The Bishop of London is seated in St Paul's Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral in London. The cathedral is the mother church of the London Diocese. It is a Grade I listed building on Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London. The dedication to Paul the Apostle dates back to the founding of the original church on this site in AD 604. Sir Christopher Wren designed the current structure in the English Baroque style in the late 17th century. It was part of a large reconstruction initiative in the city following the Great Fire of London, and was completed during Wren's lifetime. Old St Paul's Cathedral, which was partially destroyed in the Great Fire, was a significant centre for medieval and early modern London, including Paul's Walk and St Paul's Churchyard, which was the site of St Paul's Cross.

The cathedral is one of London's most well-known and identifiable landmarks. For nearly 300 years, its dome has dominated the skyline, framed by the spires of Wren's City churches. From 1710 to 1963, it was the highest building in London, standing at 365 feet (111 meters). The dome is still one of the tallest in the world. After Liverpool Cathedral, St Paul's is the second-largest church edifice in the area in the United Kingdom. With unique and luxurious architecture, this cathedral is ranked in the top of the most beautiful buildings which like to visit in the world.

Many promotional materials feature photos of St Paul's Cathedral, including views of the dome engulfed by smoke and fire from the Blitz. The cathedral is a functioning church with daily services and hourly prayer. The tourist entrance cost is £20 for adults at the door (August 2020; less if booked online), although there is no charge for worshipers attending advertised services.

Location: London, EC4, England.

Marina Bay Sands is an integrated resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore. The Las Vegas Sands Corporation owns the resort, which opened in 2010 as the world's most costly standalone casino property, costing S$8 billion (US$6.88 billion).

A 2,561-room hotel, a 120,000-square-metre (1,300,000-square-foot) convention center, the 74,000-square-metre (800,000-square-foot) The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands mall, a museum, a large theater, "celebrity chef" restaurants, two floating crystal pavilions, art-science exhibits, and the world's largest atrium casino with 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines are all part of the resort. The complex consists of three towers connected by a 340-meter-long (1,120-foot) SkyPark with a seating capacity of 3,902 people and a 150-meter-long (490-foot) infinity swimming pool, which is located on top of the world's largest public cantilevered platform, which extends 66.5 meters overhanging the north tower (218 ft). Moshe Safdie architects designed the 20-hectare resort.

Marina Bay Sands hosts a midnight multimedia extravaganza called Wonder Full. It was created by Laservision, an Australian multimedia firm, and includes Laservision technology such as Stella Ray. The event begins with a single drop of water, which symbolizes the beginning of life. It progresses through critical stages of a person's life, such as childhood, adolescence, and maturity.

Location: Bayfront Subzone, Downtown Core, Singapore

Westminster Abbey, formerly known as the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a huge, primarily Gothic abbey church located in the City of Westminster, London, England, immediately west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the most famous ecclesiastical buildings in the United Kingdom, as well as the traditional place of coronation and burial for English and later British monarchs. Since William the Conqueror's coronation in 1066, all English and British monarchs have been crowned in Westminster Abbey. Since 1100, the Abbey has hosted sixteen royal weddings.

The church was built as part of a Benedictine abbey that was dissolved in 1539. It thereafter served as the Diocese of Westminster's cathedral until 1550, and then as a second cathedral of the Diocese of London until 1556. In 1556, Mary I restored the abbey to the Benedictines, and Queen Elizabeth I constituted it a royal peculiar—a church that reports directly to the sovereign—in 1559.

More than 3,300 people are buried in the Abbey, most of whom are famous in British history: at least 16 monarchs, eight prime ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military commanders, and the Unknown Warrior—Geoffrey Chaucer was the first person buried in the Abbey's Poets' Corner in 1400. As a result, Westminster Abbey is frequently referred to as "Britain's Valhalla," after Norse mythology's legendary hall of the chosen heroes.

Location: Dean's Yard, London, SW1, England

Osaka Castle is a Japanese castle in Osaka's Ch-ku district. The castle is one of Japan's most iconic landmarks, and it played a key part in Japan's unification during the Azuchi-Momoyama period in the sixteenth century. The castle is highly valued both aesthetically and architecturally, so it is considered one of the most beautiful buildings which like to visit in the world.

The main tower of Osaka Castle is located on a one-square-kilometer parcel of land. It is built on two raised landfill platforms, each overlooking a moat, supported by sheer walls of cut rock using a technique known as Burdock piling. The primary castle building is five stories high on the outside and eight stories high on the inside, and it sits atop a high stone foundation to keep invaders at bay.

A network of moats and defensive defenses surround the Main Tower. Two moats surround the castle (an inner & outer). The inner castle moat is located within the castle grounds and is divided into two types: wet (northern-easterly) and dry (southern-easterly) (south-westerly). Meanwhile, the outer moat surrounds the entire castle premise, marks the castle's exterior borders, and is divided into four separate water-filled portions, each representing a cardinal direction (North, East, South, West).

The grounds of the castle, which measure around 61,000 square meters (15 acres), feature thirteen structures designated by the Japanese government as "important cultural assets."

Location: Chūō, ‎Osaka, Japan

The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, also known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is an Orthodox church in Moscow's Red Square and one of the country's most well-known cultural landmarks. The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, or Pokrovsky Cathedral, is the official name of the edifice, which is now a museum. It was constructed under Ivan the Terrible's instructions between 1555 and 1561 to commemorate the conquering of Kazan and Astrakhan. Until the Ivan the Great Bell Tower was completed in 1600, it was the city's tallest structure.

The initial structure, known as Trinity Church and later Trinity Cathedral, had eight chapels organized around a ninth, central chapel dedicated to the Intercession; in 1588, a 10 chapel was built over the burial of the beloved local saint Vasily (Basil). In the 16th and 17th centuries, the church, which was regarded as the earthly symbol of the Heavenly City (as were all churches in Byzantine Christianity), was dubbed "Jerusalem" and served as an allegory of the Jerusalem Temple in the annual Palm Sunday parade attended by the Patriarch of Moscow and the Tsar.

Saint Basil's Cathedral was stolen from the Russian Orthodox community as part of the Soviet Union's anti-religious operations, and it has been operated as a component of the State Historical Museum since 1928. It was totally secularized in 1929 and is now a Russian Federation state property. Since 1990, the church has been a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square. Weekly Orthodox Christian services including a prayer to St. Basil have been resumed since 1997, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Location: Red Square, Moscow, Russia

Casa Milà, also known as La Pedrera or "The Stone Quarry," is a Modernista structure in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is notable for its unusual rough-hewn look. It was erected between 1906 and 1912 and was the last private mansion created by architect Antoni Gaud.

Pere Milà and his wife Roser Segimon commissioned the structure in 1906. Josep Maria Jujol designed it, and it was controversial at the time because of its undulating stone exterior and twisting wrought-iron balconies. A self-supporting stone façade, a free-plan floor, an underground garage, and a stunning roof terrace are among the structural innovations.

UNESCO designated Casa Milà as a World Heritage Site in 1984. Since 2013, it has served as the headquarters of the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, which oversees the building's tours, exhibitions, and other cultural and educational events

Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, or Florence Cathedral, is the cathedral of Florence, Italy (Italian: Duomo di Firenze). It was built in the Gothic style in 1296, according to Arnolfo di Cambio's plan, and was physically completed in 1436, with the dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. The basilica's exterior is clad in poly chrome marble panels in various colors of green and pink, bordered by white, and has Emilio De Fabris' magnificent 19th-century Gothic Revival façade.

The Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile are part of the cathedral complex on Piazza del Duomo. These three structures are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site that encompasses Florence's old center and are a popular tourist destination in Tuscany. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and the dome was the world's largest until the invention of new structural materials in the modern age. It is still the largest brick dome ever built.

The Archdiocese of Florence, whose archbishop is Giuseppe Betori, has its mother church in the cathedral.

Location: Florence, Tuscany, Italy

The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum in Agra, India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. It was built in 1632 by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658) to contain the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, his favorite wife, as well as Shah Jahan's own mausoleum. The tomb is placed in formal gardens surrounded on three sides by a crenelated wall, and is the centerpiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex that includes a mosque and a guest house.

The mausoleum was substantially finished in 1643, but work on other aspects of the project proceeded for another ten years. The Taj Mahal complex is thought to have been finished in its entirety in 1653 at a cost of around 32 million pounds, which would be around 70 billion pounds in 2020 (around $1 billion). 20,000 artisans worked on the project, which was overseen by a board of architects chaired by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, the emperor's court architect. The Taj has used various sorts of symbolism to depict natural beauty and divinity.

In 1983, the Taj Mahal was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site for being "India's jewel of Muslim art and one of the world's most universally admired masterpieces." Many consider it to be the finest example of Mughal architecture and a symbol of India's long history. The Taj Mahal has over 6 million tourists each year and was named one of the New 7 Wonders of the World (2000–2007) initiative winners in 2007.

Location: Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

The Nationale-Nederlanden building on the Ranovo nábe (Ranovo Embankment) in Prague, Czech Republic, is known as the Dancing House, or Fred and Ginger. It was built on an empty riverbank property by Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Miluni in collaboration with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The structure was completed in 1992. The BESIX-led building project was finished four years later, in 1996. The house was originally dubbed Fred and Ginger (after the performers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - the house resembles a pair of dancers), but Gehry no longer uses that moniker.

Due to its odd shape, the style is recognized as constructivist architecture ("new-baroque" to the designers). 99 concrete panels, each with a different shape and dimension, support the "dancing" shape. A massive twisted metal structure dubbed Mary' stands atop the structure.

The Dancing House is divided into two portions and is located in the heart of a square of buildings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first is a glass tower with undulating moldings and misaligned windows that narrow to half its height and is supported by carved pillars; the second runs parallel to the river and has undulating moldings and misaligned windows. In the construction, the famous dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are shown. A tower made of rock is used to represent Fred. This tower also includes a metalhead. A tower made of glass is used to represent Ginger.

Location: Prague, C R

Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century historicist palace in southwest Bavaria, Germany, on a steep hill above the hamlet of Hohenschwangau near Füssen. King Ludwig II of Bavaria commissioned the mansion as a retreat and in honor of Richard Wagner. Rather than using Bavarian public finances, Ludwig preferred to pay for the castle with his personal fortune and substantial borrowing. Construction on the building began in 1869, but was never completed.

Neuschwanstein Castle is made up of numerous structures that were built across a 150-meter span on the edge of a cliff crest. Numerous towers, ornate turrets, gables, balconies, pinnacles, and statues adorn the elongated structure. Most window openings are bi- and triforia, in keeping with the Romanesque architecture. The ensemble of distinct buildings affords various scenic views of the palace from all sides, set against the backdrop of the Tegelberg and the Pöllat Gorge in the south and the Alpine foothills with their lakes in the north. It was created in the image of a romantic knight's castle. Unlike "actual" castles, which are usually the result of centuries of construction, Neuschwanstein was designed from the start to be an intentionally lopsided structure that was built in stages. The uniqueness and creativity in the architecture make this castle one of the most beautiful buildings which like to visit in the world.

The castle was built with the intention of serving as the King's private abode until his death in 1886. Shortly after his death, it was opened to the public. More than 61 million tourists have visited Neuschwanstein Castle since then. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer.

Location: Hohenschwangau, Germany