Explore 10 Picture-Perfect Cities That Look Like They’re Made For Postcards And Wanderlust

Not only do places like this city exist, but they make you feel that you have stumbled into a dream you never knew you had. The streets feel cushion-like, the sun hits at an angle and even seemingly most common situations do feel a bit more alive. It is not about ideal sceneries and the well-known sites but about how these places subliminally consume you. In this article, we’ve covered 10 such cities, which absolutely feel that way.

Here Are 10 Cities That Feel Like a Dream:

1. Venice, Italy

Venice feels like a city made of water. Canals slide between the buildings and the reflections are bent with the tide. The smell is a blend of the salt, and stone and the briny freshness of the market’s take and to vaulted galleries. You walk by doors facing the water, their threescore years water-worn. Gondoliers sing to themselves softly. The beauty of it is in the details: huge things–fallen arch, a shadow on the water–, little things, which stick in your mind longer than a photograph.

Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in Venice:

1. St. Mark’s Basilica 
2. Rialto Bridge 
3. Dorsoduro District
4.  Drift through the canals by boat 
5. Cicchetti tasting (Venetian tapas)

2. Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto travels at a rate that urges you to go slow. Wooden townhouses are there and the latticed window openings allow everyone easy access to the smell of new tatami mats in the narrow lanes. Cherry blossoms are white clouds flocked down the Kamo river in the springtime; in the fall the temple gardens are in turn reddened by the maples. A temple bell is heard far away out in the residential neighborhoods and mingles with the hiss of yakitori sticks and the sizzle of beef skewers at carts in the streets.The locals also speak in low voices, moving slowly, like in written calligraphy. Even the food is seasonal-light plate after light plate of kaiseki that is flavored with where you are and when you are.

Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in Kyoto: 

1. Gion District
2. Arashiyama Bamboo Grove Fushimi
3. Inari Shrine 
4. Traditional tea ceremony
5. Stroll along the Philosopher’s Path

3. Prague, Czech Republic

Prague seems to have been designed both as a theatre and a memory. Baroque facades and gothic spires tower over the narrow streets made of cobblestones that ultimately fringe their way to lantern-filled squares. The flow of the Vltava River passes under stone bridges as its surface is covered in the yellow light of evening. Pastries of poppy seeds appear on wooden counters in bakeries and chimney smoke meshes with the aroma of fresh bread. The chatter of beer halls fills the air like the clang of ridiculously heavy mugs to which stories are being told that are older than this city. In this case it is not the beauty which is tidied up, it is the beauty which is inhabited.

Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in Prague:  

1. Charles Bridge 
2. Prague Castle 
3. Old Town Square
4.  Watch the Astronomical Clock show
5. Evening river cruise on the Vltava

4. Amsterdam, Netherlands

Seen in autumn, Amsterdam seems a city of reflections. Brick streets are slick with rain, and canals have become mirrors which reflect light of the street lamps. Copper and ochre falls off trees on the water and wash up against the bridges. Sweet smelling, roasting chestnuts and fresh stroopwafels ensure every shop window is filled. Scarves stream out behind cyclists who pass on in silent swirls and windows gleam out at night as evenings draw in. It is the city that best fits itself when the weather veers more towards the litany of the melancholies.

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Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in Amsterdam: 

1. Anne Frank House 
2. Rijksmuseum 
3. Jordaan District  
4. Canal boat ride 
5. Cycle through Vondelpark

5. Paris, France

Paris does not make any effort to wear its charm. On the Seine are green bookstalls: old post cards and paperbacks whose pages bear the fume of oblivion. Side streets open onto cafes with chairs facing the pavement that are constructed in order to observe life in progress. The smell of baguette and butter is released into the morning by boulangeries. Even in its hurrying, the city is personal-a moment at a cigarette with a friend, a scarf tightened against the cold or wind. Paris does not allure you immediately; it embraces you to its rhythm till you become a part of it. And even gazing at the Eiffel Tower particularly at night reminds you that you have already lived your life.

Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in Paris: 

1. Montmartre 
2. Le Marais 
3. Luxembourg Gardens 
4. Picnic by the Seine 
5. Sip coffee at a sidewalk café

6. Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh seems to have been chiselled by the weather. The hills are covered in tiers of stone structures as its buildings persist to the top of the hill with a castle standing guard over lanes of secret closes. It is raining and the gaslight flickers all the more warmly, as it flits over the wet cobblestone. Pubs are compact, smoke scented with a mix of ale and peat smoke, booths are hewn of wood, and the texts are heavy handed with that droll, edged crispness only possible with the Scots. Across the city the mist folds up the hill called Arthur Seat, and spinning gulls above the Firth of Forth. There is even a hush of pride/abashment in the place of Edinburgh as though it already knows that even when you leave it but Edinburgh won’t leave your mind.

Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in Edinburgh:

1. Edinburgh Castle 
2. Royal Mile 
3. Arthur’s Seat 
4. Whisky tasting Ghost tour in Old Town

7. Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul is on the border of continents and epochs. Minarets loom up beside church domes and the call to prayer sweeps rooftops in a tidal wave. There is a patchwork of color and odor–sumac and saffron that comes out of the spice-stalls, sesame bread rings fresh out of the oven. Tea in curved glasses is sipped and those who talk talk on as easily as the Bosphorus itself. The city does not know when to rest, but then it understands why it must rest- to see the sun stain the water pink and gold.

Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in Istanbul:

1. Hagia Sophia 
2. Grand Bazaar 
3. Süleymaniye Mosque 
4. Turkish bath (Hamam) 
5. Bosphorus ferry ride

8. Lisbon, Portugal

It is Lisbon which leans into the light. Seen even on a cloudy day the patterned tiles glare back, clothes strung between windows, is kissed by the wind itself as a flag. In Alfama, tramlines wind up and down roads so ludicrously hilly they threaten to steal your breath and the air is permeated with the pungent scent of sardines roasting on fires. Music stirs in taverns–fado, heavy with aching yearning–and the cafe tables overflow to the pavements, their little cups of espresso potent enough to take you through to morning. It is very near the sea; the smell of salt blows on every wind in the city.

Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in Lisbon: 

1. Belém Tower 
2. Alfama District
3. LX Factory 
4. Ride Tram 28 
5. Fado music night

9. San Francisco, USA

San Francisco is like it is either half way between sun and fog. Hills fall down to the bay and there are glimpses of water framed by painted Victorian houses. There is a light ocean smell of salt and eucalyptus through my windows that blows in with the wind. The patios will be buzzing with caffeine and steam hiss of espresso machines and sourdough loaves are talked over until after the going-down of the sun. It has a relaxed touch of the bizarre, individuals dress, not to suit the weather but in order to please themselves and the city appears to embrace those who are somewhat a step apart from the mainstream. 

Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in San Francisco:

1. Golden Gate Bridge 
2. Alcatraz Island
3.  Fisherman’s Wharf 
4. Cable car ride 
5. Walk through Chinatown

10. Newyork, USA

New York is the dream city of the world-not because it is ideal, but because it never stops growing. Glass and steel capture the sunrise on skyscrapers and the carts of street sellers are closed with the aroma of bagels and coffee. Besides, every block is its world: jazz flowing out of an East Village basement, pensive bookshops along the East Side, the busy bustle of Times Square. The pavements are rush hour, then suddenly, you stand still, You are on a park bench with golden leaves, or standing at a diner in the middle of the night and the young lady waitress calls you hon. New York creeps through your nerves without permission.

Here are some places and experiences you can’t miss in New York: 

1. Central Park 
2. The High Line
3.  Brooklyn Bridge 
4. Broadway show 
5. Rooftop bar sunset

Conclusion

There are cities which seem to be part of another world,  it is like you entered some unreal place. These are 10 of them and each one of them leaves you with some moments you cannot forget.