A point of interest, or POI, is a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting. An example is a point on the Earth representing the location of the Space Needle, or a point on Mars representing the location of the mountain, Olympus Mons. Most consumers use the term when referring to hotels, campsites, fuel stations or any other categories used in modern (automotive) navigation systems.
Points of interest
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10Tomb of Tu Duc
Tomb of Tu Duc is located in Hue, Vietnam. It is built for the Nguyen Emperor Tu Duc and took three years to build from 1864–1867. It is divided into a Temple Area and a Tomb Area.
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1Tower, Umm ar-Rasas
Tower, Umm ar-Rasas. The salient feature of Umm ar-Rasas stands about a mile (1.5 kilometers) north of the walled ruins. Interpreted to be a Stylite tower, the soaring structure served as a platform for Christian ascetics living in isolation at the top as well as an altar for a call to prayer.
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1Train Station (Estrada de Beja), Evora
Train Station (Estrada de Beja), Evora, Evora District and capital of the Alentejo region.
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2Train Station (Rua da Estacao, 5), Evora
Train Station (Rua da Estacao, 5), Evora, Evora District and capital of the Alentejo region.
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10Trier
Trier, formerly known in English as Treves, is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle. Trier lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border with Luxembourg and within the important Moselle wine region.
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7Upper Nagacadan Rice Terraces
Upper Nagacadan Rice Terraces. The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995, the first-ever property to be included in the cultural landscape category of the World Heritage List.
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5Varberg Radio Station
The Varberg Radio Station at Grimeton is a VLF transmission facility at Grimeton close to Varberg, in Halland, Sweden. It has the only working Alexanderson alternator rotating armature radio transmitter in the world and is classified as a World Heritage Site.
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10Vasilyevsky Island
Vasilyevsky Island is an island in St. Petersburg, Russia, bordered by the Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva Rivers in the south and northeast, and by the Gulf of Finland in the west. Vasilyevsky Island is separated from Dekabristov Island by the Smolenka River.
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8Vegaoyan
Vegaoyan or the Vega Archipelago, is a group of islands in the Norwegian Sea corresponding roughly to the municipality of Vega. Since 2004, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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1Vineyards around Arcos and Lajido
Vineyards around Arcos and Lajido, Pico Island, Central Group of the Portuguese Azores.
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10Visby
Visby is a locality and the seat of Gotland Municipality in Gotland County, on the island of Gotland, Sweden. The Hanseatic city of Visby is arguably the best-preserved medieval city in Scandinavia and since 1995, it is on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list
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5Wadi Dawkah Frankincense Park
Wadi Dawkah is a major place where the frankincense tree can still be found and frankincense is harvested to this day.
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1Water Wheel, Karavomilos Lake, Kefalonia Island
Water Wheel, Karavomilos Lake, Kefalonia Island, Greece.
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1Water Wheel, Katavothres, Kefalonia Island
Water Wheel, Katavothres, Kefalonia Island.
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1Wetland of Livadi
The wetland of Livadi is of great importance for the natural environment of Kefalonia and is very close to Lixouri , approximately 8 km.
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10Wittenberg
Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Situated on the river Elbe, it has a population of about 50,000.
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10Xidi
Xidi is a village in Yi County of the historical Huizhou region of Anhui province, China. It was declared a part of the "Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui" World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000, along with Hongcun.
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8Yangdong Folk Village
Yangdong Folk Village is a traditional village from the Joseon Dynasty. The village is located in Gangdong-myeon, sixteen kilometers northeast of Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, along the Hyeongsan River.
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7Zamkova Hora (Castle Hill), Kiev
Zamkova Hora (Castle Hill) in Kiev, Ukraine is a historical landmark in the center of the city. It is part of the city's geographic relief complex known as Kiev Mountains (or Kiev Hills).
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3Zamochok, Belz
Historical and cultural heritage of Belz is reflected in numerous sites of history, archeology, architecture, and arts. Zamochok, Belz.
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6Znamenka
Znamenka a manor on Peterhof Road, situated east of Alexandria Palace and Park Ensemble.
