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University of Salamanca
Salamanca, Spain
One of Europe's oldest universities, with a facade where visitors hunt for a carved frog.
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Vijecnica (City Hall)
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A grand Moorish-revival building by the river that served as the national library and was rebuilt after the wa...
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Villa Tugendhat
Brno, Czechia
A modernist villa by Mies van der Rohe, famous for its open plan and glass walls.
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Visby Town Wall
Visby, Sweden
A medieval stone wall with dozens of towers circling Visby, part of the UNESCO-listed Hanseatic town.
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York City Walls
York, United Kingdom
A walkable circuit of medieval walls and gates around the old city.
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Arlington Row, Bibury
Bibury, United Kingdom
A famous lane of 17th-century stone cottages beside the River Coln.
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Arromanches Mulberry Harbour
Bayeux, France
Remains of the artificial harbour built after D-Day.
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Belfast City Hall
Belfast, United Kingdom
A Baroque Revival civic building with a copper dome, in the city centre.
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Casa de la Vall
Andorra la Vella, Andorra
The sixteenth-century stone house that has been Andorra's parliament building for centuries.
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Charles Fort
Kinsale, Ireland
A large star-shaped fortress guarding Kinsale harbour with sea views.
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Civita di Bagnoregio
Italy
A tiny medieval hill village reached by a pedestrian bridge.
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Crumlin Road Gaol
Belfast, United Kingdom
A Victorian prison turned visitor attraction offering guided tours.
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Derry City Walls
United Kingdom
Intact 17th-century city walls that you can walk right around.
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Gamla Uppsala
Uppsala, Sweden
Giant Viking-age burial mounds beside a medieval church, once a major religious and political centre of Sweden...
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Hanging Houses of Cuenca
Spain
Medieval houses that hang over a gorge, in a walled town in the hills east of Madrid.
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Hospital de Sant Pau
Barcelona, Spain
A Modernista hospital complex of tiled pavilions and gardens, now a cultural site.
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Hot Spring Colonnade Karlovy Vary
Karlovy Vary, Czechia
A glass-and-iron colonnade over the main hot spring, which shoots a jet of water into the air.
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House of the Blackheads
Riga, Latvia
An ornate gabled guildhall on the Town Hall Square, rebuilt after wartime destruction.
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Juliet's House
Verona, Italy
The courtyard with the famous balcony associated with Shakespeare's Juliet.
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Kaymakli Underground City
Goreme, Turkey
A multi-level underground city that sheltered thousands.
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Kehlstein House
Berchtesgaden, Germany
A mountaintop house with panoramic alpine views, built in the 1930s and now a restaurant.
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Korcula Old Town
Korcula, Croatia
A small walled town on a peninsula, with stone lanes shaped like a fish skeleton.
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Las Medulas
Spain
Red cliffs and chestnut forests, a landscape carved by Roman gold mining.