Stories from the road

Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch rode through the red rock country around Capitol Reef.

The most famous sign in the world was built to sell hillside lots and was only meant to last about a year and a half.

Seattle began on a few blocks of tideflat by Elliott Bay.

In Sarajevo you can walk from a 15th-century Ottoman bazaar into Austro-Hungarian streets in a few minutes, past the corner where a 1914 assassination helped set off the First World War.

Built for the 1984 Winter Olympics, the bobsled and luge track on Mount Trebević became a front line during the siege of Sarajevo.

Bergamo is two towns in one: a modern city on the plain and, on the hill above it, a medieval upper town ringed by walls the Republic of Venice built in the 1500s.

Genoa climbs steeply from its harbor, with a huge medieval old town squeezed in between and a row of Renaissance palaces that once had to host visiting royalty.

A small city on the Rönne River in southern Sweden, founded by a Danish king in 1516 and home to one of Europe's stranger monuments: a concrete flying saucer in the woods.