8 places catalogued in this kind of landscape.
A slow town on the Vjosa, Europe's last big wild river, with a limestone outcrop in the middle of town and Ottoman bath springs 15 minutes away.
A wooden-and-brick 17th-century town in western Latvia with the widest waterfall in Europe running right through it, listed by UNESCO in 2023 and still overlooked.
A single street of teak shophouses along the Mekong opposite Laos, where morning alms rounds and river mist are the events of the day.
A stretch of the São Miguel river where grey quartzite has been polished into craters, pools and lunar curves.
The red-brick shell of a 13th-century Livonian Order castle at the meeting of two rivers, its lower storeys drowned when the Daugava was dammed in 1965.
A French colonial river town under the Elephant Mountains, famous for pepper, salt pans and a slow riverfront that Cambodia's beach crowds pass by.
The stone shell of Costa Rica's oldest church, built in the 1690s and abandoned after floods in 1833, standing in a lawn of coffee bushes above the Cachí reservoir.
A 12th-century castle ruin on a limestone spur 200 m above the Rhône, opposite Valence, with a walled ghost village inside its outer wall and a view down the valley to the Alps.