A visitor can get a great deal from Palermo Cathedral before entering a ticketed area. The exterior is an attraction in its own right, with a layered façade, towers and a generous setting that makes it possible to look from several angles.
If time or money allows only a limited number of paid interiors in Palermo, the Palatine Chapel deserves serious consideration. Its gold-ground…
The cost of seeing Palermo's architectural details is often nothing more than a few extra minutes. Roof tiles, cornices and weathered façades are…
Salamanca, in western Spain's Castile and León region, is a city made for walking. Its golden sandstone architecture, ancient university, monumental…
Barcelona's Sagrada Familia is easy to approach with your eyes already lifted towards the towers. At street level, though, the building asks for a…
New York's two great museums face each other across Central Park, and they price visitors the same way. Pay a lot if you're from out of state. Pay…
The Hundertwasserhaus is one of the most photographed buildings in Vienna, and you can't go inside. It's a council housing block. People live there…
At the southern tip of Lyon's Presqu'île, where the Rhône and the Saône meet, there's a museum that looks like a cloud of glass and steel crashed…
