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The Museum of Ice Cream Singapore is an interactive exhibition at Dempsey Hill, opened in August 2021 as the American brand's first permanent location outside the United States. Visitors move through themed rooms, among them an infinity room and a craft room, taste ice cream along the way and finish in a pool filled with plastic sprinkles.

The National Orchid Garden lies on the highest hill inside the Singapore Botanic Gardens and opened in 1995. Its landscaped slopes hold about 1,500 orchid species and 3,000 hybrids, a mist house, a bromeliad collection and the Tropical Montane Orchidetum, added in 2021, whose cool house shows orchids from highland forests. Its clock tower marks the entrance.

Singapore Botanic Gardens is a tropical garden founded on its present site in 1859 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2015. Its 82 hectares hold more than 10,000 plant species, a patch of original rainforest, lakes and lawns, and the National Orchid Garden, where rubber research once shaped the region's plantations.

Haw Par Villa is a park on Pasir Panjang Road created in 1937 by the Tiger Balm brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, with more than 1,000 statues and 150 dioramas of scenes from Chinese folklore, legend and religion. Hell's Museum, opened on the grounds in 2021, explores ideas of death and the afterlife and includes the Ten Courts of Hell diorama.

Orchard Road is a 2.5-kilometre street in central Singapore, named after the nutmeg, pepper and fruit orchards it once led to in the 19th century. Today it is the city's main shopping street, lined with department stores, malls, hotels and restaurants, with underground walkways between the malls and three MRT stations along its length.

Fort Siloso is a coastal artillery fort on Sentosa, built by the British in the 1880s to guard the approaches to Keppel Harbour and in action during the Battle of Singapore in 1942. It is now a military museum with original guns, tunnels and the Surrender Chambers, and a 181-metre elevated walkway, the Fort Siloso Skywalk, runs through the treetops above it.

The Singapore Cable Car is a gondola lift that has crossed Keppel Harbour from Mount Faber via HarbourFront to Sentosa since 1974; the line was rebuilt in 2010. The Sentosa Line, opened in 2015, runs within the island from Sensoryscape via Imbiah Lookout to Siloso Point. Both lines look over the harbour and the city.

Singapore Oceanarium is an aquarium at Resorts World Sentosa on Sentosa. It opened in 2012 as the S.E.A. Aquarium and reopened in 2025 under its current name in an expanded building with 22 zones. Visitors see marine life from Singapore's coasts, shallow seas and the open ocean, including sharks and manta rays.

Royal Albatross is a four-masted barquentine with 22 sails, berthed at Resorts World Sentosa on Sentosa and used for cruises with dining on board. Launched in Chicago as Windy II for cruises on the Great Lakes, she arrived in Singapore in 2008 and was rebuilt; today she sails on breakfast, sunset dinner and evening city-lights cruises off Singapore's coast.

Adventure Cove Waterpark is a water park at Resorts World Sentosa on Sentosa, opened in 2012 as part of the Marine Life Park. It has water slides including the hydro-magnetic coaster Riptide Rocket, the Bluwater Bay wave pool and a 620-metre lazy river that passes grottoes and an aquarium.

Clarke Quay is a riverside quay on the Singapore River, named after Sir Andrew Clarke, governor of the Straits Settlements in the 1870s. Its rows of 19th-century warehouses, where lighters once unloaded goods, were restored and opened in 1993 as a dining and nightlife quarter; river boats stop at the jetty.

Chinatown is the historic Chinese quarter south-west of the Singapore River, laid out under the Raffles Town Plan of the 1820s and lined with restored two- and three-storey shophouses. Pagoda Street and Smith Street have market stalls and eateries, and the quarter also holds Thian Hock Keng, the Sri Mariamman Temple and the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple.

Fort Canning Park covers a 48-metre hill above the city centre, where archaeological finds date back to the 14th century and where Stamford Raffles later built his residence and the British a fort. Paths lead past the surviving Fort Gate, the white 1926 barracks now called Fort Canning Centre, a spice garden and the Battle Box, a wartime command bunker.

Scentopia is a perfume-making studio on Siloso Beach Walk on Sentosa, run by a Singapore fragrance maker in business since 2018. Visitors start with a short personality test, explore more than 180 fragrance oils, many of them based on orchids, and then blend and bottle their own perfume with guidance from staff.

The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum is a Chinese Buddhist temple in Chinatown, built in the style of the Tang dynasty to house a tooth relic attributed to the Buddha. The relic is displayed in a stupa in the Sacred Light Chamber on the fourth floor, while the third floor holds a museum of Buddhist art and culture.

Slingshot Singapore is a thrill-ride site at Clarke Quay, beside the Singapore River, with two rides that have run here for more than 20 years. The Slingshot, a reverse bungee, launches a capsule about 70 metres up at up to 160 km/h, and the GX-5 Extreme Swing drops riders 40 metres into a wide arc above the river bank.

Sri Mariamman Temple on South Bridge Road in Chinatown is Singapore's oldest Hindu temple, founded in 1827 by Naraina Pillai and rebuilt in brick from 1843. Built in the South Indian Dravidian style, it is entered through a six-tiered gopuram of 1925 covered in painted figures of deities, and it is a national monument run by the Hindu Endowments Board.

Skyline Luge Sentosa is a luge attraction on Imbiah Lookout on Sentosa, opened in 2005 and operated by the New Zealand company Skyline Enterprises. Riders steer gravity-powered carts down four tracks of 628 to 688 metres through the forest, then return to the top on the Skyride chairlift.

The National Museum of Singapore grew out of the Raffles Library and Museum, founded in 1849, and has been housed since 1887 in a domed colonial building on Stamford Road. Its galleries trace Singapore's history from the 14th century to the present, with a modern glass extension added at the back of the old building.

Madame Tussauds Singapore is a wax museum at Imbiah Lookout on Sentosa, opened in October 2014 as a branch of the London-founded chain. It shows more than 80 wax figures of world leaders, film, music and sports stars and Singaporean figures, along with a gallery on 200 years of Singapore's history and a Jumanji 4D film.