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Galway Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Galway, built from 1958 to 1965 on the site of the old city gaol beside the River Corrib. Designed by John J. Robinson and built almost entirely of local limestone, it has a dome 44 metres high, rose windows and mosaics.

St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church is a medieval church in the centre of Galway, founded in 1320 and dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Myra, patron of seafarers. It became a collegiate church in 1484 and is now the Church of Ireland parish church; Christopher Columbus is said to have worshipped here in 1477.

The Spanish Arch is one of two surviving arches of a 1584 extension of Galway's city wall, built to protect the quays where the River Corrib meets the sea. The arches were opened in the 18th century to give access to the Long Walk quay and were partly destroyed by the 1755 Lisbon tsunami.

Galway City Museum is the city's municipal museum, opened in 2006 in a purpose-built building beside the Spanish Arch. Its permanent exhibitions cover prehistoric Galway, the medieval walled town, the writer Pádraic Ó Conaire, dance halls, cinema and Galway in the wars of empire, alongside temporary shows.

Bunratty Castle and Folk Park lies near Limerick, in the village of Bunratty in County Clare, about 13 km from the city. The 15th-century tower house stands on the site of a Viking trading camp and is furnished as a medieval castle, while the folk park beside it recreates 19th-century rural life with farmhouses, village shops and the Georgian Bunratty House of 1804.

King John's Castle is a 13th-century castle on King's Island in Limerick, beside the River Shannon, built on the orders of King John of England from about 1200 on a site first settled by Vikings. Its curtain walls and towers withstood five sieges in the 17th century, and a visitor centre with exhibitions tells the castle's history.

The Hunt Museum occupies Limerick's former Custom House, a Palladian limestone building designed by Davis Ducart and completed in 1769. It shows the collection assembled by John and Gertrude Hunt, from prehistoric and medieval objects such as the O'Dea Mitre and Crozier to works by Picasso and Jack B. Yeats, and has been here since 1997.

St Mary's Cathedral is a Church of Ireland cathedral in Limerick, founded in 1168 by Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Munster, on the site of his palace near the River Shannon. Visitors see its Romanesque west doorway, a set of carved 15th-century oak misericords, medieval tombs and the graveyard around the church.

The Funen Opera (Den Fynske Opera) is an opera house in Odense, Denmark, hosting theatrical and operatic performances.

Palamidi is a Venetian fortress on a 216-metre hill above Nafplio, built between 1711 and 1714 to plans by the engineers Antonio Giancix and Pierre de la Salle. Its eight bastions are linked by walls along the ridge; the Miltiades bastion served as a prison where Theodoros Kolokotronis, a leader of the Greek Revolution, was held. A long stairway climbs to it from the old town.

Kāʻanapali Beach runs for about 4 km along West Maui, roughly 23 km from Kahului, in front of a resort area developed from the 1960s. At its northern end rises Puʻu Kekaʻa, Black Rock, a lava headland where snorkellers find reef fish and turtles and where a torch-lighting and cliff dive take place at sunset. The islands of Lānaʻi and Molokaʻi lie across the channel.

The Pleyel Salon is a small concert hall in a historic townhouse at Kanonia 20/22 in Warsaw's Old Town, a few steps from Castle Square, run by the Time for Chopin project. Pianists give a daily recital of Chopin's music on a restored Pleyel concert piano, the make Chopin preferred, with an interval in the middle.

A wax museum on the Grands Boulevards, founded in 1882 by journalist Arthur Meyer and named after caricaturist Alfred Grévin, its first artistic director. It displays around 450 wax figures of historical and contemporary personalities, and includes the Palais des Mirages, a mirrored hall built for the 1900 World's Fair.

Galleria Umberto I is a covered shopping arcade built in 1887–1890 to designs by Emanuele Rocco, across the street from the Teatro di San Carlo. Four wings vaulted in iron and glass meet in a cross under a glass dome 57 metres high, with shops and cafés at street level and apartments on the upper floor.

Oscarshall is a neo-Gothic summer palace above the Frognerkilen inlet on Bygdøy, built from 1847 to 1852 by the Danish architect Johan Henrik Nebelong for King Oscar I and Queen Joséphine. Norwegian artists of the period, among them Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude, decorated its rooms, and the restored romantic park runs down to the water.

The Promenade de la Croisette is the seafront boulevard of Cannes, running about 2.6 km along the bay from the Palais des Festivals to the Pointe de la Croisette. Named after a small cross that once stood on the cape, it has a wide walkway with benches and palm trees between the beaches and hotels such as the Carlton, the Majestic and the Martinez.

The Art Gallery of Western Australia is the state art gallery in the Perth Cultural Centre. Its main building, a brutalist design by Charles Sierakowski, opened in 1979 and is linked to the former court house, now the Centenary Galleries. The collection includes Aboriginal art from Western Australia and the Northern Territory and Western Australian art from the 1820s onwards.

Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century Historicist palace built from 1869 for King Ludwig II of Bavaria on a hill above Hohenschwangau, near Füssen. Standing 65 metres tall, it can only be visited on a guided tour. Since 2025 it has formed part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site with three other palaces of Ludwig II.

Somerset House is a neoclassical building complex on the Strand, designed by Sir William Chambers and begun in 1776 on the site of a Tudor palace to house government offices. Today it is an arts centre: visitors cross its large courtyard with floor fountains, walk the river terrace and see changing exhibitions and events.

The Economy Museum – Royal Coin Cabinet is Sweden's national museum of money and economic history, since 2019 in the Swedish History Museum's building on Narvavägen. Its collection of some 650,000 objects includes Viking Age silver hoards, Sweden's first coins and early banknotes, shown alongside interactive stations on how money works.