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St. Nicholas Church Ruin in the north of Visby's old town goes back to a church begun around 1215–1220 and taken over by Dominican friars in the 1220s, who rebuilt it as their friary church; the Gothic choir dates from about 1400. Burned in 1525, it has served since 1929 as a summer stage for concerts and plays. Its west gable has two round rose windows.

The Red Tower, or St Agatha's Tower, was built in 1647–1649 by the Knights of St John on the Marfa Ridge to guard Mellieħa Bay and signal to Gozo, Comino and Mdina. The square tower with corner turrets is painted red and holds a small chapel to St Agatha. Restored by Din l-Art Ħelwa, it is staffed by volunteers and has period cannon on its roof.

The Museum of Oceanography belongs to the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang, founded in 1922 on Alexandre Yersin's proposal, and has received visitors since 1938. Its aquariums hold more than 300 species, among them sea turtles, sharks and rays, and its halls display over 20,000 preserved specimens, including a giant clam of 145 kg and an 18-metre whale skeleton.

Cape Palinuro is a limestone headland on the Cilento coast at Palinuro, in the comune of Centola, whose cliffs drop straight into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Waves have carved many sea caves into it, among them the Grotta Azzurra, named for the blue colour of its water; the caves are visited on boat trips from Palinuro.

The Mont des Arts is a terraced public garden and cultural complex between the Place Royale and the lower town, laid out under Leopold II and redesigned between 1956 and 1969. Its garden by René Pechère is framed by the Royal Library of Belgium and the Square convention centre, and its upper terrace looks over the old town to the Town Hall spire.

Giardino Bellini, also called Villa Bellini, is the oldest public park in Catania. The city bought the Prince of Biscari's garden maze in 1854, turned it into a public garden from 1864 and opened it in 1883. Its terraced lawns, palm trees, stairways and bandstand are dedicated to the composer Vincenzo Bellini, whose marble bust stands here.

Kunsthalle Wien is the City of Vienna's exhibition house for international contemporary art, opened in 1992 in a temporary container building by Adolf Krischanitz at Karlsplatz. It has no collection of its own and shows changing solo and thematic exhibitions at two sites, in the MuseumsQuartier on Museumsplatz and in a glass pavilion at Karlsplatz.

The Tokyo Imperial Palace is the residence of the Emperor of Japan, laid out on the site of Edo Castle in Chiyoda. The palace buildings are seen only on guided tours, but the East Gardens show the stone base of the castle keep, the Ninomaru garden and old guardhouses, and the outer gardens look across the moat to the stone bridges and the Fushimi turret.

Wild Wild Wet is a water park at Downtown East in Pasir Ris, in the east of Singapore, run by NTUC Club. Opened in 2004 and enlarged to about four hectares in a later expansion, it has around 16 slides and rides, among them the Royal Flush, the four-lane Kraken Racers mat slide and the Torpedo, plus a Kidz Zone for young children.

St. Mark's Church is the parish church of Zagreb's Upper Town, with a Romanesque window from the 13th century and a Gothic nave from the 14th. Its roof of glazed tiles shows the coats of arms of Zagreb and of the Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia. Badly damaged in the 2020 earthquake, it was restored and reopened in December 2023.

Kraków Zoo lies in the Wolski Forest on the western edge of the city and opened on 6 July 1929. Run by a city foundation, it covers about 20 hectares of wooded hillside with around 270 species in enclosures and aviaries, a Mini ZOO with domestic animals and scheduled public feedings.

Pildammsparken is a 45-hectare park in Malmö laid out around two former reservoirs that once supplied the town with water. It was the site of the Baltic Exhibition of 1914, from which the Margareta Pavilion and the flower-lined Blomstergatan survive, and its central lawn Tallriken, a circle 160 metres across, is used for events, with sculptures along the paths.

The Aiguille du Midi is a 3,842-metre granite peak in the Mont Blanc massif above Chamonix. A two-stage cable car, opened in 1955, climbs from the town via Plan de l'Aiguille to the summit station, where terraces, a lift to the top and the glass box Step into the Void look out over Mont Blanc and its glaciers.

Fort Siloso is a coastal artillery fort on Sentosa, built by the British in the 1880s to guard the approaches to Keppel Harbour and in action during the Battle of Singapore in 1942. It is now a military museum with original guns, tunnels and the Surrender Chambers, and a 181-metre elevated walkway, the Fort Siloso Skywalk, runs through the treetops above it.

Art museum in Utrecht showcasing historical and contemporary art, design, fashion, and urban heritage.

Rochers de Naye is a 2,042 m mountain above Montreux. A cogwheel railway climbs from Montreux via Glion and Caux to the summit station at 1,968 m, from where a short path leads to the top with a view over Lake Geneva and the Alps. Near the station are an alpine restaurant and enclosures with marmots from around the world.

Särkänniemi is an amusement park owned by the City of Tampere on a peninsula in Lake Näsijärvi, about a kilometre from the city centre. It has more than 30 rides, among them roller coasters and two water rides, and the area also holds an aquarium, a planetarium, the Doghill animal park and the Näsinneula tower. The park opened in 1975.

Rockheim is Norway's national museum of popular music, covering Norwegian pop and rock from the 1950s to today. It opened in 2010 in a 1919 grain warehouse on the Brattørkaia waterfront, topped by a cantilevered glass box decorated with album covers. Its interactive exhibitions include a hall of fame and a sound lab for making electronic music.

Rostock Zoo opened in 1899 as the Hirschgarten an der Trotzenburg and today covers 56 hectares with around 4,500 animals from 320 species. It has been the European studbook keeper for polar bears since 1980, and its Darwineum, opened in 2012, houses gibbons, gorillas and orangutans in a 20,000-square-metre hall.

Quinta da Regaleira is an estate on the edge of Sintra's historic centre, built in 1904–1910 for António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro to designs by the Italian architect Luigi Manini. Visitors walk through the Romantic palace and chapel and a wooded park of grottoes, lakes, towers and tunnels that includes the spiral Initiation Well.