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Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, on the coast about 27 km south of Kailua-Kona, preserves a place of refuge where Hawaiians who had broken a kapu or fled battle could be spared. A massive lava-stone wall of the 16th century encloses the sanctuary, guarded by the rebuilt Hale o Keawe temple and its carved wooden kiʻi; the royal grounds and fishponds lie beside it.

Wellington Quarry is a First World War memorial 20 metres beneath Arras, in medieval chalk quarries that New Zealand tunnellers linked from November 1916 into a network able to shelter 24,000 soldiers before the Battle of Arras of 9 April 1917. Opened in 2008, it is seen on a guided tour; a lift leads down to tunnels marked with soldiers' graffiti.

Place Kléber is the largest square in the centre of Strasbourg, named after General Jean-Baptiste Kléber, who was born in the city in 1753. His statue of 1838 stands over the vault holding his remains, and the north side is closed by the Aubette, built by Jacques-François Blondel in 1765–1772. In winter the square holds the city's great Christmas tree.

Parque del Drago is a garden of about three hectares in Icod de los Vinos, laid out between 1997 and 2000 around El Drago Milenario, a dragon tree declared a national monument in 1917 and thought to be 800 to 1,000 years old. Paths through the Caforiño ravine pass native Canary Island plants and lead to a cave that recreates the life of the Guanches.

The Cathedral of St. Bartholomew is a Gothic church in the middle of Republic Square in Pilsen, begun after 1342 on a church site founded with the town around 1295; it became a cathedral in 1993. Its tower is 102 metres high and can be climbed, and the high altar holds the Pilsen Madonna, a stone statue from about 1380.

Monserrate Palace is a 19th-century villa in the hills west of Sintra, rebuilt from 1858 for the English collector Francis Cook to designs by James Knowles, mixing Gothic, Indian and Moorish motifs under a red dome. The surrounding park holds plants gathered from several continents, laid out around lawns, lakes and a ruined chapel.

Glendalough is a glacial valley in the Wicklow Mountains where St Kevin founded a monastery in the 6th century. The remains of the monastic settlement near the Lower Lake include a round tower about 30 metres high, St Kevin's Church with its stone roof, the cathedral and carved crosses. Trails lead along the valley to the Upper Lake.

The Vatican Gardens cover about 23 hectares, roughly half of Vatican City, on the hill behind St. Peter's Basilica. Laid out from the Renaissance onwards, they combine formal parterres, woodland, fountains and sculptures with buildings such as the Casina of Pius IV and the Governor's Palace. Visits take place on guided tours booked through the Vatican Museums.

The Accademia Carrara is an art gallery in Bergamo founded around 1780 by the collector Giacomo Carrara, in a Neoclassical building remodelled by Simone Elia in 1808–1813. Its collection covers Italian painting from the 15th to the 19th century, with works by Pisanello, Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Raphael, Lorenzo Lotto and Giovan Battista Moroni.

The Palais du Pharo is a Second Empire residence on a headland at the entrance to Marseille's Old Port, begun in 1858 for Napoleon III and almost finished when the Empire fell in 1870. The building is now a congress centre and is not open for visits; its public garden, the Jardin Émile Duclaux, surrounds the palace and overlooks the harbour and Fort Saint-Jean.

Catalunya en Miniatura is a miniature park opened in 1983 in Torrelles de Llobregat, about 17 km from Barcelona. Across some 60,000 m² of gardens it displays around 150 scale models of buildings from Catalonia and Mallorca, among them Gaudí's major works, Montserrat and the Camp Nou, and it also has a rope and zip-line adventure course.

The Church of San Mateo is the main church of Tarifa, begun around 1506 with three naves under elaborate Gothic rib vaults. Its tall Baroque main façade was designed by Torcuato Cayón de la Vega in 1774 and completed four years later, and the square bell tower ends in a fluted dome. The round Sagrario chapel beside the crossing was added in the 18th century.

The Copenhagen house on Øster Voldgade where Jón Sigurðsson, leader of Iceland's independence movement, and his wife Ingibjörg lived from 1852 until 1879.

The Basilica of the Visitation is the parish church of Għarb, a village in the west of Gozo. Built in 1699–1729, its curved Baroque facade with two bell towers and statues of Faith, Hope and Charity is modelled on Borromini's Sant'Agnese in Agone in Rome. The church faces the village square, lined with traditional Gozitan houses.

The Collegiate Church of St Bartholomew in Liège is a Romanesque church in the Mosan style, built from the late 11th to the late 12th century, with a twin-towered westwork and red-and-white walls. It was restored from 1999 to 2006. It keeps the brass baptismal font made in the early 12th century and attributed to Renier de Huy, resting on oxen and showing five baptism scenes.

Yehliu Ocean World is an aquarium and marine show venue beside Yehliu Geopark in Wanli, on New Taipei's north coast, opened in 1980. Its aquarium halls show fish, corals and other sea life, and its circular show hall stages performances with sea lions and divers.

The Murinsel is an artificial floating platform of steel and glass in the middle of the river Mur in Graz, designed by the New York artist Vito Acconci for the European Capital of Culture year 2003. About 47 metres long and shaped like a shell, it is reached by footbridges from both banks and holds a café, a small open-air amphitheatre and a children's play area.

The Istanbul Sapphire Skydeck is the observation terrace of Istanbul Sapphire, a 261-metre residential and shopping tower in the Levent business district designed by Tabanlıoğlu Architects and completed in 2010. Binoculars look out over the Bosphorus and both continents, and the deck adds a café and Skyride, a 4D helicopter flight simulation over the city.

Yehliu Geopark covers a cape on the north coast in Wanli, New Taipei, about 30 km from central Taipei. Wind and waves have shaped its sandstone into mushroom rocks, honeycomb hollows and candle-shaped formations; the one called the Queen's Head stands in the cape's first section.

The Eternal Golden Castle, or Erkunshen Battery, is a coastal fort in Anping District, Tainan, built from 1874 to 1876 by the Qing official Shen Baozhen after the Japanese expedition to Taiwan. The square earthwork has corner bastions and a moat; a red-brick gate bearing its name leads to a parade ground with replica cannons.