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The Gallery of Fine Arts in Split, founded in 1931, has been housed since 2009 in the former city hospital of 1792, beside the north wall of Diocletian's Palace. Its collection of more than 3,500 works runs from the 14th century to the present, with icons, old masters and Croatian artists such as Vlaho Bukovac, Ivan Meštrović and Emanuel Vidović.

The Great Market Hall is Budapest's main covered market at the Pest end of Liberty Bridge, designed by Samu Pecz and opened in 1897, with a roof of Zsolnay ceramic tiles. The ground floor holds stalls of produce, meat, paprika and salami, the basement fish and pickles, and the upper gallery food counters and handicraft stalls.

The Lobkowicz Palace is a 16th-century palace inside the Prague Castle complex, begun by Jaroslav of Pernštejn and the only building there in private hands. Since 2007 its audio-guided museum has shown the Lobkowicz Collections, with paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Canaletto, arms, instruments and Beethoven and Mozart manuscripts.

Gouda cheese shop and tasting room with several branches in central Amsterdam.

Storkyrkan, also called Stockholm Cathedral or the Church of St Nicholas, is the oldest church in Stockholm, standing in Gamla stan between the Royal Palace and Stortorget. Dedicated in 1306 and given its Baroque exterior in the 18th century, it keeps a brick-vaulted Gothic interior with a late medieval St George and the Dragon and the painting Vädersolstavlan.

San Michele in Foro is a Romanesque church in Lucca, built over the Roman forum, first recorded in 795 and rebuilt after 1070. Its 13th-century marble facade rises in four tiers of small loggias and is crowned by a 4 m statue of the Archangel Michael; a Madonna by Matteo Civitali (1480) stands at its corner.

The Christchurch Gondola is a 1-kilometre cable car that opened in 1992 and climbs from Heathcote Valley up Mount Cavendish in the Port Hills. The summit station, 445 metres above sea level, has a café and the Discovery Ride on the area's history, and looks across the city and the Canterbury Plains to the Southern Alps and down into Lyttelton Harbour.

Terra Mítica is a theme park on the edge of Benidorm, opened in 2000, whose areas are themed on the ancient Mediterranean: Egypt, Greece, Rome, Iberia and the islands. Its rides include roller coasters such as the wooden Magnus Colossus, water rides and drop towers, set among replica temples, columns and a lighthouse of Alexandria.

Fort Lovrijenac stands on a 37-metre rock outside Dubrovnik's western wall, guarding the approaches to the city by land and sea. First recorded in 1301, it has a triangular plan with three terraces and walls up to 12 metres thick. Its courtyard serves as a stage for plays during the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.

Siam Park is a Thai-themed water park in Costa Adeje, in the south of Tenerife, opened in September 2008 by the owners of Loro Parque. Its rides include the Tower of Power, a near-vertical slide that ends in a clear tube through a shark tank, a wave pool with a sand beach, a long lazy river and several bowl and funnel slides, set among buildings in Thai style.

Copernicus Science Centre is a science museum on the bank of the Vistula, opened in 2010 in a building by the RAr-2 architects with a garden on its roof. Its galleries hold several hundred hands-on exhibits for carrying out experiments yourself, and it has laboratories, a robot theatre and the Heavens of Copernicus planetarium in a boulder-shaped building.

Albertina Modern is the Albertina's museum of modern and contemporary art, opened in May 2020 in the Künstlerhaus on Karlsplatz, a Neo-Renaissance exhibition hall of 1868. It shows changing exhibitions drawn from a collection of art from the early 20th century to the present, including works from the former Essl Collection.

Laufen Castle stands on a rock above the Rhine Falls in Laufen-Uhwiesen, canton of Zurich, on the bank opposite Neuhausen and about 4 km from Schaffhausen. First recorded in 858 and rebuilt several times, it houses the Historama exhibition, and the Belvedere path and a glass lift lead down to viewing platforms beside the falls.

Safari park with drive-through and boat safari experiences, playground, resort hotel, and event venue in the Netherlands.

Forchtenstein Castle rises on a hill at 511 metres above the Wulka valley, south of Mattersburg in northern Burgenland. The Lords of Mattersburg built its 50-metre keep in the early 15th century; from 1622 the Esterházy family fortified and extended it. Guided tours show the armoury and the treasury with the family's collections of jewellery, clocks and curiosities.

The Ducal Palace of Urbino was built for Federico da Montefeltro from the mid-15th century, with the Dalmatian architect Luciano Laurana among its builders; its west front with two slender towers faces the valley. The palace houses the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, with works by Piero della Francesca, Raphael and Titian, and the duke's inlaid studiolo.

Pentridge Prison in Coburg, north of central Melbourne, held prisoners from 1851 until it closed in 1997. Its bluestone walls, gatehouse and cell blocks now stand within a housing and shopping precinct, and the National Trust runs guided tours inside H Division, the former maximum-security unit, telling the stories of inmates and warders.

Perdana Botanical Gardens, formerly the Lake Gardens, is a 92-hectare park in central Kuala Lumpur laid out from 1888 by the colonial treasurer Alfred Venning around a lake. It contains themed gardens for orchids and hibiscus and a deer park, and the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park and Butterfly Park lie within its grounds.

The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Conventual Franciscans, begun in 1228, two years after the saint's death. Built into the hillside with its friary, it has a Lower and an Upper Church above a crypt with his tomb, and frescoes by Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti.

A museum of world records on Østergade, part of Strøget, with exhibits such as a figure of the world's tallest man (272 cm), a sports gallery and an interactive game zone. Run by Ripley's, like Ripley's Believe It or Not! on the City Hall Square.