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Royal Albatross is a four-masted barquentine with 22 sails, berthed at Resorts World Sentosa on Sentosa and used for cruises with dining on board. Launched in Chicago as Windy II for cruises on the Great Lakes, she arrived in Singapore in 2008 and was rebuilt; today she sails on breakfast, sunset dinner and evening city-lights cruises off Singapore's coast.

The National Garden is a 15.5-hectare public park behind the Hellenic Parliament in central Athens. Queen Amalia commissioned it in 1838 as the Royal Garden, laid out by the agronomist Friedrich Schmidt with hundreds of imported plant species. Shaded paths pass ponds, ancient column fragments and mosaics, a small animal enclosure and busts of Greek poets.

Tugu Yogyakarta is a white pillar monument in the middle of a crossroads north of Malioboro Street, first built by Sultan Hamengkubuwono I in 1755 as the Golong-Gilig pillar on the line between the palace and Mount Merapi. After the original collapsed in an earthquake in 1867, the Dutch colonial government rebuilt it in 1889 in its present square form.

The Basilica of San Francesco is a Franciscan Gothic church in Arezzo, begun around 1290; its stone façade was never faced. The Bacci Chapel in the chancel holds Piero della Francesca's fresco cycle of the Legend of the True Cross, painted between 1452 and 1466, and a large painted crucifix hangs at the chancel entrance.

The National Museum of Nature and Science, founded in 1877, stands in the north-east corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo. The Japan Gallery, in a 1931 building, covers the islands' nature and history, and the Global Gallery covers life on Earth and the history of science and technology, with dinosaur skeletons, the preserved dog Hachikō and a life-size blue whale model outside.

Hanayashiki is an amusement park in Asakusa, a short walk from Sensō-ji, that opened in 1853 as a flower garden and is regarded as the oldest in Japan. Its small site packs in rides such as a roller coaster running since 1953, the oldest still operating in Japan, and the Bee Tower; a subsidiary of Bandai Namco runs it.

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral is the Romanesque cathedral at the end of the Way of St James, begun in 1075 over the tomb held to be that of the apostle James the Great. Its Baroque Obradoiro façade, completed in the mid-18th century, stands in front of the Portico of Glory, carved by Master Mateo in the late 12th century.

Maarjamäe Palace is a historicist summer manor on the coast road east of central Tallinn, built in the 1870s for Count Anatoly Orlov-Davydov, with a crenellated tower beside the main house. As part of the Estonian History Museum it shows an exhibition on Estonia's 20th century, and its park holds a collection of dismantled Soviet-era statues.

The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana is the art gallery founded in 1618 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo beside the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, the library he opened in 1609. Its rooms show paintings by Leonardo, Botticelli, Titian and Caravaggio, among them Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit and Raphael's cartoon for The School of Athens.

Bishop Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in memory of his wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last heir of the royal Kamehameha line. In its lava-stone Hawaiian Hall of 1903, feather cloaks, carvings and royal heirlooms tell the history of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. The campus also has a planetarium and a science centre.

Burleigh Head National Park covers the headland at Burleigh Heads, on the southern Gold Coast, formed from basalt lava of the Tweed Volcano more than 20 million years ago and a cultural site for the local Aboriginal people. Two walking tracks, the Oceanview and Rainforest circuits, lead through rainforest, pandanus and eucalypt forest to views along the coast.

A private museum on Leipziger Platz, opened in 2015 on the former Cold War dividing line between East and West Berlin. Around 1,000 objects trace espionage history from antiquity to today, including an Enigma machine and the poison-tipped umbrella used to kill the dissident Georgi Markov. Visitors can try a laser maze and code-breaking challenges.

The Basilica of San Juan el Real is a parish church in central Oviedo, built from 1912 to 1915 to designs by the architect Luis Bellido on the site of an older church demolished in 1882. It has a Latin-cross plan with side chapels and a dome behind a twin-towered front. Francisco Franco married here in 1923, and the church became a minor basilica in 2014.

Claude Monet lived and painted in this house in Giverny from 1883 until his death in 1926. Visitors see the house with his reconstructed studio-salon and private rooms, the flower garden of the Clos Normand and the water garden he created from 1893, with the water-lily pond and the green Japanese bridge. The estate belongs to the Académie des beaux-arts.

Haw Par Villa is a park on Pasir Panjang Road created in 1937 by the Tiger Balm brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, with more than 1,000 statues and 150 dioramas of scenes from Chinese folklore, legend and religion. Hell's Museum, opened on the grounds in 2021, explores ideas of death and the afterlife and includes the Ten Courts of Hell diorama.

The Basilica of Saint-Remi is the former abbey church of Saint-Remi in Reims, built over the tomb of Saint Remigius, the bishop who baptised the Frankish king Clovis, and consecrated by Pope Leo IX in 1049. Its Romanesque nave leads to a Gothic choir from the 12th century. Badly damaged in the First World War, it was restored by the architect Henri Deneux.

St Mark's Cathedral stands on the highest point of Korčula's old town peninsula and was built by local stonemasons between the early 15th and the mid-16th century. Its portal is the work of Bonino da Milano, and inside is an altarpiece by Tintoretto showing St Mark with St Bartholomew and St Jerome. It lost its cathedral status when the diocese was abolished in 1828.

Te Puia is a Māori cultural centre and geothermal park in Te Whakarewarewa valley, on the southern edge of Rotorua. Guided tours lead past Pōhutu Geyser, mud pools and silica terraces to a kiwi conservation centre and the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute, where carvers and weavers train; kapa haka performances take place on the marae.

Lau Pa Sat, also called Telok Ayer Market, is an octagonal Victorian market hall in Singapore's financial district, rebuilt on this site in 1894 to a design by municipal engineer James MacRitchie with cast iron shipped from Glasgow. A national monument since 1973, it now houses a hawker centre with stalls selling local dishes under its clock tower.

Newbridge House is a Georgian country house at Donabate, north of Dublin, built from around 1751 for the family of Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin; the Cobbes owned it until Dublin County Council acquired it in 1985. Guided tours cover the house and its Red Drawing Room, and the 400-acre parkland includes a farm with traditional breeds.