Liechtenstein

                                            Tiny Liechtenstein boasts outsized views of the Alps.

This alpine microstate bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and Austria to the east is a fastidiously clean and well-ordered principality. • It’s also one of only two (the other is Uzbekistan) “doubly landlocked” nations, that is, bordered entirely by other landlocked nations. • An often overlooked winter-sports destination but a not so often overlooked tax haven, it’s the smallest German-speaking country in the world and the only one that doesn’t share a border with the fatherland.

Macedonia

            The church of St. John the Theologian–Kaneo perches on the rocks above placid Ohrid Lake.

Azerbaijan

                            The harbor of Baku, the capital, is known as the finest on the Caspian Sea.