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Bell Rock is a bell-shaped red sandstone butte beside State Route 179, between the Village of Oak Creek and Sedona, in the Coconino National Forest. Trails such as the Bell Rock Pathway circle its base, and visitors can scramble partway up its lower ledges; nearby Courthouse Butte rises just to the east.

The house in Coyoacán where Leon Trotsky lived in exile with Natalia Sedova from 1939 and was killed in 1940. Rooms and his study are kept as they were, with bullet marks from an earlier attack; his grave is in the garden, and a modern wing holds exhibitions on the right of asylum.

Cathedral Rock is a red sandstone butte with spires on the south-west side of Sedona, in the Coconino National Forest. Oak Creek flows past its base at Red Rock Crossing, where it is often photographed reflected in the water. A short but steep trail of about 1.9 km round trip climbs over bare rock to a saddle between the spires.

The cobalt-blue house in Coyoacán where Frida Kahlo was born, lived with Diego Rivera and died in 1954. Rivera gave the house and its contents to become a museum, opened in 1958: her studio, bedroom and kitchen, paintings by Kahlo and Rivera, folk art and her clothes.

A museum designed by Diego Rivera in Coyoacán to house his collection of pre-Hispanic art, built of dark volcanic stone in a style recalling Mesoamerican temples and opened in 1964, after his death. Its rooms hold thousands of ancient figures; the roof terrace looks over the lava field of El Pedregal.

Two functionalist houses in San Ángel designed by Juan O'Gorman for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, built in 1931–32 and linked by a bridge between their roofs. Rivera's red house keeps his studio with his brushes, Judas figures and furniture; Kahlo's blue house shows how the couple lived and worked.

Red Rock State Park is a nature preserve of about 116 hectares along Oak Creek, south-west of Sedona. Run by Arizona State Parks with a focus on environmental education, it has about 8 km of trails through creekside woodland and up to viewpoints over the red rocks and Cathedral Rock, a visitor centre and ranger-led walks.

The canals and chinampas, floating-garden fields of pre-Hispanic origin, in the south of Mexico City, part of the UNESCO World Heritage site with the historic centre. Brightly painted trajinera boats leave from embarcaderos such as Nuevo Nativitas, passing gardens, food boats and mariachis.

The Banff Gondola carries visitors 698 metres up Sulphur Mountain, above the town of Banff, in an eight-minute ride. The summit building at 2,281 metres has an interpretive centre, a theatre, restaurants and a rooftop observation deck, and a boardwalk leads to Sanson's Peak and the Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station National Historic Site.

Banff Upper Hot Springs is a public outdoor pool fed by hot springs on the slope of Sulphur Mountain, at 1,585 metres the highest hot springs in Canada. The water rises along the Sulphur Mountain Thrust Fault and is kept at about 38 °C, and bathers look across the valley to Mount Rundle. Europeans first learned of the springs in 1883.

Bow Falls is a wide, low waterfall on the Bow River in Banff, just above its junction with the Spray River and near the Banff Springs Hotel. Riverside paths from the town centre lead to viewpoints at the foot of the falls. The falls appeared in the 1953 film River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe.

The Banff Park Museum in downtown Banff, built in 1903 to a design by John Stocks, is the oldest building maintained by Parks Canada and an early example of rustic park architecture. Its timber-framed hall holds a natural history collection of about 5,000 specimens of the park's animals, birds, plants and minerals, much of it gathered by curator Norman Sanson.

The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum stands beside the Bow River in Banff, in a museum Norman Luxton began building in the early 1950s. It presents the cultures of the First Nations of the Northern Plains and Canadian Rockies, among them the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Stoney Nakoda and the Tsuut'ina, with regalia, a decorated tipi, quillwork and hunting equipment.

The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies on Bear Street in Banff opened in 1968, the idea of the Banff artists Peter and Catharine Whyte. Its art galleries and Heritage Gallery show the art and cultural history of the Canadian Rockies, it holds an archive and library, and its grounds include historic log homes and cabins.

An amusement park in the Tlalpan forest on the southern edge of Mexico City, opened in 1982 as Reino Aventura and run by Six Flags since 2000. It has roller coasters such as Medusa Steel Coaster, water rides, themed areas and shows; the orca Keiko lived here before the film Free Willy.

The Cave and Basin National Historic Site in Banff preserves the warm mineral springs whose discovery by railway workers in 1883 led to the reserve of 1885 that became Banff National Park, the first in Canada. Visitors walk through a tunnel into the cave pool, see the open-air basin, and visit exhibits in the restored 1914 stone bathhouse.

Mount Norquay is a mountain and ski area directly northwest of the town of Banff, inside Banff National Park. In winter its lifts serve ski runs, night skiing and a tube park; in summer a sightseeing chairlift climbs to the Cliffhouse Bistro high on the slope, and guided via ferrata routes cross the mountain's cliffs.

Montezuma Castle is a five-storey cliff dwelling of about 20 rooms, built by the Sinagua people in a limestone recess some 27 metres above Beaver Creek, in Camp Verde about 28 km south of Sedona. It was occupied from around 1100 to 1425; settlers later named it, wrongly, after the Aztec ruler. Protected as a national monument since 1906, it is seen from a paved loop trail.

Out of Africa Wildlife Park is a wildlife park of about 40 hectares in Camp Verde, some 30 km south of Sedona, below the Mingus Mountains. Founded in 1988 and on this site since 2005, it keeps big cats, giraffes, zebras, bears and reptiles in open habitats; a safari bus drives through the African savanna area, and keepers give daily feeding talks and shows.

Banff Sunshine Village is a ski resort on the Continental Divide, about 15 km southwest of the town of Banff, spread over Lookout Mountain, Mount Standish and Goat's Eye Mountain. An eight-seat gondola climbs from the base to the village; chairlifts serve the ski runs in winter, and in summer the gondola and Standish chairlift reach alpine meadows and a viewing deck.