Shanghai
Happy Valley is a wildly popular national amusement park with locations around China. This park is separated into different zones (Shanghai Bund, Gold…
Must-see attractions in Shanghai
Former Residence of Liu Changsheng
Shanghai
Inside a red-brick villa, this museum details the rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC). It's the former residence of underground CPC leader Liu…
Shanghai
Across from Jing'an Temple, this atmospheric landscaped garden is 33,600 sq metres in size and a nice little oasis in the city. Stroll past flowerbeds,…
International Table Tennis Federation Museum & China Table Tennis Museum
Shanghai Old City
The International Table Tennis Museum was originally located in Switzerland and moved to Shanghai in 2018. In addition to comprehensive coverage of the…
Shanghai
This art deco theatre was once the biggest nightclub in the 1930s. The first Chinese jazz band, Jimmy King, played here, and both the former ruler of…
Shanghai Camera History Museum
French Concession
One for diehard vintage camera fans, this museum displays cameras from the 20th century, including old folding models from the 1920s and ’30s as well as a…
The Bund & People's Square
When it opened in 2004, Three on the Bund was the strip’s first lifestyle destination and the model that many other venues have since followed. It's now…
The Bund & People's Square
Designed by notable Hungarian architect Ladislaus Hudec, the Moore Memorial Church (c 1931) is a standout red-brick Christian edifice east of People’s…
Shanghai
This memorial hall, within an historic Ming dynasty building in Guangqi Park, is dedicated to the life and works of 17th-century Shanghai scientist Xu…
Shanghai
This modern park at the eastern end of Century Ave is strong on hard edges and synthetic lines, but there’s an attractive central lake (with expensive…
The Bund & People's Square
One of several buildings along the Bund designed by British architecture firm Palmer & Turner, the Yokohama Specie Bank was built in 1924 mixing…
Shanghai Old City
Life’s a beach, even in the middle of Shanghai. If the sun comes out, pop down to this small but amusing artificial strip of sand right by the river and…
Shanghai Old City
The port-red and relatively new Taoist Baiyun (White Cloud) Temple is fronted by an entrance with twin eaves and separated from Dajing Pavilion, a…
Shanghai
Of Zhujiajiao’s quaint band of ancient bridges, the standout must be the graceful, 72m-long, five-arched Fangsheng Bridge, first built in 1571 with…
The Bund & People's Square
Dating back to 1869, this was an important church for the British during the days of colonial Shanghai (and featured in JG Ballad's Empire of the Sun)…
The Bund & People's Square
China’s first ever public park (1886) achieved lasting notoriety for its apocryphal ‘No Dogs or Chinese allowed’ sign. The park today is blighted by the…
Shanghai
A historic 1903 outpost of the Qing dynasty postal service, this is not a huge place but it's nice to walk through the old wooden building's interior,…
North China Daily News Building
The Bund & People's Square
The former building of Shanghai-based English newspaper North China Daily, this 1921 neoclassical building is notable for its top-level Atlas art-nouveau…
The Bund & People's Square
Beneath the Monument to the People's Heroes, this underground museum has some interesting info and photos on the history of the Bund. It's a good starting…
Hongkou & North Shanghai
Overlooking Suzhou Creek, this supremely grand building dates from 1924. It's topped with a cupola and clock tower, and ornamented with bronze statues…
The Bund & People's Square
The waxworks at Madame Tussauds are largely aimed at locals – so might be irrelevant to your celebrity spotting – and cost a lot, but may make do for…
Shanghai
The former St Ignatius Convent, standing across North Caoxi Rd from St Ignatius Cathedral, is now a restaurant called Ye Olde Station (上海老站, Shanghai…
The Bund & People's Square
Built in 1925 for a Japanese shipping company, this building's design features a mix of Western neoclassical and Japanese styles. Upstairs is luxury…
Banque de l'Indochine Building
The Bund & People's Square
Built in 1914, this French Baroque–style building was originally the Banque de l'Indochine Building. Today it's a Chinese bank with a lavish lobby you can…
Hongkou & North Shanghai
Also known as Fitch Memorial Church, this 1928 brick temple is an interesting structure for architecture fans. It was built in a Chinese style with…
Hongkou & North Shanghai
The Moorish-looking Kong Residence, built in 1924, is a former Kuomintang (the Nationalist political party) house on Duolun Road Cultural Street.
Shanghai
On the corner of ritzy West Nanjing Rd sits Nobility of Time, a bronze sculpture created by Salvador Dalí, who constructed this signature dripping clock…
Shanghai
Gallery in the M50 complex featuring a range of Chinese works from traditional Taiwanese painters and Chinese artists overseas to contemporary works.
Shanghai
Set in lush green grounds, this historic house (building No 1 of the Cypress Hotel) was Victor Sassoon's bolthole villa in west Shanghai.
The Bund & People's Square
This riverside gallery shows mainly local artists and is a good place to get a feel for the contemporary Chinese art scene.
The Bund & People's Square
In the Rockbund district, this commercial gallery is devoted to contemporary sculpture by Chinese and overseas artists.
Hongkou & North Shanghai
This bell tower at the bend of Duolun Rd is a main feature of the street, right next to the Old Film Café.
Shanghai
A vast gallery space that focuses on experimental art and installations from Shanghai artists and beyond.
Zhujiajiao Catholic Church of Ascension
Shanghai
A gorgeous church dating from 1863, with its belfry rising in a detached tower by the rear gate.
Shanghai
Take the pulse of China's avant-garde art scene, with a focus on new media works.
French Concession
Shanghai’s largest and most popular, this nondenominational ivy-cloaked church was built in 1924. There are no cheesy Chinese Catholic frills and the…
French Concession
A short walk west along Gaolan Rd from Fuxing Park is rewarded by the distinctive shape of the vacant and now derelict St Nicholas Church, one of Shanghai…
The Bund & People's Square
A 647m voyage with entertainment including budget effects, garish lighting and dreadful props, the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel is a transport mode guaranteed…
The Bund & People's Square
At the corner of East Yan’an Rd and Middle Xizang Rd stands the building of the former Great World, a place for acrobats and nightlife stars that was…
Shanghai
Though Mao Zedong only lived at this two-storey apartment for a few months in 1920, it's here the seeds were laid for the formation of the CCP. Within is…
