Data & verification
This site combines the locked ISN travel baseline with append-only, crosswalked research layers. Nothing is scraped live, so the honest thing to publish is how complete the current source set is, field by field.
Records #1001–#1500 arrived as a later drop in the middle of an audit. 148 of its 500 slots carry a recovered institution. After crosswalking them against the locked baseline, 14 duplicate identities were merged into existing cards and 134 genuine new cards were appended. The remaining 352 unresolved slots stay explicitly blocked and are not listed. Of the appended cards, 0 have re-recovered coordinates — the rest say “position pending” instead of pointing at a guess. Every appended record’s audit state is printed on its own page.
Field coverage
Enrichment runs field by field, so completeness is uneven. A bar that stops short is a field you should verify with the attraction before you travel.
Each record is pinned to a real, named institution first — the name and country come from the attraction’s own material or an official tourism board listing. Only then are hours, pricing and rules attached, so a filled field always belongs to the right place.
Websites and ticket links point at the operator, never a reseller or aggregator. Social handles are the operator’s own accounts. Where no official link could be confirmed, the field is left empty rather than guessed.
Coordinates are verified against the attraction’s own published visitor information, and they are what the directions button is drawn from. Records still in identity recovery carry no position at all rather than an approximate one, and say so where the coordinates would otherwise print. Street addresses follow local convention rather than a single global format.
Each photograph was found by searching Wikipedia for the attraction and its city, then accepted only if the article’s own coordinates sit within 20 km of the record’s — a name match alone would hand one tower’s photo to another. Where a record has no coordinates of its own, its city is looked up and the circle drawn around that instead, at 25 km. A candidate that names a different town, an administrative area, or a category rather than an institution is rejected however well it scores: “Museum of the Gulf Coast” otherwise matches an article about the coast. Anything left over fell to a Commons file named after the place. Maps, plans, logos and coats of arms are rejected outright.
Read this before you rely on it
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Opening times, last entry and ticket prices are true as of the verification date printed on each card. Seasonal closures, refurbishments and public holidays are not tracked. Confirm on the official site the week you travel.
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The export carries roughly 160 free-text category strings. They are collapsed into thirteen filterable types by rule, using the category and, where that is generic, the attraction name. A handful of edge cases will sit in a neighbouring bucket.
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Country and region names are reproduced as the export records them. World regions are a grouping applied here for browsing; they are editorial and carry no political meaning.
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Some records are verified for location and logistics but have no written description yet, and the newer batch has records where the institution is confirmed and everything else is still pending. Those cards say which of the two they are rather than borrowing marketing copy.
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Step-free access, lifts and facilities are summarised from published information. If access is essential to your visit, contact the attraction directly — a one-line note cannot cover a specific need.
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The attraction exports do not carry images. Photographs were matched offline from licensed Wikimedia files or an exact official/operator source and committed with their source and attribution — 1,098 of 1,548 current cards have one. Where no defensible photograph is available, the approved survey plate remains in the image well rather than showing a misleading picture. Some accepted photographs show the immediate setting, an interior, or an object from the collection rather than the building itself. Flags are artwork keyed to the country’s ISO code, and a country with no code in the registry shows its three-letter monogram instead.
Every card links straight out to the attraction’s own site, which is always the authority. This directory exists to get you to that door with the right expectations.
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