Europe: Eyewitness Travel Guide Dorling, Kindersley

This isn't a book you read cover-to-cover — it's the book you dog-ear, mark up, and drag through airports until the spine cracks. DK's visual approach turns trip planning into actual pleasure: cutaway illustrations of cathedrals, neighborhood maps that make sense, museum floor plans that save you hours of wandering. Whether you're plotting a month-long rail odyssey or a long weekend in Prague, the layout helps you move fast — hotel picks by budget, restaurant recommendations that locals actually use, the difference between a tourist trap and the real thing. It covers the greatest hits (yes, the Eiffel Tower is in here) but also steers you toward the stuff guide apps miss. For anyone who likes their travel organized but not sanitized.