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The Wallace Collection is a national museum in Hertford House on Manchester Square, the former London townhouse of the Marquesses of Hertford. Bequeathed to the nation in 1897 and opened in 1900, its 25 galleries show Old Master paintings, French 18th-century paintings, furniture and porcelain, and a large collection of arms and armour.

The Maritime Museum occupies former spice warehouses of the Dutch East India Company, built from 1718 beside the old harbour of Sunda Kelapa in North Jakarta. Its long whitewashed halls show traditional boats and models from across Indonesia, old navigation instruments and objects from the colonial era. Part of the complex was damaged by a fire in 2018.

Miramare Castle is a 19th-century residence on a rocky promontory above the Gulf of Trieste, built from 1856 to 1860 to designs by Carl Junker for Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria, later Emperor of Mexico. Its rooms keep their original furnishings, and it stands in a 22-hectare park the archduke laid out with plants from around the world.

Oxford Castle and Prison is a visitor attraction in the remains of Oxford's Norman castle and the county jail that grew up on the site, which closed as HM Prison Oxford in 1996. Guided tours climb St George's Tower, thought to pre-date the castle, go down into the medieval crypt and walk through the former prison cells.

Sintra National Palace stands in the centre of Sintra and was a residence of the Portuguese kings from the early 15th to the late 19th century, built on the site of a palace of the Moorish rulers. Its two conical kitchen chimneys mark the skyline; inside are rooms with painted ceilings of swans and magpies and Mudéjar and Manueline tilework.

Aarhus's main music venue, built between 1979 and 1982 by Kjær & Richter, with ten stages and more than 3,600 seats in all.

The Lennon Wall is a graffiti-covered wall on Grand Priory Square in Prague's Lesser Town, opposite the French Embassy. After John Lennon's murder in 1980 an unknown artist painted his portrait here, and the wall became a place for messages against the communist government. It belongs to the Order of Malta, which limited painting to certain sections in 2019.

Torba Abbey grew around a late Roman watchtower of the Castelseprio fort in the Olona valley. In the 8th century Benedictine nuns turned the tower into an oratory and built a church and convent; frescoes of the nuns survive on its upper floor. Part of the UNESCO site of the Lombards in Italy, it was the first FAI property and opened to visitors in 1986.

St Stephen's Green is a Victorian park of about nine hectares at the top of Grafton Street, laid out by William Sheppard and reopened to the public by Lord Ardilaun in 1880. Paths lead past a lake with ducks and swans, a bandstand, flowerbeds around fountains, a garden for the blind and memorials such as the Fusiliers' Arch.

Spoleto Cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption, was built from the late 12th century after Frederick Barbarossa's troops destroyed the earlier church. Its Romanesque facade has eight rose windows and a mosaic of Christ signed by Solsternus in 1207, behind a porch added in the 15th century. Filippo Lippi began the apse frescoes of the Life of the Virgin and is buried here.

The Rocher des Doms is a rocky outcrop above the Rhône beside the Palais des Papes, settled since the Neolithic. Its summit holds a 19th-century English-style garden of about 3 hectares with a pond, statues of local figures and a terrace 30 m above the river looking over the Pont Saint-Bénézet and the Rhône valley.

The Gravensteen is a moated castle in the centre of Ghent, built in 1180 by Philip of Alsace and the residence of the Counts of Flanders until 1353. It later served as a court, prison, mint and cotton mill, was restored between 1893 and 1903, and visitors walk the gatehouse, keep, residence and ramparts.

The Romano-Germanic Museum is an archaeological museum in Cologne dedicated to the Roman city of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, on which modern Cologne stands. Its collection includes the Dionysus mosaic preserved on its original site and one of the world's largest collections of Roman glass. While its building on Roncalliplatz is closed for renovation, a selection of the collection is shown at the Belgian House on Cäcilienstraße.

The Albertinum is a sandstone Renaissance Revival museum building on Brühl's Terrace, named after King Albert of Saxony. It houses the Dresden State Art Collections' New Masters Gallery and Sculpture Collection, showing paintings and sculpture from the Romantic period to the present.

The Sisi Museum is devoted to Empress Elisabeth of Austria and has been housed since 2004 in the Stephan apartments of the Hofburg, entered from the Michaelerkuppel. Personal belongings of the empress illustrate her life, and the visit continues through the Imperial Apartments, the Habsburgs' winter residence.

The Schlumberger Kellerwelten are the vaulted cellars of the Schlumberger sparkling-wine house on Heiligenstädter Straße in Döbling, a company founded by Robert Schlumberger in 1842. Tours of 30 to 45 minutes, with an audio guide in eight languages, explain the traditional bottle-fermentation method and end with a tasting.

Hakone Shrine is a Shinto shrine on the shore of Lake Ashi, founded according to tradition in 757. Stone steps lead up through cedar forest to the red main hall, and its Torii of Peace stands in the lake. The precinct also holds the Kuzuryū Shrine's branch hall and a treasure hall with the shrine's cultural properties.

St Anne's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral on Donegall Street in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter, built in Romanesque style from 1899 to designs by Thomas Drew and completed in stages until 1981. It holds the tomb of Edward Carson, mosaics of Saint Patrick, and the 40-metre steel Spire of Hope added in 2007.

Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space in London's West End, built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. The corner building on its northern side carries a large curved video display, and the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, topped by an aluminium figure of Anteros often taken for Eros, stands on the plaza.

The Sonobudoyo Museum is a museum of Javanese history and culture beside the north square of Yogyakarta, opened in 1935 on the initiative of the Java Instituut. Its collection includes Neolithic ceramics, 8th-century bronze sculptures, wayang puppets, keris daggers and masks, and wayang and dance performances are staged there in the evening.