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La Ferme aux Crocodiles is a zoological park devoted mainly to crocodilians at Pierrelatte in the Drôme, founded in 1994 by Luc and Éric Fougeirol. In a large tropical greenhouse, walkways and bridges lead over pools where Nile crocodiles, gharials and other species live, alongside giant tortoises, snakes and free-flying tropical birds.

The Warsaw Rising Museum is dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and opened on 31 July 2004, the 60th anniversary of its outbreak, in a former tram power station in the Wola district. Exhibits include weapons, armbands, letters and photographs, a replica B-24 Liberator bomber and a reconstructed sewer passage; a wall in the park bears the names of the fallen.

The Comedy Carpet is a public artwork on Blackpool Promenade in front of Blackpool Tower, designed by Gordon Young with typography by Why Not Associates and opened by Ken Dodd in 2011. Set into the Tower Festival Headland, its concrete and granite surface carries more than 160,000 letters spelling jokes, catchphrases and the names of comedians.

St. Vitus Cathedral is the Gothic cathedral of the Archbishop of Prague, in the third courtyard of Prague Castle. Begun in 1344 under Charles IV, it was completed only in 1929; it holds the tombs of Bohemian kings and the Chapel of St. Wenceslas, and its main tower is 102 metres high. The front of the nave can be entered without a ticket; the rest is on the castle circuit.

The Archaeological Museum of Rethymno occupies the church of St Francis, a 16th-century Venetian Franciscan church in the old town. Its displays present finds from sites around Rethymno, among them Neolithic pottery from the Gerani cave and painted Late Minoan clay coffins (larnakes) from the cemetery at Armenoi.

The last medieval stins left in Friesland, a brick tower house from the early fourteenth century at Feanwâlden, now open as a museum.

The Presidential Office Building in Zhongzheng district was completed in 1919 as the office of the Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan and has housed the president of the Republic of China since 1950. Its red-brick and stone façade with a 60-metre central tower faces Ketagalan Boulevard; parts of the ground floor open for guided visits on weekday mornings with photo ID.

Kawaiahaʻo Church in downtown Honolulu was built in 1836–1842 from about 14,000 blocks of coral cut from the reefs, to a design by the missionary Hiram Bingham. Hawaiian monarchs worshipped and were crowned here, and the tomb of King Lunalilo stands in the churchyard. The Congregational church still holds Sunday services, partly in Hawaiian.

SEA LIFE Timmendorfer Strand is an aquarium on the Kurpromenade in the Baltic Sea resort of Timmendorfer Strand, part of the Merlin Entertainments SEA LIFE chain. Its wave-shaped glass building holds themed tanks of marine and freshwater species, from the Baltic coast to tropical waters.

Performing arts venue in Esbjerg hosting concerts, theatre, comedy and family shows.

Münsterplatz is the paved square around Freiburg Minster, covering roughly 10,000 square metres and lined by the Historical Merchants' Hall, the Wentzinger House and the Korn House. A market has run here since the early 16th century and still operates daily except on 15 August, alongside three plague-memorial columns.

The Ortaköy Mosque, formally the Büyük Mecidiye Mosque, stands on the pier square of Ortaköy at the edge of the Bosphorus, beside the Bosphorus Bridge. Commissioned by Sultan Abdülmecid I and completed around 1854–1856, it is a Neo-Baroque design by Garabet and Nikoğos Balyan with a single dome and two slender minarets; it closes to visitors during prayers.

The National Museum of Art, Osaka is a largely underground museum on Nakanoshima island, designed by César Pelli and opened here in 2004 after leaving its first home on the Expo '70 site in Suita. Its collection of about 8,000 works covers Japanese and international art from 1945 onwards, shown in thematic displays that change several times a year.

The National Etruscan Museum occupies Villa Giulia, the Renaissance villa built for Pope Julius III in 1551–1553. Its collection is devoted to the Etruscans and Faliscans of ancient central Italy and includes the terracotta Sarcophagus of the Spouses from Cerveteri and the Apollo of Veii, shown in rooms around the villa's courtyards and nymphaeum.

The Hospices de Beaune, or Hôtel-Dieu, is a former hospital for the poor founded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins. It took in patients until the early 1970s and is now a museum; visitors see the glazed tile roofs of the courtyard, the great ward and Rogier van der Weyden's Last Judgement.

Theatre dating from 1796, the second oldest in Denmark, which also runs a drama school.

Kegon Falls drops 97 metres from Lake Chūzenji's outlet into a gorge in Nikkō National Park, about 17 km west of central Nikkō. An elevator, in service since 1930, descends 100 metres through the rock to an observation platform facing the foot of the fall; a second viewpoint sits at the top.

The Yorkshire Museum opened in 1830 in a Greek Revival building by William Wilkins, built for the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in what are now the Museum Gardens. Its collections cover archaeology, geology, biology and astronomy, with galleries on Roman York, the Vikings and Jurassic Yorkshire and objects such as the 15th-century Middleham Jewel.

The Monastery of Varlaam is a working Greek Orthodox monastery on a sandstone pillar at Meteora, above Kastraki and Kalabaka. The brothers Theophanes and Nektarios Apsaras from Ioannina resettled the rock in 1517; their church of All Saints, built in 1541–42, was painted with frescoes in 1548. It is part of the Meteora World Heritage Site.

The Chunuk Bair New Zealand Memorial is an 18-metre stone obelisk on the summit that New Zealand and British troops held from 8 to 10 August 1915, until an Ottoman counter-attack led by Mustafa Kemal retook it. Unveiled in 1925, it stands beside Chunuk Bair Cemetery, whose panels name about 850 New Zealanders with no known grave, near a statue of Atatürk.