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 private museum in a 1940s building in central Casablanca, showing the collector Abderrahman Slaoui's Orientalist posters, Moroccan jewellery and paintings by Ben Ali R'bati and Majorelle.
View details — Abderrahman Slaoui Foundation MuseumAttraction
A Bavarian-style Lutheran church built by German missionaries in 1898 on the Kivukoni waterfront, with a red-tiled roof and belfry, now the diocese's cathedral.
View details — Azania Front Lutheran ChurchAttraction
A 16th-century Saadian Quranic school, once the largest in the Maghreb, with a marble courtyard, a reflecting pool and 130 former student rooms.
View details — Ben Youssef MadrasaAttraction
In Simon's Town, boardwalks and sheltered coves at Boulders let visitors watch a colony of endangered African penguins that began with two breeding pairs in 1982.
View details — Boulders Beach Penguin ColonyAttraction
Buganda's parliament building and the Lubiri palace at either end of the mile-long Kabaka Anjagala Road, with guided visits to the underground prison built under Idi Amin.
View details — Bulange and Mengo Palace (Royal Mile)Attraction
Saladin's 12th-century hilltop fortress, crowned by the Ottoman-style Mosque of Muhammad Ali, with museums and wide views across the city.
View details — Cairo CitadelAttraction
Completed in 1946 on the Marina, the Cathedral Church of Christ is the oldest Anglican cathedral in Nigeria and holds a memorial to Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther.
View details — Cathedral Church of Christ, MarinaAttraction
Nigeria's main ceremonial ground on Shehu Shagari Way, used for presidential inaugurations and Independence Day parades, with seating for about 5,300 in its main arena.
View details — Eagle SquareAttraction
Opened in 2021, Ghana's National Mosque in Kanda is an Ottoman Revival complex with four 65-metre minarets, room for 15,000 worshippers and a library and school.
View details — Ghana National MosqueAttraction
The domed convention centre at the KG 2 roundabout, opened in 2016, whose shape recalls a traditional royal palace and which lights up the skyline at night.
View details — Kigali Convention CentreAttraction
Ramesses III's fortified mortuary temple on the West Bank, with deep-cut reliefs, surviving original colour and scenes of battles against the Sea Peoples.
View details — Medinet HabuAttraction
IFAN's museum of West African art in a 1931 neo-Sudanese building on Place Soweto, with masks, sculpture, textiles and jewellery.
View details — Musée Théodore Monod d’Art AfricainAttraction
Museum beside Nairobi railway station telling the story of the line that created the city, with steam locomotives, coaches and historic photographs.
View details — Nairobi Railway MuseumAttraction
Namibia's state art gallery, showing Namibian, African and European art from its permanent collections alongside changing contemporary exhibitions in central Windhoek.
View details — National Art Gallery of NamibiaAttraction
An 18th-century merchants' inn on Place Nejjarine, restored in the 1990s and opened in 1998 as a museum of Moroccan woodwork and carpentry.
View details — Nejjarine Museum of Wooden Arts and CraftsAttraction
Ornate 1890s seafront building with carved wooden balconies and stained glass, restored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and now home to a small history museum.
View details — Old DispensaryAttraction
Memorial museum opened in 2010 that documents the victims of the Derg's Red Terror through photographs, personal belongings, remains and guided tours.
View details — Red Terror Martyrs’ Memorial MuseumAttraction
A whitewashed clifftop village above the Gulf of Tunis, famous for its blue doors, old cafés and links with painters and writers.
View details — Sidi Bou SaidAttraction
Umhlanga's red-and-white lighthouse, built in 1954, anchors a paved seafront promenade with the Whalebone Pier, rock pools and beaches north of central Durban.
View details — Umhlanga Lighthouse and PromenadeAttraction
Founded by the Fatimids in 970, Al-Azhar is Cairo's great congregational mosque and the historic heart of one of the oldest universities in the world.
View details — Al-Azhar Mosque