Tivat
North of the centre, this park is a leafy, peaceful retreat, originally laid out in 1892. It's a serene antidote to the excesses of Porto Montenegro.
Must-see attractions in Eastern Europe
Saranda
This excellent gallery overlooking the seafront has high-quality temporary exhibits, with many works coming down from the National Gallery in Tirana.
Central Montenegro
The flamboyant art-nouveau building which was built as the French embassy is now used to house special collections of Cetinje's national library.
Ohrid
Ohrid's Upper Gate marks the entrance to the fortified old town. If you enter Ohrid by car, you may well drive through its stooped stone archway.
Ohrid
Stroll Sveti Kliment Ohridski street, lined with cafes and shops, to reach this enormous, 900-year-old plane tree – a likeable Ohrid landmark.
Trogir
Housed in the former Garagnin-Fanfogna palace, this museum exhibits books, documents, drawings and period costumes from Trogir’s long history.
Hvar Town
This large pebbly beach is literally at the end of the road if you're following the coast east from Hvar Town. There's a large restaurant here.
Kaali Meteoritics & Limestone Museum
Western Estonia & the Islands
A small museum devoted to the nearby meteorite crater with displays of meteorite fragments and fossils, and a film explaining the Kaali impact.
Wallachia
The collection at this art museum, housed in a grand Empire-style mansion, is strong on Romanian greats from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Western European Russia
Much restoration work has been done on this charming, pink-walled convent, which also runs a small orphanage for girls. Donations are welcome.
Brač Island
The 'Three Bridges' beach is just past the cemetery. There's a good restaurant at the eastern end, and you can rent boats and jet skis nearby.
Exhibition Hall of State Horse Breeding Office
St Petersburg
The east end of the old stables building is used for temporary exhibitions from the collection of the Museum of the History of St Petersburg.
Latvia
The town’s oldest street is lined with dozens of charming brick facades constructed by wealthy Yiddish merchants several hundred years ago.
Northern European Russia
This 18th century church, located with the walls of the Solovetsky Transfiguration Monastery, also acted as a hospital in the tsarist period.
St Petersburg
The Blue Bridge is 97.3m wide making it the widest of the city's bridges. It's one of four bridges across the Moika that were colour-coded.
Inland Croatia
A clutch of naive-art painters and sculptors still work in Hlebine, 62km southeast of Varaždin. Their work is on display in this gallery.
Lithuania
The tear-shaped domes of this 19th-century timber Russian Orthodox church, picked out in blue, white and gold, dominate Laisvės aikštė.
Fallen Heroes of the Battle of Mojkovac Memorial
Northern Montenegro
This giant tooth-shaped memorial – honouring those who fought and died in the Battle of Mojkovac – is visible on the approach to town.
Bosnia & Hercegovina
Plava Voda ('Blue Water') is home to a convivial gaggle of restaurants flanking a merrily gurgling stream, criss-crossed by small bridges.
Hvar Island
Fifteenth-century St Lawrence's is crammed with valuable art, including what is believed to be a Veronese triptych above the high altar.
Western Siberia
Less eye-catching from the outside than neighbouring St Sofia's Cathedral, but with splendid arched ceiling murals, is this 1746 church.
Western Siberia
This unusual WWII monument features a Soviet woman piercing the heart of a winged reptilian creature. The embodiment of evil, we assume.
Kamchatka
Yelizovo’s small Regional Museum has ethnographic exhibits, Russian weavings, local art and the requisite stuffed sables and marmots.
Western Estonia & the Islands
Built in 1864, this 24m lighthouse is a short walk from Saxby, the island’s westernmost settlement. It's especially scenic at sunset.
Trogir
On the main square, this 13th-century open-sided structure contains an interesting relief by famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović.
Podgorica
Rejuvenated in 2013 with Azerbaijani money, this leafy riverside park is one of Podgorica's nicest, and has a great kids' playground.
Berat
The big mosque just off the town square is the 16th-century Lead Mosque, so named because of the lead coating its sphere-shaped dome.
War Victory Monument 1941-1945
Northern European Russia
Memorial consisting of an eternal flame flanked by grim-faced statues of servicemen, honouring the fallen of the Great Patriotic War.
Budva
The remains of the emblem of Venice – the winged lion of St Mark – are still visible over the main entrance to Budva's Old Town.
Russian Far East
This small monument is dedicated to the memory of the Japanese prisoners of war who were forced to work building the BAM after WWII.
St Petersburg
Behind the Grand Choral Synagogue, this red-brick synagogue is generally open for guided tours only. Make inquiries via the website.
Western Siberia
Dating from 1792, this large and elegant cathedral sits below the fortress and is worth a peak for its impressive icons and frescos.
Romania
Southwest of the Roman Catholic cathedral, the opulent Bishop’s Palace (1770) contains 100 fresco-adorned rooms and 365 windows.
Memorial to Victims of the Red Army
Western Estonia & the Islands
On the eastern wall of Kuressaare Castle there's a memorial to 90 people killed within the castle grounds by the Red Army in 1941.
Plovdiv
This small museum beside the Church of Sveti Konstantin & Elena has a sublime display of icons from the 15th century onwards.
Makarska
Kill time on a rainy day tracing the town’s history by checking out this collection of photos, old stones and nautical relics.
Northern Dalmatia
This local parish church was built in the 15th century. Its wooden altar and Renaissance paintings are particularly impressive.
Plovdiv
A stocky 16th-century Turkish bathhouse now features irregular, rotating displays of contemporary art. Free entry on Thursdays.
Transylvania
This ornate church shaped like a witch's hat, built in Maramureş style entirely out of wood, has a stunning mountain backdrop.
Northern European Russia
Close to the hydrofoil terminal is a jaunty statue of Peter the Great pointing to the spot where Petrozavodsk would be founded.
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