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The Choral Temple is a synagogue in the Moorish Revival style on Sfânta Vineri Street, built in 1864–1866 to designs by Enderle and Freiwald after the Leopoldstadt Temple in Vienna. Devastated by the Iron Guard in January 1941 and restored after the war, it still holds services; its main hall reopened in 2015 after refurbishment.

The Spanish Riding School in Vienna's Hofburg preserves classical dressage and trains Lipizzaner horses; it was first named in 1565. Performances take place in the white Winter Riding School, built between 1729 and 1735, and visitors can also watch morning training or join a guided tour of the hall and stables.

St. Anne's Church is a medieval parish church in Augsburg, built from 1321 as the church of a Carmelite priory and Lutheran since 1548. Its Fugger Chapel, added from 1518 as a burial chapel for the Fugger merchant family, is one of the earliest Renaissance structures north of the Alps and has remained Catholic ever since.

The Ancient Theatre of Taormina is a Greek theatre of the third century BC, rebuilt under Roman rule in the second century AD on a slope above the sea. Its cavea, about 107 metres across, seated around 10,000 people, and the brick stage building frames the coast and Mount Etna. The Taormina Film Festival and summer concerts are held here.

The Book of Kells Experience at Trinity College Dublin shows the 9th-century illuminated gospel book in the Old Library, built in the 18th century, together with the Long Room and its oak bookcases. A second building, the Red Pavilion, holds digital exhibitions on the manuscript and the library's collections.

Meteora is a group of sandstone and conglomerate rock pillars between Kalabaka and Kastraki in Thessaly, on which Eastern Orthodox monks built 24 monasteries from the 14th century. Six survive, and the site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988. Roads and footpaths link the viewpoints, and each monastery is visited on its own.

Mont Faron is a 584-metre limestone mountain rising directly above Toulon and its harbour. A cable car climbs from the city to the flat summit, which can also be reached by a narrow one-way road; up there are 17th- to 19th-century forts, a memorial to the Allied landings in Provence of August 1944 and an animal park.

The National Wax Museum Plus is a waxworks in the Victorian Lafayette Building on Westmoreland Street, near O'Connell Bridge. It first opened in 1983 on Granby Row, moved to the Armoury on Foster Place and came here in 2017. Its rooms show wax figures of Irish historical figures, writers and musicians, Irish legends and film characters.

The Cavern Club is a cellar music venue on Mathew Street in Liverpool, opened as a jazz club in 1957, where the Beatles played 292 times between 1961 and 1963. The original cellar was filled in during railway works in 1973; the club reopened in 1984 in a reconstruction built partly with bricks from the old site, and has live music every day.

Castle Hill is the rocky hill between the old town and the port of Nice, where the town's castle stood from the 11th century until Louis XIV had it demolished in 1706. It is now a 19-hectare public park with shaded paths, the remains of the castle and the old cathedral, a waterfall built in 1885 and viewpoints over the Baie des Anges and the harbour.

The Royal Exhibition Building in the Carlton Gardens was built in 1879–1880 to designs by Joseph Reed for the Melbourne International Exhibition. The first Parliament of Australia opened in its Great Hall in 1901, and in 2004 it became the first building in Australia on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Guided tours lead up to the dome promenade.

The Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret is a 3.5-hectare botanical garden on Cap d'Antibes, created in 1857 by the botanist Gustave Thuret to test exotic plants in the Mediterranean climate. Now run by the research institute INRAE, it holds about 2,500 trees and shrubs from regions such as Australia, South Africa, California and Chile.

The Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, known locally as "il Santo", holds the tomb of the Franciscan saint, who died in 1231. Built from about 1232 to 1310, it mixes Romanesque, Byzantine and Gothic forms, with domes modelled on St Mark's in Venice. Donatello's equestrian statue of Gattamelata stands on the square in front.

The Natural History Museum Vienna opened in 1889 in a Neo-Renaissance building by Gottfried Semper and Carl von Hasenauer, facing its twin, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, on Maria-Theresien-Platz. Its halls hold the imperial natural history collections: minerals and meteorites, dinosaur skeletons, mounted animals and the Venus of Willendorf, a figurine about 29,500 years old.

Velká Amerika is a disused limestone quarry near Mořina, in the Bohemian Karst a few kilometres north of Karlštejn. Its sheer walls form a canyon about 750 m long and up to 80 m deep, partly filled by a lake; Czech films such as Lemonade Joe were shot here, and visitors look into it from paths along the rim.

The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus lies at the south-east edge of the Sanctuary of Asclepius, about 30 km east of Nafplio. Built in the late 4th century BC and credited by Pausanias to Polykleitos the Younger, it seats 13,000 to 14,000 around a round orchestra and stages ancient drama each summer. The ticket also covers the sanctuary and its museum.

A 702-metre limestone gorge cut by the Partnach stream below Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in places more than 80 metres deep. A path developed for visitors since 1912 follows the rock face through tunnels and a lit gallery blasted after a 1991 rockfall, passing close beneath waterfalls and overhangs.

St. Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic church on West Street in Drogheda, built in 1884 in the French Gothic style to designs by John O'Neill and William Henry Byrne. Its limestone west front has a tall gable and a rose window. Inside is the national shrine of St Oliver Plunkett, which holds the preserved head of the saint.

Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church is a Brabantine Gothic church in Mons, begun in 1450 for a chapter of noble canonesses and never fully completed. Inside are sculptures by Jacques Du Brœucq, 16th-century armorial stained glass, 29 chapels and the Car d'Or, the 18th-century processional chariot that carries the saint's relics; the treasury is a separate visit.

The Château de Castelnau-Bretenoux is a red-stone fortress on a hill above the Dordogne valley, built by the barons of Castelnau from the 12th century onwards. Its triangular enclosure has round towers, a keep and a deep ditch. The opera singer Jean Mouliérat restored it from 1896, and his furnished rooms are part of the visit.