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Carcassonne Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Michael, stands in the Bastide Saint-Louis, the lower town. It was begun in 1247 as a parish church in southern Gothic style and, after the town was burned in 1355, was built into the new fortifications. It has been the bishop's seat since 1803; inside are a single wide nave and 14th-century stained glass in the choir.

Artist-run art building hosting exhibitions and cultural events in Odense, Denmark.

Pompeii is the Roman town buried under four to six metres of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 and excavated since the mid-18th century. Its archaeological park covers paved streets, the forum, temples, baths, theatres, the amphitheatre and painted houses, along with plaster casts of the victims.

The Koules is a Venetian fortress at the entrance to the old harbour of Heraklion, given its present form between 1523 and 1540. Reliefs of the Lion of St Mark mark its outer walls. Inside, 26 vaulted rooms on the ground floor once held stores and quarters, and the upper level with its gun positions looks out over the harbour.

An outdoor go-kart circuit beside Bali Hai Pier at the southern end of Pattaya, close to Walking Street, run by the Thai EasyKart chain founded in 2004. It has a 350-metre beginner track and an 800-metre racing circuit with digital lap timing, karts for children and adults, and a terrace overlooking the track; races start every ten minutes, also after dark.

The ruined tower of a Gothic Revival church designed by George Gilbert Scott and completed in 1874, once the tallest building in the world. Allied bombing in 1943 destroyed the nave, leaving only the spire, the walls and the crypt standing as a war memorial. A glass lift installed in 2005 carries visitors to a platform 75.3 metres up the tower.

Gozo Cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption, stands inside the Cittadella and was built in 1697–1711 to designs by Lorenzo Gafà on the site of earlier churches. It has no real dome: the flat ceiling of the crossing carries a dome painted in perspective by Antonio Manuele of Messina in 1739, which appears three-dimensional from the nave.

The Madrasa of Granada was founded in 1349 by the Nasrid sultan Yusuf I as the city's Islamic college, beside the main mosque on today's Calle Oficios. Its prayer hall with carved stucco survives inside a baroque palace built in 1722–1729 as Granada's city hall. The University of Granada now uses the building as a cultural centre with exhibitions.

The Basilica of San Zeno is a Romanesque church in Verona's San Zeno district, built over the tomb of the 4th-century bishop Saint Zeno. The present building dates mainly from the 12th century; its façade has a rose window and bronze door panels, and inside are the crypt with the saint's body, a cloister and Mantegna's San Zeno Altarpiece.

Seongeup Folk Village is a lived-in village in eastern Jeju, the seat of the old Jeongui county from 1423, where stone-walled houses with thatched roofs, a Confucian school and the county office survive. Residents still live here, and some houses are open to visitors, about 33 km from Jeju City.

The Great Beguinage is a walled quarter of about three hectares in the south of Leuven, founded in the early 13th century for beguines, lay religious women. Most of its almost 100 houses date from 1630 to 1670 and line streets on both banks of the Dyle around the Church of Saint John the Baptist. It belongs to KU Leuven and is on the UNESCO list.

The Grand Place, officially Place du Général-de-Gaulle, is Lille's historic main square, laid out as a market place in the Middle Ages. It is framed by Flemish-style facades including the 17th-century Vieille Bourse and the Théâtre du Nord, and at its centre stands the Column of the Goddess, raised in 1845 to honour the city's resistance in the siege of 1792.

A Dominican convent begun in 1230 in the city where the order was founded, whose brick church shaped the southern French Gothic style. In the choir a single column carries 22 vault ribs, known as the palm tree, and the relics of Thomas Aquinas lie in the church; the cloister, chapter house and Saint-Antonin chapel complete the visit.

St. Nicholas' Church is a parish church beside the Korenmarkt in Ghent, begun in the early 13th century in Scheldt Gothic of blue-grey Tournai stone. Its central crossing tower served as a watchtower and held the town bells before the Belfry was built, guilds added side chapels, and it houses a Cavaillé-Coll organ.

El Capricho is a summer villa in Comillas designed by Antoni Gaudí and built in 1883–1885 for Máximo Díaz de Quijano. One of his few works outside Catalonia, it has brick walls banded with green and sunflower tiles and a slender tower compared to a minaret. It became a museum in 2009; visits cover the rooms and the garden.

Palau Dalmases is a noble town house on Carrer de Montcada in La Ribera, rebuilt from 1698 for the merchant Pau Dalmases after the siege of 1697 left it in ruins. Its courtyard keeps a Baroque open staircase with Solomonic columns and a carved frieze of the Rape of Europa and Neptune's chariot. The house now hosts flamenco shows several times a day.

Birmingham Town Hall is a concert hall on Victoria Square, opened in 1834 to designs by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch. Modelled on the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome, it stands on a tall rusticated podium. Mendelssohn's Elijah and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius had their premieres here; it reopened in 2007 after restoration.

The National Coach Museum in Belém holds coaches and carriages of the Portuguese royal houses from the 16th to the 19th century, part of about 9,000 objects. Founded in 1905 in the 1787 riding school of Belém Palace, it moved most of the collection in 2015 into a new building opposite, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha.

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, reopened by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1602 in the room above the Divinity School, completed in 1488. Guided tours lead into Duke Humfrey's Library and the Divinity School of the Old Library, and the Weston Library on Broad Street holds exhibitions, the tour desk and a café.

Luisenpark is a 42-hectare park on the left bank of the Neckar in Mannheim, laid out between 1892 and 1903. It contains a Chinese garden, rose garden, arboretum and greenhouses, along with gondoletta boat rides and a 205-metre telecommunications tower with a revolving restaurant. Entry has required a paid ticket since 1975.