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Hagios Demetrios is the main church of Saint Demetrius, Thessaloniki's patron saint, a five-aisled basilica rebuilt in the 7th century over a Roman bath where the saint is said to have been held and martyred. Destroyed by fire in 1917, it was restored and reopened in 1949. The crypt beneath the sanctuary holds an exhibition of finds from the church.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a museum of 20th-century European and American art in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century palace on the Grand Canal in Dorsoduro where Peggy Guggenheim lived for three decades. It shows Cubist, Surrealist and abstract expressionist works by artists such as Picasso, Dalí, Miró and Pollock.

Münster Cathedral, seat of the Catholic Diocese of Münster, stands on a low rise called the Horsteberg in the city centre. The present building, raised between 1225 and 1264, incorporates the twin-towered westwork of its 12th-century predecessor and is dedicated to Saint Paul.

The Museum of the Second World War is a state museum in Gdańsk, established in 2008 and opened in 2017 in a building by the Kwadrat studio, marked by a leaning red tower. Its main exhibition lies underground and follows the war from the 1930s to its aftermath, covering the invasion of Poland, occupation, the Holocaust and civilian life.

Taman Sari is the former water garden of the Sultans of Yogyakarta, built between 1758 and 1765 for Hamengkubuwono I as a place of rest and refuge for the royal family, just south-west of the palace. Its central bathing complex, Umbul Binangun, has three pools with mushroom-shaped fountains behind carved gateways.

Diamond polishing house near the Museumplein in Amsterdam, working since 1840, where the cutting floor can be watched from close up.

Egon Schiele Art Centrum is a gallery opened in 1993 in Český Krumlov's former town brewery, a Renaissance building completed in 1608. A permanent exhibition covers the Austrian painter Egon Schiele, whose mother was born in the town, with drawings, prints, his furniture and letters, beside changing exhibitions of 20th- and 21st-century art.

PS.SPEICHER is a transport museum in Einbeck housed in a restored 1898 brick grain warehouse. It opened in 2014 and displays around 300 vintage German motorcycles and cars across six floors, from early machines like the Hildebrand & Wolfmüller to postwar scooters. A separate collection of historic commercial vehicles is shown in stacked shipping containers.

Pena Palace is a Romantic palace on a peak of the Sintra hills, built from 1842 to 1854 for King Ferdinand II on the ruins of a 16th-century Hieronymite monastery, to plans by Baron Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege. Its yellow and red towers, neo-Manueline and Moorish-style details and the monastery's surviving cloister and chapel stand in a wooded park.

St. John's Archcathedral is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Warsaw, a Brick Gothic church on Świętojańska Street in the Old Town, first built in the 14th century. Blown up in 1944, it was rebuilt after the war in its Gothic form; the crypts hold the Dukes of Masovia, King Stanisław August Poniatowski, Henryk Sienkiewicz and Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

Adelaide Botanic Garden covers 51 hectares at the north-east corner of the city centre, in the Park Lands off North Terrace, and opened to the public in 1857. Its glasshouses include the Victorian Palm House, the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion and the Bicentennial Conservatory, alongside a rose garden and the Museum of Economic Botany.

A science centre devoted to spaceflight on the eastern outskirts of Toulouse, opened in 1997 on the initiative of the city with the French space agency CNES among its partners. Its park holds full-scale models of the Ariane 5 rocket, the Mir space station and a Soyuz, beside a planetarium, interactive exhibitions and a mock-up control room.

Hòn Chồng is a group of granite boulders piled on the shore at the foot of La San hill in northern Nha Trang. On the largest rock, a square block resting on a flat slab, a hollow shaped like a huge hand is linked to a local legend of a giant. A second group nearby is called Hòn Vợ, and the rocks look out over Nha Trang Bay towards Hòn Yến and Cô Tiên mountain.

Warsaw Zoo opened in 1928 on the right bank of the Vistula and covers about 40 hectares, with animals of some 500 species. During the Second World War the director Jan Żabiński and his wife Antonina hid Jews who had escaped the Warsaw Ghetto in their villa on the grounds, which can be visited; both are recognised as Righteous Among the Nations.

CERN Science Gateway is the visitor centre of the CERN particle physics laboratory in Meyrin, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and opened in October 2023. Its pavilions, linked by a bridge across the road, hold hands-on exhibitions on accelerators, the universe and the quantum world, plus lab workshops, science shows and guided tours.

The Conciergerie is a former royal palace and prison on the Île de la Cité, built as part of the medieval Palais de la Cité alongside the Sainte-Chapelle. During the French Revolution it held prisoners awaiting trial, including Marie Antoinette, before their execution. Two large medieval halls survive, and the building is now a national monument.

Anfield is a football stadium in the Anfield district of Liverpool and has been the home of Liverpool Football Club since the club was formed in 1892; Everton played here from 1884 to 1891. Expansions of the Main Stand in 2016 and the Anfield Road Stand in 2024 raised its capacity to over 61,000, and guided stadium tours and the club museum are open on non-match days.

A 314-metre skyscraper in Bang Rak, designed by Ole Scheeren's practice and opened in 2016, whose glass façade is broken by a spiralling band of pixel-like cut-outs. The Mahanakhon SkyWalk occupies its top floors: an indoor observation deck on the 74th floor and an open-air rooftop on the 78th with a glass floor 310 metres above the street.

The Magic Fountain of Montjuïc is an illuminated fountain designed by Carles Buïgas for the 1929 International Exposition, at the head of Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina below the Palau Nacional. On set evenings it stages shows of water jets, coloured light and music, pumping about 2,600 litres of water a second through three concentric basins.

St. Christoph's Church stands beside Mainz Cathedral as a preserved ruin. Built in Gothic style in the 13th and 14th centuries, it was the church where printer Johannes Gutenberg was baptised. Allied bombing destroyed the roof and interior in 1942, leaving only the outer walls and tower, now maintained as a war memorial with a small chapel inside.