Top 10 Most Photogenic Small Towns

Every building in this Rif Mountain medina is painted in shades of blue — the origin story involves Jewish refugees or mosquito repellent depending on who you ask, but the photos speak for themselves.

Half-timbered houses in sherbet colors lining canals in the Alsatian "Little Venice" district look like a Disney set designer's mood board — except it was built five hundred years earlier.

Red fishing cabins on stilts beneath sheer Arctic peaks reflected in glass-calm fjord waters make Reine the most photographed village in Scandinavia, and the midnight sun ensures you never run out of golden hour.

Blue-domed churches against whitewashed walls above a volcanic caldera at sunset — the image is so iconic that calling it a small town feels like underselling the most painted village in European history.

Lantern-lit alleyways cascading down a mountainside above the Pacific, the real-life inspiration for Spirited Away's bathhouse, and tea houses where the fog rolls in like a living curtain.

Over 1,500 trulli — whitewashed limestone huts with conical roofs — cluster in Puglia's hills like a village designed by a fairy-tale architect with a very specific geometric obsession.

Thatched-roof farmhouses buried in snow during winter and surrounded by rice paddies in summer — this UNESCO village in the Japanese Alps looks like a woodblock print come to life.

Arlington Row's honey-colored Cotswold stone cottages beside a trout stream have been called the most beautiful village in England since William Morris said so in 1885, and nobody has disagreed convincingly since.

Every building in this lakeside village is covered in bright zócalo murals, and climbing the 740 steps of La Piedra del Peñol rewards you with a panoramic view of islands and emerald water that defies the camera's dynamic range.

Every building in this Rif Mountain medina is painted in shades of blue — the origin story involves Jewish refugees or mosquito repellent depending on who you ask, but the photos speak for themselves.

Half-timbered houses in sherbet colors lining canals in the Alsatian "Little Venice" district look like a Disney set designer's mood board — except it was built five hundred years earlier.

Red fishing cabins on stilts beneath sheer Arctic peaks reflected in glass-calm fjord waters make Reine the most photographed village in Scandinavia, and the midnight sun ensures you never run out of golden hour.

Blue-domed churches against whitewashed walls above a volcanic caldera at sunset — the image is so iconic that calling it a small town feels like underselling the most painted village in European history.

Lantern-lit alleyways cascading down a mountainside above the Pacific, the real-life inspiration for Spirited Away's bathhouse, and tea houses where the fog rolls in like a living curtain.

Over 1,500 trulli — whitewashed limestone huts with conical roofs — cluster in Puglia's hills like a village designed by a fairy-tale architect with a very specific geometric obsession.

Thatched-roof farmhouses buried in snow during winter and surrounded by rice paddies in summer — this UNESCO village in the Japanese Alps looks like a woodblock print come to life.

Arlington Row's honey-colored Cotswold stone cottages beside a trout stream have been called the most beautiful village in England since William Morris said so in 1885, and nobody has disagreed convincingly since.

Every building in this lakeside village is covered in bright zócalo murals, and climbing the 740 steps of La Piedra del Peñol rewards you with a panoramic view of islands and emerald water that defies the camera's dynamic range.