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Best Attractions in Africa (2026)

Landmarks, museums, historic sites, parks and viewpoints that draw visitors to a city, with practical notes on planning a visit.

187 places · Updated November 12, 2026

Our top 3 attractions in Africa

  1. Apartheid Museum History museum, OrmondeThe Apartheid Museum beside Gold Reef City tells the story of the rise and fall of apartheid through film, photographs, documents and a striking race-classified entrance.
  2. Aso Rock Granite monolith and landmark, AsokoroThe granite monolith rising about 400 metres above the city, backdrop to the Presidential Complex, the National Assembly and the Supreme Court in the Three Arms Zone.
  3. Bardo National Museum Archaeology museum, Le BardoTunisia's oldest and most important museum, set in a former beylical palace and home to one of the world's great collections of Roman mosaics.

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1. Apartheid Museum

History museumOrmonde

The Apartheid Museum beside Gold Reef City tells the story of the rise and fall of apartheid through film, photographs, documents and a striking race-classified entrance.

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2. Aso Rock

Granite monolith and landmarkAsokoro

The granite monolith rising about 400 metres above the city, backdrop to the Presidential Complex, the National Assembly and the Supreme Court in the Three Arms Zone.

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5. Gorée Island

UNESCO World Heritage islandGorée

Small car-free island off Dakar, inscribed by UNESCO in 1978 as a place of memory of the Atlantic slave trade, with museums, forts and colonial-era houses.

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6. Hassan II Mosque

MosqueAncienne Médina

Casablanca's great waterfront mosque, inaugurated in 1993 with a 210-metre minaret, and one of the few mosques in Morocco that non-Muslims can enter on a guided tour.

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8. Jardin Majorelle

Botanical gardenGuéliz

Jacques Majorelle's cobalt-blue villa and cactus garden, later owned by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, with a museum of Amazigh culture inside the villa.

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9. Karnak Temple Complex

Ancient temple complex, UNESCO World Heritage SiteEl-Karnak, East Bank

The vast temple complex of Amun-Re on Luxor's East Bank, built and rebuilt by around thirty pharaohs and famous for its forest-like Great Hypostyle Hall.

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10. Kasubi Tombs

Royal burial ground (UNESCO World Heritage Site)Kasubi

Burial ground of four kabakas of Buganda on Kasubi Hill, a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose great thatched tomb house was rebuilt after a 2010 fire.

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17. Pyramids of Giza

Archaeological siteGiza Plateau

The Great Pyramid of Khufu, the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure and the Great Sphinx, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world on the edge of Giza.

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18. Stone Town

Historic old town (UNESCO World Heritage Site)Stone Town

Zanzibar's historic Swahili trading town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, packed into 96 hectares of coral-stone houses, carved doors and winding lanes.

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19. Table Mountain

Mountain, cableway and viewpointTable Mountain National Park

Cape Town's flat-topped mountain rises above the city, reached by a cableway with rotating cars from Tafelberg Road or on foot via routes such as Platteklip Gorge.

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