A Day Trip to Amsterdam
Apart from the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam has many more great places to visit.
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Apart from the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam has many more great places to visit.
Although Berlin almost totally lacks historical grandeur, its many monuments, museums & memorials are well worth a visit.
Almost all of Bremen’s must-sees are located around its market square or just within walking distance.
Königstein, just 40 minutes from Dresden, is the perfect starting point for exploring the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
Thanks to King Augustus the Strong, Dresden became renowned for its extraordinary cultural brilliance.
Off the beaten track to many, rural Groningen is a great region to explore and for making spiffing discoveries.
The city of Groningen is perfect for a day out, featuring the Groninger Museum, the Martini Tower, and poffert.
The Hague is generally not high up on the bucket list for visitors to the Netherlands, but it’s a city well worth a visit.
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After seeing the Hofburg and Schönbrunn Palace and ‘The Kiss’ by Gustav Klimt, you can have Wiener schnitzel in more places than just Figlmüller.
Eighteen churches & synagogues provide an exceptional example of the best of what the Netherlands has to offer church-wise.
Of the cheese markets in Alkmaar, Edam, Gouda, Hoorn and Woerden only the one in Alkmaar features cheese carriers running around with cheese.
Despite existing for only fourteen years, the Bauhaus was the world’s most important school of design.
Charlemagne’s sacral centre of the Holy Roman Empire.
Aachen Cathedral, built by Charlemagne around 800, is home to works of art that are among the highlights of their time.
Swim the river Aare from Altenbergsteg bridge to the Lorraine swimming pool.
Art museum with Olafur Eliasson’s Your Rainbow Panorama on its roof.
Museum dedicated to Agnetha, Björn, Benny & Anni-Frid.
This most exquisite late baroque library is Switzerland’s oldest library.
Abbey church with 19th-century Beuron School murals.
Divine brewery.
Museum of drawing & illustration.
Museum of textiles & applied art.
14th-century merchant’s house.
Former convent church, home to Leiden University since 1581.
Narrow-gauge steam-powered rack railway.
Church with a magnificent tomb depicting the late Carel Hieronymus van In- & Kniphuisen and his wife Anna van Ewsum.
Abbey featuring the largest library hall in the world.
There is nothing specific to see here but the view of Aduarderzijl is nevertheless definitely worth a detour.
Coolest turbine factory ever, by architect Peter Behrens.
Cold War museum.
Primate zoo featuring 200 free-roaming Barbary macaques.
Primate zoo.
Aviation museum.
Exhibition dedicated to the Battle of Arnhem (1944).
Museum dedicated to the Battle of Arnhem (1944).
Airport terminal by architect Ernst Sagebiel.
15½-m-high Cold War watchtower for spotting Soviet airplanes.
Neoclassical palace.
Museum of modern art.
Art museum, home to Albrecht Dürer’s hare.
Art from romanticism to the present.
15th-century castle, in use as porcelain manufactory from 1710 to 1863.
3-stage hike along the Albula Railway, from Preda via Bergün to Filisur & the Landwasser Viaduct.
Museum dedicated to the Graubünden railways.
Coolest printer ever lived here.
Museum dedicated to food & nutrition.
Running around with cheese on Friday mornings.
Museum dedicated to archaeology, history of books, cartography, graphic design, Jewish cultural history & zoology.
How enemies became friends.
Aka Hogwarts.
Beware of the Poison Garden.
Alpine zoo.
Alpine dioramas.
Iconic luxury department store.
The national monument to Victor Emmanuel II.
Fine art from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century.
Bridge with statues of St John of Nepomuk & eleven other saints.
Romantic & impressionist paintings & sculptures.
An exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie explores the life & work of the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich.
Concert hall.
Museum of classical antiquities by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Regional history museum.
Art nouveau & art deco indoor swimming pool.
17th-century manor house where German Emperor Wilhelm II signed his abdication papers.
Amerongen Castle, near Utrecht, is an imposing 17th-century mansion in Dutch classicist style.
Small zoo.
Medieval fortress.
Ampelmännchen everywhere.
2nd-century Roman theatre.
2nd-century Roman theatre.
Office building by architect Karel de Bazel.
Local history museum.
Nature reserve.
Home to the skeleton depicted in De humani corporis fabrica (1543).
Artist’s house.
Iconic riverside pub on the river Cam.
Jacobean-style house with gardens & a working watermill.
Art nouveau clock by painter & sculptor Franz Matsch.
Exhibition that focuses on the diary & the story of the life of Anne Frank.
Museum dedicated to Anne Frank, her diary, and the secret annex.
Museum of Mediterranean antiquities.
Museum dedicated to composer Antonín Dvořák.
The second copy of Ernst Barlach’s angel Der Schwebende hangs here.
Primate zoo.
The Duke of Wellington’s Georgian London home.
Europe’s largest freshwater aquarium.
Zoo with mostly aquatic mammals & birds.
Zoo, aquarium & natural history museum.
Arch celebrating Napoleon’s victory in the Battle of Austerlitz (1806).
Living history museum.
Palazzo featuring an anatomical theatre.
Architecture museum.
Arch celebrating Constantine’s triumph over Maxentius in 312 A.D.
Arch celebrating Titus’ triumph in the siege of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
Norway’s northernmost railway line connecting Narvik to Riksgränsen.
The 33-km-long Ardèche Railway from Saint-Jean-de-Muzols to Mastrou operates two Mallet tank engines.
World War II cemetery.
The tastefully furnished home & enchanting garden of Napoleon’s stepdaughter & sister-in-law Hortense de Beauharnais.
11⅖-km-long hike to Boudry along the gorgeous Saut de Brot bridge.
Bubbles by architect Zaha Hadid.
Ceramics & glass museum.
Architecture & design centre.
Contemporary art museum.
Cable cars & chairlifts.
The Arlberger Klettersteig is one of the most demanding Alpine tours.
You’ll find the Compiègne Wagon in the museum close to the memorial.
See the Turkish Chamber.
Museum of Tyrolean cultural history.
Military history museum.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery for servicemen killed in the Battle of Arnhem (1944).
Contemporary art museum by architect Richard Meier.
Museum of the future.
Œuvres d’art et des objets historiques.
Museum of archaeology, fine art & applied art.
The other Swedish furniture store.
The oldest zoo in the Netherlands.
Jacobean house.
The book was better.
Contemporary art museum by architect Renzo Piano.
Dripstone cave.
Enchanted railway line for kids.
Archaeological living history museum.
Car museum.
Old Palace that houses the Julius Exter Art Gallery & the Maler am Chiemsee Gallery.
Museum dedicated to painter August Macke.
Bridge by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann.
One of the few castles in the world that hold a Cranach altarpiece & a motorcycle museum at the same time.
Rococo palace.
Emperor Constantine’s throne hall.
The library’s baroque State Hall, with its intricately decorated dome, is home to over 200,000 tomes & four Venetian globes.
Living history museum.
Post office by architect Otto Wagner.
Contemporary sculpture park.
Church by architect Michael Schumacher.
Car museum.
The Schlumpf collection.
Museum dedicated to the history of the Automobilwerk Eisenach car factory.
Car museum.
Car museum.
Art nouveau house by architect Victor Horta.
Key hole that offers a magnificent view onto the Basilica of St Peter.
Miniature village & railway.
Gothic Revival castle.
Museum dedicated to composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Museum dedicated to composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Local history museum.
Regional history museum.
Floating swimming pool with a unique panoramic view of the river Spree, the Oberbaumbrücke & Berlin’s iconic TV tower.
Art & regional history museum.
Outdoor swimming pool.
Living history museum.
Art museum.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Tiny street bar serving ginjinha, a local cherry liqueur.
22-m-high observation tower.
Tribal art museum.
German national pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Museum dedicated to Heinrich Vogeler, co-founder of the Worpswede artists’ colony.
Early-19th-century mansion with Empire-style furnishings.
17th-century merchant’s house with an impressive rococo hall.
Five walking tours to explore Basel’s old town.
Local history museum.
Romanesque church.
Museum for paper, writing & printing.
Chemistry exhibition.
Gothic Revival church, built 1852–57.
Romanesque church.
Medieval abbey church.
Baroque church with altarpieces by Theodoor van Loon.
Another church with a Holy Door.
Baroque church by architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel.
Renaissance church & burial site for the Medici family.
Baroque church with an organ by Joseph Gabler.
Late 19th-century church.
Not just a church named after St Paul: the tomb of St Paul is here.
The Basilica in Oudenbosch is a smaller version of the Papal Basilica of St Peter in the Vatican.
Church by architect Balthasar Neumann.
Modern church by architect Alexandros Tombazis.
Museum of music & fine arts, closed for renovation.
The Bastei is the most famous rock formation in Saxon Switzerland.
World War II museum.
Museum dedicated to land reclamation & seafaring, featuring a replica of the East Indiaman Batavia.
Closed for renovation until 2025.
The Bauhaus was located in Dessau from 1925 to 1932.
The Bauhaus Museum Dessau presents the second-largest Bauhaus collection worldwide.
The Bauhaus Museum Weimar presents the world’s oldest collection of Bauhaus artefacts.
The Bauhaus was located in Weimar from 1919 to 1925, before moving to its iconic new building in Dessau.
Walk along historic Bauhaus sites.
Museum of Far Eastern art.
Pentagonal island in the Limmat with a Biergarten & restaurant.
Former Stasi prison.
Former Stasi prison.
Germany’s highest rack railway (2,650 m).
68⅜-m-long 11th-century tapestry depicting the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Museum dedicated to painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek & Dutch landscape painting from the Romantic era.
Since 1242.
Eltern haften für ihre Kinder.
One of the best-preserved Cistercian monasteries in southern Germany.
Museum dedicated to composer Bedřich Smetana.
Open-air café.
Museum dedicated to composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Almshouses for beguines.
England in the 1930s at a 1:10 scale.
Cultural centre by architects Vittorio Gregotti & Manuel Salgado.
Landmark tower with typical Manueline decoration.
World War I cemetery.
Contemporary art museum.
Castle, park & orangery.
Pavilion by architect Carl Gotthard Langhans, housing porcelain from Frederick the Great’s manufactory.
Garden with a panoramic view across the city.
Museum dedicated to Belgium & its history.
18th-century palace by architect Nicolas de Pigage.
Medieval hilltop castle.
World War II cemetery.
Contemporary art museum.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
World War II cemetery.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
371-km-long railway line connecting Bergen to Oslo.
20-m-high tower providing a wonderful view of the Ruhr Valley.
Ski ramp with tower-top café & viewing terrace by architect Zaha Hadid.
19th-century church by architects Julius Raschdorff.
Four models of Berlin’s inner city for urban development.
Concert hall by architect Hans Scharoun.
Former Stasi prison.
Contemporary art museum.
Medical science museum.
Minimum-gauge pioneer railway.
Boat trips on the Spree & Landwehr Canal.
Television tower nicknamed St Walter (Ulbricht) for its cross-shaped reflection of the sun.
The Berlin Wall Memorial commemorates the partition of the city with a large exhibition on the former border strip.
One of the reasons tourists visit Berlin is to see the Wall, but it has long since disappeared except for a few remnants.
160-km-long hiking & cycling trail that traces the course of the former GDR border fortifications encircling West Berlin.
Gothic cathedral, built 1421–1893.
Opera, drama & ballet performances.
Local history museum.
The highest railway across the Alps, reaching 2,253 m at the Bernina Pass halfway its 183-km-long journey.
By far the greatest train ride in Switzerland is the Bernina Express, which connects Chur to Tirano via the Albula & Bernina Railways.
Jan Hus’ church.
Living history museum.
The Mercy Chapel is a fine example of the 19th-century Beuron School style.
Film buffs will enjoy the British Film Institute’s mediatheque.
Home to the Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis.
Library of Hermetic philosophy.
17th-century library, open by appointment only.
Book arts & bookbinding museum.
Funicular railway to Largo Calhariz.
Bicycle bridge.
Contemporary photography gallery.
Authentic drift mine.
Natural history museum.
Indoor rainforest.
Museum of art, applied art, social history, archaeology & ethnography.
Baroque pilgrimage church.
Modern chapel by architect Níall McLaughlin.
Gothic Revival bridge crossing a street in the Gothic Quarter.
Living history museum.
Tudor house & gardens.
Authentic shaft mine with underground galleries accessible to visitors.
Baroque palace, built 1705–22 as a reward for John Churchill, the victor of Blindheim (1704).
Home of the World War II codebreakers.
Dutch World War II cemetery.
Narrow-gauge railway line.
18-km-long heritage railway connecting Sheffield Park to East Grinstead.
Car museum.
Industrial heritage museum featuring a spinning mill & a weaving mill.
Railway museum operating a Wismar railbus.
Heritage railway line.
Delightful old-fashioned café.
Sculpture & Byzantine art museum.
Divinity School & Duke Humfrey’s Library are must-sees.
Type & printing museum.
Former mining site.
Former mining site.
Living history museum.
Nerdvana.
Sanctuary with a baroque stairway.
17th-century merchant’s house.
Art museum by architect Aldo Rossi.
Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.
One of Ireland’s finest national treasures, the Book of Kells is a lavishly decorated medieval manuscript of the four Gospels.
Here you can buy your copy of Diary of a Bookseller from the author himself.
Home to the oldest anatomical theatre in the world (1595).
Former inner German border museum.
Former inner German border museum.
Former inner German border.
Former inner German border museum.
Maze designed in honour of the writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Works by Caravaggio, Titian, Raphael, Bernini & Canova.
Norway’s most visited stave church, built around 1180.
14th-century moated manor house with a formal garden.
The Italian village of Potsdam.
Contemporary art packed in a World War II bunker.
Herbarium with botanical exhibition.
The Chinese garden is quite nice.
Asiatic garden.
Baroque palatial manor house with a 270 m-long lime-tree-lined avenue.
Expressionist architecture.
Medieval castle.
Panorama by Edouard Castres depicting the Franco-Prussian War.
Contemporary art museum.
Pentagonal stronghold with ramparts, moats, ravelins & the whole shebang.
Art & local history museum.
Totally Irish restaurant.
Cultural venue by architect Victor Horta.
Iconic city gate by architect Carl Gotthard Langhans.
The other one.
Art nouveau restaurant.
Nuremberg Bratwurst & Sauerkraut.
Museum with a focus upon the industrialisation of Denmark.
Sculpture by artist Gerhard Marcks.
World War II cemetery.
Iconic luxury department store.
Museum dedicated to the Dortmund beer industry.
Industrial heritage museum.
Steam-powered rack railway to Planalp & Mount Rothorn.
From Magna Carta & Gutenberg’s Bible, to the music of the Beatles.
An exhibition at the British Library introduces the women of medieval Europe through their own words, visions & experiences.
Experience cultures across the globe, from the dawn of human history to the present.
The Rosetta Stone at the British Museum is just fine, but the thing you really want to see here is the Royal Game of Ur.
Riding the overcrowded Brocken Railway is one way to get to Mount Brocken’s summit, but hiking is more fun & less expensive.
One metre wide and 140 km long, the narrow-gauge railways of the Harz are a Mecca for train enthusiasts.
Art nouveau, art deco, and functionalism.
Colonial museum dedicated to the Dutch East Indies & the KNIL army.
World War I cemetery.
Commonwealth World War I & II cemetery.
Modern chapel dedicated to St Nicholas of Flüe, by architect Peter Zumthor.
20-km-long hiking trail to Flüeli-Ranft.
Three-wing Baroque palace with a rococo interior, famous for architect Balthasar Neumann’s opulent staircase.
Museum dedicated to the Die Brücke art movement.
Concert hall.
Megalithic burial site with three passage tombs.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Supercool single-track nine-arched stone spiral railway viaduct.
Art gallery.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Expressionist art museum.
Open to the public every summer.
This sandwich shop’s most popular sandwich is Speck mit Ei.
Art & Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Refurbished medieval castle.
Local history museum.
Municipal park.
Probably the most beautiful zoo in the Netherlands.
Museum dedicated to poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
Theatre by by architects Gottfried Semper & Karl von Hasenauer.
There is no further to the left on the map of continental Europe.
Renaissance palazzo housing the Franchetti Gallery.
World War II museum.
Formerly a café serving Brazilian coffee to the intelligentsia, now a coffee shop for tourists.
The living room of Amsterdam, serves breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Really good coffee (and cake).
Trotsky & Freud used to be regulars here.
The local dish: Zoervleis.
Grand café at Leiden’s most intimate square, close to the citadel.
Cheese fondue venue.
Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain.
The Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte served here comes with a great view.
Seit 1875.
The apple pie from Dudok’s patisserie is quite delicious.
The apple pie from Dudok’s patisserie is quite delicious.
The apple pie from Dudok’s patisserie is quite delicious.
Vegetarian organic food café at the Ecumenical Forum.
Where Thomas Klier bakes Thüringer Schmandkuchen every day.
Former tax office in northern Mannerist style, now a café.
Don’t leave Utrecht without having coffee & appelbol here.
Bakery known for its Baumkuchen cake & Mannemer Dreck cookies.
Coffee bar serving coffee from its own roastery.
Get your Linzer Torte here at Linz’s oldest bakery.
The place for Kaiserschmarren, the Emperor’s favourite pancake.
For coffee & hagabullen.
Traditional Norwegian cuisine.
Café serving home-made Bachtaler & Leipziger Lerche pastry.
Breakfast all day!
Upmarket restaurant & bar with paintings by Chagall, Picasso & Miró.
Grandma-style traditional German coffee & cake.
Posh café serving apple strudel from Schönbrunn Palace’s bakery.
Café & roastery housed in the former HAG Coffee Factory by architect Hugo Wagner.
Belle-époque café.
Modern café serving regional products.
The Salzburger Nockerl is worth waiting for.
Former hangout for Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele & others.
The marzipan & nut cake from Niederegger’ patisserie is quite good.
Art nouveau café.
Belgian beer café in a former church.
Brewery & Grand Café.
Dutch restaurant with a distinctive un-Dutch look & feel.
Their Hofbackstube offers an apple strudel baking course.
Traditional Swiss cuisine.
Home of the Sachertorte.
Home of the Sachertorte.
Home of the Sachertorte.
A refined café — but don’t accept a table upstairs.
Café serving coffee from its own roastery.
It’s a famous confectionery as well.
A tranquil resting place at the Friedrichwerder Cemetery.
Tea room serving home-made cakes.
Café-wise, Salzburg can’t get much better.
Hipster café.
Germany’s oldest coffee shop, closed until further notice.
Port cellar — if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.
Museum of Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Islamic & oriental art, old coins, and European painting & decorative arts.
Scenic railway along the Welsh coastline, from Aberystwyth via Dovey Junction to Pwllheli.
World War II cemetery.
Photographic art gallery.
Climbing park & observation tower.
Medieval constructing like 1200 years ago.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
18th-century castle.
Contemporary art gallery.
The end of continental Europe (on this side, at least).
The bronze sculpture of the Capitoline she-wolf is here.
Cargo steamer, built 1961.
Imperial crypt of the Habsburgs.
Museum of 18th-century Venice.
Museum dedicated to ceramic artist & painter Manuel Cargaleiro.
Medieval castle & Edwardian-style garden.
Museum dedicated to composer CMvW.
Museum dedicated to the history of Paris.
Home to the Codex argenteus.
Closed until further notice.
Public transport museum.
150 tractors & 200 cars & motorbikes.
House by architect Antoni Gaudí.
Concert hall by architect Rem Koolhaas.
A 16th-century survivor of the 1755 earthquake with a typical facade.
The first home designed by architect Antoni Gaudí.
On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther made his 95 theses public on the main door of this church.
Local history museum, closed for renovation until 2025.
Medieval castle.
Cathedral Museum.
Church by architect Joseph Cuypers.
Baroque church.
Home to the bust of Charlemagne.
Art nouveau house by architect Paul Cauchie.
Venue of the 1945 Potsdam Conference on what to do with Germany.
Artwork by James Turrell.
Early-20th-century church with a magnificent dome.
Contemporary art gallery.
Scenic railway line to Domodossola.
Art museum.
Museum dedicated to Charles the Great & the history of Aachen.
Photographic art gallery.
Museum dedicated to Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Contemporary art museum by architects Richard Rogers & Renzo Piano.
Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Henk Chabot.
Madrid Metro ghost station.
Weser Renaissance trade chamber.
45 minutes of British pageantry.
Iconic covered bridge.
Chapel by architects Peter Sassenroth & Rudolf Reitermann.
The 1917 apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima to the three little shepherds took place here.
Bridge with statues of St John of Nepomuk & 29 other saints.
Art museum.
Rococo palace of Sophia Charlotte, the first Queen Consort in Prussia.
Neoclassical villa by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
The Impressionist Vision exhibition is okay-ish.
Must-see royal & imperial palace.
Private residence of Napoleon & Joséphine.
18th-century castle.
Baroque palace by architect Louis Le Vau, with a garden by landscape architect André le Nôtre.
Lavish stately home with noted art collection.
Former inner German border crossing.
Former inner German border crossing.
25-m-high wooden observation tower.
The shop’s interior has changed very little since its opening in 1849.
Industrial heritage museum.
Minimum-gauge pioneer railway.
Manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books & decorative arts.
The train to the Chiemsee Railway.
The steam tram to the Chiemsee.
The ship to the Herreninsel & the Fraueninsel.
Renaissance church by architect Pietro Lombardo.
Brick expressionism office building by architect Fritz Höger.
Medieval fortress on the shores of Lake Geneva.
Traditional Chinese garden with various pavilions.
Chinoiserie rococo pavilion.
Possibly the most popular place for chocolate con churros.
Chocolate shop & café.
Brick gothic architecture.
Cathedral with a mummified cat & rat, known locally as ‘Tom & Jerry’.
The Gobelin tapestries in Great Hall are quite nice.
Käthe Wohlfahrt’s christmas shop that is open year round.
Art nouveau church.
Buy your bowler hat here.
13th-century church with 16th-century frescoes and a freestanding climbable tower with an Escher-like staircase.
Church with a climbable tower which offers a great view of the Wadden Sea.
Church with a detached tower & and a superb organ by Arp Schnitger.
Church with stained-glass windows by artist Alfred Manessier.
Neoclassical church by architect Christian Frederik Hansen.
Thank God it was rebuilt in 2005.
Brick Gothic church.
Gothic church.
Church by architects Fritz Schupp & Martin Kremmer, who also designed the Zollverein & Rammelsberg mines.
Byzantine Revival church by architect Ludwig Persius.
The Sistine Chapel of Valencia.
Azulejo tile-adorned church.
Church that stands on the place where Saint Anthony was born.
The 72 stained-glass windows are the highlight of European glass painting.
Rotterdam’s only surviving medieval building.
Renaissance church with an organ featuring a rain machine.
Art nouveau church by architect Otto Wagner.
Church famous for its statue of Jesus at the age of 4–5 years.
Modern church by architect Josip Plečnik.
Byzantine Revival church by architect Ludwig Persius.
Modern church by Allmann Sattler Wappner architects.
A perfect example of Bavarian rococo architecture.
Museum of self-playing musical instruments.
Film archives & museum by architect Frank Gehry.
Pedestrian bridge by artist Olafur Eliasson.
Fortress & local history museum.
Fashion & design museum.
Architecture museum.
Science & technology museum.
Closed for renovation until 2030.
One of the oldest city halls in the Low Countries.
City hall by architect Martin Nyrop, inspired by Sienna’s Palazzo Pubblico.
City hall with an impressive Renaissance facade.
Where the the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony takes place.
Flemish Gothic town hall by architect Friedrich Schmidt.
City hall by architect Gottfried Semper.
Local history museum.
Fine art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Ceci n’est pas un château.
Prototype Unité d’habitation by architect Le Corbusier.
Baroque church by architect Johann Conrad Schlaun.
A great baroque library, but the guided tour is quite disappointing.
Home to Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man photographic exhibition.
Brutalist church by architect Ronald Weeks.
Climate museum.
Seven hundred clocks from around the globe.
13th-century city tower.
Home to the famous The Lady & the Unicorn tapestries.
Museum dedicated to the Cobra art movement.
World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers of the Western allies.
Outsider art museum.
Baroque city palace.
Cable car from the Zoo to the Rheinpark.
Gothic cathedral, built 1248–1880.
A tourist attraction since the Middle Ages, Cologne Cathedral is the largest Gothic church in northern Europe.
Local history museum.
Contemporary sculpture park.
Built by Louis XV & XVI & remodelled by Napoleon I & III.
Art gallery & park.
Concert hall praised for its excellent acoustics.
Concert hall.
Prison that held, among others, Marie Antoinette & Robespierre.
Artfully crafted chocolates.
Don’t even think about skipping this famous confectionery.
Concert hall.
Home to artist Werner Thiel’s collection of mining artefacts.
Azulejo tile-adorned convent.
Medieval & early Renaissance Bohemian art museum.
Abbey church with Carolingian frescoes.
Medieval fortress.
Concert hall by architect Jean Nouvel.
Contemporary art gallery.
Zoo with an elephant house by architect Norman Foster.
Brutalist architecture by Le Corbusier.
A journey through the human body.
Museum dedicated to The Hiding Place, the subject of a book by Corrie ten Boom.
Former imperial abbey.
Sigmund Jähn was here.
Former prison for political prisoners.
Church with the tomb of Emperor Maximilian I.
Upper middle class domestic culture in the 18th & 19th centuries.
Modern cathedral & ruins of the previous one.
Motor cars, motorcycles & bicycles.
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder & Christian Döring.
Home of the National Tramway Museum.
Holy mountain.
Home to the worlds’ largest steam engine ever built, used to empty the Haarlemmermeer polder.
Cube-shaped house by architect Piet Blom.
Museum dedicated to architect Pierre Cuypers.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Car museum.
Zoo.
Museum of monastic culture.
Restaurant, bar & grill, and café-bistro.
Matts Johansson’s café, roastery & bakery.
Office building by architects Vlado Milunič & Frank Gehry.
Military history museum.
Medieval exhibition.
Scenic train line along Dublin’s picturesque coast.
Former Great Western Railway branch line running alongside the English Riviera coastline.
Museum dedicated to the past, present & future of work & working conditions, especially safety.
Museum dedicated to art from the former GDR.
Farm refreshments by Sabine & Uwe Hähnel.
Railway museum.
Railway museum.
Railway museum.
World War II museum.
Museum dedicated to the German Democratic Republic.
Museum dedicated to the German Democratic Republic.
Uncritical sentimental journey down memory lane for East Germans.
Nine picturesque streets with quirky shops & eateries.
Concert hall.
Wild glen with a modern pedestrian tunnel by architect Josef Pleskot.
Built at the turn of the 20th century, De Haar Castle in Haarzuilens matches the ideal image of a medieval fortress.
A highlight of Gothic Revival architecture, De Haar Castle in Haarzuilens is beyond doubt one of Europe’s finest fake medieval castles.
De Hoge Veluwe National Park offers a great opportunity for a day out, with its diverse landscape and the fascinating Kröller-Müller Museum.
De Hoge Veluwe National Park offers a great opportunity for a day out, with its diverse landscape and the fascinating Kröller-Müller Museum.
Contemporary art gallery.
16th-century manor house.
Modernist contemporary art gallery by architects Erich Mendelsohn & Serge Chermayeff.
Sandwich bar.
Concert hall.
Contemporary art museum.
Publicly accessible art depot by MVRDV architects.
House by architect Jan de Quack.
Medieval church with baroque spire & an organ by Arp Schnitger.
Antwerp’s sewer system.
Design shop.
Closed for renovation until 2026.
Tea Room.
Former inner German border (Tannbach).
Heritage railway line.
Medical & public health museum.
Museum dedicated to blade weapons, knives & cutlery.
Contemporary masterpieces of science & technology.
Science & technology museum.
Transport museum.
Museum dedicated to cooperative pioneer Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen.
Sports & olympic museum.
Sculpture by Ossip Zadkine to commemorate the bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940.
Theatre.
Experience being blind.
Experience being blind.
Concert hall.
Museum dedicated to diesel engines.
Home to the Staurothek, a cross relic dating back to the 10th century.
Science & technology museum.
Design museum.
Brick gothic architecture.
1⅓-km-long rack railway towards Adlisberg.
Europe’s biggest marine mammal park.
18⅝-km-long narrow-gauge railway line operating a Saxon IV K tank engine.
Church with Napoleon’s tomb.
Portugal’s last sailing warship.
The Reverend’s Garden is a small botanical garden noted for its stinzen plants.
Museum housing the cathedral’s sacred & historic treasures.
Contemporary art museum.
The highest church tower in the Netherlands.
Underground discovery tour through 2,000 years.
The oldest part dating back to 1280, Doorwerth Castle is a lovely 17th-century castle on the bank of the Nederrijn river.
The oldest part dating back to 1280, Doorwerth Castle is a lovely 17th-century castle on the bank of the Nederrijn river.
Art museum featuring six centuries of Dutch painting.
Three palaces (old, rococo & Renaissance) & a baroque garden overlooking the Saale valley.
The Luft Hansa Do B-Bal Merkur (1925) & the Do J Wal flying boat (1922) are the highlights of the Donier Museum.
Featuring a hangar with real aircraft, the Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen shows the history of Claude Dornier’s aerospace company.
Church with a tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst.
Late 18th-century home of an upper-class family.
Tapestry manufactory & gallery.
Duchess Anna Amalia’s baroque palace is where Goethe & other members of the intellectual elite gathered.
Duchess Anna Amalia’s dower house in Weimar is now a museum featuring her former parlours and staterooms.
The home of Charles Darwin.
Gothic Revival castle, built 1882–84.
Germany’s oldest rack railway, reaching 289 m at the end of its 1½-km-long journey.
Walking path through splendid rock formations.
Museum dedicated to automotive pioneer Carl Benz.
Baroque church by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann.
11-km-long hiking trail along the Drentsche Aa brook, a meandering stream that changes name near every village it flows past.
Art & regional history museum.
Church with a Silbermann organ & the heart of Augustus the Strong.
5⅗-km-long miniature railway largely operated by children, formerly aimed to foster communist ideals.
Science & technology museum.
A fascinating journey through the world of mobility — on land, on water and in the air.
You might recognize Patisserie Mendl’s from the movie The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Industrial heritage museum.
Looks like a palace, is a shopping mall, contains a museum.
Goethe & Schiller mausoleum.
The library’s oval Rococo Hall is quite impressive, as is the four-storey Bücherkubus in the new Study Centre.
The oval Rococo Hall in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, which was beautifully restored after the devastating fire of 2004, is quite impressive.
Opera house.
Because Duivenvoorde was never sold but always passed on through inheritance, the castle has retained its original interior.
Art museum.
Old Masters.
Contemporary art gallery.
Science museum for kids.
The prospect from the moraine is great.
Living history museum.
Norman cathedral.
Opera house.
Museum dedicated to cheese.
Living history museum depicting daily life in the Netherlands from the dawn of industrialization onwards.
The Open-Air Museum in Arnhem shows what everyday life in the Netherlands was like from the dawn of industrialization onwards.
Small neighbourhood with a distinctive Dutch look & feel.
Silver objects dating from 1600 to this day.
Moorish Revival synagogue.
Museum dedicated to water management & purification.
Inklings C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien used to come here.
Heritage railway line.
Open-air gallery on a 1,316-m-long remnant of the Berlin Wall, featuring 105 paintings by artists from all over the world.
Sightseeing tramline.
Super-difficult 3,000 m² maze.
Seal sanctuary.
Tourist event on Wednesday mornings.
Car museum.
The highlight of the state rooms is the Planetary Room.
19th-century Prussian fortress.
Industrial heritage museum.
53⅕-m-high observation tower.
One of the best preserved stave churches, built around 1250.
Entrance arch to the Universal Exposition of 1889.
Monastery with an impressive baroque church.
Museum dedicated to physicist Albert Einstein.
Solar observatory by architect Erich Mendelsohn.
The oldest working orrery in the world.
Garden railway.
Spaghetti ice cream was invented here.
Ice cream made from sheep’s milk.
Saxon Switzerland paddle steam boat cruise.
Slightly expensive landmark concert hall with a Klais organ, by Herzog & de Meuron architects.
The first purpose-built orphanage in the Netherlands.
By architects Johann Peter Cremer & Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
The House of Eltz’s ancestral castle since at least 1157.
Local history museum.
Museum dedicated to emigration to the New World.
Industrial heritage museum.
Regional history museum.
Museum dedicated to philosopher Friedrich Engels.
Park featuring a floral clock.
Of the three stationary waves in Munich the Eisbachwelle provides the coolest surf spot.
Rococo city palace, closed for renovation.
Museum dedicated to Irish emigration.
Get to know Rotterdam’s greatest thinker at the Public Library.
Rail bike tours.
Rail bike tours.
Museum dedicated to sculptor Ernst Barlach.
Villa by architect Otto Wagner, now a museum.
Social housing by architect Ernst May featuring a Frankfurt Kitchen.
Museum dedicated to artist M.C. Escher.
Esperantomuzeo kaj Kolekto por Planlingvoj.
Home to the Golden Madonna of Essen.
Opera, drama & ballet performances.
Baroque palace.
Ethnographic stuff from Africa, Asia, America & Oceania.
Polytechnic by architect Gottfried Semper.
Museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix.
185–m-high tower by architect Huig Maaskant.
Museum dedicated to the history of the Hanseatic League.
Medieval church.
Almshouse for chaste maidens & honourable widows.
Mausoleum for guillotined King Louis XVI & Queen Marie Antoinette.
Science & technology museum.
Science & technology museum.
Science museum for kids.
Science museum for kids.
Village on an artificial dwelling hill with an early 13th-century church that stands separated from its tower.
The horizontal Eiffel Tower of Lusatia.
Digital art centre.
Portuguese melancholic songs & guitar music.
Functionalist factory by architects Walter Gropius & Adolf Meyer.
Rotating boat lift.
Restaurant, food hall & wine cellar.
Monument to the Great Famine (1845–49) by Rowan Gillespie.
Replica of the original 1100s church, which was burned down by some asshole in 1992.
One of Liechtenstein’s oldest wooden homesteads.
Art gallery, working farm & official Irish State guest house.
92-m-high observation tower.
Zoo & botanical garden.
Archaeological open-air museum.
12½-km-long circular hiking trail.
Edelweiß, Edelweiß.
Tyrolean State Museum focusing on Dutch & local art and the history of Tyrol.
City of iron.
Concert hall in a former railway station.
Funicular railway to Hohensalzburg Fortress.
Aircraft & motorcar museum.
17⅖-km-long steam-powered narrow-gauge railway line to Cranzahl.
For those who like football.
Museum dedicated to the Babelsberg studios.
Indoor fish market.
Cake shop serving Chelsea buns.
Fine printed books here, including the complete set of William Morris’ Kelmscott Press books.
The 20-km-long Flåm Railway is one of the steepest standard-gauge railway lines in the world.
46-m-high Gothic Revival observation tower.
Museum dedicated to the North Sea flood of 1953.
World War II cemetery.
The landmark cathedral with the majestic dome.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Photography museum.
Art & local history museum.
Geology museum.
Museum for photography.
Contemporary art museum by architect Renzo Piano.
Photography exhibitions.
The Natural History Museum’s pathological-anatomical collection.
Iconic cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth.
Fortress.
For afternoon tea & knickerbocker glory.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
19th-century fort on an artificial island that was once part of the Defence Line of Amsterdam.
Maginot Line fortress.
Big building with a 45-m-high rooftop terrace.
Swiss history museum.
Exhibition dedicated to politician Willy Brandt.
Living history museum featuring Vikings.
Photographic art gallery.
Photographic art gallery.
Photography exhibitions.
Photographic art gallery.
Museum for photography.
Art museum.
18th-century moated manor house & garden.
12th-century citadel.
Decorative arts museum.
Paintings by Lucas Cranach & sculptures by Tilman Riemenschneider.
Living history museum.
Museum dedicated to the evolution of mass transit in Frankfurt.
17th-century paintings from Haarlem, especially by Frans Hals.
Contemporary art museum.
Kinetic bust of writer Franz Kafka by artist David Černý.
Expressionist art museum.
Art nouveau outdoor swimming pool for women only.
Church with stained-glass windows by Augusto Giacometti & Marc Chagall.
World War II museum.
Church with a Silbermann organ.
The Bächle, the small canals in the old town, are lovely.
Open-air museum.
Open-air museum.
Individual recycled freeway bags shop by Spillmann Echsle Architects.
Weekly organ concertos.
Historic town with half-timbered houses.
Children’s museum by architects Hemma Fasch & Jakob Fuchs.
Contemporary art gallery.
Home to the Hessian Hunting & Military History Collection.
Gothic Revival church by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Museum dedicated to the Frisian resistance in World War II.
Cracking cheese, Gromit!
World War II prisoner of war camp.
Model railway.
Exhibition dedicated to the Port of Rotterdam.
Interactive exhibits on vital issues for the future.
Contemporary art gallery.
A fine specimen of Renaissance Revival architecture, Gaasbeek Castle was transformed for Marquise Arconati Visconte to entertain her guests.
Contemporary art gallery.
King Louis XIV’s Manufacture des Gobelins still exists today, weaving tapestries of stunning beauty.
King Louis XIV’s Manufacture des Gobelins still exists today, weaving tapestries of stunning beauty.
Contemporary art gallery.
19th-century shopping centre.
Contemporary art museum by architect Álvaro Siza.
Home to Michelangelo’s David.
One of the world’s oldest shopping malls.
Art museum.
Art museum.
Art museum.
Grand parade of stuffed animals.
Living history museum.
Small museum of policing in Ireland.
Botanical garden.
One of the best-preserved 19th-century parks in Europe.
Gardens from five continents.
Exhibition centre.
360° panorama by Yadegar Asisi.
Former Nazi office buildings & rally grounds by architect Hermann Giesler.
One of the 302 Berlin Wall observation towers.
Former Nazi medical crimes site.
Germany’s most beautiful suspension bridge spans 360 m & is up to 100 m above ground.
Honza Hochsteiger’s ice cream is just perfect.
Ice-cream parlour specialized in sanpietrini.
Ice-cream parlour.
Italian ice-cream parlour.
Italian ice-cream parlour.
Possibly the best ice-cream parlour in Venice.
Italian ice-cream parlour.
Italian ice-cream parlour.
European painting from the 13th to the 18th century.
World War II memorial dedicated to General Stanisław Maczek & the 1st Polish Armoured Division.
Fortress island dedicated to maps & navigation.
Museum dedicated to sculptor Georg Kolbe.
Home to Max Liebermann’s Altmännerhaus in Amsterdam.
Museum dedicated to sculptor Gerhard Marcks.
Museum dedicated to bee-keeping.
Exhibition dedicated to German parliamentary democracy.
Closed until further notice.
Museum dedicated to emigration to the New World.
Boring.
National history museum, closed until the end of 2025.
Museum dedicated to the history of inland navigation.
Museum dedicated to all things leather but Lederhosen.
Museum dedicated to hard coal, mining, mineral resources & art, with an über-cool 2½-km-long visitor mine.
The German Mining Museum presents 30,000 years of mining history and a 2½-km-long visitor mine featuring über-cool mining machinery.
Über-cool technology museum featuring planes, trains & automobiles, and more.
The German Museum of Technology offers a compelling overview of the many ways in which technology has shaped our history & culture.
German Exile Archive 1933–45.
Where the Weimar Republic was proclaimed.
Das Boot & more.
Exhibition dedicated to the German resistance against the Nazis.
Museum dedicated to the history of the development of X-rays.
Espionage museum.
Tools from the Stone Age to the 21st century.
World War II cemetery.
World War II cemetery.
World War I cemetery, home to The Mourning Soldiers by Emil Krieger.
World War II cemetery.
World War I cemetery.
World War I cemetery, home to The Grieving Parents by Käthe Kollwitz.
World War II cemetery for German soldiers & Dutch collaborators.
Industrial heritage museum.
Kaiserlich & Königlich.
Concert hall by architect Rudolf Skoda.
Museum of applied art.
Literary museum dedicated to poet Guido Gezelle.
Local history museum.
Probably the world’s most beautiful police station.
Pierre & Higinia Espic make excellent ice cream & crêpes.
Ice-cream parlour.
The Glacier Express is the world’s slowest express train, squeezing its way through the Alps in a 7¾-hour journey.
Glacier museum featuring kettle holes from the last Ice Age.
The Gladstone China Works are the last Victorian pottery factory.
The Mackintosh Building will be closed until further notice.
Cold War spy swap site.
Terrestrial & celestial globes, mainly from before 1850.
Exhibition dedicated to the world of particles.
The carillon plays at 11h, 15h & 18h.
Funicular railway to the belvedere of São Pedro de Alcântara.
Heritage railway line.
Antiquities and Danish & French art of the 19th century.
Literary archive.
Anthroposophical HQ.
Picture gallery dedicated to the Goethezeit, the Age of Goethe.
Museum dedicated to writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Museum dedicated to writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s residence, where the great poet, dramatist & scholar wrote his magnum opus Faust.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s residence in Weimar looks practically the same as it did when the great writer was still alive.
Where Goethe lived until 1782, before he moved into smart premises in the centre of town.
43-m-high observation tower.
Walking trail to the Pfeishütte.
16-km-long hiking trail to Mount Brocken’s summit, following possibly the same route as Goethe did in 1777.
The Goethe Trail from Torfhaus is the most popular hiking trail to the summit of Mount Brocken, the highest mountain in the Harz.
Contemporary art museum by Herzog & de Meuron architects.
Rack railway to Mount Rigi.
Reconstructed renaissance house (2018).
Monumental equestrian statue of Augustus the Strong.
Experience a breathtaking view of the Vaud region on this panoramic train.
Art & local history museum.
The Gornergratbahn connects Zermatt to the Gornergrat (3,089 m), where one of the world’s most beautiful mountain vistas opens up.
Goslar is a medieval town with over 1,500 colourful half-timbered houses and cobblestone streets.
Silbermann was the most important Saxon organ builder.
The Gotthard Panorama Express takes you on a 2½-hour journey from Flüelen to Lugano on the historical Gotthard railway.
Reconstructed planetarium in a baroque garden.
Cheese trading by clapping hands (‘handjeklap’) on Thursday mornings.
Exhibition on the General Post Office during the 1916 Easter Rising.
Some energy supplier’s theatre by architect Daniel Libeskind.
Open to the public every summer.
Modern arch that used to celebrate fraternity but no longer does.
Art gallery.
Brussels’ central square, noted for its decorative & aesthetic wealth.
Opera & ballet house.
Little palace of pink marble & porphyry, by architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart.
The polytechnic’s collection of prints & drawings.
Castle with a double spiral staircase.
Local history museum.
Heritage railway line.
Bronze Age copper mines.
Historic funicular tramway to the Great Orme summit.
The tower of Great St Mary’s offers the best view in Cambridge.
Moorish Revival synagogue.
Dutch World War II cemetery.
Augustus the Strong’s baroque treasury.
Former inner German border.
Rail bike tours.
Printing museum.
Long-wave wireless telegraphy station.
Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm.
Art museum.
World War II cemetery.
Art & design museum housed in the single most exuberant museum building in the Netherlands.
The Groninger Museum showcases a varied collection of art & design, including the work of the local artists’ collective, De Ploeg.
Local art museum.
Romanesque church with stained-glass windows by artist Sigmar Polke.
The Saxon Versailles of Augustus the Strong.
15th-century church.
15th-century church with an organ by Arp Schnitger.
Underground caves.
Enchanted underground railway line for kids.
Expressionist church by architects Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint & Kaare Klint.
Nearly thirty paintings by the Lucases Cranach to be found here.
Local history museum.
13th-century castle made of cheese.
Contemporary art museum by architect Frank Gehry.
Cathedral by architect Edward Maufe, built 1936–66.
Funicular railway to Ribeira.
The brewery where the Black Stuff comes from.
Memorial dedicated to one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Artist’s house dedicated to symbolist painter Gustave Moreau.
The third copy of Ernst Barlach’s angel Der Schwebende hangs here.
Museum dedicated to letterpress printing.
Ancestral seat of the Habsburgs.
Former Nazi euthanasia programme site.
Consecrated in 1908, this church was modelled on the medieval church in the Norwegian village of Borgund.
Contemporary art gallery.
13th-century government building, closed for renovation until 2026.
Memorial commemorating the Wars of Liberation (1813–15).
The Treaty of Münster, part of the Peace of Westphalia, was signed here.
The home of Count & Countess Walther & Wilhelmina von Hallwyl.
Contemporary art museum.
Art museum, home to Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.
Opera house.
17th-century house recognized for its superb collection of paintings, furniture & textiles.
Contemporary art centre.
Industrial heritage museum dedicated to the Hannover Colliery, miner’s lives, and immigrant workers.
Art & regional history museum.
Once one of the largest coking plants in the Ruhr region.
Model railway & tiny toy collection.
The view from the lighthouse is nice.
The local chaplaincy, now a museum.
Over-the-top department store with a great food hall.
Contemporary art gallery.
Castle noted for its spiral staircase.
Former Nazi euthanasia programme site.
Art museum.
The zip line alongside the Rappbode dam is pretty cool.
Regional history museum.
The Harz Railway runs north to south right across the Harz Mountains from Wernigerode to Nordhausen.
Ice-cream parlour.
This model house, by architect Georg Muche, was built especially for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition.
Exhibition space for international contemporary art.
Closed for renovation.
German history from the end of World War II to the present.
An exhibition at the House of Austrian History shows that Austria was not the first victim of Nazism, but very much on the wrong side instead.
Local history museum.
The residence of Henry van de Velde, which he built when he was the director of the School of Arts and Crafts.
Museum dedicated to artists Martha & Heinrich Vogeler.
Two villas by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
The only house that survived the 1944 bombing of Frankfurt.
18th- & 19th-century home of an upper-class family.
Haxen & Bratwurst.
Brutalist contemporary art gallery.
Driverless suspended monorail system.
House of architecture.
Contemporary art museum.
Living history museum.
The largest of the surviving stave churches, built around 1250.
Baron & Baroness Van Verschuer’s estate.
Contemporary art gallery.
The Heidelberg castle ruins are among the most beautiful structures of the German Renaissance.
Hiking trail following the same route as Heinrich Heine did after his stay at Mount Brocken in 1824.
The world’s biggest computer museum.
Palace with great trick fountains.
Contemporary art gallery.
World War II cemetery.
Museum dedicated to the history of the Dortmund-Ems Canal & the Waltrop ship lift.
Now a museum, the Henrichenburg Boat Lift in Waltrop was once the absolute state of the art in hydraulic engineering.
Industrial heritage museum.
Art gallery by architect David Chipperfield.
Small hotel on the deserted island Tiengemeten.
Archaeology, social & industrial history, natural history, and visual arts.
Monument to the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles.
Church that houses an altarpiece triptych by the Lucases Cranach.
Cathedral with a chained library.
Museum dedicated to life & work of the creator of Tintin.
Rather large monument celebrating Mr Hermann, who defeated the Romans in 9 A.D.
Empress Elisabeth’s villa by architect Karl von Hasenauer.
Two palaces with a lovely garden.
Art museum.
Baroque palace.
16th-century castle.
The Herrenhausen Gardens are considered to be one of the most beautiful garden parks in Europe.
Crossover between Venice’s Rialto Bridge & the Bridge of Sighs.
Living history museum.
Art & regional history museum.
Artisanal baker of the grofje, a local specialty.
Living history museum depicting daily life in rural Groningen around the turn of the 20th century.
Sculpture by Jean Tinguely.
Walking tour through the reconstructed fortified city.
Exhibition on the Ulm School of Design (1953–68).
You say Downton Abbey, I say Totleigh Towers.
Funicular & suspension railways.
Hiking trail.
Danish art from the 19th & 20th centuries.
Local history museum.
Regional history museum.
Local history museum.
World War II museum.
Regional history museum.
Windmills look better when they stand next to farmhouses.
Regional history museum.
Regional history museum.
Styrian history museum.
Sailing frigate of 46 guns.
Museum of German Faience.
Museum dedicated to the Dortmund iron & steel industry.
Munich’s most famous tavern, owned by the State of Bavaria.
Home to the Hofmusikkapelle.
The imperial apartments of the Habsburgs.
Leiden’s largest almshouse.
Nature reserve.
Hill with a view & fortress ruins of the Staufer dynasty’s family seat.
Fortress ruins with an impressive vista across Lake Constance.
Ancestral seat of the Imperial House of Germany & the Royal House of Prussia.
Former slag heap, now an urban park.
40-m-high observation tower.
Stately home with ornate interiors & walled garden.
Holocaust memorial.
Memorial to the murdered Jews of Austria.
Memorial dedicated to the over 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust.
World War II cemetery.
Arthur’s Seat provides great views of Edinburgh & the Lothians.
Almshouse.
Baroque church.
19th-century paper manufacturer & merchant’s house.
15th-century Gothic church.
Tourist event on Thursday afternoons.
One of the oldest stave churches, probably dating from around 1140.
Chocolate & coffee.
Try horchata, a traditional drink made from tiger nuts, sugar & crushed ice.
Modernist housing estate by architect Bruno Taut.
Art nouveau house by architect Victor Horta.
One of the oldest botanical gardens in Europe.
Botanical garden.
The oldest botanical garden in the Netherlands.
Botanical garden.
Botanical garden.
Baroque church.
Museum dedicated to the history of psychiatry.
The former Naval Ministry by architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel.
We like the restaurant here.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Former department store by architect Josef Gočár, now an exhibition on Czech cubism.
Museum featuring an exhibition on Prague of Charles IV.
Museum exploring customs, traditions & rituals from the recent & distant past.
Austrian history from the end of World War I to the present.
Regional history museum.
Printing museum.
Photographic art gallery.
Memorial site dedicated to the persecution & murder of the European Jews in World War II.
Museum dedicated to the Weimar Republic (1918–33).
Congress hall by architect Hugh Stubbins.
Seven houses in different European architectural styles (1894) by architect Tjeerd Kuipers.
Roman fort & defensive wall to separate the Romans from the barbarians.
Purveyor of quality goods as specified in the Monster Retailer’s Act of 1827, Clause 14, Subsection 5, Revision (b).
Medieval castle housing the medieval art collection of industrialist Jan Herman van Heek.
Three-by-five-meter seven-storey modern house.
Museum for photography.
Japanese theme park which recreates a Dutch town.
Reconstructed Prussian palace.
Apartment building by artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser & architect Joseph Krawina.
Archaeological museum dedicated to Dutch dolmens.
Funicular railway.
16-km-long footpath connecting Emmelshausen to Boppard.
15-km-long scenic railway connecting Boppard to Emmelshausen.
Rococo hunting lodge by architect François de Cuvilliés.
Constantijn & Christiaan Huygens’ country estate, by architect Jacob van Campen.
Nel de Jong’s super-duper ice-cream parlour is the perfect destination for a walk or cycle tour from Leiden.
Museum dedicated to Christian Orthodox icons.
Fountain by Jean Tinguely & Niki de Saint Phalle.
Museum dedicated to IKEA, housed in the first IKEA store (1958).
Museum of Contemporary Art.
Iconic luxury department store.
Danish design sold here.
Great choice of local Tuscan dishes & good wines.
Medieval cathedral.
Metropolitan railway station for Emperor Franz Joseph by architect Otto Wagner.
Furniture museum.
They keep the imperial throne in the basement.
Home to the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire.
Exploring military conflict from World War I to the present day.
An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum unpacks the Troubles in Northern Ireland, featuring voices from all sides.
Centre dedicated to the graphic arts.
The northern branch of the Inland Railway to Gällivare is a 746-km-long railway line through the Swedish wilderness.
Municipal archive.
Three cheers for Calvinism.
Museum to celebrate the miracle of Jewish survival in an Irish context.
Open-air museum.
Artificial island by artist Vito Acconci.
Outdoor swimming pool.
The 9-km-long Isle of Wight Steam Railway is branch line featuring beautifully restored Victorian & Edwardian carriages.
Former Carthusian monastery, now the Ittinger Museum.
Imperial War Museum.
Imperial War Museum.
66-km-long railway line connecting Fort William to Mallaig.
Small museum dedicated to the history of Potsdam’s Dutch Quarter.
17th-century almshouse.
The Japanese Garden in Clingendael Park is open for six weeks in the spring & two weeks in the autumn.
Ethnographic museum dedicated to Japan.
Léon Gambetta lived here.
Manueline monastery.
Where Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem, the model for Goethe’s Werther, shot himself.
Moorish art nouveau synagogue.
Baroque church with a decent organ.
Baroque church.
Baroque church.
Geneva’s 140-m-high landmark fountain.
Funky open-air bar.
Museum of past & present Dutch Jewish life in all its facets.
Information & Reservation Centre.
Four disused synagogues, the old cemetery and the former ceremonial hall make up the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Rococo town hall with a Hebrew clock that moves anticlockwise.
Baroque library with a most noble floor.
The organ builders who built the Elbphilharmonie organ.
Museum dedicated to global interdependence, trade routes, and coffee & cocoa.
A beautiful library.
Confluence of the rivers Rhône & Arve, two streams of different colour.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Museum dedicated to painter Jopie Huisman.
Indoor theme park.
Collections of the University of Vienna’s Medical Faculty.
23-m-high observation tower.
Sweden’s largest open-air museum.
Artist’s house.
Upmarket gourmet shop.
The Jungfrau Railway is a horribly expensive rack railway to Europe’s highest railway station (3,454 m).
Forest with a 25-m-high observation tower.
Iconic luxury department store.
2-km-long model railway populated by 120 trains.
The place to take a selfie as Caspar David Friedrich’s wanderer above the sea of fog.
Art museum.
Opera house.
The Centre Pompidou in Brussels.
The 13-km-long Kander Valley Railway operates a Prussian T3 branch line tank engine.
Rubber rafts for hire to paddle down the river Elbe.
Home & garden of plantsman Karl Foerster.
Traffic light with images of philosopher Karl Marx.
Sadly closed.
Marxist housing estate with an exhibition on Red Vienna.
Museum dedicated to the first Marxist philosopher.
Sculpture by Lev Kerbel from the time that Chemnitz was Karl-Marx-Stadt.
Baroque cathedral.
Metropolitan railway station featuring an exhibition dedicated to architect Otto Wagner.
Local history museum.
Outdoor swimming pool.
Mausoleum for Emperor Ferdinand II.
Museum dedicated to artist Käthe Kollwitz.
Museum dedicated to artist Käthe Kollwitz.
Museum dedicated to artist Käthe Kollwitz.
Local history museum with a fine collection of paintings.
The largest stave church in the Sogn region.
Holocaust museum & memorial.
Gothic Revival architecture.
18th-century mansion with Adam interiors, colonial history & vast parkland.
No matter what they say, Van Gogh is not a French artist.
Cold War command centre.
Castle ruin & Elizabethan knot gardens.
Ceramics museum.
Exhibition dedicated to the Maeslantkering storm surge barrier.
Contemporary art gallery.
Open in the springtime, the Keukenhof is a lovely garden to enjoy tulips, daffodils & hyacinths.
Introduced to the Netherlands in 1593, the tulip has become a national icon. One of the best places to see tulips is at the Keukenhof in Lisse.
Boats for kids.
Living history museum.
The Kiekkaaste is a birdwatching hide overlooking the mudflats of the Dollard estuary and the birds & seals therein.
Minimum-gauge park railway.
42-m-high observation tower.
Prison for Irish republicans jailed by the British (1796–1921) & by the Irish (1922–24).
Quintessentially Dutch & picturesque, Kinderdijk, with its nineteen windmills, is a must-visit icon of Holland.
There are well over a thousand windmills in the Netherlands. A perfect place to see nineteen of them in action is Kinderdijk.
Museum housing the Chemnitz Art Collections.
Model railway.
28-m-high observation tower.
King Ludwig II’s Alpine holiday home is located 1,800 m above sea level & only accessible on foot; the walk up & down takes 6–7 hours.
Asian & African art museum.
Museum dedicated to painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
Upper middle class domestic culture in the 18th & 19th centuries.
Contemporary art museum & sculpture park.
Concert hall.
Exhibition dedicated to Jewish customs & traditions.
Climbing park.
Climbing park.
Climbing park.
Book art, typography & calligraphy of the 20th & 21st centuries.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Museum dedicated to poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.
Home to an altarpiece by goldsmith Nicholas of Verdun.
Contemporary art gallery.
Museum dedicated to the Biedermeier era in Berlin.
Get your Groninger sukadekoek & oude wijvenkoek here (or at the Korenbeurs).
Where Goethe worshipped Charlotte von Stein, before bedding the more comfortable Christiane Vulpius.
Homemade cakes & cookies.
Religious art museum by architect Peter Zumthor.
Comic opera house.
Home of the Viking kings.
16th-century citadel.
Berlin’s best currywurst sold here.
Museum dedicated to explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s expeditions.
Concert hall by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
13½-m-high tower overlooking Western Europe’s largest sand drift.
Exhibition space for the Museum of Decorative Arts.
Traditional Korean scholars’ garden with two pavilions.
Former market hall in neoclassical style, now a supermarket selling Groninger koek.
This is where the Russians planned to conduct World War III.
Museum dedicated to writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.
17-km-long heritage railway line from Neckarbischofsheim to Hüffenhardt operating an Uerdingen railbus.
Austria’s highest waterfalls.
Contemporary art museum.
Hamlet’s castle (“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”).
Museum of Dresden romanticism.
Museum of mankind.
Modernist concert hall praised for its first-class acoustics.
The Kulturpalast in Dresden, built during the 1960s in the functional International Style, has a particularly socialist look & feel.
Contemporary art gallery.
Photography & art gallery.
An exhibition at Kunsthal Helmond shows photos of North Korea by Carl De Keyzer, but it’s difficult to tell what you are really looking at.
Art gallery.
Art gallery.
Art gallery.
Art museum.
Art gallery.
Art gallery.
Art gallery.
Art gallery.
Art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery.
Contemporary art museum.
Art gallery.
Art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery.
Art gallery.
Contemporary art museum.
Art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery.
Art museum.
Contemporary art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery by architect Peter Zumthor.
Contemporary art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery.
Contemporary art museum by architects Peter Cook & Colin Fournier.
Contemporary art museum.
Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s museum.
Art museum.
Museum of fine art, antiquities, & other stuff.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum houses fine arts & antiquities, and a bunch of coins.
The singing drain pipes in the Courtyard of Elements are worth a detour.
Museum housing mainly contemporary art by regional artists.
Contemporary art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery.
Switzerland’s most significant art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Contemporary art museum with a liking for Piet Mondrian.
Until 31 January 2021, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents a retrospective of the work of the Swedish painter Anders Zorn.
An exhibition of Claude Monet’s garden paintings at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag shows how Monet developed an increasingly abstract style.
An exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum shows how German painter Max Liebermann developed from a realist to an impressionist.
Contemporary art museum.
Art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Art museum.
Art museum.
Art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Contemporary art museum by Dissing+Weitling architects.
Contemporary art museum by architect Julius Raschdorff.
Medieval fortress.
Monument to Emperor Wilhelm I.
Art museum.
Museum dedicated to machine-made bobbin lace.
23 reconstructed houses offer an insight into the lives of the lake dwellers who lived on the banks of Lake Constance in the Stone Age.
Belle-époque paddle steam boat cruises.
Belle-époque paddle steam boat cruises.
Museum dedicated to Western Europe’s largest lake.
The boat trip to St Bartholomew’s Church is just lovely.
Boat trips from Lucerne to Flüelen.
Paintings by Grão Vasco, Flemish tapestries, and, of course, azulejos.
Art museum in which each work is in some way related to food or consumption.
Contemporary art museum.
Art & regional history museum.
Art & regional history museum.
Archaeological living history museum.
Urban park at the site of the former Meiderich ironworks, with a viewing platform at the top of one of the blast furnaces.
Single-track six-arched curved railway viaduct leading directly into a tunnel.
Magnificent coastal site overlooking the English Channel.
Contemporary art gallery by architect Tadao Ando.
Villa by architect Le Corbusier.
Archaeological museum.
12th-century church.
13th-century Gothic church.
Local history museum.
Nature reserve.
Funicular railway to Rua Câmara Pestana.
Library by architect Santiago Calatrava.
Lego fans of all ages will find the Home of the Brick way more fun than Legoland down the road.
Horribly expensive theme park featuring Lego.
Museum dedicated to sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck.
See how the Pilgrim Fathers lived in Leiden before founding their American colony.
Take a canal cruise or rent a boat.
Fairly straightforward citadel providing a spectacular view of the city.
Circular walking tour through the old town of Leiden.
The oldest theatre in the Netherlands.
Frederic Leighton’s purpose-built studio-house.
Former Soviet remand prison.
Art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Contemporary art gallery.
Contemporary Austrian art museum.
Museum dedicated to writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
For bridge phobics.
World War II museum.
Library by architect Francine Houben.
13,000 historical books in thick leather bindings, all behind glass.
Bookshop & vegetarian restaurant.
The Lady Chapel contains some of the finest medieval Flemish Painted Glass in existence.
Museum dedicated to painter Max Liebermann.
Sculpture museum.
Neoclassical & Biedermeier art.
Artworks from the early Renaissance to the High Baroque.
The princely art museum.
Art & regional history museum.
The princely valuables.
Commonwealth World War I cemetery.
Art & local history museum.
Hilltop esplanade overlooking the river Limmat.
Ethnographic museum.
Former Nazi, Soviet & Stasi prison.
Botanical garden.
Museum dedicated to botanist Carl Linnaeus.
Upper Austria’s historical museum.
Monument dedicated to some 1,000 Swiss Guards defending King Louis XVI in 1792.
Art & regional history museum.
Multimedia exhibition displaying the history of Lisbon.
Romanesque & Gothic cathedral.
Aquarium.
18th-century palace.
Composer Franz Liszt’s house from 1869 to 1886.
Statue by sculptor Edvard Eriksen.
Museum telling the story of Dublin in the 20th century.
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
Railway station with the world’s longest station sign.
The House of Lobkowicz private art collection.
Railway museum.
Railway museum.
Dutch World War II cemetery.
14th-century castle noted for its most prominent prisoner, Hugo Grotius.
Railway museum.
700-m-long heritage railway line that operates on Sundays in summer.
Ancient Roman temple of Mithras.
Museum dedicated to London's water supply & steam pumping engines.
One of the coolest public transport museums in Europe.
The London Transport Museum is one of the coolest public transport museums in Europe.
Functionalist office building by architect Adolf Loos.
Church that houses an altar by Tilman Riemenschneider.
The Lorelei is a rock on the bank of the Rhine, held by legend to be the home of a siren whose song lures boatmen to destruction.
Baroque pilgrimage site.
16⅗-km-long steam-powered narrow-gauge railway line to Radebeul Ost & Radeburg.
The Latini’s serve an excellent Bistecca alla Fiorentina, the foremost local dish.
The home of Charlotte Buff, the model for Lotte in Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Contemporary art museum.
Contemporary art gallery by architect Frank Gehry.
Home to Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo & Liberty Leading the People.
Car museum by architect Michael Graves.
Mock-medieval ruin, built 1793–1801.
Art gallery.
Natural history museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Northern European fine & decorative art.
The Swabian Versailles is the largest palatial estate in the country.
Ludwigsburg Residential Palace, near Stuttgart, is one of the largest baroque buildings in Germany to survive in its original state.
Baroque church by architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel.
Park with Chinese garden.
Classicist country house with an English landscape garden.
Count of Innhausen & Knyphausen’s garden.
Museum dedicated to the history of the Lutheran Church in the Netherlands.
Museum dedicated to religious reformer Martin Luther.
Museum dedicated to the history of the Reformation.
World War II cemetery.
Local history museum.
Public park, inspired by the Boboli Gardens in Florence.
Art gallery in a Louis XIII-style palace.
Scenic train line along five lakes & over the Brünig Pass.
Living history museum.
Living history museum.
Museum dedicated to painter Lyonel Feininger.
Art gallery.
Church that looks like a Greek temple, dedicated to to the glory of Napoleon’s army & Mary Magdalene.
Shopping mall.
Holland in miniature.
Palace with a beautiful library & a church with six organs.
Museum dedicated to surrealist artist René Magritte.
Art & history museum.
Living history museum with, among other things, the stave church from Garmo.
Outstanding floral display.
Mainau Island is a horticultural paradise in Lake Constance with a distinctly Mediterranean touch.
Frankfurt’s highest vantage point.
Exhibition dedicated to Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 10th–18th centuries.
Classic Belgian fries, since 1948.
Villa by architect Le Corbusier.
A kind of natural history museum shop.
Art nouveau house by architect Paul Saintenoy.
Local history museum.
Cheery landmark building by architect Otto Wagner.
Museum of applied art for Wiener Werkstätte stuff.
Art museum.
Renaissance castle with everything the Malmö Art Museum didn’t care about.
Art museum.
12th-century tower with a colourful roof, to protect & defend the harbour.
The 18th-century residence of the prince-electors of the Palatinate has one window more than the Palace of Versailles.
Upmarket shop for stuff that isn’t crap.
Alain Ducasse’s chocolate manufactory.
Rococo church by architect Nicolai Eigtved.
Neoclassical palace.
Art museum.
Art gallery.
Local history museum.
Museum dedicated to the Dutch military police (the author of this website was the last RNLMP conscript).
Margarethe Krupp’s garden city.
Gothic church.
Gothic church featuring (copies of) Adam & Eve by Tilman Riemenschneider.
Romanesque abbey with workshops for ironwork, sculpture & ceramics.
Brutalist church by architect Gottfried Bühm.
Refugee transit camp for GDR citizens.
Military museum.
Puppet theatre.
A nautical flashback to the Age of Discoveries.
At the museum’s codfish aquarium you can see what bacalhau looks like when it’s not on your plate.
The Sistine Chapel of Rotterdam, by MVRDV architects.
Square surrounded by Renaissance-style buildings.
Local history museum.
Local history museum, closed until 2028.
Model train shop.
12th-century castle.
Weekly market on Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays.
Industrial culture tours on Tuesdays & Saturdays.
Paintings by Claude Monet & other impressionists.
18th-century, perfectly preserved library of the early Enlightenment.
Museum for art, architecture & design by architect Frank Gehry.
Inexplicably cool library by architect Mario Botta.
Exhibition centre by architects Martin Gropius & Heino Schmieden.
Church with a supercalifragilistic organ.
97-m-high climbable tower providing a stunning view of the city.
Sculpture of Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels by Ludwig Engelhardt.
Henry VIII’s favourite ship, lost in 1545, recovered in 1982.
Art museum.
Restaurant with a lovely Renaissance facade.
Bauhaus Meisterhäuser by architect Walter Gropius.
Art nouveau artists’ colony.
Formerly known as the Brig–Visp–Zermatt Railway, this scenic 44-km-long narrow-gauge railway line connects Brig & Zermatt.
The most complete & best-preserved medieval monastic complex north of the Alps.
Home to Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
The Mauritshuis in The Hague houses the Royal Picture Gallery, a collection of two hundred paintings from the Dutch Golden Age.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Museum dedicated to Dadaist & surrealist painter & sculptor Max Ernst.
Art gallery & museum.
Forget the Swedish meatballs from IKEA & get real köttbullar here.
Discover the past, the present & the future of media.
Medieval castle.
18th-century palace at Lake Constance, boasting a colossal staircase, elegant baroque frescoes & masterful rococo stucco.
Meersburg New Palace, a baroque residence overlooking Lake Constance, offers a magnificent panoramic view of the Alps.
Biedermeier-era house dedicated to poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
Take a hike through the dunes.
Europe’s oldest porcelain manufactory (1710).
Museum dedicated to religious reformer Philipp Melanchthon.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Memorial commemorating the Battle of Waterloo.
Former Stasi office.
World War II museum.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Former Gestapo prison.
Memorial commemorating the East German protest march.
Holocaust memorial.
Last Post ceremony at 8 p.m.
18th-century moated manor house that conveys a striking impression of how the Groningen squiredom lived.
The Menkemaborg in Uithuizen is a manor house that conveys a striking impression of how the Groningen squiredom lived.
University canteen by architect Jürgen Mayer.
Car museum.
18th-century mansion.
Botanical garden.
A collection of 19th-century Dutch & French art assembled by the renowned painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag & his wife Sientje.
The Mesdag Collection is an exceptional collection of 19th-century art assembled by the renowned painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag and his wife Sientje.
Socialist model village.
Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Constantin Meunier.
Contemporary art museum.
Home of writer Hermann Hesse & his first wife Mia.
Museum of microbes.
Thirty gardens by plantswoman Mien Ruys.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Landhaus Lemke, by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Children’s museum starring Miffy.
Contemporary art museum.
Industrial heritage site.
The Miljoenenlijn is the most enjoyable museum railway line in the Netherlands because of its über-cool Uerdingen railbus.
The railbus makes the Miljoenenlijn the most enjoyable of the six museum railway lines in the Netherlands.
Art museum & sculpture garden.
Flour mill (1743), now a museum.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Contemporary art museum.
Industrial heritage site & railway line.
Model railway.
The world’s largest model railway.
Discover industrial culture in Saxony.
Rotterdam in miniature, with lots of model trains.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Art gallery.
Contemporary art museum by architect Hans Hollein.
Model railway.
Model railway depicting the German Federal Railway in the summer of 1975.
Contemporary art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Milling museum.
Heritage railway line.
18th-century townhouse.
Come for the baroque library, stay for the great organ.
Contemporary art museum.
Lift to the Museum of Modern Art.
The birth house of Piet Mondrian.
The Deutsche Bundesbank’s museum.
War museum.
Ride down Mount Wurmberg on a monster scooter.
The Mont-Blanc Tramway connects Saint-Gervais to Nid d’Aigle (2,372 m), at the foot of the Bionnassay glacier.
Observation deck overlooking Paris from a height of 200 meters.
Smurfs & other collectibles from vintage cartoons.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
8th-century castle built by the Moors.
The slightly oversized hunting lodge of Augustus the Strong.
Rococo palace & garden nicknamed Kleine Sanssouci.
Upmarket shop for dirndls & lederhosen.
Upmarket shop for dirndls & lederhosen.
3D wax reproductions of diseased parts of the body.
Don’t ride the Brocken Railway to get to the summit (1,141 m) but hike the Goethe Trail from Torfhaus instead.
Germany’s highest peak (2,962 m).
Art & regional history museum.
Mozart lived there from 1784 to 1787.
Museum dedicated to artist Alphonse Mucha.
Museum of contemporary design & applied arts.
Contemporary art museum by architect I.M. Pei.
12-km-long mudflat hike to Ameland island.
20-km-long mudflat hike to Schiermonnikoog island.
Art experience.
Cheaper hats are sold elsewhere.
Living history museum.
Industrial mill, museum for eating culture, and baking school.
Contemporary art gallery.
The quintessential medieval moated castle, featuring everything you could possibly expect from a 14th-century stronghold.
Muiderslot Castle is the quintessential medieval moated castle, featuring everything you could possibly expect from a 14th-century stronghold.
Contemporary art museum.
Museum dedicated to painter Edvard Munch.
Former Nazi & GDR courthouse, prison & execution site.
The birthplace of Paul Otlet’s Universal Decimal Classification.
Gothic church with Renaissance domes.
Contemporary art gallery.
Art nouveau building decorated by leading artists & sculptors.
Library & art gallery by architect František Roith.
Library by architect Eun Young Yi.
Art & local history museum.
Local history museum.
S.M.A.K.
Burial site of Kanonenbischof Bomben-Bernd, i.e. Bernhard von Galen.
Romanesque church renovated by architect Pierre Cuypers.
Local history museum.
Contemporary art gallery.
Stedelijk Museum Zutphen & Museum Henriette Polak.
Sculptures from the second half of the 20th century.
Museum for photography.
Type & printing museum.
Impressionist & post-impressionist art museum that houses Monet’s Nymphéas.
The Renoir Gardens are lovely.
Science & technology museum.
Impressionist & post-impressionist art museum.
Art & local history museum.
Local history museum.
Asian art museum.
Second Empire mansion packed with Renaissance art.
Museum of prints & drawings.
Museum of the Walloon university in the purpose-built city of New Leuven.
Culture & science museum for kids.
Sculptor Vincenco Vela’s plaster-cast collection.
Museum for photography.
Contemporary art museum.
Former Russian colony.
Museum dedicated to painters Otto & Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Ethnographic museum.
Art & local history museum.
Contemporary art & design museum.
Paintings from 1830 to 1930 & contemporary art.
Regional history museum.
Museum of applied art.
Egyptian & Graeco-Roman art, applied art, and modern design.
Art museum.
An exhibition first at the State Gallery Stuttgart, then at Museum Barberini, shows works by Amedeo Modigliani and contemporaries.
Contemporary sculpture museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
World War II museum.
Museum dedicated to the history of science & medicine.
Dedicated to the history of science & medicine, Museum Boerhaave is one of the best of its kind world-wide.
Closed for renovation until 2029.
Contemporary art museum.
Art museum.
Sail-through vegetable auction.
The Museum Buurtspoorweg is a 7-km-long heritage railway line operating a Wismar railbus & an NS 8100 tank engine.
Religious art museum.
The exhibition Magical Miniatures at the Museum Catharijneconvent shows the wonderful world of medieval miniatures.
Contemporary figurative art museum.
Art museum.
De Lakenhal is Leiden’s art & local history museum, home to Lucas van Leyden’s triptych The Last Judgement.
Local history museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Fortress.
The museum of nothing in particular.
Museum dedicated to the Fluxus art movement of the sixties.
Art museum by architect David Chipperfield.
Architecture museum.
Postal & telecom museum.
Postal & telecom museum.
The scale 1:32 model railway here is great.
Not a very lively museum.
Museum dedicated to artist Franz Gertsch.
Contemporary art museum by architect Richard Meier.
Refugee transit camp for POWs, GDR citizens & asylum seekers.
Ethnographic museum.
Archaeological museum, closed until 2026.
Design museum.
Natural history museum.
Local history museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Local history museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Museum dedicated to painter Henk Helmantel.
Architecture museum dedicated to the Amsterdam School.
Local history museum.
Art & archaeology museum.
Historical archive of the university hospitals.
Museum dedicated to the history of the Burgundian Netherlands.
Local archaeology museum.
House Doorn is where Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor, lived after he fled to the neutral Netherlands at the end of World War I.
At the end of World War I, the German Emperor Wilhelm II fled to the neutral Netherlands. His estate in Doorn is now a museum.
Colonel Luis Albuquerque runs the place.
Museum displaying Portugal’s miniature army.
Art, photography & local history gallery.
Art museum.
Art & local history museum.
Religious art museum.
Museum dedicated to everyday life in the GDR.
The Museum in the Kulturbrauerei has an excellent exhibition on everyday life in the German Democratic Republic.
Ceramics museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Europe’s oldest Jewish ghetto.
Maritime history museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Zoological museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Impressionist art museum.
19th-century home of an upper-class family.
Contemporary art museum.
Art collector’s home.
Bibliophile sanctuary dedicated to books & books design.
Museum Meermanno in The Hague is devoted to the book as an object, i.e. books with good looks, and book history.
Art museum dedicated to Dutch modern realism from the first half of the 20th century.
Museum dedicated to painter Carel Willink.
Local history museum dedicated to Nagele’s post-war modernist architecture.
Oranienstein Palace houses a museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch royal family.
Natural history museum, home to the world’s coolest T-Rex.
Museum dedicated to Lower Austria’s history & nature.
Manor house & carriage museum.
Art museum.
Museum dedicated to the Roman Rhine fleet.
Arts & crafts from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Museum by architect Richard Meier.
Major religious artefacts of Celtic & Early Christian Ireland.
Museum featuring a bit of everything.
Another copy of Ernst Barlach’s angel Der Schwebende hangs here.
Villeroy & Boch’s historical collections.
Postal & telecom museum.
Museum dedicated to life in communist-era Czechoslovakia.
Ethnographic museum.
Museum of applied art.
Decorative art museum.
The glass collection is great.
Exhibition encouraging dentophobia.
Temporarily closed.
Industrial history museum.
Art from China, Korea & Japan.
Ethnographic museum.
Paintings from the Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century.
Art museum by architect Victor Horta.
Art & regional history museum.
Mata Hari was Frisian.
Architecture museum.
Regional history museum.
Closed for renovation until 2025.
City museum.
Industrial heritage museum.
Ethnographic museum.
Military aviation museum.
The military museum of the Bundeswehr is one of the major military history museums in Germany.
They have Franz Ferdinand’s car from Sarajevo here.
German modern literature, that is.
Museum of self-playing musical instruments.
The Hall of Birds is pretty cool.
Natural history museum.
The Museum of Our Lord in the Attic tells the story of how the Catholic Church in Amsterdam went into hiding after its official ban in 1578.
The Museum of Our Lord in the Attic tells the story of how the Catholic Church in Amsterdam went into hiding after its official ban in 1578.
Museum dedicated to Germans who immigrated to Russia & returned to Germany generations later.
Museum housing the Altar of Augustan Peace.
Dedicated to the history of Amsterdam & its canals.
Local history museum.
Jewellery workshop.
Printing museum.
The Holy Shroud, that is.
World War II museum.
Small museum spotlighting mass production & industrial manufacturing in the 20th & 21st centuries.
Panelled parlours, historic Tyrolean costumes, and cribs & cots.
Museum dedicated to everyday culture in the German Democratic Republic.
Labour history museum.
Ethnographic museum.
Ethnographic museum.
Ethnographic museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Open-air museum saving you a journey to the Holy Land.
19th-century time capsule showing the house of an upper-class family & its eclectic interior teeming with porcelain.
Museum Paulina Bisdom van Vliet is a perfect 19th-century time capsule showing the home of an upper-class family.
Artist’s house featuring paintings & porcelain.
Art & local history museum.
Non-Western art museum.
Art & local history museum hosting paper & textile biennales.
World War II museum.
Museum dedicated to typographer Paul Renner & models of watermills.
Medieval art museum.
Closed for renovation.
Closed until further notice.
Dutch East Indies colonial & postcolonial museum.
Museum of self-playing musical instruments.
Heritage railway line.
Local history museum.
Museum dedicated to sculptor Jean Tinguely.
Art & design museum.
17th-century residence of an upper-class family.
Museum dedicated to the history of Kelmis & Neutral Moresnet (1816–1920).
Ethnographic museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Anatomical collection dedicated to human anomalies.
Art & nature museum.
German Museum for Caricature & the Art of Drawing.
Art & cultural history museum.
Art & local history museum.
Switzerland’s largest collection of musical instruments.
Concert hall.
The Society of Friends of Music in Vienna boasts the finest concert hall in the world.
Medical science museum.
Belgian art dating from 1830 to the present day.
Contemporary art museum.
Exhibition dedicated to Hitler’s plans for Berlin’s redevelopment.
Public transport museum.
Museum of Asian, African & American cultures.
Museum of horse-drawn carriages.
Monument to the Great Famine (1845–49) by John Behan.
Western European paintings from the 13th to the 19th century.
Art museum.
Irish & European art spanning the 14th to the 20th century.
Museum dedicated to crime & punishment.
Library that holds the globes of Louis XIV & some books as well.
Library by Projektil architects.
Puppet theatre.
The National Maritime Museum explores how the Netherlands became linked to the sea.
The National Maritime Museum explores how the Netherlands became linked to the sea.
Smaller national maritime museum housing the National Small Boat Collection.
2,000 years of maritime history.
Maritime heritage museum housing lots of ships in bottles.
Memorial for Czechoslovakia.
Museum on the former Soesterberg Airbase presenting the past, the present & the future of the Dutch armed forces.
The exhibition ‘When the Russians come’ at the National Military Museum tells the story of how the Dutch survived the Cold War.
Art from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century.
Top-notch archaeological museum noted for its Egyptian collection.
Noted for its Egyptian collection, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is the foremost archaeological museum in the Netherlands.
Costumes from the 18th century to the present day.
Archaeological & ethnographic museum.
Museum dedicated to the history of education in the Netherlands.
Ethnographic museum.
Decorative arts & history museum, with a special focus on the 1916 Easter Rising.
Centre for the contemporary art & architecture.
Museum of art, architecture & design.
Historical Museum & Natural History Museum.
Art museum.
Swiss art & history museum.
19th-century romanticist palace.
18th-century rococo palace.
Medieval palace.
Former church, now a mausoleum.
Portraits from the 16th century to the present day.
Printing museum.
Dominus noster Iesus Christus universorum rex.
Museum featuring supercool veteran & vintage cars, household appliances, printing presses, and lots of other great stuff.
To properly see all of the National Technical Museum in Prague you need two to three days at least.
Brutalist theatre by architect Denys Lasdun.
Opera, drama & ballet performances.
Portuguese pars pro toto.
Means of aerial transportation intended for tourist purposes.
The Dead Zoo.
Vertébrés du monde.
Home to Venus of Willendorf.
Outdoor swimming pool by Herzog & de Meuron architects.
Natural history museum.
Romanesque church.
Don’t forget to ask them about Admiral Piet Heyn.
The place to watch the giant waves.
Former Nazi forced labour camp.
Planetarium dedicated to the Nebra sky disk.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Secular frescoes depicting Minnesinger Neidhart von Reuental.
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Science museum for kids, by architect Renzo Piano.
Abbey with a church by architect Balthasar Neumann.
Funicular railway.
The World War II cemetery in Margraten is the only American military cemetery in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten is the only American military cemetery in the Netherlands.
Avoid the place if you don’t speak DUtch.
Art & local history museum.
Fine art from the 19th century to the present day.
Contemporary art museum by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Holocaust memorial.
Office buildings by architect Frank Gehry.
Archaeological & Egyptological museum, home to Mrs Nefertiti.
Museum featuring an exhibition on early modernist art from the Weimar Painting School to Henry van de Velde.
House by architect & Bauentwurfslehre author Ernst Neufert.
Baroque church.
World-famous Romanesque revival castle, built by the eccentric King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Bavarian King Ludwig II built three of Germany’s finest palaces, including the famous Neuschwanstein Castle.
Not all Oxford University buildings are old.
The largest church in Austria.
Frederician rococo palace featuring a series of splendid rooms.
Church with Admiral Michiel de Ruyter’s tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst & a superb organ by Hans Wolff Schonat.
Burial site of William I of Orange.
Art Nouveau city hall with a paternoster lift.
Perpendicular Gothic architecture.
Contemporary art museum.
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.
Museum for architecture, design & digital culture.
In 2018, 74 years after Frankfurt was destroyed in World War II, its historical city centre was restored to its old beauty.
In 2018, 74 years after Frankfurt was destroyed in World War II, its historical city centre was restored to its old beauty.
Frederick the Great’s really big palace.
Neoclassical villa by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Damien Hirst’s private art collection.
Residence with Imperial Hall & State Gallery, and hotshots’ apartments.
Laterna magika, opera, ballet & drama performances.
Moorish Revival synagogue by architect Eduard Knoblauch.
Synagogue by architects Rena Wandel-Hoefer & Wolfgang Lorch.
Actually two boat lifts: one dating from 1934, the other one from 2022.
The most beautiful village in the Netherlands, apparently.
One of the longest & highest funiculars in the world.
Überlieschen’s house, with an art nouveau interior by architect Henry van de Velde.
Industrial heritage museum.
Art museum.
Decorative art museum.
Tramline along the banks of the river Douro.
Tramline along plenty of sights worth seeing (get off at Hoofddorpplein).
Tramline following a circular route through Lisbon.
Historical tramlines.
Tramline to the Tramcar Museum.
Tramline traversing the emblematic streets of Porto’s city centre.
Nostalgic Tatra T3 tramline.
Tramline through Lisbon’s prettiest historic & residential quarters.
Historical tramline.
Discover some of London’s most popular neighbourhoods, all on a single bus route.
Hop-on-hop-off bus for WelcomeCard & CityTourCard holders.
Museum dedicated to the arts & cultures of the indigenous peoples of North America.
Royal palace by architect Jacob van Campen.
Hamlet close to the Wadden Sea, featuring the smallest seaport in the Netherlands & a typical Groningen living-room café.
Mainly impressionist paintings from the Veluwe.
Cultural history museum.
Local history museum.
Luxury department store.
Luxury department store.
Guided tours on Sundays.
Museum dedicated to the former Nordstern colliery.
World War II cemetery.
Overlooking the Wadden Sea, North Cape near Uithuizermeeden is the northernmost tip of the Dutch mainland.
The 29-km-long North Yorkshire Moors Railway is a heritage railway connecting Pickering to Whitby.
Open-air museum with, among other things, the stave church from Gol.
For sports freaks.
Industrial heritage museum.
Nostalgic train to Filisur, pulled by a RhB Ge 6/6ᴵ or Ge 4/4ᴵ locomotive.
France’s most famous cathedral, which was beautifully resorted after the 2019 fire.
Contemporary art gallery.
Former Gestapo prison.
Brand-new, never-used 1970s nuclear power plant.
Closed for renovation until the end of 2027.
The old harbour with the colourful houses.
Baroque palace known for its Gallery of Beauties, featuring 36 portraits of beautiful young women.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Iconic luxury department store.
Funicular railway line.
Picturesque medieval town with a azulejo tile-adorned town gate.
Former imperial abbey with an impressive baroque church.
The 19-km-long Öchsle Railway from Warthausen to Ochsenhausen operates a Württemberg Tssd Mallet tank engine.
16th-century fountain with a child-eating ogre statue.
Contemporary art gallery.
Arboretum & medieval herb garden.
Anton Bruckner used to be organist here.
Church & contemporary art museum.
Church with Admiral Maarten Tromp’s tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst.
Art & cultural history museum.
Germany’s oldest lighthouse.
Home to many outstanding paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries, including Raphael’s Sistine Madonna.
Home to Rembrandt’s portrait of Saskia.
The oldest extant synagogue in Europe.
Join a walk-in tour to see the historic telescopes.
Baroque observatory, closed to the public.
Former sewage pumping station, now a museum.
You will find a copy of The Grieving Parents by Käthe Kollwitz here.
Medieval church.
House of Jewish culture.
The Ludwig Collection contains Meißen porcelain & Strasbourg faience.
The astronomical clock is pretty impressive.
Traditional Irish bar.
Exhibition on the Olympic Games of 1936 & the history of the site.
For sports freaks.
Wide-screen film theatre that shows films on a giant domed screen.
Traditional Irish pub.
Living history museum.
Living history museum.
Living history museum.
Living history museum.
Living history museum.
The opera house you were really looking for is Palais Garnier.
Home to the Cabinet of Astronomy & Physics.
Palace featuring an exhibition of some fifty 19th-century copies of paintings by Raphael.
Dutch classicist palace with a baroque garden.
Afternoon tea venue.
Former Nazi estate.
Heritage railway line.
Organ concert hall.
Museum of Asian art.
Queen Victoria’s palatial holiday home.
Royal summer residence open to the public every summer.
Art museum.
Concert hall noted for its lousy acoustics.
From Ospizio Bernina it’s a 7¾-km walk around Lago Bianco to Alp Grüm.
Brutalist church by architects Günther Domenig & Eilfried Huth.
The largest & oldest of Denmark's seven round churches.
Shop selling Wiener Werkstätte & art nouveau stuff.
Art & regional history museum.
The Swabian Escorial.
World War II memorial chapel by architect Jos Schijvens.
Chapel by painter Léonard Foujita.
Baroque church with an external spiral winding staircase.
Hans is not a big fan.
Museum dedicated to painters Fritz & Hermine Overbeck.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
World War II museum.
World War II museum.
Technology museum.
Zoo.
Noordeinde Palace’s garden.
17th-century royal palace.
18th-century Gothic Revival palatial villa.
Former inner German border crossing.
The estate of King Louis XIV is so large that you need two days so see everything.
The estate of King Louis XIV is so large that you need two days so see everything.
Stock exchange in neoclassical style.
Science museum.
Archaeology & History Museum, Geology Museum, and Zoology Museum.
Contemporary art museum.
City palace by architect Theophil Hansen.
Second Empire opera house.
Cardinal Richelieu’s palace by architect Jacques Lemercier.
Lavish stately home by architect Josef Hoffman, not open to the public.
Home to Tilman Riemenschneider’s Windsheim Altar.
The hill where it all started after Romulus had killed Remus.
Art nouveau concert hall by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
Performing arts centre by architect Santiago Calatrava.
Art museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Museum of ancient art.
A mecca of bones & organs: 650 or so skeletons here.
Botanical garden.
Panorama Baroque Dresden or Dresden 1945.
360° panorama by Yadegar Asisi.
A 1,672 m² 360° vista of the sea, the dunes & Scheveningen village as it was in 1881.
Home to Werner Tübke’s Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany.
Cycloramic painting by Johann Michael Sattler of Salzburg around 1829.
What the Berlin Wall looked like from the west side in the 1980s.
45⅖-km-long hiking trail (4 stages) around Baden-Baden.
Former church housing Foucault’s pendulum & a mausoleum.
Industrial heritage museum.
Papyri from antique & early medieval Egypt.
Square in the centre of the Planken shopaholic zone.
Ornamental garden featuring a cascading waterfall.
Park featuring a rose garden.
Underground ossuaries.
The church made famous by Ravensburger puzzle #13645.
Underground tunnels.
Jardin remarquable.
The 48-hectare Park on the Ilm is a marvellously landscaped garden situated on the edge of Weimar’s historic downtown.
House of Glass (1966) by architect Wassili Luckhardt with a sculpture garden.
City park with a maze.
19th-century shopping centre.
Horology museum.
La Maison du Kougelhopf.
Patisserie best known for its croquettes.
The place to get Bossche bollen.
Oriol Balaguer is a pretty good pastry cook.
Upscale patisserie specialized in macarons.
Patisserie noted for its pastel de nata.
Patisserie that makes an excellent pastel de nata.
Try his chocolate cake.
The oldest patisserie of Paris.
Museum dedicated to painter Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Pavilion by architect Le Corbusier.
Printing museum.
Upmarket fashion shops.
Courthouse by architect Louis Cordonnier.
Regional history museum.
Peenemünde is where the Germans developed the V2 rocket.
Afternoon tea in the Butler’s Pantry.
Henry VIII’s finest coastal fortress.
Popular necropolis.
Home to the Pergamon Altar and the Ishtar Gate & Processional Way.
The baroque fortress where Napoleon met Goethe.
Neoclassical country house by architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel.
A small version of the Eiffel Tower.
Your children will love the Barbarine legend.
Mount Pfänder offers a great view of Lake Constance.
Mountain inn at the end of the Goethe Trail.
Contemporary art museum.
Concert hall by architect Jean Nouvel.
Museum dedicated to the history of the Philips light bulb factory.
Idyllic garden along the walking trail up Mount Heiligenberg.
Piazza with Bernini’s sculpture Elephant & Obelisk.
Piazza with Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers.
Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Pablo Picasso.
Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Pablo Picasso.
Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Pablo Picasso.
Architect Joseph Pickford’s Georgian home.
Frederick the Great’s picture gallery, home to Caravaggio’s Doubting Thomas.
Gothic Revival castle, built 1857–85 by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.
With a gradient of up to 48%, the rack railway to Pilatus Kulm (2,132 m) is the steepest in the world.
Where Countess Cosel, the widely-famed mistress of Augustus the Strong, lived until she fell from grace.
Home to the National Gallery & the Palatine Library.
Memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust from the Czech lands.
Narrow-gauge railway line to Krimml.
Former Nazi euthanasia programme site.
Cabinets of wonder.
Pizzeria serving German König Ludwig beer.
Square with the Túria fountain (1976) by Manuel Silvestre de Edeta.
Square with a column celebrating the second French revolution.
An excellent place to decapitate your nation’s aristocracy.
Lovely Louis XIII-style square.
Square with a Trajan’s Column lookalike celebrating Napoleon’s victories.
Baroque monument to the victims of the Great Plague in 1679.
Indoor cosmos.
Indoor cosmos.
The workshop of the world-famous 16th-century printer.
Town house of the golden Elizabethan Age.
Historic musical instruments.
The inner German border at the Fulda Gap.
Museum of Polish culture & history.
Modernist house.
Funicular railway to the polytechnic.
Art & regional history museum.
Renaissance garden.
The oldest bridge across the river Seine.
Portuguese folk art museum.
Please mind Dürer’s rhinoceros.
The most exquisite porcelain collection of Augustus the Strong holds china from the Orient and home-made porcelain from Meissen.
Car museum.
Contemporary art gallery.
Victorian village built to house Lever’s Sunlight Soap factory workers.
With its interior unchanged over the centuries, the Esnoga exudes the zeitgeist of the 17th century.
Museum dedicated to porcelain from the Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur.
The princely stamp collection.
Public transport museum.
Postal museum.
Art & local history museum.
Staffordshire ceramics & other stuff.
The Prince of Wales’ vision of Britain.
Medieval city gate.
Industrial heritage museum.
Waterfront square with a statue of King José I.
The most important museum in the world for European painting.
Modernist architecture everywhere!
The largest ancient castle in the world.
Museum dedicated to the history of Vienna’s funfair (est. 1766).
Vienna’s funfair #nogoarea.
Living history museum.
The 8-km-long Preßnitz Valley Railway from Jöhstadt to Steinbach operates four Saxon IV K tank engines.
Prince Eugen’s art collection.
Chinese porcelain and art nouveau & art deco ceramics.
Prince William V of Orange’s art gallery.
Beautifully restored to its former glory, the renaissance-style Prinsentuin garden is the most tranquil place in the city centre.
Printen are the specialty from Aachen.
This former prison of the Counts of Holland is now a museum dedicated to crime & punishment across the centuries.
Museum dedicated to crime & punishment, and the history of the Veenhuizen penal colony.
Mural representing the history of the Wettins, Saxony’s ruling family, as a procession of riders.
Industrial history tours on selected Sundays.
Artists’ association’s art gallery.
Contemporary art gallery.
Rock formation 604 meters above the majestic Lysefjord.
Contemporary art museum.
Pyramid celebrating Napoleon’s victory in the Battle of Austerlitz (1806).
Art of non-European cultures.
Romanesque church.
Concert hall.
Historic house museum & library.
Industrial history tours on selected Sundays.
13th-century castle.
Former radio transmission station in a nature reserve with forests, heath & sand drifts.
Regional history museum.
Museum dedicated to cooperative pioneer Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen.
The Dutch Railway Museum is one of the most enjoyable museums in the country for families with children.
The Railway Museum in Utrecht is one of the most enjoyable museums in the Netherlands for families with children.
Authentic drift mine with underground galleries accessible to visitors.
The Rammelsberg ore mine in Goslar, today a mining museum, is one of the coolest places in the Harz to visit.
494-m-long hanging bridge.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Gorgeous gorge.
The Treaty of Rastatt was signed here in 1714.
Art gallery.
Ethnographic museum.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Electricity museum.
Museum dedicated to humanitarian action.
With more than 2,000 exhibits, the museum presents the world’s largest exhibition of contemporary design.
Baroque house that takes you on a trip back into the 18th century.
Museum dedicated to emigration to the New World.
Line-up of the Reformation’s founding fathers, except for Luther & Zwingli.
Former Nazi office building by architect Ernst Sagebiel, with Max Lingner’s 1952 mural Aufbau der Republik.
Where Sherlock Holmes died before he was resurrected.
Funicular railway to the Reichenbach Falls.
You can visit the dome but advance registration is required.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Home to Pablo Picasso’s Guernica & other contemporary art.
Rembrandt’s home & workshop.
Micronation by artist Edwin Lipburger.
European paintings from the 16th to 19th centuries.
The Prince-Archbishop’s state rooms.
Museum dedicated to the Dutch resistance in World War II.
Modern Swedish cuisine.
Local German cuisine.
Restaurant & brewery.
Traditional Belgian cuisine.
Traditional Austrian cuisine.
Decent meals at a reasonable price.
Town hall canteen since 1405.
Cal Pep does completely amazing tapas.
Cheese fondue venue.
Chicken restaurant.
The local dish cocido madrileño is quite good here.
This place specializes in bacalhau, salted codfish.
Traditional Styrian cuisine — try Tafelspitz.
Bürgerliche Küche.
Fabulous paella.
Home of the schnitzel.
Traditional Swiss pub.
It takes only eleven minutes by ferry from the city to this peaceful island.
Traditional Westphalian cuisine.
Traditional Swiss cuisine.
Out of the variety of desserts, wentelteefjes is what you want.
Deftige Küche, i.e. decent local food, with potatoes.
Traditional German cuisine — try Saure Nierchen or Pfälzer Bauernsülze.
Traditional Dutch cuisine.
Bauhaus-style restaurant by architect Carl Fieger.
Smørrebrød here.
The perfect spot for a cosy dinner, at an affordable price.
The best paella of Valencia.
French cuisine.
Local German cuisine.
Italian restaurant.
Frankfurter Grüne Soße available here.
Traditional Dutch cuisine.
Bavarian nouvelle cuisine.
Cosy restaurant with excellent food.
Four-time World’s Best Restaurant.
Breakfast & lunch.
Traditional Swedish cuisine.
Traditional Swiss cuisine with Mediterranean influences.
Traditional Westphalian restaurant serving beer from its own brewery.
They only accept cash.
Good food & great view.
Traditional Norwegian cuisine.
Try the köttbullar with mashed potatoes & lingon berries.
Neighbourhood eatery with healthy, home-made food at the right price.
Traditional Westphalian cuisine.
Nice restaurant in the former weigh house by architect Pieter Post.
Traditional Swiss cuisine.
Serves two dishes only: one vegetarian, one meat.
Be sure to order poffert for dessert.
Traditional Swiss cuisine.
Jolly Monkey Tavern.
Restaurant serving culinary specialities from Frankfurt.
It takes roughly 20 minutes to travel up & down the 2-km-long cog railway that connects Rheineck to Walzenhausen.
Frederician rococo palace on the banks of Lake Grienickersee.
5⅕ million m³ of water per day falls 23 m down the waterfall on an average summer’s day.
Swim the river Rhine to Germany & beyond.
Botanical garden.
Swimming in the river Rhine.
Museum dedicated to composer Richard Wagner.
Museum dedicated to composer Richard Wagner.
The Labrouste reading room & Rondel gallery are especially beautiful.
Exhibition centre to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising.
Sailing cargo ship, built 1896.
The final resting place of the Swedish kings.
Heritage railway line.
Photographic art gallery by architect Gerrit Rietveld.
5-km-long walking tour dedicated to architect Gerrit Rietveld.
Modernist house built in 1924 by De Stijl designer Gerrit Rietveld for Truus Schröder-Schräder.
The epitome of De Stijl architecture, the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht is spacious, simple and functional.
The Rijksmuseum, home to Rembrandt’s Night Watch, presents Dutch art & history from the Middle Ages to the present day.
The largest ever Vermeer retrospective, at the Rijksmuseum, shows 28 of Johannes Vermeer’s 36 surviving paintings.
An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum shows Renaissance portraits of powerful emperors, flamboyant aristocrats and well-to-do citizens.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam presents Dutch art & history from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Art museum.
Iconic luxury department store.
Iconic luxury department store.
Cable car to Oberbozen.
The Ritten Railway is a narrow-gauge tramway from Klobenstein (Collalbo) to Oberbozen (Soprabolzano) in South Tyrol.
Rowing museum by architect David Chip.
Heritage railway line.
Museum dedicated to composer Robert Schumann.
Museum dedicated to painter Robert Sterl.
Rodin’s sonnets in stone.
The Museum of Fine Arts is really fine.
Authentic shaft mine with underground galleries accessible to visitors.
Museum of design & craft.
Statue signifying Bremen’s town privileges.
Romanesque church.
The political, administrative & religious centre of ancient Rome.
The Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach’s retreat, built 1792–97 under Goethe’s supervision.
Local history museum.
Vienna in Roman times.
Archaeological museum.
Archaeological museum dedicated to Lisbon’s Roman theatre.
Square with reconstructed half-timbered houses (1986).
Medieval town hall.
In summer, the 7-km-long Rorschach–Heiden Rack Railway can be enjoyed from open-topped carriages.
Bunch of flowers.
Renaissance castle.
Early-20th-century manor house with a lovely garden.
Garden with greenhouse café & artisanal bakery.
Art museum.
Definitely one of our favourites for afternoon tea.
Square with typical Portuguese pavement.
Germany’s best-preserved medieval walled city.
Rotterdam city walks.
34⅘-m-high tower with a spiral ramp.
Promming place.
The astronomical clock rocks.
Delft Blue earthenware manufactory.
Some of the performances have English subtitles.
Illuminated manuscripts from the Library of the Dukes of Burgundy.
Haggis, neeps & tatties served here.
Colonial museum dedicated to the Belgian Congo.
Seven centuries of art, from Flemish Primitives to Expressionists.
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is one of Belgium’s most prestigious and important museums.
The Old Masters Museum, the Fin-de-Siècle Museum, and the Modern Museum.
The Royal Palace is the largest and most prestigious building dating from the Dutch Golden Age.
The Royal Palace in Amsterdam is the largest and most prestigious building dating from the Dutch Golden Age.
The Green Vault & Armoury are pretty cool.
Open to the public every summer.
Open to the public every summer.
Baroque palace by architect Nicodemus Tessin.
Theatre.
Frederick the Great’s porcelain manufactory (1763).
Monastery, church, royal palace, pantheon, library, &c. of Philip II (†1598) #notmyking.
Royal horses & carriages are kept here.
Home to the crown jewels.
King Louis XIV’s kitchen garden.
The ship that took Scott & Shackleton on their first expedition to Antarctica.
Arch celebrating Lisbon’s triumph over the 1755 earthquake.
Concert hall & contemporary art gallery.
Narrow-gauge railway line.
Regional history museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Baroque house dedicated to poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
Triangular building by Thomas Tresham.
Church with golden onion domes.
Regional history museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Art museum.
The 42-m-high observation tower offers a magnificent vista of the Saar Loop.
Park with a statue of Philip II (†1598) #notmyking.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Narrow-gauge railway museum.
Gothic Revival church, built 1875–1914.
Concert hall by Tooley & Foster architects.
Art gallery & museum.
Gothic chapel with 15 huge stained-glass windows.
Beautiful library open to members of the public by appointment.
A singular combination of Gothic solemnity & Baroque splendour.
Observation tower on the water front.
Soup, Soap & Salvation.
Military history museum.
Local history museum.
Living history museum.
Ceiling & dome frescoes by Francisco Goya.
Church dedicated to the new Christian martyrs of the 20th century.
Archaeological museum.
Port cellar — if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.
Church by architect Mario Botta.
Home to three Caravaggio paintings dedicated to St Matthew.
Church that houses Moses’ sculpture by Michelangelo.
Frederick the Great’s summer residence is noted for its elegance & stylish display of grandeur.
Lift to Largo do Carmo.
Church with a built-in sundial to check the accuracy of the Gregorian calendar.
Church by architect Mario Botta.
Church with Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper.
There are two paintings by Caravaggio in the Cerasi Chapel.
Modern church by architect Álvaro Siza.
Church that houses the Mouth of Truth, an ancient lie detector.
The view from Mount Säntis’ summit stretches over six countries.
Side trawler built in Holland for cod fishing.
Art nouveau hospital by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
Mountaintop church with a great view.
Azulejo tile-adorned railway station.
Fortification built by the Moors in the 11th century.
250-year old watermill.
35-m-high wooden observation tower.
Home to the Dresden Maya Codex.
Mountain inn next to the King’s House on Schachen.
The 5⅚-km-long Schafberg Railway to Mount Schafberg (1783 m) is the steepest rack railway in Austria.
Surrealist art museum.
Contemporary art gallery by Herzog & de Meuron architects.
Theatre.
Theatre.
Contemporary art museum.
Nature reserve.
Friedrich Schiller is dead & the house is closed.
This is where playwright & poet Friedrich Schiller lived during the summer of 1785 and where he wrote “Ode to Joy”.
This is where playwright & poet Friedrich Schiller lived for several months in 1782 & 1783 and where he wrote “Intrigue and Love”.
Museum dedicated to writer Friedrich Schiller, closed until 2025.
Where Friedrich Schiller finished Ode to Joy.
This is where playwright & poet Friedrich Schiller lived during the final years of his life and where he wrote Wilhelm Tell.
Neoclassical church by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Contemporary art gallery by architect Richard Paulick.
Art gallery.
Rafting down the Aare from Thun-Schwäbis to Bern.
Local history museum.
18th-century imperial palace.
Baroque palace.
Baroque palace.
Modernist house by architect Hans Scharoun.
Bremen’s oldest quarter, lined with small 15th- & 16th-century houses.
Empress Sisi’s summer residence.
The world’s oldest zoo.
35-m-high observation tower.
Local history museum.
The highest dunes in Holland.
Baroque monastery with a spectacular two-storey rococo library.
Flemish Renaissance guildhall by architect Johan de Buschener.
Renaissance & baroque Bohemian art museum.
Model railway.
Historicist edifice, nicknamed Neuschwanstein of the North.
Palace featuring a rococo theatre & a fashionable mosque.
The exhibition The City of All Times is quite interesting.
Museum dedicated to the science & culture of image & sound.
The museum that holds Stephenson’s Rocket & Babbage’s Difference Engine #2.
Botanical garden of the Goethe University.
Museum dedicated to the history of education in Scotland.
The largest monument to a writer in the world.
Punt rental by the hour & chauffeured punt tours.
Aquarium.
Aquarium.
Aquarium.
Art nouveau art gallery by architect Joseph Olbrich, featuring Gustav Klimt’s Beethovenfries.
Outdoor swimming pool.
Outdoor swimming pool.
Museum dedicated to painter Giovanni Segantini.
Dirndls & lederhosen.
The other London department store.
The Selke Valley Railway is the most romantic line of the Harz narrow gauge network.
Opera house by architect Gottfried Semper.
Natural history museum.
Mausoleum for the grand dukes of Baden.
Neoclassical hilltop mausoleum in memory of Katharina Pawlowna, Queen consort of Württemberg.
Contemporary art museum by architect Álvaro Siza.
Romanesque church.
Louis XV’s chief mistress’ porcelain manufactory (1740).
17-km-long walking tour along eight 17th-century country estates.
Librairie anglophone indépendante.
Historic shipyard.
World War II cemetery.
Regional history museum.
Modernist housing estate by architects Hans Scharoun, Walter Gropius & others.
The other Hohenzollern castle.
Museum dedicated to the life & work of the famous shrink.
Regional history museum.
The trading hall is great.
Art museum.
17th-century manor house.
Tramway to Praia das Maçãs.
Silence, please.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Art museum.
Walk from 1720 all the way into modern times in the Skansen time machine.
Monastic island.
Car museum.
Home to Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Vertumnus.
Contemporary sculpture gallery.
Plaster casts of ancient sculptures.
Reconstructed fortress from the early 10th century.
Modernist house by architect Gerrit Rietveld.
The building of the former School of Arts and Crafts, designed by its director, architect Henry van de Velde.
Former RNAF & USAF airbase, now a park.
Royal palace & gardens.
Industrialist Matthew Boulton’s Georgian home.
Initially intended as a simple hunting lodge, Duke Carl Eugen turned it into a pompous palace.
19th-century observatory, now a museum.
Functionalist house by architect Leendert van der Vlugt.
Former inner German border.
Former inner German border museum.
The story about the Von Trapp family.
Heritage railway line.
Home to Ötzi the Iceman.
Russian World War II cemetery.
Russian World War II cemetery.
Russian World War II cemetery.
Russian World War II cemetery.
Monument to the Red Army.
The European Space Agency’s space exhibition.
Iconic city gate.
Lipizzaners going around in circles.
Exhibition dedicated to the history of the Jews in Bohemia & Moravia in the 19th & 20th century.
Museum dedicated to the history of Leipzig’s savings bank.
Museum dedicated to the history of the ports of Bremen.
Romanesque church.
Museum dedicated to philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
City tour with an amphibious bus.
Iconic covered bridge.
The last Dutch ship of state, in service from 1959 to 2000, is the largest ocean steamer ever built in the Netherlands.
Art gallery.
Art gallery.
Art museum.
Seven hundred years of European art from the early 14th century to the present, especially Renaissance, Baroque & early modern art.
The Städel Museum in Frankfurt offers a rich survey of 700 years of European art from the early 14th century to the present.
Concert hall praised for its excellent acoustics.
Contemporary art gallery.
Concert hall.
Art gallery by architect Richard Meier.
Church that houses an altarpiece triptych by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Church with a majestic net vault ceiling.
Iconic city gate.
Romanesque church with stained-glass windows by painter Markus Lüpertz.
15th-century almshouse with a medieval chapel.
Don’t leave Lübeck without seeing the altarpiece triptych by Hans Memling.
It’s a cabrio.
Almshouse.
Museum dedicated to the patron saint of Lisbon, and of lost things.
Industrial heritage museum.
The STAR Museum Railway operates a Soviet SZD TE steam locomotive with an iconic red star on its smokebox door.
Museum dedicated to East Germany’s secret police at the former Ministry for State Security.
Art museum, home to Amedeo Modigliani’s Female Nude Reclining on a White Pillow.
Art & regional history museum.
Home to the Nebra sky disk.
Opera house.
Opera house.
Other statues here: Nelson Mandela & Mahatma Ghandi.
Museum dedicated to the history of education in Rogaland.
Staverden, an estate that was granted city rights in 1298 but never expanded, is now the smallest city in the Netherlands.
A highlight of early Gothic architecture, featuring a tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst.
16th-century church with an organ by Christian Müller.
Home to Hubert & Jan van Eyck’s altarpiece Adoration of the Mystic Lamb.
Stalactites & stalagmites.
Modern chapel by architect Peter Zumthor.
Abbey by architect Hans van der Laan.
John Cage’s 369-year-long organ piece Organ²/ASLSP is being played here.
Modernist college building by architect Arne Jacobsen.
Museum of the Great Western Railway.
Excellent for toddler’s birthday parties.
Art & local history museum.
Contemporary art & design from 1880 to the present.
Art & local history museum.
Local history museum.
Coal mining museum.
Iconic luxury department store.
Iconic luxury department store.
Medieval castle featuring an exhibition dedicated to the Brothers Grimm.
The world’s most beautiful village church.
Well-preserved Småland village with typical red cabins.
Industrial history tours on selected Sundays.
Art museum featuring non-Bohemian old masters.
Sausage restaurant & Bratwurst & Bürli takeaway.
17-km-long narrow-gauge heritage railway line to Grünburg operating a kkStB U tank engine.
Romanesque church with well-preserved 10th-century frescoes.
Former Benedictine abbey.
Almshouse.
John Knox’s church.
Neoclassical cathedral with a Klais organ.
15th-century church with 16th-century frescoes.
Country house by architect H.P. Berlage.
Church that houses Tilman Riemenschneider’s famous Holy Blood Altar.
Note the statue of the angel with the cellphone on the south side.
Art museum.
An exhibition at St John’s Hospital in Bruges shows Hugo van der Goes’ painting ‘The Death of the Virgin’ and other works by Flemish Primitives.
Neo-Byzantine church by architect Hendrik Willem Valk, built 1923–25.
World War I memorial, featuring The Brooding Soldier by Chapman Clemesha.
Anabaptist rebels are still hanging in iron baskets at the steeple of this church.
Church with a superb organ by Germer van Hagerbeer (1645) & Franz Caspar Schnitger (1723).
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Baroque church.
Romanesque church.
Church by architect Florian Nagler.
House of God & Sir Neville Marriner.
Home to the 22-m-long 15th-century fresco Dance of Death.
Early Gothic village church with an excellent organ dating from 1531.
The village was named after St Mary’s Church.
Brabantine Gothic cathedral.
Romanesque church.
Closed until further notice.
The oldest church in Berlin.
Neoclassical church by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Baroque church.
Brick gothic architecture.
World War II museum.
Library by architect Gunnar Asplund.
Tidö collection of toys & comics.
Where Augustus the Strong locked away his mistress, the Countess of Cosel.
Museum dedicated to poet Friedrich Stoltze, who was a democrat & republican.
Prussian Rhine romanticism.
Prague City Gallery.
Prehistoric stone circle without an obvious purpose.
Heritage railway line.
The steepest funicular railway in the world.
Museum for comics, animation & games.
Norway’s longest tower.
Church with – joy! – one of the greatest organs by Arp Schnitger.
Largest cathedral in Ireland.
The continent’s first river tunnel.
Seat of the first German national assembly (1848).
Medieval church.
John Calvin’s church.
Germany's oldest cathedral.
Rococo church by architect Balthasar Neumann.
Church with a superb organ by Albertus Anthoni Hinsz.
Mausoleum academicum featuring a tomb by sculptor Rombout Verhulst and a superb organ by Galtus & Germer van Hagerbeer.
St Peter’s Church in Leiden, a large gothic church, is home to the tombs & epitaphs of some of the city’s most illustrious brainiacs.
Gothic church with superb wood carvings, surrounded by a lovely garden.
Monastery with historical library & picture gallery.
Cathedral with an astronomical clock.
The greatest of all grands travaux inutiles.
National Famine Museum.
The oldest church in Vienna.
Baroque church noted for its gigantic organ.
Medieval church.
Church with a Beckerath organ & stained-glass windows by Erhart Mitzlaff.
Burial site of its musical director Johann Sebastian Bach.
Modern church by Schulz & Schulz architects.
The tram to Fulpmes.
536-m-long funicular railway to the forest cemetery.
Rack tramway to Degerloch.
Subterranean Gothic chapel at Stephansplatz underground station.
Gothic cathedral, built 1344–1929.
In the library of the 16th-century Walburgiskerk the books are chained to the reading desks.
Church with a Hildebrandt organ.
The most beautiful church in Gelderland.
World War II submarine bunker.
World War II submarine.
Art museum.
Museum of Scottish industrial life.
World War I cemetery.
One of Norway’s biggest open-air museums with, among other things, the stave church from Haltdalen.
One of Sweden’s oldest preserved country residences.
Heritage railway line.
Heritage railway line to Schelklingen operating a Württemberg T3 tank engine & a MAN railbus.
National history museum featuring Viking stuff & medieval art, including 52 kilos of gold.
Local archaeology & history museum.
Museum dedicated to the nature & culture of the Swiss Alps.
Contemporary architecture museum.
Museum for photography.
Museum dedicated to childhood culture.
Museum dedicated to capitalism.
Planes, trains & automobiles, and more.
Early-20th-century synagogue by architect Karel de Bazel.
Moorish Revival synagogue by architect Tjeerd Kuipers.
Moorish Revival synagogue & Jewish Museum.
Gothic Revival castle, built 1912–27.
Museum of tapestry & textile art.
Armoured warfare from World War I to the present day.
11th-century castle.
Modern & contemporary art from around the world.
An exhibition at Tate Modern brings together around eighty paintings, watercolours and drawings by Paul Cézanne.
Office building with a frieze depicting a socialist view on life.
Tea room.
Devon cream tea.
Lovely tea pavilion at the royal estate.
The name says it all.
Science & technology museum.
Science & technology museum.
Science & technology museum.
Hands on science museum.
The Technoseum presents the development of science & technology from the 18th century to the present day.
The Technoseum in Mannheim presents the development of science & technology from the 18th century to the present day, and the impact of industrialization on everyday life.
Electricity museum.
Former airport, now a public park.
Dublin’s friendliest watering hole.
Egyptian temple.
Victor Horta’s ‘marble brothel’.
18th-century church with beautiful stained-glass windows from the 12th century.
22½-m-long hand-powered cableway.
Museum for monastery & church history and religious art.
3¼-km-long hiking trail through the Ter Borg moor.
Museum for the natural scenery of the province of Zeeland.
Geology museum.
The Tongeren church treasure.
Walkable triangular-pyramid-shaped installation by architect Wolfgang Christ.
Baroque palace featuring a spectacular interior.
Local history museum.
Industrial heritage museum.
Industrial heritage museum.
Industrial heritage museum.
Excellent museum on all things textile.
The Textile Lab is pretty cool.
Industrial heritage museum.
Museum of flax & textiles.
Art & science museum with an authentic 18th-century interior.
The Teylers Museum in Haarlem is the oldest museum in the Netherlands, founded in the spirit of the Enlightenment.
Opera house.
Opera, drama & ballet performances.
Home to the Münster Symphony Orchestra.
Art museum.
Science museum.
Abbey church with stained glass windows by artists Gerhard Richter & Mahbuba Maqsoodi.
The white town.
Museum dedicated to sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.
Heritage railway line.
Local history museum.
Panorama of Thun & its surroundings by Marquard Wocher.
Archaeological museum.
17th-century Dutch painting, 19th-century American painting, impressionism & historical avant-garde.
Duchess Anna Amalia’s summer residence.
Tiengemeten, an island in the Haringvliet estuary formerly used for agriculture, is a nature reserve featuring a tidal landscape with creeks.
The East Berlin zoo, est. 1955.
Zoo.
Small zoo.
Walkable rollercoaster-shaped installation (‘magic mountain’) by artists Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth.
Fountain by Jean Tinguely.
Sculpture by Jean Tinguely.
Living history museum.
Type & printing museum.
The Rotair is a revolving cable car.
Concert hall.
Arts & crafts castle by architect Lars Israel Wahlman.
Local history museum.
Concert hall.
Concert hall by Spillmann Echsle Architects.
Builders of the Auschwitz ovens.
Nazi crimes exhibition.
14th-century summer house called a castle, looking like a fortified tree house.
London’s iconic bridge.
A secure fortress, royal palace and infamous prison, home to the Crown Jewels, properly guarded by Yeoman Warders.
The palace of Charlemagne.
Concert hall with a superb organ by William Hill.
Medieval town hall with a 17th-century Weser Renaissance facade.
One of Germany’s most famous brick gothic buildings.
Brick gothic architecture.
Dirndls & lederhosen.
Dirndls & lederhosen.
To commemorate the deportation of Jewish citizens by the Deutsche Reichsbahn during the Nazi era.
Contemporary art museum.
Heritage railway line operating an Uerdingen railbus prototype.
Le monde du train.
Roman triumphal column displaying the first application of Carol Twombly’s Trajan typeface.
Public transport museum.
Public transport museum.
Public transport museum.
Contemporary art gallery.
Experience Volkswagen manufacturing up close.
Public transport museum.
Brutalist tower block by architect Ernő Goldfinger.
Belgian World War I trench.
Scenic railway connecting Basel, Luzern & Zürich to Locarno.
The world’s most famous fountain.
Museum dedicated to the Colonies of Benevolence & the origin of the welfare state.
Germany's highest waterfalls.
Archaeological museum.
Baroque plague column (1722).
Pump house by architect Heinrich Hübsch.
Kiosk by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Arch celebrating the marriage of Emperor Leopold II, built by his mum, Empress Maria Theresa.
Park with a stunning view of the Eiffel Tower.
Baroque palace.
Botanical garden & arboretum.
Ethnographic museum.
Indoor tropical holiday resort.
Nice pub on the banks of the river Thames.
Tsar Peter House in Zaandam is where Peter the Great stayed during his brief visit to the city in 1697.
Tsar Peter House in Zaandam is where Peter the Great stayed during his brief visit to the city in 1697.
Take a seat at the Grand Bassin Rond and relax.
Sumptuous art deco movie theatre.
Castle with beautiful park & gardens.
Indoor cosmos.
Commonwealth World War I cemetery for servicemen killed in the Battle of Passchendaele (1917).
Giant panoramic painting & museum of the Tyrolean imperial infantry.
Natural history & ethnographic museum.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Heritage railway line operating a Fuchs railbus.
See the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli here.
50 minute boat trip on the river Danube with the Ulmer Spatz.
Gothic church with a 161½-m-high tower.
Small zoo.
Museum dedicated to Irish emigration to the New World.
Living history museum.
Art & local history museum.
Endless staircase by artist Olafur Eliasson.
The Universalmotorgerät four-wheel-drive truck museum.
History of science museum.
History of science museum.
The Joanine Library & the Great Hall of Acts are quite beautiful.
Science & technology museum.
Museum that houses the Isenheim Altarpiece.
Baroque palace housing the world’s largest collection of Gustav Klimt paintings, including The Kiss.
The historical library hall is nice.
History of science museum featuring an anatomical theatre.
Observatory by architect Gottfried Semper.
One of the oldest (1130) & the most richly decorated stave churches.
Town hall by architect H.P. Berlage.
Local history museum.
Utrecht’s former main post office, now a library, is a fine example of the expressionist Amsterdam School architectural style.
Norway’s only preserved medieval monastery.
Museum by architect Kengo Kuma.
The princely palace, not open to the public.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
3½-km-long hiking trail along the Ruiten Aa brook.
Museum of art & design.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is Britain’s leading museum of art and design.
Contemporary art museum.
The other speciality from Gouda are stroopwafels – buy them here.
Studio by artist Theo van Doesburg.
Museum dedicated to urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren.
18th-century mansion in Louis XVI style.
The home of Simon van Gijn offers a glimpse of an upper-class family’s daily life around 1900.
Van Gijn House in Dordrecht, noted for its 18th-century tapestry room, shows the eclectic 19th-century home of an upper-class family.
Vincent van Gogh lived here from 1879 to 1880.
The Van Gogh Museum houses the world’s largest collection of works — some 200 paintings & 700 drawings — by Vincent van Gogh.
The Van Gogh Museum is hosting an exhibition brimming with French impressionist masterpieces from Dutch collections.
The Van Gogh Museum houses the world’s largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh.
19th-century home of an upper-class family.
Functionalist factory by architect Leendert van der Vlugt.
Modernist house by architect Sybold van Ravesteyn.
Single-purpose shop selling the world’s tastiest chocolate cookie.
Modernist house by architects Cornelis van Eesteren & Theo van Doesburg.
The world’s best preserved 17th-century ship.
Aquarium & oceanographic museum.
Bicycle museum.
Nature reserve with forests, heath & sand drifts, ideal for hiking & cycling.
Heritage railway line.
Commonwealth World War II cemetery.
Scotland’s Jute Museum.
18th-century manor house.
Submarine Saelen, guided missile boat Sehested & frigate Peder Skram.
Funicular railway through the Lavaux vineyards.
21-km-long hiking trail along the river Eder around Arfeld & Schwarzenau.
Great food & drink on the banks of the river Cherwell.
Concert hall.
A glimpse into the late 19th century.
City park with a mountain waterfall.
Column celebrating victories in the Wars of German Unification (1864–71).
Dedicated to victory, destroyed by war, urging peace.
The successor to Europe’s second-oldest porcelain manufactory (1718–1864).
Opera house.
Museum dedicated to artist Gustav Vigeland.
Sculpture garden.
Villa by artist František Bílek.
8th century mansion offering an enchanted view of Lake Como.
Art Deco villa by architect Josef Hoffman.
Villa by architect Henry van de Velde.
Regional economic history museum.
Steel magnate Alfred Krupp’s home, featuring the Krupp Historical Exhibition.
Renaissance villa by architect Andrea Palladio.
Villa by architect Le Corbusier.
The summer residence of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, closed for renovation until further notice.
Modernist villa by architect Adolf Loos.
Art nouveau house by architect Dolf van Gendt.
Modernist villa by architect Otto Rothmayer.
Contemporary art gallery by architect Ludwig Persius.
World War II commemorative site.
Art museum.
Medieval castle.
Church by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann.
Museum by architect Frank Gehry.
Europe’s oldest mountain railway, running from the shores of Lake Lucerne to Rigi Kulm, the highest peak of Mount Rigi (1797 m).
Contemporary art gallery.
The world of steel & forced labour at the Reichswerke Hermann Göring.
Theatre.
Yes, the Voltaire.
Art gallery.
Art museum.
Art & regional history museum.
Chapel devoted to the memory of King Ludwig II, who died here in 1886.
Gothic Revival church, built 1856–79.
Baroque garden.
Science museum.
Baroque garden & vineyard.
Victorian mansion, home to the Rothschild collections.
Botanical garden.
The 5-km-long Bosnian-gauge Wälderbähnle Railway, the only remaining section of the former Bregenz Forest Railway, operates a kkStB U tank engine.
Forest centre with border-crossing tree top trail.
This temple with busts of illustrious Germans is one of the most idiosyncratic expressions of national identity in 19th-century Europe.
Art museum featuring an awesome array of art, arms & armour.
The Wallace Collection houses an outstanding array of art, arms and armour, most of it from pre-revolutionary France.
Baroque garden.
Postmodern house by architect John Hejduk.
Museum dedicated to the Berlin Wall & the history of NATO.
Medieval, baroque & 19th-century art.
Local history museum.
12th-century hilltop castle noted for its most prominent resident, Martin Luther.
The Wartburg in Eisenach is a medieval castle noted for its late Romanesque architecture and its most prominent resident, Martin Luther.
Hexagonal & protected by high walls: the birthplace of the Staufer dynasty.
Fast ferry to Kinderdijk & Rotterdam.
Fast ferries to Rotterdam & Dordrecht.
Fast ferry to Kinderdijk & Dordrecht.
Discover how water became a weapon.
Museum dedicated to Lisbon’s water supply from the Roman times to today.
Europe’s largest bookshop.
Art nouveau landmark.
Thüringer food & decent dark beer served at a fine-looking half-timbered house.
Factory by architect Gerrit Rietveld.
Reconstructed medieval weighing house.
The Knights’ Hall is great, and so is the Dwarfs’ Gallery in the garden.
Baroque castle.
House by architect Le Corbusier, now a museum dedicated to the Weissenhof Estate.
The Schönborn family’s palatial baroque residence.
26⅓-km-long steam-powered narrow-gauge railway line from Freital-Hainsberg to Kipsdorf.
The German word of the day: Schiffsbegrüßungsanlage.
Museum connecting science, medicine, life, and art.
Ethnographic museum.
The 7⅗-km-long Wendelstein Railway to Mount Wendelstein (1,723 m) is one of the few extant rack railways in Germany.
The rack railway to the Jungfrau Railway.
City walk with or without a guide.
Ruins of a fortified manor house built 750 years ago.
Ethnographic museum.
Red Vienna housing programme.
Permanentes Provisorium.
Aeronautical museum.
Gothic Revival castle.
Museum dedicated to the Monte Kali & the region’s potash mining.
Contemporary art museum.
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Historical & contemporary ceramics.
Open-air museum.
Contemporary art gallery.
Museum of the Dutch Golden Age.
Museum dedicated to the history of education in Westphalia.
Tower reminiscent of the Ribeira Palace destroyed in the 1755 earthquake.
Triangular castle housing a regional history museum & a World War II museum.
7th-century abbey ruin.
Contemporary art gallery.
Art museum.
Baroque monastery with an exquisite two-storey rococo library.
Model railway.
Writer Christoph Martin Wieland’s country estate.
Concert hall.
Local history museum.
Museum dedicated to painter & sculptor Antoine Wiertz.
Regional history museum.
Contemporary art museum.
Museum dedicated to chemist Wilhelm Ostwald.
The Weißenstein Wing is the only palace in Kassel to retain its historical furniture.
19th-century landscape park on a steeply sloping hillside featuring huge, artistically and technologically accomplished water structures.
One of the finest rococo palaces in Germany.
Design museum.
Probably the most interesting Amsterdam canal house that is open to visitors, featuring Louis-XIV-rooms & a French formal garden.
Willet-Holthuysen House is probably the most interesting Amsterdam canal house that is open to visitors.
Museum dedicated to William I of Orange, the main leader of the Dutch Revolt (1566–1648).
Exhibition dedicated to politician Willy Brandt.
Abbey with a rococo church & a baroque library.
Museum of of boats, steam & stories.
It’s a restaurant as well.
Country house ruin & garden.
360° panorama by Yadegar Asisi.
8-km-long hiking trail from Heiden to Walzenhausen, the terminus of the Rheineck–Walzenhausen railway.
Weekly market on Wednesdays & Saturdays.
Cheese trading on Saturday mornings.
The Wolfgangsee fleet connects St. Wolfgang, St. Gilgen & Strobl.
Labour history museum.
Landmark clock showing the time in 146 world cities.
Ethnographic museum.
The world’s largest ice cave.
6½-km-long hike alongside river Nister, featuring steep & difficult climbs.
Classicist country estate with an English landscape garden.
Local art museum.
Brutalist church by sculptor Fritz Wotruba.
The largest steam pumping station ever built, still in operation, moving 6 million m³ of water per day.
The Wouda Pumping Station in Lemmer is the largest steam pumping station ever built, and the only one still in use.
The world’s oldest operational monorail.
The 13⅓-km-long suspension railway in Wuppertal is the world’s oldest operational monorail.
Mount Wurmberg is the second highest mountain in the Harz.
Art & regional history museum.
Baroque palace by architect Balthasar Neumann.
Germany’s largest canyon, featuring a spectacular 12-km-long hiking trail from Wutachmühle to Schattenmühle.
25-km-long heritage railway line with spectacular viaducts, bridges & tunnels, including the only spiral railway tunnel in Germany.
Northern Europe’s largest Gothic cathedral.
World War I memorial & museum.
Holland for tourists.
Regional history museum.
The Muzeeum is the maritime museum of Zeeland.
German history from the end of World War II to the present.
World War II prisoner of war camp.
Museum dedicated to painter Paul Klee, by architect Renzo Piano.
Contemporary photography gallery.
Former Nazi rally grounds by architect Albert Speer.
See Lake Constance from a Zeppelin during a 2-hour flight (tickets €860 each).
Museum dedicated to the early-20th-century dirigible airship.
Small museum dedicated to the early-20th-century dirigible airship.
Closed for renovation until 2026.
The Zittau Narrow-Gauge Railway is a 12⅔-km-long narrow-gauge railway line to Jonsdorf & Oybin.
Really ugly landmark tower by architects Václav Aulický & Jiří Kozák.
Center for Art & Media.
Industrial heritage museum dedicated to the Zollern Colliery & miner’s working conditions.
Undoubtedly the most beautiful colliery in the world.
The Zollverein in Essen is the world’s most beautiful colliery, featuring an outdoor swimming pool, the Ruhr Museum, and a design museum.
Swimming-pool-shaped installation by artists Dirk Paschke & Daniel Milohnić.
Nothing to get excited about.
National history museum.
It’s a zoo.
Museum dedicated to painter Anders Zorn.
Candy shop for sweets aficionados.
1½-hour hike from Davos-Monstein to Davos-Wiesen along the Bärentritt bridge and the Brombenz & Schmelzboden viaducts.
Living history museum depicting daily life on the shores of the former inland sea before it became a lake in 1932.
The Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen shows what village life around the Zuiderzee was like between 1880 and 1930.
Nature reserve with dunes, forests & lakes, ideal for hiking & cycling.
Neighbourhood with lavish eclectic architecture.
Public transport museum.
16th-century castle with an 18th-century look & feel.
Zuylen Castle, the ancestral home of the Van Tuyll family, is a 16th-century castle with an 18th-century look & feel.
Industrial history tours on selected Sundays.
Rococo church.
Baroque palace by architect Matthäus Pöppelmann.
18th-century country estate.