🇺🇸Honolulu

USS Arizona Memorial

USS Arizona Memorial is the white memorial structure spanning the wreck of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.

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• Historic monument

Diamond Head State Monument

Diamond Head State Monument is the protected volcanic crater known in Hawaiian as Lēʻahi and Honolulu’s defining summit walk.

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• Nature site

ʻIolani Palace

ʻIolani Palace is the former royal residence of Hawaiʻi’s monarchy and a central landmark of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

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• Museum

Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve

Hanauma Bay

Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve is a protected marine embayment on Oahu's southeastern coast. It was formed within a volcanic cone and is managed by the City and County of Honolulu.

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• Nature site

Bishop Museum

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

Bishop Museum is the principal museum for Hawaiʻi and Pacific natural and cultural history. Founded in 1889, it holds the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens.

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• Museum

Kualoa Ranch

Kualoa Ranch is a private nature reserve and working cattle ranch occupying approximately 4,000 acres of coastal and valley land on Windward Oʻahu. The property extends from the flanks of the Koʻolau Range to Kāneʻohe Bay.

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• Activity

Polynesian Cultural Center

The Polynesian Cultural Center is a large-scale cultural theme park and living museum located on Oʻahu's north-east coast near Lāʻie.

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• Art and culture venue

Waikiki Aquarium

Waikīkī Aquarium

Waikīkī Aquarium is a historic public aquarium on the Waikīkī shoreline beside Kapiʻolani Park.

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• Family attraction

Lanikai Beach

Lanikai Beach is a residential Windward Oʻahu beach known for pale sand and views toward the Mokulua islets.

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• Nature site

Kailua Beach Park

Kailua Beach Park is a major public beach park on the Windward coast of Oahu, operated by the City and County of Honolulu.

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• Nature site

Manoa Falls

Mānoa Falls is a rainforest waterfall reached by a popular valley trail above Honolulu.

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• Viewpoint

Nuuanu Pali Lookout

Nuʻuanu Pali

Nuʻuanu Pali is a section of the Koʻolau mountain range on Oʻahu, Hawaii. The Pali Lookout offers views of the Windward Coast.

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• Viewpoint

Makapuu Point Lighthouse Trail

Makapuʻu Point

Makapuʻu Point is the easternmost point of the island of Oʻahu in the Hawaiian Islands.

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• Viewpoint

Battleship Missouri Memorial

USS Missouri

The Battleship Missouri Memorial is a museum ship and war memorial located at Pearl Harbor. The USS Missouri is an Iowa-class battleship that served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Gulf War.

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• Historic monument

Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum

Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum occupies historic hangars on Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor. The museum preserves and interprets aviation history related to the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and broader Pacific aviation heritage.

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• Museum

USS Bowfin

The USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park is a World War II submarine museum located adjacent to the Pearl Harbor visitor centre on Oahu, Hawaii.

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• Historic monument

Honolulu Museum of Art

The Honolulu Museum of Art

Honolulu Museum of Art is Honolulu’s principal public art museum, connecting Hawaiʻi, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, and the Americas.

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• Museum

Shangri La Museum

Shangri La

Shangri La is Doris Duke’s former Honolulu estate, now a museum devoted to Islamic art, culture, and design.

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• Museum

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Punchbowl Cemetery

The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, locally called Punchbowl Cemetery, is a United States national cemetery located inside Punchbowl Crater, an extinct volcanic tuff cone above central Honolulu.

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• Historic monument

Byodo-In Temple

The Byodo-In Temple is a non-denominational Buddhist temple located in the Valley of the Temples Memorial Park on Oahu. It is a scaled replica of the 950-year-old Byodo-In Temple of Equality in Uji, Japan, a United Nations World Heritage Site.

• Must see
• Place of worship

Koko Head

Koko Crater Railway Trail

Koko Head is a prominent tuff cone on the southeastern coast of Oahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu. The landform rises above the Pacific shoreline and forms part of the Koko Head District Park area.

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• Activity

Kaʻiwa Ridge Trail (Lanikai Pillbox)

The Kaʻiwa Ridge Trail, widely known as the Lanikai Pillbox Trail, is a hiking route on Oahu's windward coast near Kailua. The trail leads to former military observation structures called pillboxes, situated on a ridge above Lanikai.

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• Activity

Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden

Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden on the windward side of O'ahu, Hawaii. Established in 1982, the garden spans approximately 400 acres in the Kane'ohe area.

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• Nature site

Waimea Valley

Waimea Valley is a cultural and botanical site on Oahu's North Shore. The valley holds significance as a Native Hawaiian place of residence and worship, with archaeological evidence of past habitation.

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• Activity

Pearl Harbor National Memorial

Pearl Harbor National Memorial is a National Park Service memorial landscape in Honolulu devoted to the attack on Pearl Harbor and its consequences. The place combines historical interpretation with remembrance beside the harbour.

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• Historic monument

Waimea Bay

Waimea Bay is a prominent beach on Oahu's North Shore in Hawaii. The bay is internationally recognized for its powerful winter surf, which has played a central role in the development of big-wave surfing.

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• Activity

Waimanalo Beach

Waimānalo Beach is a long sandy shoreline on Oahu’s Windward Coast, set beneath the Koʻolau mountain range. Its broad coastal setting feels quieter and less urban than Waikiki, with residential communities inland and open views across the ocean.

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• Nature site

Sandy Beach

Sandy Beach Park is a public beach park on the south-east shore of Oahu, Hawaii, within the city and county of Honolulu. It is known for its powerful shorebreak and is a notable destination for body-surfing.

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• Nature site

Holona Beach Cove

Halona Beach Cove

Halona Beach Cove is a small, scenic coastal inlet located beneath the Halona Blowhole Lookout on the southeastern shore of Oahu, near Honolulu.

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• Historic monument

Makapuu Beach Park

Makapuʻu Beach Park is a beach on Oʻahu’s Windward Coast, backed by sea cliffs and facing the exposed ocean below Makapuʻu Point.

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• Nature site

Aloha Tower

Aloha Tower is a historic lighthouse and landmark located at Honolulu Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The tower was completed in 1926 and served as a welcoming beacon for arriving ships.

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• Historic monument

Washington Place

Washington Place is a historic residence in Honolulu, Hawaii. Built in the 1840s, it served as the home of Queen Liliuokalani, the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and later became the official residence for territorial governors.

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• Museum

Hānaiakamālama

Queen Emma Summer Palace

Queen Emma Summer Palace, known locally as Hānaiakamalama, stands in Nuʻuanu Valley as a historic residence with deep ties to Hawaiian royalty.

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• Museum

Foster Botanical Garden

Foster Botanical Garden is a historic botanical garden located in central Honolulu. It is one of the five sites comprising the Honolulu Botanical Gardens system, which is managed by the City and County of Honolulu.

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• Nature site

Lyon Arboretum

Lyon Arboretum and Botanical Garden

Harold L. Lyon Arboretum is a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa botanical garden in Mānoa Valley on Oʻahu. It combines tropical plant collections, rainforest habitat, conservation work, horticultural study, and public education.

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• Nature site

Ala Moana Beach Park

Ala Moana Beach Park is a large sheltered urban beach park located opposite the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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• Nature site

Kakaako Waterfront Park

Kakaʻako Waterfront Park is an open coastal park in Honolulu’s Kakaʻako district. Built on reclaimed industrial land, it gives visitors a broad Pacific outlook and a direct connection with the shoreline.

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• Nature site

Hawaii Theatre

Hawaiʻi Theatre is a restored 1922 theatre and landmark performance venue in downtown Honolulu. Its historic character gives an evening at the theatre a different mood from a modern concert hall: the building itself forms part of the cultural experience.

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• Art and culture venue

International Market Place

International Marketplace

International Market Place is a historic-name shopping and dining complex located in Waikīkī, Honolulu. The site carries the name of a well-known former marketplace that operated in this area for decades.

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• Market

Duke Kahanamoku Statue

The Duke Kahanamoku Statue stands beside Waikīkī Beach as a bronze memorial to Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian Olympic swimmer and surfer who helped popularize surfing around the world.

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• Historic monument

Fort DeRussy Beach Park

Fort DeRussy Beach Park is a broad sandy beach on the western edge of Waikīkī in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

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• Nature site

U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii

United States Army Museum of Hawaii

The U.S. Army Museum of Hawaiʻi is a military-history museum housed in the former Battery Randolph at Fort DeRussy in Waikiki, Honolulu.

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• Museum

Pearl Harbor Visitor Center

The Pearl Harbor Visitor Center serves as the National Park Service gateway to Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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• Nature site

USS Bowfin

Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum

The Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum is a Pearl Harbor-area museum focused on the history of the United States submarine service. Its central companion is USS Bowfin, a World War II-era submarine preserved as a memorial and exhibit.

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• Museum

Kawaiahaʻo Church

Kawaiaha'o Church

Kawaiahaʻo Church is a historic coral-block church in downtown Honolulu. Built in the nineteenth century, it served as the national church of the Hawaiian Kingdom and stood at the centre of the monarchy's religious and political life.

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• Place of worship

Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace

The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace is a Catholic cathedral in downtown Honolulu. Its origins reach back to the Hawaiian Kingdom era and the establishment of Catholicism in the islands.

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• Place of worship

Central Union Church

Central Union Church is an active Honolulu church campus centered on a Gothic-revival sanctuary. The building serves worship and community life, so visitors encounter a functioning religious institution rather than a museum arranged for sightseeing.

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• Place of worship

Koko Crater Botanical Garden

Koko Crater Botanical Garden is a dryland botanical garden inside the basin of an extinct volcanic tuff cone in East Honolulu. It belongs to the Honolulu Botanical Gardens system and combines plant conservation with an unusual geological setting.

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• Nature site

Liliuokalani Botanical Garden

Lili'uokalani Botanical Garden

Liliʻuokalani Botanical Garden is a compact native-plant garden in Honolulu’s Nuʻuanu valley, beside Nuʻuanu Stream and below the Nuʻuanu Pali.

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• Nature site

Sea Life Park Hawaii

Sea Life Park

Sea Life Park Hawaiʻi is a marine park and education attraction at Makapuʻu Point on Oʻahu’s southeastern coast. Its oceanfront setting places marine-animal exhibits and educational experiences between the Pacific Ocean and the Koʻolau Range.

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• Entertainment venue