Museums, libraries, historical places and services you can visit any time — with opening hours, ticket prices and directions.
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An unfinished Mughal fort in Old Dhaka: the tomb of Pari Bibi, a three-domed mosque and the Diwan-i-Aam with its museum, inside walled gardens.
Lalbagh, Dhaka
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
From ৳20
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The largest Sultanate-era mosque in Bangladesh, built by Khan Jahan Ali in the 1400s and the centrepiece of Bagerhat's UNESCO World Heritage mosque city.
Bagerhat, Khulna
Tuesday – Saturday: Daytime — times vary by season, check locally
From ৳30
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A zamindar's palace rebuilt after the 1897 earthquake, with a marble fountain, stained glass and nine acres of grounds — now the Mymensingh Museum.
Gangadas Guha Road, Mymensingh
Tuesday – Saturday: Daytime — times vary by season, check locally
From ৳30
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A great square Buddhist monastery of the 7th–8th century at Mainamati, with 115 monks' cells round a central shrine — the best-known site of the Lalmai hills.
Kotbari, Cumilla
Tuesday – Saturday: Daytime — times vary by season, check locally
From ৳20
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A ghostly street of colonial merchants' mansions in old Sonargaon — 52 crumbling buildings that once made up one of Bengal's richest towns.
Sonargaon, Narayanganj
Tuesday – Saturday: Daytime — check locally
৳20
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A white, Greek-columned mansion in Tikatuli — ballroom, chandeliers, fountain and rose beds — restored by the archaeology department and reopened in 2025.
Tikatuli, Dhaka
Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
From ৳10
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A 1781 church in Armanitola with a walled graveyard of Armenian merchants — open every day, free to enter.
Armanitola, Dhaka
Every day: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Free entry
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Hundreds of blue stars worked in broken china across the domes and façade of a small Mughal-style mosque in Armanitola.
Armanitola, Dhaka
Every day: Daylight hours, outside prayer times
Free entry
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The national temple of Bangladesh and the shrine the city is named for, with four Shiva temples in its courtyard. Free to enter.
Bakshibazar, Dhaka
Every day: 7:00 AM – 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Free entry
DetailsA quiet Commonwealth war cemetery on a wooded slope in Dampara, where some 730 servicemen of the Second World War lie.
Dampara, Chattogram
Every day: Daylight hours — no published schedule
Free entry
DetailsThe shrine of Hazrat Shah Jalal on its hillock in north Sylhet — the most visited shrine in Bangladesh, with its sacred pigeons and fish pond.
Dargah Mahalla, Sylhet
Every day: Open; no published schedule
Free entry
DetailsThe largest cluster of historic temples in Bangladesh, around a lake 23 km east of Rajshahi — with the country's biggest Shiva temple.
Puthia, Rajshahi
Every day: Daylight hours — no published schedule
No entry fee is published. Some temples are in active worship — remove shoes where asked.
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