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
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A late 19th-century royal palace near Bab Bou Jeloud that reopened in 2025 as a museum of Islamic arts, with Fes ceramics, historic minbars and a walled garden.
View details — Al Batha Museum of Islamic ArtsAttraction
The seafront ruins of the largest Roman baths in Africa, built between 145 and 162 AD and the most dramatic surviving monument of ancient Carthage.
View details — Antonine Baths of CarthageAttraction
The mother temple of the Baha'i faith in Africa, a domed house of worship dedicated in 1961 and set in 52 acres of gardens on Kikaaya Hill.
View details — Baha’i Temple KampalaAttraction
At the tip of the Cape Peninsula, Cape Point combines sea cliffs, two lighthouses and fynbos within the Cape of Good Hope section of Table Mountain National Park.
View details — Cape PointAttraction
Durban's Edwardian City Hall, completed in 1910 and modelled closely on Belfast City Hall, houses the free Natural Science Museum on its first floor.
View details — Durban City Hall and Natural Science MuseumAttraction
Small museum in Mercury House, Shangani, tracing Freddie Mercury's Zanzibar childhood and rise to fame with photographs loaned by Queen Productions.
View details — Freddie Mercury MuseumAttraction
The Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Orlando West tells the story of the 16 June 1976 Soweto Uprising and the students who were shot during it.
View details — Hector Pieterson Memorial and MuseumAttraction
Namibia's national memorial to the heroes of the liberation struggle, opened in 2002 in the hills about 10 km south of Windhoek.
View details — Heroes’ AcreAttraction
Marrakech's largest mosque, founded by the Almohads in the 12th century, whose 77-metre minaret is the landmark visible across the medina.
View details — Koutoubia MosqueAttraction
Abuja's largest public park, a 32-hectare garden in Maitama designed by Manfredi Nicoletti and opened by Queen Elizabeth II in December 2003.
View details — Millennium ParkAttraction
Round museum opened in 2018 near Dakar's port and railway station, devoted to the cultures and history of Africa and its diaspora.
View details — Musée des Civilisations NoiresAttraction
Kenya's flagship museum on Museum Hill, covering human origins, wildlife, birds and the country's history, with botanic gardens and a snake park in the grounds.
View details — Nairobi National MuseumAttraction
A modern museum in Fustat telling the story of Egyptian civilisation from prehistory to today, best known for its atmospheric Royal Mummies Hall.
View details — National Museum of Egyptian CivilizationAttraction
Contemporary Rwandan and international art shown in the former presidential palace at Kanombe, where wreckage of the 1994 presidential jet lies in the grounds.
View details — Rwanda Art MuseumAttraction
Paul Tournon's white former church of 1930, an Art Deco landmark beside Parc de la Ligue Arabe, restored and reopened in 2023 as a venue for culture and the arts.
View details — Sacré-Cœur of CasablancaAttraction
Octagonal cathedral at the top of Churchill Road, built in 1911, where Empress Zewditu and Haile Selassie were crowned, with a museum of imperial relics.
View details — St George’s CathedralAttraction
A Gothic-style Catholic cathedral built by German missionaries between 1897 and 1902 on Sokoine Drive, facing the harbour, and seat of the Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam.
View details — St Joseph’s CathedralAttraction
Queen Hatshepsut's terraced mortuary temple, set against the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari on the West Bank and decorated with reliefs of an expedition to Punt.
View details — Temple of HatshepsutAttraction
The former Accra home of W.E.B. Du Bois, now a memorial centre with his tomb, a small museum and his personal library, under restoration from 2026.
View details — W.E.B. Du Bois Centre for Pan African CultureAttraction
Opened in 2019 at Pan-Atlantic University, the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art holds Nigerian art from Nok terracottas and Benin bronzes to modern and contemporary work.
View details — Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art