Famous for its rolling three-month residencies, XOYO turned a simple programming idea into one of London's most influential club formats after opening in Shoreditch in 2010. By handing a single artist a curated season of dates, it let DJs build immersive runs of nights and gave clubbers a reason to return week after week. The two-floor venue pairs a pulsing basement dancefloor with an upper level, creating distinct spaces under one roof. Its residency series has hosted a roll-call of leading n.....

A collectively run club with politics woven into its DNA, about blank stands apart from Berlin's commercial nightlife. Opened in 2010 on Markgrafendamm near Ostkreuz, it is operated as a non-hierarchical project that channels proceeds into leftist, anti-fascist and queer causes. Spread across two indoor floors and a much-loved garden, it offers one of the city's most charming open-air dancing experiences in summer. Its programming runs the gamut of house and techno, with a strong commitment to.....

Occupying lower floors of the building that houses the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Piccadilly, 194 Piccadilly is a multi-purpose events and entertainment space in the West End of London. Operating in part under the name Neon 194, it runs as a bar and cafe by day and a ballroom and club space by night, with a capacity in the region of 400 across its main room. The address shares its home with BAFTA's headquarters at 195 Piccadilly, a building that has hosted screenings and cer.....

One of only a handful of surviving outposts of the celebrated 1OAK brand, the Tokyo edition has become a flagship of the city's premium, celebrity-focused nightlife. Short for One of a Kind, the club carries the hip-hop-leaning, high-glamour formula that made the name famous in New York into the upmarket Azabu-Juban and Roppongi area. Its lavish room is built around bottle-service tables and VIP zones flanking a central dancefloor, crowned by a striking commissioned artwork above the booth. A .....

An import of the celebrity-favoured New York brand, 1OAK brought its exclusive, high-glamour formula to the JW Marriott Marquis on Sheikh Zayed Road. Short for One of a Kind, the name signalled the venue's ambition to stand apart as a premium nightspot pitched at a fashionable, well-heeled crowd. The interior carried the brand's signature opulence, all plush seating, dramatic lighting and an art-filled, maximalist aesthetic. Its music policy leaned on an open-format mix of hip-hop, R&B and com.....

Five modular spaces, two terraces and a rooftop give Le 211 room for as many as a thousand guests on the eastern edge of central Paris. The bar, restaurant and club occupies a waterside site within the Parc de la Villette, facing the Canal de l'Ourcq, and styles itself as a festive food court and nightspot rolled into one, open from midday through the night across the back half of the week. Located at 211 Avenue Jean Jaures in the 19th arrondissement, the venue takes its name from its street nu.....

High on a Midtown rooftop with the Empire State Building looming dramatically overhead, 230 Fifth is one of New York's largest and most famous rooftop bars. More glamorous lounge than nightclub, it draws huge crowds for after-work drinks, weekend parties and unbeatable views across the Manhattan skyline. Its sprawling open-air terrace offers panoramic vistas, with the floodlit Empire State Building as its signature backdrop. In colder months the rooftop transforms into a winter wonderland of h.....

24 Kitchen Street is an independent, mixed-use warehouse venue in the Baltic Triangle, Liverpool's creative quarter. Founded by a group of friends seeking to create a space for the city's creative community, the stripped-back room - all bare brick and exposed wooden rafters - has a capacity of around 400 and is open only for scheduled, ticketed events. The venue is best known for hosting some of the best leftfield club nights in the city, with an ever-growing catalogue of house, techno, garage,.....

From a glass-walled penthouse high above Istiklal Caddesi, 360 Istanbul offers one of the most spectacular vantage points in the entire city. Set on the top floor of the 19th-century Misir Apartment in the heart of Beyoglu, its wraparound terraces serve up sweeping panoramas of the Bosphorus, the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara. By day and early evening it functions as a stylish fine-dining restaurant, serving a fusion of Turkish and international cuisine to a smart, cosmopolitan crowd drawn.....

Built in the former home of the Citrus Club, a long-standing Edinburgh nightspot, 4042 is a late-night bar and club that takes its name from its address at 40-42 Grindlay Street, near the Lyceum and Usher Hall in the Tollcross area. It pairs a dance floor and cocktail bar with an unusual feature for a club: ping-pong tables, which sit alongside the seating and bar areas. The interior leans on a deliberately rough aesthetic of distressed walls, metal grilles, graffiti and layered fly-posters, an.....