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The New Palace in Meersburg was built from 1710 as residence of the Prince-Bishops of Constance, replacing the cramped medieval castle next door. Bishop Johann Franz von Stauffenberg began the work; his successors brought in architects tied to Balthasar Neumann to add a grand staircase, pink Baroque facades and a chapel. It served the bishopric until 1803.

Old Porvoo is the historic centre of Porvoo on the bank of the Porvoo River, with a street plan from the Middle Ages and wooden houses mostly built between 1760 and 1820, after a fire destroyed much of the town. Visitors see the red storehouses along the river, cobbled lanes, the Old Town Hall square and the cathedral hill.

The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a former royal palace west of Paris, rebuilt for Francis I from 1539 around Saint Louis's 13th-century chapel and used by the court until Louis XIV moved to Versailles in 1682. Since 1867 it has housed the Musée d'Archéologie nationale, and its gardens include Le Nôtre's Grande Terrasse above the Seine.

Hadrian's Library is the ruin of a large complex built by the Roman emperor Hadrian in AD 132 on the north side of the Acropolis, beside Monastiraki Square. Visitors see the Corinthian columns of its west front, the remains of the colonnaded courtyard and of the halls that held papyrus rolls, and the ruins of three churches built on the site from the 5th century on.

The Biarritz Aquarium, also known as the Musée de la Mer, occupies an Art Deco building opened in 1933 on the Atalaye plateau, facing the Rocher de la Vierge. Some fifty tanks show the marine life of the Bay of Biscay and of tropical seas, including sharks and a seal pool, and rooms cover fishing and the history of whaling in Biarritz.

Dover Castle stands on the cliffs above the port of Dover in Kent. Founded in the 11th century, it took its present shape under Henry II, whose great keep was built by Maurice the Engineer, and its grounds also hold a Roman lighthouse. Tunnels dug into the cliff from 1803 served in 1940 as the headquarters for the Dunkirk evacuation.

The Arashiyama Bamboo Grove is a stand of tall mōsō bamboo in the Sagano area of western Kyoto. A path of a few hundred metres, lined with low brushwood fences, runs through it near the north gate of Tenryū-ji and Nonomiya Shrine. The Ministry of the Environment lists the sound of wind in the bamboo among Japan's 100 soundscapes.

The Kyoto Imperial Palace was the residence of Japan's emperors until the capital moved to Tokyo in 1869. Visitors follow a set route through the walled grounds in Kyoto Gyoen and see the halls, among them the Shishinden ceremonial hall, from outside; the present buildings date from 1855, and guided tours run several times a day.

Madame Tussauds Blackpool is a waxworks museum on the Promenade, opened in 2011 in place of Louis Tussauds Waxworks, which had occupied the site since 1929. More than 80 wax figures of celebrities, athletes, musicians and television characters are set out in themed zones such as Coronation Street and Strictly Come Dancing.

Rastoke is the old mill village of Slunj, where the Slunjčica river splits into channels and falls over travertine cascades into the Korana. Recorded since the 17th century and protected as a cultural monument, it has wooden watermills and houses built over the water; a footpath and the public road lead through it, and some mills open to visitors.

Oslo City Hall, the red-brick seat of the city council by the harbour, was built from 1931 to 1950 to designs by Arnstein Arneberg and Magnus Poulsson, with a pause during the Second World War. Its two towers rise 63 and 66 metres; inside, murals by Henrik Sørensen and Alf Rolfsen cover the main hall, where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded each December.

La Foncalada is a public fountain built over a spring outside the old walls of Oviedo in the 9th century, under the Asturian kings. The small vaulted stone house is crowned by the Victory Cross, with Latin inscriptions below it. It is one of the few early medieval civil works for public use still standing, and part of the UNESCO site.

A botanical garden covering the whole of Kitchener's Island, a narrow island in the Nile west of Elephantine at Aswan. Lord Kitchener laid it out in the early 20th century with exotic trees, many from India, and it later became a government botanical research station; visitors reach it by boat and walk its shaded paths among palms and tropical plants.

Church of Denmark parish church in the Christianshavn district of Copenhagen, holding Sunday services and hosting concerts and cultural events.

Hospital in the Rock is a former emergency hospital and nuclear bunker in the caves beneath Buda Castle, built from 1939 and used during the 1944–45 siege of Budapest and the 1956 revolution. Now a museum, it is seen on guided tours through wards and operating theatres furnished with original equipment and wax figures.

Tallinn Old Town is the medieval centre of Tallinn, made up of the upper town on Toompea Hill and the lower town of merchants and craftsmen, ringed by its medieval town wall. Its 13th-century street plan and buildings dating mostly from the 13th to 16th centuries have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997; the area covers 113 hectares.

Castelvecchio Museum is Verona's civic art museum, housed in the brick castle that Cangrande II della Scala built beside the Adige in the 1350s. The architect Carlo Scarpa remodelled it between 1959 and 1973; the collection covers Romanesque sculpture, the equestrian statue of Cangrande I, Veronese painting, arms and old bells.

Side Museum occupies a Roman bath of the 2nd century AD opposite the agora of ancient Side, restored in 1959–1961 and opened as a museum in 1962. It shows finds from the city's excavations: statues, reliefs, sarcophagi, inscriptions in Greek and in the local Sidetic language, and coins of the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods, with more stonework in the garden.

The Chiesa del Purgatorio is a Baroque church on Piazza della Repubblica, at the entrance to Ragusa Ibla, dedicated to the souls in purgatory. The present building was begun in 1740 and its three-tier facade, reached by a steep stairway, was finished in 1757. Inside are an altarpiece of the souls in purgatory by Francesco Manno and a cornice carved with skulls.

The Invisible Exhibition is an interactive tour on the second floor of the New Town Hall on Charles Square, in Prague since 2011. Blind and partially sighted guides lead visitors through seven rooms in total darkness, where everyday tasks such as crossing a street or paying in a café are done by touch, hearing and smell.