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141. Borj Nord
A Saadian fortress built in 1582 on the hill above the medina, home to Morocco's first museum of arms and a viewpoint over Fes el-Bali.
View details — Borj NordLandmarks, 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 Saadian fortress built in 1582 on the hill above the medina, home to Morocco's first museum of arms and a viewpoint over Fes el-Bali.
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Built by the Dutch East India Company between 1666 and 1679, the five-bastioned Castle of Good Hope is South Africa's oldest surviving colonial building.
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Tunisia's only active Catholic cathedral, completed in 1897 on Place de l'Indépendance with a striking mix of Moorish, Gothic and Byzantine styles.
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Pierre Bousquet's arcaded market hall on Boulevard Mohammed V, completed in the late 1910s and still the place locals buy fish, flowers and produce.
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Twenty-nine fragments of the prehistoric Gibeon iron meteorite mounted on steel columns in Post Street Mall, a national monument since 1950.
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Gold Reef City is a gold rush themed amusement park built on an old mine in Ormonde, with roller coasters, family rides and an underground mine tour.
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Coptic Cairo's best-known church, built above a gatehouse of the Roman fortress of Babylon and filled with icons, carved screens and a marble pulpit.
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Jaekel House is an 1898 colonial railway mansion in Ebute Metta, restored as a small museum of Nigerian railway history and photographs, set in a large garden.
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The national archives on Moi Avenue, whose ground-floor Murumbi Gallery displays a large collection of African art and artefacts assembled by Kenya's second vice-president.
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Housed in the former Native Administration offices, the free KwaMuhle Museum explains the Durban System of municipal beer revenue, segregated housing and forced removals.
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A protected, uninhabited island north of Bongoyo in the Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve, reached by speedboat from the Kunduchi coast or by boat from the Slipway.
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A museum in the early 20th-century Dar Mnebhi palace beside the Ben Youssef Madrasa, showing Moroccan crafts and art around a grand covered courtyard.
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A gallery and artists' collective opened in 2014 for East African makers, with studios, murals and a social mission supporting vulnerable groups in Kigali.
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Ghana's first parliamentary museum, opened inside Parliament House in September 2026, tells the story of the country's legislature through documents, memorabilia and multimedia.
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Entebbe's lakeside wildlife centre, founded in 1952 to care for rescued animals, where visitors see lions, chimpanzees, shoebills and rhinos and can book keeper experiences.
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The West Bank burial ground of royal wives and children, home to the brilliantly painted tomb of Nefertari, wife of Ramesses II.
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Former builders' housing near the Léopold Sédar Senghor stadium turned into 52 artists' studios and a gallery, open to visitors every day.
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A huge gabbro and granodiorite monolith beside the Abuja-Kaduna road at Madalla, rising about 300 metres above the plain and pictured on the 100 naira note.
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A UNESCO-listed coastal castle and former centre of the Atlantic slave trade, where guided tours lead through the dungeons to the Door of No Return.
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A small museum of Arab-Andalusian music in the Habous quarter, run by the association of Andalusian music lovers, with historic instruments, manuscripts and regular musical evenings.
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