Tavern

Haggis, neeps & tatties served here

Royal Monastery of Brou

Monastère royal de Brou

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika · Colonial museum dedicated to the Belgian Congo

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique · The Old Masters Museum, the Fin-de-Siècle Museum, and the Modern Museum

Royal Navy Submarine Museum

Royal Observatory

Royal Opera House

Operaen

Royal Opera House

Royal Palace

Koninklijk Paleis · Palace by architect Jacob van Campen

Royal Palace

Residenzschloss · The Green Vault & Armoury are pretty cool

Royal Palace

Palazzo Reale

Royal Palace

Det kongelige slott · Open to the public every summer

Royal Palace

Kungliga slottet · Baroque palace by architect Nicodemus Tessin

Royal Palace Museum

Museo di Palazzo Reale

Royal Palace of Brussels

Palais Royal de Bruxelles · Open to the public every summer

Royal Palace of Madrid

Palacio Real de Madrid

Royal Playhouse

Skuespilhuset · Theatre

Royal Porcelain Factory

Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur · Frederick the Great’s porcelain manufactory (1763)

Royal Seat of San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial · Monastery, church, royal palace, pantheon, library, &c. of Philip II (†1598) #notmyking

Royal Stables

Hovstallets · Royal horses & carriages are kept here

Royal Swedish Opera

Kungliga Operan

Royal Tapestry Factory

Real Fábrica de Tapices

Royal Theatre

Det Kongelige Teater

Royal Treasure Museum

Museu do Tesouro Real · Home to the crown jewels

Royal Vegetable Garden

Potager du Roi · King Louis XIV’s kitchen garden

Royal Villa on Rose Island

Casino auf der Roseninsel

Royal Yacht Britannia

RRS Discovery

The ship that took Scott & Shackleton on their first expedition to Antarctica

Rua Augusta Arch

Arco da Rua Augusta · Arch celebrating Lisbon’s triumph over the 1755 earthquake

Rubens House

Rubenshuis

Rude Museum

Musée Rude · Art museum dedicated to sculptor François Rude

Rudolfinum

Concert hall & contemporary art gallery

Rügenschen Bäderbahn

Narrow-gauge railway line

Rügen Treetop Walk

Baumwipfelpfad Naturerbe Zentrum Rügen

Ruhr Museum

Regional history museum

Rupertinum

Contemporary art museum

Rüschhaus Museum

Haus Rüschhaus · Baroque house dedicated to poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Rushton Triangular Lodge

Triangular building by Thomas Tresham

Russian Orthodox Church

Église orthodoxe russe · Church with golden onion domes

Saalburg Roman Fort

Römerkastell Saalburg

Saar Historical Museum

Historisches Museum Saar · Regional history museum

Saarland Museum Modern Gallery

Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie · Contemporary art museum

Saarland Museum Old Collection

Saarlandmuseum Alte Sammlung · Art museum

Saarpolygon

Saarschleife Treetop Walk

Baumwipfelpfad Saarschleife · The 42-m-high observation tower offers a magnificent vista of the Saar Loop

Sabatini Gardens

Jardines de Sabatini · Park with a statue of Philip II (†1598) #notmyking

Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum

Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen · Former Nazi concentration camp

Sächsisches Schmalspurbahn-Museum Rittersgrün

Narrow-gauge railway museum

Sacré Cœur

Gothic Revival church, built 1875–1914

Safari Park Beekse Bergen

Safaripark Beekse Bergen

Saffron Hall

Concert hall by Tooley & Foster architects

Sagrada Família

Sainsbury Centre

Art gallery & museum

Sainte-Chapelle

Gothic chapel with 15 huge stained-glass windows

Sainte-Geneviève Library

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève · Beautiful library open to members of the public by appointment

Saint-Louis Boat Lift

Plan incliné de Saint-Louis

Saint-Ouen Abbey Church

Abbatiale Saint-Ouen · Church with a superb organ by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll

Saint-Remi History Museum

Musée Saint-Remi

Salem Monastery and Palace

Kloster und Schloss Salem · A singular combination of Gothic solemnity & Baroque splendour

Salisbury Cathedral

Salling Tower

Salling Tårnet · Observation tower on the water front

Salt Mine Berchtesgaden

Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden

Salvation Army Café 101

Soup, Soap & Salvation

Salvation Army Museum

Salzburg Defence History Museum

Salzburger Wehrgeschichtliches Museum · Military history museum

Salzburg Museum

Local history museum

Salzburg Open-Air Museum

Salzburger Freilichtmuseum · Living history museum

Salzburg Zoo

Sammlung Schack

San Antonio de la Florida

Ceiling & dome frescoes by Francisco Goya

San Bartolomeo all’Isola

Basilica di San Bartolomeo all’Isola · Church dedicated to the new Christian martyrs of the 20th century

San Clemente al Laterano

Basilica di San Clemente al Laterano

Sanctuary of Isis & Mater Magna

Isis- und Mater Magna-Heiligtum · Archaeological museum

Sanctuary of Rocamadour

Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Rocamadour · Pilgrimage site

Sandeman Cellars

Caves Sandeman · Port cellar — if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all

San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

San Francisco el Grande

San Giovanni Battista

Church by architect Mario Botta

San Giovanni in Laterano

Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano · Another church with a Holy Door

San Lorenzo fuori le mura

Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le mura

San Lorenzo in Lucina

Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Lucina

San Luigi de’Francesi

Église Saint-Louis-des-Français · Home to three Caravaggio paintings dedicated to St Matthew

San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore

San Pietro in Vincoli

Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli · Church that houses Moses’ sculpture by Michelangelo

Sanspareil

Sanssouci Palace

Schloss Sanssouci · Frederick the Great’s summer residence

Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

Santa Croce

Sant’Agnese in Agone

Chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agone

Santa Justa Lift

Elevador de Santa Justa · Lift to Largo do Carmo

Santa Maria degli Angeli

Church by architect Mario Botta

Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri

Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri · Church with a built-in sundial to check the accuracy of the Gregorian calendar

Santa Maria dei Miracoli

Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli

Santa Maria delle Grazie

Church with Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper

Santa Maria del Mar

Santa Maria del Popolo

Basilica Parrocchiale Santa Maria del Popolo · There are two paintings by Caravaggio in the Cerasi Chapel

Santa Maria de Marco de Canaveses

Modern church by architect Álvaro Siza

Santa Maria in Cosmedin

Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin · Church that houses the Mouth of Truth, an ancient lie detector

Santa Maria in Montesanto

Basilica di Santa Maria in Montesanto

Santa Maria in Trastevere

Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere

Santa Maria Maggiore

Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

Santa Maria Novella

Santa Maria sopra Minerva

Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva

Sant’Anselmo all’Aventino

Chiesa di Sant’Anselmo all’Aventino

Santa Sabina

Chiesa di Santa Sabina

Santi Cosma e Damiano

Basilica dei Santi Cosma e Damiano

Sant’Ignazio di Loyola

Chiesa di Sant’Ignazio di Loyola

Säntis Cableway

Säntis-Schwebebahn · The view from Mount Säntis’ summit stretches over six countries

Santo Ildefonso

Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site

Sant Pau Recinte Modernista · Art nouveau hospital by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner

Santuário de Santa Luzia

Mountaintop church with a great view

Sanxay Gallo-Roman Site

Site gallo-romain de Sanxay

São Bento Railway Station

Estação de São Bento · Azulejo tile-adorned railway station

São Jorge Castle

Castelo de São Jorge · Fortification built by the Moors in the 11th century

Sarehole Mill

250-year old watermill

Sauvabelin Tower

Tour de Sauvabelin · 35-m-high wooden observation tower

Saxon Motoring Museum

Museum für sächsische Fahrzeuge Chemnitz

Saxon Railway Museum

Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum

Saxon State and University Library

Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek · Home to the Dresden Maya Codex

Saxon Switzerland National Park Centre

NationalparkZentrum Sächsische Schweiz

Scala Contarini del Bovolo

Schachenhaus Inn

Schachenhaus · Mountain inn next to the King’s House on Schachen

Schaezlerpalais

Schafberg Railway

Schafbergbahn · The steepest rack railway in Austria

Scharfenstein Castle

Burg Scharfenstein

Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg · Surrealist art museum

Schauinsland Cable Car

Schauinslandbahn

Schaulager

Contemporary art gallery by Herzog & de Meuron architects

Schauspielhaus

Theatre

Schauspielhaus Zürich

Theatre

Schauwerk Sindelfingen

Contemporary art museum

Schéissendëmpel Waterfall

Schiessentümpel

Schiermonnikoog National Park

Nationaal Park Schiermonnikoog · Nature reserve

Schillerhaus Museum

Museum Schillerhaus · Friedrich Schiller is dead & the house is closed

Schiller House

Schillerhaus · Where Friedrich Schiller wrote Ode to Joy

Schiller Museum

Schiller-Museum Bauerbach · Where defector Friedrich Schiller, alias Dr Ritter, wrote Intrigue and Love

Schiller National Museum

Schiller-Nationalmuseum · Museum dedicated to writer Friedrich Schiller, closed until 2024

Schiller Pavilion

Schillerhäuschen · Where Friedrich Schiller finished Ode to Joy

Schiller Residence

Schillers Wohnhaus · Where Friedrich Schiller lived during the three years before his death

Schinkelkirche Bischmisheim

Neoclassical church by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Schinkel Pavilion

Schinkel Pavillon · Contemporary art gallery by architect Richard Paulick

Schirn Kunsthalle

Art gallery

Schlauchbootvermietung

Rafting down the Aare from Thun-Schwäbis to Bern

Schleißheim Palace Complex

Schlossanlage Schleißheim

Schlossberg Funicular

Schlossbergbahn

Schloßberg Funicular

Schloßbergbahn

Schloßbergmuseum

Local history museum

Schloss Freudenberg

Schloss Hartenfels

Schloss Hof

18th-century imperial palace

Schloss Museum

Baroque palace

Schlossmuseum Molsdorf

Baroque palace

Schloss Trautenfels

Schminke House

Haus Schminke · Modernist house by architect Hans Scharoun

Schnoor Quarter

Schnoorviertel · Bremen’s oldest quarter, lined with small 15th- & 16th-century houses

Schönbrunn Palace

Schloss Schönbrunn · Empress Sisi’s summer residence

Schönbrunn Zoo

Tiergarten Schönbrunn · The world’s oldest zoo

Schönbuch Tower

Schönbuchturm · 35-m-high observation tower

Schönbusch Palace

Schloss Schönbusch

Schönebeck Palace

Heimatmuseum Schloss Schönebeck · Local history museum

Schöner Brunnen

School of St Roch

Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Schoorl Dunes

Schoorlse Duinen · The highest dunes in Holland

Schumann House

Schumann-Haus

Schussenried Monastery

Kloster Schussenried · Baroque monastery with a rococo library

Schütting Guildhall

Schütting · Flemish Renaissance guildhall by architect Johan de Buschener

Schwarzbach Railway

Schwarzbachbahn · Heritage railway line

Schwarzenberg Palace

Schwarzenberský palác · Renaissance & baroque Bohemian art museum

Schwarzwaldbahn-Erlebnispfad

Schwarzwald-Modellbahn

Model railway

Schwarzwaldzoo Waldkirch

Schwaz Silver Mine

Schwazer Silberbergwerk

Schwerin Palace

Schloss Schwerin · Neuschwanstein of the North

Schwetzingen Palace

Schloss Schwetzingen · Palace featuring a rococo theatre & a fashionable mosque

Science and Industry Museum

Science and Maritime House

Teknikens och Sjöfartens hus · The exhibition The City of All Times is quite interesting

Science and Media Museum

Museum dedicated to the science & culture of image & sound

Science Factory

Vitenfabrikken

Science Farm

Vitengarden

Science Museum

Museu da Ciência

Science Museum

The museum that holds Stephenson’s Rocket & Babbage’s Difference Engine #2

Science Museum

Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe

Scientific Garden

Wissenschaftsgarten · Botanical garden of the Goethe University

Scotland Street School Museum

Museum dedicated to the history of education in Scotland

Scottish Maritime Museum

Scottish Maritime Museum

Scott Monument

The largest monument to a writer in the world

Scudamore’s Punting

Punt rental by the hour & chauffeured punt tours

Sea Captain’s House

Kommandørgården

Seal Centre

Zeehondencentrum · Seal sanctuary

Sea Life

Aquarium

Sea Life

Aquarium

Sea Life

Aquarium

Sea Life London Aquarium

Secession

Art nouveau art gallery by architect Joseph Olbrich, featuring Gustav Klimt’s Beethovenfries

Secret Nuclear Bunker

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Seebad Luzern

Outdoor swimming pool

Seebad Utoquai

Outdoor swimming pool

Seegrube Cable Car

Seegrubebahn

Seehof Palace

Schloss Seehof

Segantini Museum

Museum dedicated to painter Giovanni Segantini

Seidl Trachten

Dirndls & lederhosen

Selfkant Railway

Selfkantbahn

Selfridges & Co

The other London department store

Selke Valley Railway

Selketalbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line

Semperoper Dresden

Opera house by architect Gottfried Semper

Senkenberg Museum

Senckenberg Naturmuseum · Natural history museum

Sepulchral Chapel

Grabkapelle Karlsruhe · Mausoleum for the grand dukes of Baden

Sepulchral Chapel on Württemberg Hill

Grabkapelle auf dem Württemberg · Mausoleum erected by King Wilhelm I in memory of his wife Katharina

Serralves Museum

Museu de Serralves · Contemporary art museum by architect Álvaro Siza

Serranos Towers

Torres de Serranos

Sé Velha

Romanesque church

Seville Cathedral

Catedral de Sevilla

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres · Louis XV’s chief mistress’ porcelain manufactory (1740)

Sewer Museum

Musée des égouts

’s-Graveland Country Estates

’s-Gravelandse Buitenplaatsen · 17-km-long walking tour along eight 17th-century country estates

Shakespeare and Company

Librairie anglophone indépendante

Shakespeare’s Globe

Sheldonian Theatre

Shipyard C.A. Meerman

Scheepswerf C.A. Meerman · Historic shipyard

Shoah Memorial

Mémorial de la Shoah

Sicily-Rome American Cemetery

Cimitero americano di Nettuno · World War II cemetery

Siebold-Museum

Siegerlandmuseum

Regional history museum

Siemensstadt Housing Estate

Großsiedlung Siemensstadt · Modernist housing estate by architects Hans Scharoun, Walter Gropius & others

Sigmaringen Castle

Schloss Sigmaringen · The other Hohenzollern castle

Sigmund Freud Museum

Museum dedicated to the life & work of the famous shrink

Silesian Museum

Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz · Regional history museum

Silk Exchange

Llotja de la Seda · The trading hall is great

Silk Museum

Museo de la Seda

Silk Weaving Museum

Sidenväveri Museum

Singer Laren

Art museum

Singraven House

Huis Singraven · 17th-century manor house

Sintra’s Tram

Elétrico de Sintra · Tramway to Praia das Maçãs

Sir John Soane’s Museum

Sistine Chapel

Cappella Sistina · Silence, please

Sittard War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Skagen’s Museum

Skagens Museum · Art museum

Skansen Open-Air Museum

Skansen · Walk from 1720 all the way into modern times in the Skansen time machine

Skarhult Castle

Skarhults Slott

Skellig Michael

Monastic island

Skokloster Castle

Skoklosters slott · Home to Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Vertumnus

Skulpturenhalle

Contemporary sculpture gallery

Skulpturhalle Basel

Plaster casts of ancient sculptures

Sky Garden

Slavic Fort Raddusch

Slawenburg Raddusch · Reconstructed fortress from the early 10th century

Slegers House

Huis Slegers · Modernist house by architect Gerrit Rietveld

The Smallest House in Great Britain

Small Van de Velde Building

Kleine Van-de-Velde-Bau · University building by architect Henry van de Velde

Snijders & Rockox House

Snijders & Rockoxhuis

Snowdon Mountain Railway

Soares dos Reis National Museum

Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis

Soesterberg Airbase Park

Park Vliegbasis Soesterberg · Former airbase, now a park

Sofiero Palace

Sofiero Slott · Royal palace & gardens

Soho House

Industrialist Matthew Boulton’s Georgian home

Solitude Palace

Schloss Solitude · 18th-century late rococo & early neoclassical palace

Somerset House

Somme Bay Railway

Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme · Heritage railway line

Sondershausen Palace

Schloss Sondershausen

Sonnenborgh

19th-century observatory, now a museum

Sonneveld House

Huis Sonneveld · Functionalist house by architect Leendert van der Vlugt

Sorge Border Landscape

Grenzlandschaft Sorge · Former inner German border

Sorge Border Museum

Grenzmuseum Sorge · Former inner German border museum

Sorolla Museum

Museo Sorolla

Sound and Vision The Hague

Beeld en Geluid Den Haag · Media museum

Sound of Music World

The story about the Von Trapp family

South Devon Railway

Heritage railway line

South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology

Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum · Home to Ötzi the Iceman

Soviet Army Cemetery

Sowjetischer Friedhof · Russian World War II cemetery

Soviet Memorial Tiergarten

Sowjetisches Ehrenmal Tiergarten · Russian World War II cemetery

Soviet Memorial Treptow

Sowjetisches Ehrenmal Treptow · Russian World War II cemetery

Soviet War Cemetery

Sovjet Ereveld · Russian World War II cemetery

Soviet War Memorial

Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee · Monument to the Red Army

Space Expo

The European Space Agency’s space exhibition

Spalen Gate

Spalentor · Iconic city gate

Spanish Riding School

Spanische Hofreitschule · Lipizzaners going around in circles

Spanish Steps

Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti

Spanish Synagogue

Španělská synagoga · Exhibition dedicated to the history of the Jews in Bohemia & Moravia in the 19th & 20th century

Sparkassenmuseum Leipzig

Museum dedicated to the history of Leipzig’s savings bank

Sparrenburg Castle

Sparrenburg

Speicher XI Dockland Museum

Hafenmuseum Speicher XI · Museum dedicated to the history of the ports of Bremen

Speyer Cathedral

Dom zu Speyer · Romanesque church

Spiez Castle

Schloss Spiez

Spinoza House

Spinozahuis · Museum dedicated to philosopher Baruch Spinoza

Splashtours

City tour with an amphibious bus

Sports Museum

Sportmuseum

Sprengel Museum

Spreuer Bridge

Spreuerbrücke · Iconic covered bridge

SS Nomadic

SS Rotterdam

Former ocean liner

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

Art gallery

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Art gallery

Staatliches Museum Schwerin

Art museum

Staatsgalerie in der Katharinenkirche

Staatsoper Hannover

Stade Art Gallery

Kunsthaus Stade

Städel Museum

Home to Tischbein’s Goethe in the Roman Campagna

Stadsgehoorzaal

Concert hall praised for its excellent acoustics

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

Contemporary art gallery

Stadthalle

Concert hall

Stadthaus

Art gallery by architect Richard Meier

Stadtkirche St. Johannis

Church that houses an altarpiece triptych by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Stadtkirche St. Marien

Church with a majestic net vault ceiling

Stadtmuseum Schleswig

St Alban’s Gate

St. Alban-Tor · Iconic city gate

St. Andreas

Romanesque church with stained-glass windows by painter Markus Lüpertz

St. Annahofje

15th-century almshouse with a medieval chapel

St Anne’s Column

Annasäule

St Anne’s Museum

St. Annen-Museum · Don’t leave Lübeck without seeing the altarpiece triptych by Hans Memling

Stanserhorn Cable Car

Stanserhorn-Bahn · It’s a cabrio

St Anthony Guest House

Sint Anthony Gasthuis · Almshouse

St Anthony Museum

Museu de Santo António · Museum dedicated to the patron saint of Lisbon, and of lost things

St Antony Ironworks

St. Antony-Hütte · Industrial heritage museum

STAR Museum Railway

Museumspoorlijn STAR · Heritage railway line

Stasi Bunker Museum

Stasi-Bunker

Stasi Museum

Stasimuseum · Museum dedicated to East Germany’s secret police at the former Ministry for State Security

State Gallery

Staatsgalerie · Art museum

State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz

Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz

State Museum of Braunschweig

Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum · Art & regional history museum

State Museum of Egyptian Art

Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst

State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe

State Museum of Prehistory

Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte · Home to the Nebra sky disk

State Natural History Museum

Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum

State Opera

Staatsoper · Opera house

State Opera

Státní opera · Opera house

Statue of Winston Churchill

Other statues here: Nelson Mandela & Mahatma Ghandi

Stavanger Art Museum

Stavanger kunstmuseum

Stavanger Botanic Garden

Stavanger botaniske hage

Stavanger Cathedral

Stavanger domkirke

Stavanger Concert Hall

Stavanger konserthus

Stavanger Maritime Museum

Stavanger maritime museum

Stavanger Museum

Museum Stavanger

Stavanger School Museum

Stavanger skolemuseum · Museum dedicated to the history of education in Rogaland

Staverden Estate

Landgoed Staverden · The smallest city in the Netherlands

St Barnabas Church

St Bartholomew’s Church

Kirche St. Bartholomä

St Bartholomew’s Church

Bartholomeüskerk · A highlight of early Gothic architecture, featuring a tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst

St Bavo Church

Grote of St. Bavokerk · 16th-century church with an organ by Christian Müller

St Bavo’s Cathedral

Sint-Baafskathedraal · Home to Hubert & Jan van Eyck’s altarpiece Adoration of the Mystic Lamb

St Beatus Caves

St. Beatus-Höhlen · Stalactites & stalagmites

St Benedict Chapel

Kapelle Sogn Benedetg · Modern chapel by architect Peter Zumthor

St Benedictusberg Abbey

Abdij Sint Benedictusberg · Abbey by architect Hans van der Laan

St Bride Library

St Burchardi Church

St.-Burchardi-Kirche · John Cage’s 369-year-long organ piece Organ²/ASLSP is being played here

St Catherine‘s Church

Katharinenkirche

St Catherine’s College

Modernist college building by architect Arne Jacobsen

St David’s Cathedral

STEAM

Museum of the Great Western Railway · Museum of the Great Western Railway

Steam Train Katwijk Leiden

Stoomtrein Katwijk Leiden · Excellent for toddler’s birthday parties

Steam Train Maldegem–Eeklo

Stoomtrein Maldegem–Eeklo

Stedelijk Museum

Contemporary art & design museum

Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar

Art & local history museum

Stedelijk Museum Breda

Art & local history museum

Stedelijk Museum Coevorden

Local history museum

Steenkolenmijn Valkenburg

Coal mining museum

Steen og Strøm

Iconic luxury department store

Steffl

Iconic luxury department store

Steinau Castle

Schloss Steinau · Medieval castle featuring an exhibition dedicated to the Brothers Grimm

Steinhausen Pilgrimage Church

Wallfahrtskirche Steinhausen · The world’s most beautiful village church

Steinlingalm Inn

Steinlingalm

Steno Museum

Steno Museet

Stensjö Village

Stensjö by · Well-preserved Småland village with typical red cabins

Sterkrade Mine

Zeche Sterkrade · Industrial history tours on selected Sundays

Sternberg Palace

Šternberský palác · Art museum featuring non-Bohemian old masters

Sternen Grill

Sausage restaurant & Bratwurst & Bürli takeaway

Steyr Valley Railway

Steyrtalbahn · Heritage railway line

St Fagans National Museum of History

St George Church

St. Georg · Romanesque church with well-preserved 10th-century frescoes

St George’s Abbey Museum

Museum Kloster Sankt Georgen · Former Benedictine abbey

St George’s Basilica

Bazilika svatého Jiří

St George‘s Church

St. Georgskirche

St Gertrude’s Guest House

Pepergasthuis · Almshouse

St Giles’ Cathedral

John Knox’s church

St Hedwig’s Cathedral

St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale · Neoclassical cathedral with a Klais organ

St Hippolytus’ Church

Sint-Hippolytuskerk · 15th-century church with 16th-century frescoes

St Hubertus hunting lodge

Jachthuis Sint Hubertus · Country house by architect H.P. Berlage

Stirling Castle

St James’ Church

St.-Jakobs-Kirche · Church that houses Tilman Riemenschneider’s famous Holy Blood Altar

St John’s Cathedral

Sint Janskathedraal · Note the statue of the angel with the cellphone on the south side

St John’s College

St John’s Hospital

Sint-Janshospitaal · Art museum

St John the Baptist

St. Johann Baptist

St John the Baptist

Sint Jan de Doper · Neo-Byzantine church by architect Hendrik Willem Valk, built 1923–25

St Julien Canadian Memorial

Canadees monument · World War I memorial, featuring The Brooding Soldier by Chapman Clemesha

St. Lamberti

Anabaptist rebels are still hanging in iron baskets at the steeple of this church

St Lawrence Church

Grote Sint Laurenskerk · Church with a superb organ by Germer van Hagerbeer (1645) & Franz Caspar Schnitger (1723)

St Lawrence Church

St. Lorenz

St Magnus Cathedral

St Manvieu War Cemetery

Cimetière militaire britannique de Saint-Manvieu · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

St. Mariä Himmelfahrt

Baroque church

St. Maria im Kapitol

Romanesque church

St Mark’s Church

Basilica di San Marco

St Mark’s Library

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

St Martha Church

St. Martha · Church by architect Florian Nagler

St Martin-in-the-Fields

House of God & Sir Neville Marriner

St Mary’s Church

St. Marienkirche · Home to the 22-m-long 15th-century fresco Dance of Death

St Mary’s Church

Mariakerk · Early Gothic village church with an excellent organ dating from 1531

St Mary’s Church

The village was named after St Mary’s Church

St Mary’s Church

Marienkirche

St Michael and St Gudula Cathedral

Cathédrale des Sts Michel et Gudule · Brabantine Gothic cathedral

St Michael’s Church

St. Michaelis

St Michael’s Church

St. Michaelis · Romanesque church

St Michael’s Church

St. Michael

St Michael’s Church

Michaelerkirche

St Michael’s Monastery

Kloster St. Michael · Closed until further notice

St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art

St Nicholas Church

St. Nikolaikirche · Neoclassical church by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel

St Nicholas Church

Kostel svatého Mikuláše · Baroque church

St Nicholas’ Church

Kirche St. Nikolai · Brick gothic architecture

St Nicholas’ Church Museum

Nikolaikirche · The oldest church in Berlin

St Nicolas Tower

Tour Saint-Nicolas

St Nikolai Memorial

Mahnmal St. Nikolai · World War II museum

Stockholm City Library

Stockholms stadsbibliotek · Library by architect Gunnar Asplund

Stockholm Concert Hall

Konserthuset Stockholm

Stockholm Toy Museum

Bergrummet · Tidö collection of toys & comics

Stolpen Castle

Burg Stolpen · Where Augustus the Strong locked away his mistress, the Countess of Cosel

Stoltze-Museum

Museum dedicated to poet Friedrich Stoltze, who was a democrat & republican

Stolzenfels Castle

Schloss Stolzenfels · Prussian Rhine romanticism

Stone Bell House

Dům U Kamenného zvonu · Prague City Gallery

Stonehenge

Prehistoric stone circle without an obvious purpose

Stoomtrein Goes–Borsele

Heritage railway line

Stoos Funicular

Stoosbahn · The steepest funicular railway in the world

Storyworld

Museum for comics, animation & games

Stovner Tower

Stovnertårnet · Norway’s longest tower

St. Pankratius-Kirche

Church with – joy! – one of the greatest organs by Arp Schnitger

St Patrick’s Cathedral

Largest cathedral in Ireland

St. Pauli Elbtunnel

The continent’s first river tunnel

St Paul’s Cathedral

Cathédrale Saint-Paul de Liège

St Paul’s Cathedral

St Paul’s Church

Paulskirche · Seat of the first German national assembly (1848)

St Peter’s Cathedral

St. Petri Dom · Medieval church

St Peter’s Cathedral

Cathédrale Saint-Pierre · John Calvin’s church

St Peter’s Cathedral

Trierer Dom St. Petrus · Germany's oldest cathedral

St Peter’s Church

Barockkirche St. Peter · Rococo church by architect Balthasar Neumann

St Peter’s Church

Petruskerk · Church with a superb organ by Albertus Anthoni Hinsz

St Peter’s Church

Pieterskerk · Mausoleum academicum featuring a tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst and a superb organ by Galtus & Germer van Hagerbeer

St Peter’s Church

Sint-Pieterskerk

St Peter’s Church

Petruskerk · Church with superb wood carvings

St Peter’s Church

Peterskirche

Strahov Monastery

Strahovský klášter · Monastery with historical library & picture gallery

Strandverket Art Museum

Strandverket Konsthall

Strasbourg Cathedral

Cathédrale de Strasbourg · Cathedral with an astronomical clock

Straußwirtschaft Lutz Müller

Outdoor wine tavern overlooking the Elbe valley

Strépy-Thieux Boat Lift

Ascenseur funiculaire de Strépy-Thieu · The greatest of all grands travaux inutiles

Strokestown Park House

National Famine Museum

Strömsholm Palace

Strömsholms slott

St Ruprecht’s Church

Ruprechtskirche · The oldest church in Vienna

St Saviour’s Cathedral

Sint-Salvatorskathedraal

St Sebald Church

St. Sebald

St Stephen’s Cathedral

Dom St. Stephan · Baroque church noted for its gigantic organ

St Stephen’s Cathedral

Stephansdom · Medieval church

St Stephen’s Church

Kulturkirche St. Stephani · Church with a Beckerath organ & stained-glass windows by Erhart Mitzlaff

St Stephen’s Green

St Thomas Church

Thomaskirche · Burial site of its musical director Johann Sebastian Bach

St Trinitatis Parish Church

Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis · Modern church by Schulz & Schulz architects

St Trudpert’s Abbey

Kloster St. Trudpert

Stubai Valley Railway

Stubaitalbahn · The tram to Fulpmes

Stuttgart Funicular

Stuttgarter Seilbahn · 536-m-long funicular railway to the forest cemetery

Stuttgart Market Hall

Stuttgarter Markthalle · Food hall

Stuttgart Opera

Oper Stuttgart

Stuttgart Rack Railway

Stuttgarts Zahnradbahn · Rack tramway to Degerloch

Stuttgart State Theatre

Staatstheater Stuttgart

Stuttgart Tram Museum

Straßenbahnwelt Stuttgart

St Virgil’s Chapel

Virgilkapelle · Subterranean Gothic chapel at Stephansplatz underground station

St Vitus Cathedral

Katedrála svatého Víta · Gothic cathedral, built 1344–1929

St Walburga’s Church

Walburgiskerk · In the library of the 16th-century Walburgiskerk the books are chained to the reading desks

St Wenzel’s Church

Stadtkirche St. Wenzel · Church with a Hildebrandt organ

St Willibrord Church

Sint Willibrorduskerk · The most beautiful church in Gelderland

Styrian Armoury

Landeszeughaus

Submarine Bunker Valentin

Denkort Bunker Valentin · World War II submarine bunker

Submarine Wilhelm Bauer

U-Boot Wilhelm-Bauer · World War II submarine

Sudley House

Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum

Art museum

Sufi Temple

Soefitempel · Pagan temple by architect Sam van Embden

Summerhall

Summerlee Museum

Museum of Scottish industrial life

Suresnes American Cemetery

Cimetière américain de Suresnes · World War I cemetery

Surgeons’ Hall Museums

Sverresborg Trøndelag Folk Museum

Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkemuseum · One of Norway’s biggest open-air museums with, among other things, the stave church from Haltdalen

Svindersvik

One of Sweden’s oldest preserved country residences

Swabian Forest Railway

Schwäbische Waldbahn · Heritage railway line

Swabian Jura Railway

Schwäbische Alb-Bahn · Heritage railway line operating a MAN railbus

Swedish History Museum

Historiska museet · National history museum featuring Viking stuff & medieval art, including 52 kilos of gold

Swedish Museum of Natural History

Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

Swedish Railway Museum

Järnvägsmuseet

Swedish Warehouse Museum

Museum Schwedenspeicher · Local archaeology & history museum

Swiss Alpine Museum

Alpines Museum der Schweiz · Museum dedicated to the nature & culture of the Swiss Alps

Swiss Architecture Museum

Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum · Contemporary architecture museum

Swiss Camera Museum

Musée suisse de l’appareil photographique · Museum for photography

Swiss Children’s Museum

Schweizer Kindermuseum · Museum dedicated to childhood culture

Swiss Finance Museum

Schweizer Finanzmuseum · Museum dedicated to capitalism

Swiss Museum of Transport

Verkehrshaus der Schweiz · Planes, trains & automobiles, and more

Swiss Ornithological Institute

Schweizerische Vogelwarte

Symphony Hall

Synagogue

Synagoge · Synagogue by architect Karel de Bazel

Synagogue

Synagoge · Moorish Revival synagogue by architect Tjeerd Kuipers

Synagogue of Florence

Sinagoga di Firenze · Moorish Revival synagogue & Jewish Museum

Sypesteyn Castle

Kasteel Sypesteyn · Gothic Revival castle, built 1912–27

Talcy Castle

Château de Talcy

The Tall Ship at Riverside

Talyllyn Railway

TAMAT

Musée de la Tapisserie · Museum of tapestry & textile art

The Tank Museum

Armoured warfare from World War I to the present day

Tarasp Castle

Schloss Tarasp · 11th-century castle

Tate Britain

Tate Liverpool

Tate Modern

Tate St Ives

Tax & Customs Museum

Belasting & Douane Museum

Teachers’ House

Haus des Lehrers · Office building with a frieze depicting a socialist view on life

Tea Factory

Theefabriek · Tea room

Tea on the Green

Devon cream tea

Tea Pavilion De Horsten

Theepaviljoen de Horsten · Lovely tea pavilion at the royal estate

Technical Museum of Pforzheim’s Jewellery and Watchmaking Industries

Technisches Museum der Pforzheimer Schmuck- und Uhrenindustrie · The name says it all

Technik-Museum Kassel

Science & technology museum

Technology Museum Sinsheim

Technik Museum Sinsheim · Science & technology museum

Technology Museum Speyer

Technik Museum Speyer · Science & technology museum

Technorama

Hands on science museum

Technoseum

Science & technology museum

Teeling Whiskey Distillery

Tejo Power Station

Central Tejo · Electricity museum

Telemark Art Museum

Telemark kunstmuseum

Television Tower Stuttgart

Fernsehturm Stuttgart

Tempelhof Field

Tempelhofer Feld · Former airport, now a public park

The Temple Bar

Dublin’s friendliest watering hole

Temple of Debod

Templo de Debod · Egyptian temple

Temple of Human Passions

Pavillon des passions humaines · Victor Horta’s ‘marble brothel’

Temple Saint-Étienne

18th-century church with beautiful stained-glass windows from the 12th century

Ter Apel Cable Car

Kabelbaan Ter Apel · 22½-m-long hand-powered cableway

Ter Apel Monastery

Klooster Ter Apel · Religious art museum

Ter Borg Trail

Wandelroute Ter Borg · 3¼-km-long hiking trail through the Ter Borg moor

Terra Maris

Museum for the natural scenery of the province of Zeeland

Terra Mineralia

Geology museum

Teseum

The Tongeren church treasure

Tetrahedron

Tetraeder · Walkable installation by architect Wolfgang Christ

Tettnang New Palace

Neues Schloss Tettnang · Baroque palace featuring a spectacular interior

Teufelsgrund Visitor Mine

Besuchsbergwerk Teufelsgrund

Teuto-Kletterpark

Texas Coffee House

Texel House of Antiquities

Texelse Oudheidkamer · Local history museum

Texel Lighthouse

Vuurtoren Texel

Textile and Industry Museum

Textil- und Industriemuseum

Textile Factory Cromford

Textilfabrik Cromford · Industrial heritage museum

Textile Factory Gebr. Pfau

Tuchfabrik Gebr. Pfau · Industrial heritage museum

Textile Factory Müller

Tuchfabrik Müller · Industrial heritage museum

Textile Museum

Textilmuseum · Excellent museum on all things textile

Textile Museum

TextielMuseum · The Textile Lab is pretty cool

Textile Technology Center

TextilTechnikum · Industrial heritage museum

Texture

Museum of flax & textiles

Teylers Museum

Well-preserved 18th-century museum of art & science

Thames Barrier

Theater an der Wien

Opera house

Theater Bremen

Opera, drama & ballet performances

Theater Münster

Home to the Münster Symphony Orchestra

Theatine Church

Theatinerkirche

Theatre Museum

Theatermuseum

Theo’s Ice Cream Parlour

Theo’s Eisdiele

Thermenmuseum

Theseus Temple

Theseustempel

Thiel Gallery

Thielska Galleriet · Art museum

Thinktank

Science museum

Tholey Abbey

Abtei Tholey · Abbey church with stained glass windows by artists Gerhard Richter & Mahbuba Maqsoodi

Thorn City Walk

Thorn · The white town

Thorvaldsens Museum

Museum dedicated to sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen

Three Valleys Steam Train

Chemin de fer à vapeur des 3 vallées · Heritage railway line

Thun Castle

Schloss Thun · Local history museum

Thun-Panorama

Panorama of Thun & its surroundings by Marquard Wocher

Thuringian Forest Tramway

Thüringerwaldbahn

Thuringian Museum for Pre- and Early History

Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Thüringens · Archaeological museum

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza · 17th-century Dutch painting, 19th-century American painting, impressionism & historical avant-garde

Tiefurt Mansion

Schloss Tiefurt · Duchess Anna Amalia’s summer residence

Tiengemeten Island

Tiengemeten · Island that was given back to nature

Tierpark Berlin

The East Berlin zoo, est. 1955

Tierpark Hagenbeck

Zoo

Tierpark Lange Erlen

Small zoo

Tiger & Turtle

Walkable installation by artists Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth

Tillig Modellbahnen

Model railway manufacturer’s museum & gallery

Tinguely Fountain

Tinguely-Brunnen · Fountain by Jean Tinguely

Tinguely Fountain

Fontaine Jo Siffert · Sculpture by Jean Tinguely

Tinn Open-Air Musem

Tinn museum · Living history museum

Tintagel Castle

Tipoteca

Type & printing museum

Tirol Farmstead Museum

Museum Tiroler Bauernhöfe

Titanic Belfast

Titlis Bergbahnen

The Rotair is a revolving cable car

TivoliVredenburg

Concert hall

Tjolöholm Castle

Tjolöholms slott · Arts & crafts castle by architect Lars Israel Wahlman

Todtmoos Pilgrimage Church

Wallfahrtskirche Todtmoos

Todtnau Waterfalls

Todtnauer Wasserfälle

Tongerlohuys

Local history museum

Tonhalle Düsseldorf

Concert hall

Tonhalle Maag

Concert hall by Spillmann Echsle Architects

Topf & Sons

Topf & Söhne · Builders of the Auschwitz ovens

Topiary Park

Parc des Topiaires

Topography of Terror

Topographie des Terrors · Nazi crimes exhibition

Toppler Castle

Topplerschlösschen · 14th-century summer house called a castle, looking like a fortified tree house

Torpo Stave Church

Torpo stavkirke

Tournai Cathedral

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai

Tower Bridge

Tower of London

Tower of the Lantern

Tour de la Lanterne

Towers and ramparts of Aigues-Mortes

Tours et remparts d’Aigues-Mortes

Town Hall

Rathaus · The palace of Charlemagne

Town Hall

Concert hall with a superb organ by William Hill

Town Hall

Rathaus · Medieval town hall with a 17th-century Weser Renaissance facade

Town Hall

Hôtel de Ville

Town Hall

Rathaus

Town Hall

Rathaus · Brick gothic architecture

Toy Museum

Spielzeugmuseum

Toy Museum

Spielzeug Museum

Toy Worlds Museum Basel

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Trachtenhaus Peteranderl

Dirndls & lederhosen

Trachten Werner

Dirndls & lederhosen

Track 17 Memorial

Mahnmal Gleis 17 · To commemorate the deportation of Jewish citizens by the Deutsche Reichsbahn during the Nazi era

Trade Fair Palace

Veletržní palác · Contemporary art museum

Train 1900

Heritage railway line operating an Uerdingen railbus prototype

Train World

Le monde du train

Trajan’s Column

Colonna Traiana · Roman triumphal column displaying the first application of Carol Twombly’s Trajan typeface

Trajan’s Forum

Foro di Traiano

Tram and Bus Museum

Musée de tramways et de bus · Public transport museum

Tramcar Museum

Museu do Carro Eléctrico · Public transport museum

Tram Museum

Musée du tram · Public transport museum

Tramway

Contemporary art gallery

Tramway Museum Graz

Transparent Factory

Gläserne Manufaktur · Experience Volkswagen manufacturing up close

Trattoria Coco Lezzone

Trausnitz Castle

Burg Trausnitz

Treasurer’s House

Treetop Path Drouwen

Buitencentrum Boomkroonpad

Treetop Path Waldkirch

Baumkronenweg Waldkirch

Trelleborg Viking Fortress

Trelleborg

Trellick Tower

Brutalist tower block by architect Ernő Goldfinger

Trench of Death

Dodengang · Belgian World War I trench

Treno Gottardo

Scenic railway connecting Basel, Luzern & Zürich to Locarno

Trevi Fountain

Fontana di Trevi · The world’s most famous fountain

Trial Colony Museum

Museum De Proefkolonie · Museum dedicated to the Colonies of Benevolence & the origin of the welfare state

Triberg Waterfalls

Triberger Wasserfälle · Germany's highest waterfalls

Triennale Design Museum

Trier Landesmuseum

Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier · Archaeological museum

Trinità dei Monti

Chiesa della santissima Trinità dei Monti

Trinity Column

Dreifaltigkeitssäule · Baroque plague column (1722)

Trinkhalle

Pump house by architect Heinrich Hübsch

Trinkhalle

Kiosk by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Triumphal Arch

Triumphpforte · Arch celebrating the marriage of Emperor Leopold II, built by his mum, Empress Maria Theresa

Trocadéro Garden

Jardins du Trocadéro · Park with a stunning view of the Eiffel Tower

Troja Château

Zámek Troja · Baroque palace

Trompenburg Gardens

Trompenburg Tuinen & Arboretum · Botanical garden & arboretum

Tropenmuseum

Ethnographic museum

Tropical Islands

Indoor tropical holiday resort

The Trout Inn

Nice pub on the banks of the river Thames

Tsar Peter House

Czaar Peterhuisje · Tsar Peter the Great stayed here for a week in 1697

Tscheppa Gorge

Tscheppaschlucht

Tuileries Garden

Jardin des Tuileries · Take a seat at the Grand Bassin Rond and relax

Tullgarn Palace

Tullgarns slott

Tungenes Lighthouse

Tungenes fyr

Turf Tavern

Tuschinski Theatre

Theater Tuschinski · Sumptuous art deco movie theatre

Twickel Castle

Kasteel Twickel · Castle with beautiful park & gardens

Tycho Brahe Planetarium

Indoor cosmos

Tyne Cot Cemetery

Britse militaire begraafplaats Tyne Cot · Commonwealth World War I cemetery for servicemen killed in the Battle of Passchendaele (1917)

Type Archive

Tyresö Palace

Tyresö slott

Tyrol Panorama

Tirol Panorama · Giant panoramic painting & museum of the Tyrolean imperial infantry

Überlingen Municipal Art Gallery

Städtische Galerie Überlingen

Übersee-Museum

Natural history & ethnographic museum

Uden War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

UEF Lokalbahn Amstetten–Gerstetten

Heritage railway line operating a Fuchs railbus

Uffizi Galleries

Gallerie degli Uffizi · See the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli here

Ulmer Schifffahrt

50 minute boat trip on the river Danube with the Ulmer Spatz

Ulm Minster

Ulmer Münster · Gothic church with a 161½-m-high tower

Ulm Zoo

Tiergarten Ulm · Small zoo

Ulriksdal Palace

Ulriksdals slott

Ulster American Folk Park

Museum dedicated to Irish emigration to the New World

Ulster Folk Museum

Living history museum

Ulster Museum

Art & local history museum

Ulster Transport Museum

Ulu Mosque

Ulu Moskee · Turkish mosque with an interior designed by Semih Irteş

Umbracle

Umschreibung

Endless staircase by artist Olafur Eliasson

Unimog Museum

Unimog-Museum · The Universalmotorgerät four-wheel-drive truck museum

Unité d’habitation

Brutalist architecture by Le Corbusier

Universeum

University Library

Universiteitsbibliotheek

University Museum

Universiteitsmuseum · History of science museum

University Museum

Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht · History of science museum

University Museum of Zoology

University of Coimbra

Universidade de Coimbra · The Joanine Library & the Great Hall of Acts are quite beautiful

Universum

Science & technology museum

Unterlinden Museum

Musée Unterlinden · Museum that houses the Isenheim Altarpiece

Untersberg Cable Car

Untersbergbahn

Upper Belvedere

Oberes Belvedere · Baroque palace housing the world’s largest collection of Gustav Klimt paintings, including The Kiss

Upper Harz Mining Museum

Oberharzer Bergwerksmuseum

Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences

Oberlausitzische Bibliothek der Wissenschaften · The historical library hall is nice

Urach Residential Palace

Residenzschloss Urach

Urania Observatory

Urania-Sternwarte · Observatory by architect Gottfried Semper

Urnes Stave Church

Urnes stavkyrkje · One of the oldest (1130) & the most richly decorated stave churches

Usquert Town Hall

Raadhuis van Usquert · Town hall by architect H.P. Berlage

Ussé Castle

Château d’Ussé

Utah Beach D-Day Museum

Musée du débarquement Utah Beach

Utrecht Archives

Utrechts Archief · Local history museum

Utrecht Botanic Gardens

Botanische Tuinen Utrecht

Utrecht Library

Bibliotheek Utrecht · Former post office by architect Joseph Crouwel

Utstein Monastery

Utstein kloster · Norway’s only preserved medieval monastery

Uvdal Stave Church

Uvdal stavkirke

V&A Dundee

Victoria and Albert Museum of Design · Museum by architect Kengo Kuma

Vaduz Castle

Schloss Vaduz · The princely palace, not open to the public

Valberg Tower

Valbergtårnet

Valencia Cathedral

Catedral de València

Valencia History Museum

Museu d’Història de València

Valencian Institute of Modern Art

Institut Valencià d’Art Modern

Valkenswaard War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Valley of the Ruiten Aa

Dal van de Ruiten Aa · 3½-km-long hiking trail along the Ruiten Aa brook

Vallois Rope Factory Museum

Musée de la Corderie Vallois · Industrial heritage museum

V&A Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum · Museum of art & design

V&A Museum of Childhood

Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood

Van Abbemuseum

Contemporary art museum

Van den Berg’s Bakery

Banketbakkerij Van den Berg · The other speciality from Gouda are stroopwafels – buy them here

Van Doesburg House

Maison Van Doesburg · Studio by artist Theo van Doesburg

Van Eesteren Museum

Museum dedicated to urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren

Van Gijn House

Huis Van Gijn · 19th-century home of an upper-class family

Van Gogh House

Maison Van Gogh · Vincent van Gogh lived here from 1879 to 1880

Van Gogh Museum

The world’s largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh

Van Meerten House

Huis Van Meerten · 19th-century home of an upper-class family

Van Nelle Factory

Van Nellefabriek · Functionalist factory by architect Leendert van der Vlugt

Van Ravesteyn House

Huis Van Ravesteyn · Modernist house by architect Sybold van Ravesteyn

Van Stapele Koekmakerij

Single-purpose shop selling the world’s tastiest chocolate cookie

Van Zessen House

Huis van Zessen · Modernist house by architects Cornelis van Eesteren & Theo van Doesburg

Varus Battle Museum

Varusschlacht Museum und Park

Vasa Church

Vasakyrkan

Vasa Museum

Vasamuseet · The world’s best preserved 17th-century ship

Vasari Corridor

Corridoio Vasariano

Vasco da Gama Aquarium

Aquário Vasco da Gama · Aquarium & oceanographic museum

Vatican Museums

Musei Vaticani

Veitshöchheim Palace

Schloss Veitshöchheim

Velorama

Bicycle museum

Velsen Visitor Mine

Erlebnisbergwerk Velsen

Veluwezoom National Park

Nationaal Park Veluwezoom · 4812-ha-large nature reserve with forests, heath & sand drifts

Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij

Heritage railway line

Venray War Cemetery

Britse oorlogsbegraafplaats · Commonwealth World War II cemetery

Verdant Works

Scotland’s Jute Museum

Verdun Memorial Museum

Mémorial de Verdun · World War I museum

Verwolde House

Huis Verwolde · 18th-century manor house

Vessels at Holmen

Skibene på Holmen · Submarine Saelen, guided missile boat Sehested & frigate Peder Skram

Veste Coburg Art Collections

Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg

Vevey–Mont-Pèlerin Funicular

Funiculaire Vevey–Mont-Pèlerin · Funicular railway through the Lavaux vineyards

Vézelay Abbey

Basilique de Vézelay

Via Adrina

21-km-long hiking trail along the river Eder around Arfeld & Schwarzenau

Vianden Castle

Château de Vianden

The Victoria Arms

Great food & drink on the banks of the river Cherwell

Victoria Hall

Concert hall

Victorian Home

Klunkehjemmet · A glimpse into the late 19th century

Victoria Park

Viktoriapark · City park with a mountain waterfall

Victory Column

Siegessäule · Column celebrating victories in the Wars of German Unification (1864–71)

Victory Gate

Siegestor · Dedicated to victory, destroyed by war, urging peace

Vienna Museum of Science and Technology

Technisches Museum Wien

Vienna Porcelain Manufactory Augarten

Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten · The successor to Europe’s second-oldest porcelain manufactory (1718–1864)

Vienna Ring Tram

25-minute Ringstraße sightseeing tour on tracks

Vienna State Opera

Wiener Staatsoper · Opera house

The View from The Shard

Vigeland Museum

Vigeland-museet · Museum dedicated to artist Gustav Vigeland

Vigeland Park

Vigelandsparken · Sculpture garden

Viking Museum

Vikingemuseet

Viking Museum Haithabu

Wikinger Museum Haithabu

Viking Ship Museum

Vikingskipshuset

Viking Ship Museum

Vikingeskibsmuseet

Villa Bílek

Bílkova vila · Villa by artist František Bílek

Villa Breidablikk

Villaen Breidablikk

Villa Cavrois

Villa by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens

Villa del Balbianello

8th century mansion offering an enchanted view of Lake Como

Villa Empain

Art Deco villa by architect Josef Hoffman

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild

Villa by architect Aaron Messiah

Villa Esche

Villa by architect Henry van de Velde

Villa Farnesina

Villa Grün

Regional economic history museum

Villa Hügel

Steel magnate Alfred Krupp’s home, featuring the Krupp Historical Exhibition

Villa Kérylos

Villa La Rotonda

Villa Almerico Capra · Renaissance villa by architect Andrea Palladio

Villa Le Lac

Villa by architect Le Corbusier

Villa Ludwigshöhe

Schloss Villa Ludwigshöhe · The summer residence of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, closed for renovation until further notice

Villa Medici

Villa Müller

Müllerova vila · Modernist villa by architect Adolf Loos

Villa Pisani National Museum

Museo Nazionale di Villa Pisani

Villa Rams Woerthe

Art nouveau house by architect Dolf van Gendt

Villa Rothmayer

Rothmayerova vila · Modernist villa by architect Otto Rothmayer

Villa Savoye

Villa by architect Le Corbusier

Villa Schöningen

Contemporary art gallery by architect Ludwig Persius

Villa Stenersen

Villa ten Hompel

World War II commemorative site

Villa Vauba

Art museum

Villeneuve-Lembron Castle

Château de Villeneuve-Lembron

Vincennes Castle

Château de Vincennes · Medieval castle

Vineyard Church

Weinbergkirche · Church by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann

Vitra Design Museum

Museum by architect Frank Gehry

Vitznau–Rigi Kulm Railway

Zahnradbahn Vitznau–Rigi Kulm · Rack railway to Mount Rigi

Vleeshal

Contemporary art gallery

Voestalpine Stahlwelt

The world of steel & forced labour at the Reichswerke Hermann Göring

Vogelpark Marlow

Völklingen Ironworks

Völklinger Hütte

Volkstheater

Theatre

Voltaire Castle

Château de Voltaire · Yes, the Voltaire

Volvo Museum

Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle

Art gallery

Von der Heydt-Museum

Art museum

Vorarlberg Museum

Art & regional history museum

Votive Chapel

Votivkapelle · Chapel devoted to the memory of King Ludwig II, who died here in 1886

Votive Church

Votivkirche · Gothic Revival church, built 1856–79

Vrtba Garden

Vrtbovská zahrada · Baroque garden

Vyšehrad Citadel

Vyšehrad

W5

Science museum

Wackerbarth Castle

Schloss Wackerbarth · Baroque garden & vineyard

Wadden Sea Centre

Vadehavscentret

Waddesdon Manor

Victorian mansion, home to the Rothschild collections

Wakehurst

Botanical garden

Wälderbähnle Railway

Wälderbähnle · Heritage railway line

Walderlebniszentrum Ziegelwies

Forest centre with border-crossing tree top trail

Waldviertel Railway

Waldviertelbahn

Walhalla

19th-century temple with busts of illustrious Germans

Wallace Collection

Art museum featuring an awesome array of art, arms & armour

Wallender Born

Wallenstein Garden

Valdštejnská zahrada · Baroque garden

Wall House #2

Postmodern house by architect John Hejduk

Wall Museum

Mauermuseum · Museum dedicated to the Berlin Wall & the history of NATO

Wallonia Public Transport Museum

Musée des Transports en commun de Wallonie

Wallpaper Museum

Musée du Papier Peint

Wallraf Richartz Museum

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum · Medieval, baroque & 19th-century art

Walther Collection

Wanderschiff

The boat to Hřensko

Warehouse District Museum

Speicherstadtmuseum · Local history museum

Wartburg Castle

Wartburg · 12th-century hilltop castle noted for its most prominent resident, Martin Luther

Wäscherschloss Castle

Burg Wäscherschloss · Staufer castle start set with building & walled courtyard

Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe

Waterbus

Fast ferry to Kinderdijk & Rotterdam

Waterbus

Fast ferries to Rotterdam & Dordrecht

Waterbus

Fast ferry to Kinderdijk & Dordrecht

Waterline Museum

Waterliniemuseum · Discover how water became a weapon

Waterloopbos

Water Museum

Museu da Água · Museum dedicated to Lisbon’s water supply from the Roman times to today

Waterstones Piccadilly

Europe’s largest bookshop

Water Tower

Mannheimer Wasserturm · Art nouveau landmark

Weaving Mill De Ploeg

Weverij De Ploeg · Factory by architect Gerrit Rietveld

Weesenstein Castle

Schloss Weesenstein

Weigh House

Stadtwaage · Reconstructed medieval weighing house

Weikersheim Palace

Schloss Weikersheim · Renaissance country estate with a Baroque garden

Weilburg Castle

Schloss Weilburg · Baroque castle

Weissenhof Museum

Weissenhofmuseum · House by architect Le Corbusier, now a museum dedicated to the Weißenhof Estate

Weissenstein Palace

Schloss Weissenstein · The Schönborn family’s palatial baroque residence

Weißeritz Valley Railway

Weißeritztalbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line

Welcome Point

Willkomm Höft · The German word of the day: Schiffsbegrüßungsanlage

Wellcome Collection

Wellington Arch

Wellington Museum

Musée Wellington

Wellpark Brewery Tour

Wells Cathedral

Weltmuseum Wien

Ethnographic museum

Wendel Miners Museum

Musée Les Mineurs Wendel

Wendelstein Railway

Wendelsteinbahn · Rack railway to Mount Wendelstein (1,723 m)

Wengernalp Railway

Wengernalpbahn · The rack railway to the Jungfrau Railway

Wenzel Circular Walk

Circuit Wenzel · City walk with or without a guide

Weoley Castle Ruins

Weoley Castle · Ruins of a fortified manor house built 750 years ago

Wereldmuseum

Ethnographic museum

Werkbund Estate

Werkbundsiedlung · Red Vienna housing programme

Werkraum Warteck

Permanentes Provisorium

Wernigerode Aviation Museum

Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode · Aeronautical museum

Wernigerode Castle

Schloss Wernigerode · Gothic Revival castle

Werra Potash Mining Museum

Werra-Kalibergbau-Museum · Museum dedicated to the Monte Kali & the region’s potash mining

Weserburg Museum of Modern Art

Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst · Contemporary art museum

Weser Skywalk

Hannoversche Klippen

Westerbork Memorial Center

Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork · Former Nazi concentration camp

Westerwald Ceramics Museum

Keramikmuseum Westerwald · Historical & contemporary ceramics

Westerwald Landscape Museum

Landschaftsmuseum Westerwald · Open-air museum

Westfälischer Kunstverein

Contemporary art gallery

Westfries Museum

Museum of the Dutch Golden Age

Westminster Abbey

Westminster Cathedral

Westphalian Horse Museum

Westfälisches Pferdemuseum

Westphalian School Museum

Westfälisches Schulmuseum · Museum dedicated to the history of education in Westphalia

West Road Concert Hall

West Telemark Museum

Vest-Telemark Museum

West Tower

Torreão Poente · Tower reminiscent of the Ribeira Palace destroyed in the 1755 earthquake

Wewelsburg Castle

Wewelsburg · Triangular castle housing a regional history museum & a World War II museum

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Whitby Abbey

7th-century abbey ruin

The White Cross

Sunday roasts here

Wiblingen Monastery

Kloster Wiblingen · Baroque monastery with a rococo library

Wieland Estate

Wielandgut Oßmannstedt · Writer Christoph Martin Wieland’s country estate

Wiener Konzerthaus

Concert hall

Wien Museum

Local history museum

Wiertz Museum

Musée Wiertz · Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Antoine Wiertz

Wijchen Castle Museum

Museum Kasteel Wijchen · Regional history museum

Wildlands Zoo

Wildlands

Wilhelma Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Wilhelma Zoologisch-Botanischer Garten

Wilhelm Hack Museum

Wilhelm-Hack-Museum · Contemporary art museum

Wilhelm Ostwald Museum

Museum dedicated to chemist Wilhelm Ostwald

Wilhelmsburg Castle Museum

Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg

Wilhelmshöhe Palace

Schloss Wilhelmshöhe · The Weißenstein Wing is the only palace in Kassel to retain its historical furniture

Wilhelmshöhe Park

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe · The Wasserspiele are great

Wilhelmsthal Palace

Schloss Wilhelmsthal · One of the finest rococo palaces in Germany

Wilhelm Wagenfeld House

Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus · Design museum

Willet-Holthuysen House

Huis Willet-Holthuysen · Canal house featuring Louis-XIV-rooms & a French formal garden

William’s Tower

Wilhelmsturm · Museum dedicated to William I of Orange, the main leader of the Dutch Revolt (1566–1648)

The Willow Tea Rooms

Willy Brandt House

Willy-Brandt-Haus · Exhibition dedicated to politician Willy Brandt

Wilten Abbey

Stift Wilten · Abbey with a rococo church & a baroque library

Wimbachklamm

Wimpole Estate

Winchester Cathedral

Windermere Jetty

Museum of of boats, steam & stories

The Winding Stair Bookshop

It’s a restaurant as well

Windsor Castle

Witches Weigh House

Museum De Heksenwaag

Witley Court

Country house ruin & garden

Wittenberg 360

360° panorama by Yadegar Asisi

Witzweg

8-km-long hiking trail from Heiden to Walzenhausen, the terminus of the Rheineck–Walzenhausen railway

Wochenmarkt

Weekly market on Wednesdays & Saturdays

Woerden Cheese Market

Kaasmarkt Woerden · Cheese trading on Saturday mornings

Wolfgangseeschifffahrt

The Wolfgangsee fleet connects St. Wolfgang, St. Gilgen & Strobl

Workers Museum

Arbejdermuseet · Labour history museum

World Clock

Weltzeituhr · Landmark clock showing the time in 146 world cities

World Cultures Museum

Museum Weltkulturen · Ethnographic museum

World Museum

World of the Celts at the Glauberg

Keltenwelt am Glauberg

The world of the GDR

Die Welt der DDR · Museum dedicated to daily life in the German Democratic Republic

World of the Ice Giants

Eisriesenwelt · The world’s largest ice cave

World’s End Nature Trail

Naturpfad Weltende · 6½-km-long hike alongside river Nister, featuring steep & difficult climbs

World War II Art Bunker

Historischer Kunstbunker

Wörlitz Palace

Schloss Wörlitz · Classicist country estate with an English landscape garden

Worpsweder Kunsthalle

Local art museum

Wotruba Church

Wotrubakirche · Brutalist church by sculptor Fritz Wotruba

Wouda Pumping Station

Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal · The largest steam pumping station ever built (still in operation)

Wünsdorf Bunkers

Bunkeranlagen Wünsdorf

Wuppertal Suspension Railway

Wuppertaler Schwebebahn · 13⅓-km-long monorail connecting Vohwinkel, Elberfeld & Barmen

Wuppertal Zoo

Zoologischer Garten

Wurmberg Cable Car

Wurmbergseilbahn · Mount Wurmberg is the second highest mountain in the Harz

Württemberg State Museum

Landesmuseum Württemberg · Art & regional history museum

Würzburg Cathedral

Würzburger Dom

Würzburg Residence

Residenz Würzburg · Baroque palace by architect Balthasar Neumann

Wutach Gorge

Wutachschlucht · 12-km-long hiking trail from Wutachmühle to Schattenmühle

Wutach Valley Railway

Sauschwänzlebahn · Heritage railway line

Ybbs Valley Railway

Ybbstalbahn

Yenidze

The factory that looks like a mosque

York Castle Museum

York Cold War Bunker

York Minster

Northern Europe’s largest Gothic cathedral

Yorkshire Museum

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

York St Mary’s

Young Museum Frankfurt

Junges Museum Frankfurt

Yser Tower

IJzertoren · World War I memorial & museum

Yunus Emre Mosque

Yunus Emre Moskee · The oldest newly built mosque in the Netherlands

Zaanse Schans

Holland for tourists

Zaans Museum

Regional history museum

Zeeuws Maritiem muZEEum

The Muzeeum is the maritime museum of Zeeland

Zeeuws Museum

Zeitgeschichtliches Forum

German history from the end of World War II to the present

Zeithain Memorial Grove

Gedenkstätte Ehrenhain Zeithain · World War II prisoner of war camp

Zentrum Paul Klee

Museum dedicated to painter Paul Klee, by architect Renzo Piano

Zephyr

Contemporary photography gallery

Zeppelin Field Grandstand

Zeppelintribüne · Former Nazi rally grounds by architect Albert Speer

Zeppelin Flight

Zeppelin-Flug · See Lake Constance from a Zeppelin during a 2-hour flight (tickets €860 each)

Zeppelin Museum

Museum dedicated to the early-20th-century dirigible airship

Zeppelin Museum Zeppelinheim

Small museum dedicated to the early-20th-century dirigible airship

Zillertal Railway

Zillertalbahn

Zinc Factory Altenberg

Zinkfabrik Altenberg · Closed for renovation until 2026

Zion Church

Zionskirche · Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s church

Zittau Narrow-Gauge Railway

Zittauer Schmalspurbahn · Narrow-gauge railway line

Žižkov Television Tower

Žižkovská televizní věž · Really ugly landmark tower by architects Václav Aulický & Jiří Kozák

ZKM

Zentrum für Kunst und Medien · Center for Art & Media

Zollern Colliery

Zeche Zollern · Industrial heritage museum

Zollverein

Once Europe’s largest colliery

Zollverein Swimming Pool

Werksschwimmbad Zollverein · Fricking cold water

Zonengrenz-Museum Helmstedt

Zonneberg Caves

Grotten Zonneberg

Zoo Berlin

Zoologischer Garten

Zoo Dortmund

Zoo Dresden

Zoo Duisburg

Zoo Hannover

Zoo Heidelberg

Zoo Leipzig

Zoo Linz

Nothing to get excited about

Zoological Museum

Zoologisk Museum · National history museum

Zoological Museum

Musée zoologique

Zoological Museum Kiel

Zoologischen Museum Kiel

ZOOM Children’s Museum

ZOOM Kindermuseum

Zoom Erlebniswelt

It’s a zoo

Zoo Schwerin

Schweriner Zoo

Zoo Thale

Tierpark Thale · Small zoo

Zoo Zurich

Zoo Zürich

Zorn Museum

Zornmuseet · Museum dedicated to painter Anders Zorn

ZSL London Zoo

Zuckerlwerkstatt

Candy shop for sweets aficionados

Zügenschlucht Trail

Zügenschluchtwanderung · Hike from Davos-Monstein to Davos-Wiesen along the Bärentritt bridge

Zuiderzee Museum

Zuiderzeemuseum · Living history museum

Zuid-Kennemerland National Park

Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland · Nature reserve

Zurenborg City Walk

Zurenborg · Neighbourhood with lavish eclectic architecture

Zurich Opera House

Opernhaus Zürich

Zurich Tram Museum

Tram-Museum Zürich · Public transport museum

Zuylen Castle

Slot Zuylen · 16th-century castle with an 18th-century look & feel

Zweckel Mine

Zeche Zweckel · Industrial history tours on selected Sundays

Zwernitz Castle

Burg Zwernitz

Zwickau Art Collections

Kunstsammlungen Zwickau

Zwiefalten Minster

Zwiefalter Münster · Rococo church

Zwinger

Baroque palace by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann

Zypendaal House

Huis Zypendaal · 18th-century country estate