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21. Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque)
Sultan Ahmed I's six-minaret imperial mosque, completed in 1617 and named for the blue İznik tiles that line its vast prayer hall.
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22. Casa Batlló
Gaudí's remodelled townhouse on Passeig de Gràcia, famous for its bone-like balconies, shimmering tiled façade and dragon-scaled roof, now an immersive house museum.
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23. Central Park
Manhattan's 843-acre green heart stretches from 59th to 110th Street, with lakes, meadows, bridges and landmarks such as Bethesda Terrace and Bow Bridge.
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24. Dubai Frame
A 150-metre picture-frame landmark in Zabeel Park whose glass-walled sky bridge looks over old Dubai on one side and the modern skyline on the other.
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25. Musée d’Orsay
A former Beaux-Arts railway station on the Left Bank holding the world's best-known collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
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26. National Gallery
The nation's collection of Western European paintings on Trafalgar Square, with free entry to works from the 13th to the early 20th century.
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27. National Gallery Singapore
Housed in the former Supreme Court and City Hall buildings, this gallery holds more than 9,000 works of Singaporean and Southeast Asian art.
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28. St Peter’s Basilica
Rebuilt between 1506 and 1626 to designs by Bramante, Michelangelo and Maderno, St Peter's is the vast papal basilica at the heart of Vatican City.
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29. Tokyo National Museum
Japan's oldest national museum, founded in 1872, with a vast collection of Japanese and Asian art and archaeology across several galleries in Ueno Park.
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30. Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn)
A riverside temple on the Thonburi bank, known for its towering central prang encrusted with colourful porcelain and seashell mosaics.
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31. Basilica Cistern
A sixth-century underground reservoir near Hagia Sophia, with 336 marble columns, two Medusa-head column bases and atmospheric lighting after its 2022 restoration.
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32. Imperial Palace East Gardens
The public gardens of the Imperial Palace, laid out on the Honmaru and Ninomaru grounds of the former Edo Castle in central Tokyo.
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33. Jim Thompson House
The canal-side teak home of the American silk entrepreneur Jim Thompson, now a museum of Southeast Asian art shown on guided tours.
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34. Jumeirah Mosque
A white stone mosque built in the Fatimid style in the late 1970s, one of the few in Dubai that non-Muslim visitors can tour with a guide.
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35. La Pedrera (Casa Milà)
Gaudí's undulating stone apartment building on Passeig de Gràcia, best known for its rooftop of sculpted chimneys and its recreated early-20th-century flat.
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36. National Museum of Singapore
Singapore's oldest museum, with roots going back to 1849, telling the nation's story inside a domed 19th-century building on Stamford Road.
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37. Notre-Dame de Paris
Paris's great Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, restored after the 2019 fire and reopened to visitors and worshippers in December 2024.
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38. Pantheon
Rebuilt under Hadrian around AD 126, the Pantheon still has the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome and has served as a church since 609.
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39. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
MoMA in Midtown holds one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary art, from Van Gogh and Picasso to film, design and photography.
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40. Westminster Abbey
The Gothic church beside Parliament where English and British monarchs have been crowned for centuries, full of royal tombs and memorials.
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