Explore Kuala Lumpur

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building is a brick building with copper domes and a central clock tower facing Merdeka Square in Kuala Lumpur, built in 1894–1897 for the British colonial government offices. It later housed the country's superior courts; restored in 2026, it now holds galleries, including the Kuala Lumpur City Gallery, and cafés.

Central Market is a market hall for Malaysian handicrafts, art and souvenirs on Jalan Hang Kasturi in central Kuala Lumpur, beside the Klang River. Founded in 1888 as a wet market, it has occupied its Art Deco building since 1937; saved from demolition, the hall reopened in 1986 as a centre for crafts and culture, also called Pasar Seni.

The Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, opened on 12 December 1998, holds more than 7,000 objects from across the Islamic world. Twelve galleries on two levels cover architecture, Qur'an manuscripts, art from India, China and the Malay world, arms, textiles, jewellery, coins, metal, wood and ceramics, and a restored 19th-century Ottoman room.

Kuala Lumpur Bird Park is a walk-in aviary of 20.9 acres in the Perdana Botanical Gardens in Kuala Lumpur, opened in 1991. More than 3,000 birds of about 200 species, mostly native to Malaysia, live in four zones: two free-flight areas and the Hornbill Park under a netted canopy, and a zone of separate cages and smaller aviaries.

The National Museum of Malaysia, Muzium Negara, is the country's museum of history and culture on Jalan Damansara in Kuala Lumpur, near the Perdana Lake Gardens. Opened on 31 August 1963 in a building with a traditional Malay roof and modern features, it shows wedding and festival scenes, costumes, weapons, musical instruments, crafts and ceramics.

Berjaya Times Square Theme Park, formerly Cosmo's World, is an indoor amusement park on the 5th to 8th floors of the Berjaya Times Square shopping centre on Jalan Imbi. Its rides are split between Galaxy Station, with a roller coaster and other thrill rides, and Fantasy Garden for younger children, under one roof.

The Petronas Towers are a pair of 88-storey skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 451.9 metres tall, designed by César Pelli and opened in 1999. Visitors take a timed tour to the double-deck skybridge that links the towers on the 41st floor and up to the observation deck on the 86th floor; Suria KLCC mall and KLCC Park lie at their foot.

Thean Hou Temple is a six-tiered Chinese temple dedicated to the sea goddess Mazu, on Robson Heights in Kuala Lumpur. Built by the city's Hainanese community from 1981 and opened in 1989, it is run by the Selangor and Federal Territory Hainan Association; its red pillars and tiled roofs look out over the city.

KidZania Kuala Lumpur is an indoor city scaled for children in the Curve NX building in Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya, opened in 2012 and run by Sim Leisure Group. Children aged 4 to 17 try more than 60 role-play jobs, from pilot and surgeon to firefighter and chef, and are paid in the park's own currency, kidZos.

The National Zoo of Malaysia, Zoo Negara, lies in Hulu Kelang near Ampang, Selangor, on the north-eastern edge of Kuala Lumpur. Opened in 1963 by Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and run by the Malaysian Zoological Society, it keeps several thousand animals in forested grounds, including a reptile park, elephants, tigers and giraffes, with daily animal shows.