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The Brandenburg Gate is a triumphal arch on Luisenplatz in Potsdam, built in 1770-71 by Carl von Gontard and Georg Christian Unger for Frederick II to mark his victories in the Seven Years' War. Its city-facing and country-facing sides were each designed in a different Corinthian style by the two architects.

Bird Paradise is a bird park in Mandai that opened in 2023 as the successor to Jurong Bird Park; it sits together with Singapore Zoo, Night Safari, River Wonders and Rainforest Wild Adventure. Its 17 hectares hold eight walk-in aviaries, each planted to recreate a habitat such as South American rainforest or an East African forest, and a penguin exhibit.

The Temple Neuf is a Protestant church on the Île du Petit-Saulcy, beside the Moselle and the Place de la Comédie in Metz. Built from 1901 to 1904 while Metz was part of the German Empire, it follows Conrad Wahn's Romanesque Revival design in grey Vosges sandstone, unlike the yellow stone of the old town. Emperor Wilhelm II attended its inauguration.

The House of Waterford Crystal is the factory and visitor centre of the Waterford Crystal brand on The Mall, opened in June 2010 after the company's earlier plant at Kilbarry closed. A guided tour passes through the workshops where craftspeople blow, cut and engrave crystal by hand, and ends in a showroom with a large collection of Waterford pieces.

The Red Tower is an octagonal defence tower at Alanya's harbour, completed in 1226 under the Seljuk sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I to guard the shipyard; the architect Ebu Ali came from Aleppo. Its upper storeys are of red brick, which gives it its name. The tower is 33 metres high, houses an ethnographic museum and appears on the city's flag.

Lanzarote Aquarium is in Costa Teguise, on the east coast of Lanzarote. Its 33 tanks hold about a million litres of water, with Canary Islands fish such as moray eels, tropical species, three touch pools and a 500,000-litre central tank with sharks seen from an underwater tunnel. It also takes in injured sea turtles and other protected species.

The Ermita del Santo Cristo de la Vera Cruz is a small church in the Barrio Alto, the historic quarter on the upper edge of Marbella's old town. Built after the Castilian conquest and enlarged in the 18th century, it has a stone portal, whitewashed walls and a square bell tower capped with glazed tiles. It is the seat of a Holy Week brotherhood.

Akrotiri is a Bronze Age town near the village of Akrotiri in southern Santorini, buried in volcanic ash by the eruption of the Thera volcano about 3,600 years ago. Excavated since 1967, its paved streets and multi-storey houses, some still standing two floors high, are seen from walkways under a protective roof.

Wat Phra That Doi Suthep is a Theravada Buddhist temple on Doi Suthep mountain, at 1,073 metres about 15 km west of Chiang Mai city. Founded according to tradition in 1383 to house a relic of the Buddha, it is reached by a staircase of 309 steps lined with naga serpents or by tram, and centres on a gold-plated chedi 24 metres high.

The Burano Lace Museum is in the former palace of the Podestà of Torcello on Piazza Galuppi, the main square of the island of Burano, which housed the Burano lace school from 1872 to 1970. Founded in 1978 and run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, it traces Venetian and lagoon lace from its origins to the present through pieces, drawings and documents.

Neumünster was founded around 1057 on the traditional martyrdom site of the Frankish missionary bishops Kilian, Kolonat and Totnan, whose relics rest in its western crypt. Architect Joseph Greissing gave the church its Baroque dome and red sandstone west facade in 1711-1716. The adjoining Lusamgärtchen garden holds a memorial stone for poet Walther von der Vogelweide.

Fort Canning Park covers a 48-metre hill above the city centre, where archaeological finds date back to the 14th century and where Stamford Raffles later built his residence and the British a fort. Paths lead past the surviving Fort Gate, the white 1926 barracks now called Fort Canning Centre, a spice garden and the Battle Box, a wartime command bunker.

A zoo of about 81 hectares on Huay Kaew Road at the foot of Doi Suthep, next to Chiang Mai University. It grew from Harold Mason Young's animal collection, opened to the public in 1957, and became the provincial zoo in 1977. Some 400 species are shown, among them koalas, Indochinese tigers and penguins, and its aquarium has a 133-metre walk-through tunnel.

Mini Siam is a miniature park on Sukhumvit Road in north Pattaya, founded by Kasem Kasemkietsakul and opened in the 1980s. Its Mini Siam section shows models of Thai landmarks, beginning with Bangkok's Democracy Monument, and a Mini Europe section across a small lake shows buildings from abroad, most built at a scale of 1:25.

Swimming pool and water park in Kolding, with slides, a spray park, saunas and infrared heat, and lessons for every age.

Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is an 18-hectare wildlife park beside the Brisbane River in Fig Tree Pocket, about 12 km south-west of central Brisbane. Founded in 1927, it keeps more than 100 koalas and around 70 other Australian species, among them kangaroos in an open reserve, wombats, dingoes and platypus, with daily lorikeet feeding and talks.

ESCAPE is an outdoor adventure park in Teluk Bahang on the north coast of Penang Island, opened in 2012 on a former construction site at the edge of the forest. Its rides and games are mostly powered by the visitors themselves: rope courses, climbing towers, swings and slides, with a separate water play area.

The Moon Church is a Romanian Orthodox church on Union Square, built between 1784 and 1790 to plans by Jakab Éder in a late Baroque style with classicist details. Its tower holds a mechanism made by Georg Rueppe in 1793, a half-gilded, half-black sphere that turns to show the phases of the moon. It served as the Orthodox cathedral from 1920 to 2012.

The Ci En Pagoda is a 46-metre octagonal pagoda on Mount Shabalan, 954 metres high, above the south shore of Sun Moon Lake. Chiang Kai-shek had it built in memory of his mother, Wang Caiyu, and it was completed in 1971. A forest path leads up from the lakeside road, and stairs inside rise to a top-floor balcony overlooking the lake.

Sforza Castle is a brick fortress built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the remains of a 14th-century Visconti stronghold, and largely rebuilt by Luca Beltrami in 1891–1905. Its courtyards can be walked through, and its halls hold the city's civic museums, including Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà.