Landmarks, museums, historic sites, parks and viewpoints that draw visitors to a city, with practical notes on planning a visit.
320 places · Updated November 12, 2026
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Denmark's largest museum of cultural history, in a former royal mansion near Slotsholmen, home to the Sun Chariot, the Egtved Girl, the Gundestrup Cauldron and major Viking finds.
View details — National Museum of DenmarkAttraction
A cathedral-like Victorian museum in South Kensington with free galleries of dinosaurs, minerals, wildlife and earth sciences.
View details — Natural History MuseumAttraction
Built for Expo '98 on a pier in Parque das Nações, Lisbon's aquarium centres on a five-million-litre tank holding sharks, rays and an ocean sunfish.
View details — Oceanário de LisboaAttraction
Madrid's best-loved park, a former royal garden of around 118 hectares with a boating lake, the Crystal Palace and a rose garden, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
View details — Parque del Buen RetiroAttraction
Milan's main picture gallery in the Palazzo di Brera, with Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Caravaggio and Hayez's The Kiss.
View details — Pinacoteca di BreraAttraction
Florence's medieval bridge over the Arno, rebuilt in 1345, lined with jewellers' shops and crossed above by the Medici's Vasari Corridor.
View details — Ponte VecchioAttraction
The Reykjavik Art Museum's contemporary art venue in a converted harbour warehouse on Tryggvagata, with a permanent showing of works by the pop artist Erró.
View details — Reykjavik Art Museum HafnarhúsAttraction
The oldest crossing of the Grand Canal, a single-span stone arch completed in 1591 to a design by Antonio da Ponte, lined with shops on both ramps.
View details — Rialto BridgeAttraction
The drained valley between the Palatine and Capitoline hills, the Roman Forum was the centre of public life in ancient Rome for more than a thousand years.
View details — Roman Forum and Palatine HillAttraction
Former residence of the Spanish viceroys and Bourbon kings on Piazza del Plebiscito, with a grand staircase, royal apartments and a court theatre.
View details — Royal Palace of Naples (Palazzo Reale)Attraction
A multimedia museum beneath the Main Market Square where glass walkways run over excavated medieval streets, workshops and trading stalls of early Kraków.
View details — Rynek UndergroundAttraction
Porto's central station, opened in 1916, whose entrance hall is lined with about 20,000 azulejo tiles by Jorge Colaço depicting Portuguese history.
View details — São Bento Railway StationAttraction
A giant timber canopy over the Plaza de la Encarnación, with a rooftop walkway and 360-degree views, a Roman and Moorish museum below and a food market.
View details — Setas de Sevilla (Metropol Parasol)Attraction
An onion-domed Orthodox cathedral inspired by the churches of Moscow, with a richly decorated interior of icons, frescoes, carved wood and a metal iconostasis.
View details — St Nicholas Russian Orthodox CathedralAttraction
Hamburg's largest church and a symbol of the city, with a 132-metre Baroque tower, a viewing platform about 83 metres up and a crypt where C.P.E. Bach is buried.
View details — St. Michael’s Church (Hamburger Michel)Attraction
Mimar Sinan's monumental mosque for Suleiman the Magnificent, completed in 1557 on the Third Hill, with the tombs of the sultan and Hürrem Sultan.
View details — Süleymaniye MosqueAttraction
The colossal ruins of the Olympieion, begun in the 6th century BC and finished by Hadrian, with 15 Corinthian columns still standing.
View details — Temple of Olympian ZeusAttraction
The best-preserved gate of Valencia's medieval walls, built by Pere Balaguer between 1392 and 1398, with views over the Turia garden from its battlements.
View details — Torres de SerranosAttraction
Prince Eugene's Baroque summer palace, now a museum of Austrian art holding Klimt's The Kiss, with terraced French gardens running down to the Lower Belvedere.
View details — Upper BelvedereAttraction
Amsterdam's best-known park, 47 hectares of lawns, ponds and paths that opened in 1865 and is named after the poet Joost van den Vondel.
View details — Vondelpark