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121. Darat al Funun
A contemporary art centre for the Arab world, set in six restored 1920s and 1930s houses with gardens and ancient ruins overlooking Downtown.
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290 places · Updated November 12, 2026
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A contemporary art centre for the Arab world, set in six restored 1920s and 1930s houses with gardens and ancient ruins overlooking Downtown.
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A museum on the site where the UAE was founded in December 1971, telling the story of the union through archives, films and personal objects.
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A whitewashed 15th-century Sufi shrine and mosque on an islet in Haji Ali Bay, reached by a long causeway that floods at high tide.
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Shah Jahan's great congregational mosque in Old Delhi, completed in 1656, with a courtyard for 25,000 worshippers, three gateways and two 41-metre minarets.
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A curved west-coast beach of about 1.5 kilometres with the islet of Koh Pu offshore, popular with families in the dry season and surfers in the monsoon.
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A working Tibetan Buddhist temple in a former princely residence, best known for an 18-metre Maitreya Buddha carved from a single piece of white sandalwood.
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One of Hong Kong's oldest temples, built between 1847 and 1862 on Hollywood Road and dedicated to the gods of literature and martial arts, with dim, incense-filled halls.
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Mathaf in Education City holds more than 9,000 works of modern and contemporary Arab art, with free entry to its permanent collection and special exhibitions.
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Hilltop fort built in 1734 on the ridge above Jaipur, with the frescoed Madhavendra Bhawan apartments and wide views over the city at sunset.
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Opened in 1965, Malaysia's National Mosque holds 15,000 worshippers beneath a 16-pointed concrete star roof, with a 73-metre minaret shaped like a folded umbrella.
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The national collection of Filipino art, from 19th-century masters to National Artists, displayed free of charge in the former Legislative Building beside Rizal Park.
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Built for the Tokugawa shoguns in the early 1600s, this moated castle holds the Ninomaru Palace with its painted screens and chirping nightingale floors.
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A small wooden Buddhist pagoda raised on a single stone pillar in a lotus pond, first built in 1049 and rebuilt after its destruction in 1954.
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The 468-metre television tower of stacked spheres that opened in Lujiazui in 1995, with glass-floored decks, a revolving restaurant and several viewing levels.
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The Malla royal square of Patan, lined with stone and pagoda temples such as the Krishna Mandir and home to one of Nepal's finest museums.
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Jayavarman VII's sprawling 12th-century temple honouring his father, a largely unrestored maze of corridors, carvings and trees just north-east of Angkor Thom.
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A temple from 1653 dedicated to Quan Cong, the loyal general of China's Three Kingdoms era, and one of the two headline sites on the Ancient Town ticket.
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A working post office built between 1886 and 1891, with a vaulted hall, painted maps from 1892 and a portrait of Ho Chi Minh, opposite the cathedral.
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Gangaramaya Temple's lake pavilion, rebuilt from 1976 to a design by Geoffrey Bawa, with three platforms of seated Buddhas linked by pontoon bridges.
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Founded by Prince Shotoku in 593 and regarded as Japan's first official Buddhist temple, with a five-storey pagoda, treasure museum and garden.
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