Landmarks, museums, historic sites, parks and viewpoints that draw visitors to a city, with practical notes on planning a visit.
290 places · Updated November 12, 2026
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A free natural history museum opened in 2018 in a rebuilt 1940s government building, known for its Tree of Life atrium and the giant crocodile Lolong.
View details — National Museum of Natural HistoryAttraction
Saadiyat Island's natural history museum, opened in November 2025, with Stan the T. rex, a 25-metre blue whale and a fragment of the Murchison meteorite.
View details — Natural History Museum Abu DhabiAttraction
A museum in a 1934 Sino-Portuguese former Chinese school in Phuket Old Town, telling the story of the island's Hokkien settlers, tin mining and Baba culture.
View details — Phuket Thai Hua MuseumAttraction
A 1950s Ubud temple dedicated to Saraswati, the goddess of learning and the arts, designed by I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and fronted by a large lotus pond.
View details — Pura Taman SaraswatiAttraction
A 58-hectare national garden in Shinjuku combining Japanese, English landscape and French formal styles, famed for around 1,500 cherry trees.
View details — Shinjuku Gyoen National GardenAttraction
Mumbai's best-known Ganesh temple, founded in 1801 in Prabhadevi and visited by large numbers of devotees, with the longest queues on festival days.
View details — Shree Siddhivinayak TempleAttraction
An open-concept zoo in the Mandai rainforest, opened in 1973, home to around 2,500 animals from more than 300 species.
View details — Singapore ZooAttraction
The head shrine of Japan's Sumiyoshi shrines, with four National Treasure sanctuaries and the steeply arched Sorihashi bridge over its pond.
View details — Sumiyoshi TaishaAttraction
A 275-metre choreographed fountain on Burj Khalifa Lake whose water jets, lights and music shows run every evening beneath Burj Khalifa.
View details — The Dubai FountainAttraction
Opened in 1989 on Robson Heights, Thean Hou Temple is a six-tiered Chinese temple dedicated to the sea goddess Tian Hou, run by the Hainanese community.
View details — Thean Hou TempleAttraction
A museum devoted to Vietnam's 54 recognised ethnic groups, with galleries of costumes and crafts and an open-air garden of full-size traditional houses.
View details — Vietnam Museum of EthnologyAttraction
Fourteenth-century temple on Suthep Road with a 48-metre Sri Lankan-style chedi and rows of white mausoleums holding the ashes of Chiang Mai's royal family.
View details — Wat Suan DokAttraction
Kowloon's best-known temple, completed in 1921 and dedicated to the Great Immortal Wong, where worshippers shake fortune sticks and blend Taoist, Buddhist and Confucian traditions.
View details — Wong Tai Sin TempleAttraction
A volcanic national park on Taipei's northern edge, with fumaroles, hot springs, seasonal flowers and the 1,120-metre Qixing Mountain.
View details — Yangmingshan National ParkAttraction
Built into Khalifa International Stadium, the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum covers world sport, the Olympic Games and Qatar's own sporting story across seven galleries.
View details — 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports MuseumAttraction
David Adjaye's interfaith complex on Saadiyat Island, opened in 2023, where a mosque, a church and a synagogue stand side by side above a shared pavilion.
View details — Abrahamic Family HouseAttraction
A cluster of restored creekside houses at the mouth of Dubai Creek, telling the city's story through themed pavilions including the Perfume House.
View details — Al Shindagha MuseumAttraction
Rajasthan's oldest museum, an Indo-Saracenic hall in Ram Niwas Garden opened in 1887, with crafts, carpets, coins, arms and an Egyptian mummy.
View details — Albert Hall MuseumAttraction
A Buddhist nunnery rebuilt in 1998 in Tang dynasty style from cypress wood without nails, paired with the classical Nan Lian Garden across the road in Diamond Hill.
View details — Chi Lin Nunnery and Nan Lian GardenAttraction
A compact palace beside City Hall where traditional halls stand next to Western-style buildings from the Korean Empire era, open into the evening.
View details — Deoksugung Palace