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Marina Bay Sands is an integrated resort on Marina Bay, designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 2010. Its three hotel towers are joined at the top by the SkyPark platform; at their foot lie The Shoppes mall, with a canal on which sampan boats carry visitors, the ArtScience Museum, a theatre, a casino and a promenade along the bay.

Kiwi Park is a family-run wildlife sanctuary at the foot of the Skyline Gondola in Queenstown, created from 1984 on a former rubbish tip by Dick and Noeleen Wilson. Paths lead through native bush past aviaries and enclosures with more than 20 native species such as kiwi and kea, and kiwi encounters and a conservation show run several times a day.

M Leuven is the city's art museum, opened in 2009 in the former house of mayor Leopold Vander Kelen, extended to a design by Stéphane Beel. Its collection of about 46,000 works runs from late-Gothic sculpture and paintings by Dieric Bouts and Rogier van der Weyden to 19th-century works by Constantin Meunier and Jef Lambeaux and contemporary art.

Villa dei Vescovi is a Renaissance villa on a hill at Luvigliano in the Euganean Hills, built from 1535 to 1542 as a summer residence for the bishops of Padua to designs by Giovanni Maria Falconetto. Its loggias and rooms are frescoed by Lambert Sustris; owned by FAI since 2005, it stands among vineyards and a walled orchard.

The Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art in Jerez trains horses and riders in classical Spanish horsemanship. It grew out of a horse show first staged by Álvaro Domecq Romero in 1973 and is based at the Recreo de las Cadenas, a 19th-century palace designed by Charles Garnier. Visitors see training sessions, the stables and two museums.

Beitou Thermal Valley, also called Hell Valley, is a steaming hot-spring pool in a small ravine above Beitou, fed by acidic water at up to about 90 °C. A walkway with railings runs round the green pool, which gives off clouds of sulphurous vapour, and the spring's water supplies many of Beitou's bathhouses.

Holmenkollbakken is the ski jump on the Holmenkollen hill above Oslo, where ski jumping competitions have been held since 1892; the present hill by JDS Architects replaced the old one in 2010. The Ski Museum, founded in 1923, lies in the base of the jump and covers the history of skiing, and a lift takes visitors to a viewing platform 64 metres up at the top.

Zoo in Muizen, Mechelen, run by the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, which bought the Planckendael estate in 1956 and opened it to the public in 1960. Animals are grouped by continent in open, landscaped enclosures, including elephants, rhinos, bonobos and giraffes, and the estate's castle of 1780 stands at the old main entrance.

Grande-Sauve Abbey is the ruin of a Benedictine abbey founded in 1079 by Gerald of Sauve-Majeure in the Entre-Deux-Mers, east of Bordeaux, and a stop on the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. The roofless church, consecrated in 1231, keeps more than 80 carved capitals, beside a 13th-century bell tower and the walls of the monastic buildings.

Castello del Valentino is a Savoy residence in Parco del Valentino on the bank of the Po, rebuilt in the 17th century for Christine of France around a cobbled courtyard with four corner pavilions. It has belonged to the state since 1850 and houses the architecture department of the Politecnico di Torino; the state rooms are shown on booked Saturday-morning guided visits.

Cálem Port Cellars are the lodge of the Port house Cálem on the Gaia riverside, across the Douro from Porto's Ribeira. The firm was founded in 1859 by António Alves Cálem. The tour leads through an interactive museum on port wine and the Douro valley and through cellars of large vats and casks, and ends with a tasting; some sessions add a fado show.

The Jim Thompson House is a museum in the former home of the American silk merchant Jim Thompson, who assembled it in 1958-59 from six traditional teak houses, most brought from Ayutthaya, beside the Saen Saep canal. It shows his collection of Buddhist sculpture, Thai paintings and Chinese porcelain, and the main house is seen on guided tours.

Praça do Comércio is a square of about 175 by 175 metres on the Tagus waterfront, laid out after the 1755 earthquake on the site of the destroyed Ribeira Palace as part of the Marquis of Pombal's rebuilding of the Baixa. Arcaded buildings frame three sides, with an equestrian statue of King José I in the centre and the Rua Augusta Arch to the north.

Ca' Pesaro is a Baroque marble palace on the Grand Canal, designed by Baldassare Longhena in the mid-17th century and completed by Gian Antonio Gaspari in 1710. It houses the International Gallery of Modern Art, built up largely from works bought at the early Venice Biennales, and on its top floor the Museum of Oriental Art.

Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan opened in 1990 at Tempozan on Osaka Bay, in Minato ward. Visitors ride up to the eighth floor and walk down a spiral route past 16 main exhibits recreating habitats around the Pacific Rim, from a Japanese forest to Antarctica, arranged around a central Pacific Ocean tank 9 m deep in which whale sharks swim.

The Church of San Tirso stands beside Oviedo Cathedral and was founded under King Alfonso II at the end of the 8th century, reportedly by his architect Tioda. A fire in 1521 and later rebuilding left little of the first church; the main survival is a pre-Romanesque triple window at the east end. It is still in use as a parish church.

Museum of Danish industry on the old power and gas works site in Horsens, where the machines run and the history can be touched, heard and smelled.

The Ducal Palace in Mantua is the former residence of the Gonzaga, lords and later dukes of the city, a complex of more than 500 rooms with gardens and courtyards between Piazza Sordello and the lake. It grew from the 13th century on and includes the Castle of San Giorgio, where Andrea Mantegna painted the Camera degli Sposi.

Pressoria is a visitor centre about champagne, opened in 2021 in a former Pommery grape-pressing house at the foot of the Aÿ vineyards. Its rooms explain the vine, the harvest, pressing and blending through exhibits visitors can see, touch, smell and listen to, and the visit ends with a tasting.

The Bourbon Tunnel is an underground passage in Naples begun in the 1850s for King Ferdinand II to link the Royal Palace with the barracks on today's Via Morelli. Never finished, it cuts through older cisterns and quarries; it served as an air-raid shelter in the Second World War, and wrecked cars and motorbikes from a later vehicle pound still lie inside.