Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral stands in a private park off Boulevard du Tzaréwitch, on the estate where the Russian heir Nicholas Alexandrovich died in 1865. Designed by Mikhail Preobrazhensky and built in 1903–1912 with support from Tsar Nicholas II, it has five onion domes and an icon-filled interior, and a crypt museum on the Russian presence on the Riviera.
Turku Art Museum stands on Puolalanmäki Hill at the head of Aurakatu, in a granite building by Gustaf Nyström completed in 1904. Paid for by the Dahlström brothers, it was the second purpose-built art museum in Finland after the Ateneum. The Turku Art Society, founded in 1891, owns the collection of Finnish art and runs changing exhibitions.
Baron Empain Palace is a mansion in Heliopolis built in the early 20th century for the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain, who founded the district. The French architect Alexandre Marcel based it on Hindu temple architecture, with a tiered tower and dense sculpted ornament. Restored by the state, it reopened in 2020 with an exhibition on the history of Heliopolis.
QAGOMA is Queensland's state art museum, made up of two buildings 150 metres apart in the Cultural Centre at South Bank: the Queensland Art Gallery, in its 1982 building, and the Gallery of Modern Art, opened in 2006 on the riverbank. The collection spans Australian, Indigenous, Asian and Pacific art, and GOMA has a cinema and a children's art centre.
Leuven University Library on Ladeuzeplein was built from 1921 to 1928 with American donations, to designs by Whitney Warren, after German troops burned the old library in 1914. Burned again in 1940, it was rebuilt by 1951. Visitors see the oak-panelled reading room and climb the 80.5-metre tower, which holds a carillon of 63 bells.
The Zentrum Paul Klee is a museum on the eastern edge of Bern devoted to the painter Paul Klee, opened in 2005 in a building by Renzo Piano shaped as three steel-and-glass waves in the landscape. It holds about 40 percent of Klee's pictorial work, shown in changing selections and exhibitions, and includes the Creaviva studio for art workshops.
Petite France is the south-western part of the Grande Île, the historic centre of Strasbourg, where the Ill splits into several channels. Once home to tanners, millers and fishermen, it is a quarter of half-timbered houses dating back to the 16th century, locks, footbridges and narrow lanes, and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site listed in 1988.
Walygator Grand Est is an amusement park at Maizières-lès-Metz, about 15 km north of Metz, built on the site of former steelworks. It opened in 1989 as Big Bang Schtroumpf and was later called Walibi Lorraine and Walygator Parc. Its rides include the Anaconda wooden roller coaster, the inverted coaster The Monster and the Dino-Raft river rapids.
The Museo de América is a national museum in Madrid's Ciudad Universitaria devoted to the archaeology, art and ethnography of the Americas. Founded in 1941, it opened in 1965 in a brick building with a tower by Luis Moya and Luis Martínez-Feduchi. Its collection includes the Madrid Codex, one of four surviving Maya books, and the gold of the Quimbaya Treasure.
Bellewaerde is a theme park and animal park near Zillebeke, in the municipality of Ypres, on ground fought over in the First World War Battle of Bellewaarde. It opened in 1954 as a zoo and safari park and added rides from the early 1980s, including Europe's first Boomerang roller coaster in 1984. Lions and other animals live in themed zones across its 54 hectares.
Khoo Kongsi is the clan temple of the Leong San Tong Khoo clan, Hokkien settlers from Fujian, on Cannon Square in the oldest part of George Town. The present temple, completed in 1906, has a heavily carved and gilded hall and roof, and stands with an opera stage, the clan association building and rows of clan houses around a granite-paved square.
The Australian Outback Spectacular is a dinner-show arena in Oxenford, north of Surfers Paradise, run by Village Roadshow Theme Parks near Warner Bros. Movie World. Audiences eat dinner in a covered arena while an outback-themed show with Australian animals and songs is performed in front of them.
Town Hall Square is the main square of Tartu's old town, closed at one end by the Town Hall, built between 1782 and 1789 after the great fire to designs by Johann Heinrich Bartholomäus Walther. It is lined with classicist houses, among them the Leaning House, and the fountain Kissing Students stands in front of the Town Hall. Festivals such as the Hanseatic Days are held here.
Museo Reina Sofía is Spain's national museum of 20th-century and contemporary art, near Atocha station, opened in 1992 in the 18th-century General Hospital building by Francesco Sabatini with glass lift towers added in 1989 and a 2005 extension by Jean Nouvel. Its collection includes Picasso's Guernica and works by Salvador Dalí.
Jakarta Cathedral, officially the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Jakarta. The neo-Gothic church, designed by the Jesuit Antonius Dijkmans and completed by M. J. Hulswit, was consecrated in 1901. Two openwork iron spires rise above its grey stone front, facing Istiqlal Mosque across the road.
Palazzo Pisani is a patrician palace beside Campo Santo Stefano, begun in 1614 for the Pisani family and enlarged into the 18th century around two courtyards with colonnaded loggias. Owned by the city, it houses the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music. Guided tours lead through its halls and courtyards up to a rooftop terrace over the city.
Palazzo Medici Riccardi is the palace Michelozzo designed for Cosimo de' Medici, built from 1444; the Riccardi family later bought and enlarged it, and it now houses the Metropolitan City of Florence and a museum. Visitors see the arcaded courtyard and garden, the Chapel of the Magi frescoed by Benozzo Gozzoli and Luca Giordano's Gallery of Mirrors.
The Petronas Towers are a pair of 88-storey skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 451.9 metres tall, designed by César Pelli and opened in 1999. Visitors take a timed tour to the double-deck skybridge that links the towers on the 41st floor and up to the observation deck on the 86th floor; Suria KLCC mall and KLCC Park lie at their foot.
Art museum at Birk outside Herning, opened in 1976, holding more than 4,000 works by Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt.
Open-air museum featuring reconstructed buildings from various historical periods, offering guided tours and interactive experiences.
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