3. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Botticelli’s two masterpieces (Birth of Venus and Allegory of Spring), and the one and only easel painting Michelangelo ever completed (The Holy Family). These alone are worth the price of admission, but there are dozens of other great works.

4. Museo del Prado, Madrid. The greatest museum of painting in the world. More outstanding Goya and Velazquez than the rest of the museums in the world combined, along with critical works by Rubens, Diirer, Bosch, Raphael, and many others. Just the rig*l size, too, to be covered in a day. The perfect museum.

5. Louvre, Paris. The Louvres miles of corridors and staircases have defeated legions of travelers, who have been slowly worn down on the creaking wood floors of this former royal palace. Tons of Leonardo, rooms full of Rubens, Delacroix, Rembrandt, along with Raphael, a Vermeer or two, and works from every possible French painter. Oh yeah, and the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Winged Victory, Roman sculpture… you get the idea. As previously mentioned, far too much for a single day.