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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The 1910 palace of Pasha Thami El Glaoui, restored as a national museum of cultural exchange, with richly decorated rooms and the Bacha Coffee salon.
View details — Dar El Bacha – Musée des ConfluencesAttraction
Housed in a former Methodist church, the District Six Museum tells the story of the inner-city community forcibly removed under apartheid from the 1960s onwards.
View details — District Six MuseumAttraction
Landscaped city park opened in 2020 opposite Unity Park, with an artificial lake, evening fountain lights, playgrounds, sports courts and cafes.
View details — Friendship ParkAttraction
A broad, roughly 30-metre waterfall on the Gurara River off the Suleja to Minna road, a popular day trip north-west of Abuja and at its fullest in the rainy season.
View details — Gurara FallsAttraction
A 17th-century synagogue in the Mellah of Fes, restored with the World Monuments Fund and reopened in 1999, with a carved ark and an underground ritual bath.
View details — Ibn Danan SynagogueAttraction
Opened in 1988 on Nnamdi Azikiwe Street, Lagos Central Mosque is a working mosque on Lagos Island known for its gold dome and four minarets.
View details — Lagos Central MosqueAttraction
Completed in 879, this vast mosque with a spiral minaret and an open courtyard is one of the oldest and calmest monuments in Cairo.
View details — Mosque of Ibn TulunAttraction
A small museum at Carthage Dermech devoted to late Roman and early Christian Carthage, reopened in December 2025 with new interactive displays.
View details — Musée Romain et Paléochrétien de CarthageAttraction
A wooded park off State House Road, founded in 1907 to trial forestry trees and now a quiet place for walks, birdwatching and picnics close to the city centre.
View details — Nairobi ArboretumAttraction
The free Old Court House Museum beside City Hall tells Durban's early history through walk-in reconstructions, a miniature car collection and displays on figures such as Gandhi and Luthuli.
View details — Old Court House MuseumAttraction
Cemetery of Windhoek's former Old Location, holding the mass grave of people shot on 10 December 1959 while resisting forced removal to Katutura.
View details — Old Location CemeteryAttraction
The Origins Centre at Wits University explores the story of human origins in Africa and holds a large collection of southern African rock art.
View details — Origins CentreAttraction
The ruined memorial temple of Ramesses II on the West Bank, home to the toppled colossus that inspired Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias'.
View details — RamesseumAttraction
Fenced 70 sq km ranch about 164 km north of Kampala where southern white rhinos were reintroduced from 2005 and visitors track them on foot with rangers.
View details — Ziwa Rhino SanctuaryAttraction
A 51-metre lighthouse of 1920 by Albert Laprade, styled after a minaret, standing on the El Hank headland between the Hassan II Mosque and Ain Diab.
View details — El Hank LighthouseAttraction
Founded in 1685 by Simon van der Stel, Groot Constantia is South Africa's oldest wine estate, with tastings, cellar tours and a Cape Dutch manor house museum.
View details — Groot ConstantiaAttraction
Completed in 1939, Holy Cross Cathedral is the French Gothic seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos and a stop on heritage walks across Lagos Island.
View details — Holy Cross CathedralAttraction
Nairobi's principal mosque on Banda Street, built between 1925 and 1933 with marble, Quranic inscriptions, three silver domes and twin minarets.
View details — Jamia MosqueAttraction
A protected rainforest north of Cape Coast, famous for a canopy walkway of seven suspension bridges strung high between giant trees, plus guided forest and night walks.
View details — Kakum National ParkAttraction
The reservoir that supplies Abuja's water, completed in 1990 about 15 km north-west of the centre, with a lake of around 3.5 by 3 kilometres set among hills.
View details — Lower Usuma Dam