Sabah has few 'quirky' sights… Enter 'Rumah Terbalik' – the Upside Down House – a modern, tastefully decorated house, but…upside down! Even the furniture and the car parked in the garage sticks to the ceiling. In the same compound is the equally odd 3D Wonders Museum, which allows you to poke your heads into apertures on painted scenes of turtles and swinging orangutans. It's the largest collection of 3D art in Malaysia.
Rumah Terbalik & the 3D Wonders Museum
Sabah
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park
19.28 MILES
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12.19 MILES
With its three-hour tours, Mari Mari showcases various traditional homes of Sabahan ethnic communities – the Bajau, Lundayeh, Murut, Rungus and Dusun –…
14.31 MILES
Built in classical style, this mosque is far more attractive than the State Mosque in both setting and design. Completed in 2000 it can hold up to 12,000…
15.61 MILES
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26.19 MILES
Near the top of the Crocker Range, next to the main highway, 20km north of Tambunan, this park is devoted to the world's largest flower. The Rafflesia…
24.81 MILES
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Signal Hill Observatory Platform
16.2 MILES
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16.79 MILES
KK's Night Market is an unmissable immersion into local culture. It's authentic, bustling, aromatic and noisy. At the southwest end you will find stalls…
Nearby Sabah attractions
12.19 MILES
With its three-hour tours, Mari Mari showcases various traditional homes of Sabahan ethnic communities – the Bajau, Lundayeh, Murut, Rungus and Dusun –…
2. Puh Toh Tze Buddhist Temple
14.02 MILES
This impressive temple features a stone staircase-pavilion flanked by 10 Chinese deities leading up to a main temple complex dominated by Kwan Yin,…
14.31 MILES
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4. Kota Kinabalu Wetland Centre
15.61 MILES
This centre features 1.4km of wooden walkways passing through a 24-hectare mangrove swamp, where you can expect to see scuttling fiddler and mangrove…
5. Signal Hill Observatory Platform
16.2 MILES
Up on Signal Hill, among the art deco mansions at the city-centre's eastern edge, there's an unmissable UFO-like observation pavilion. Come here to make…
16.41 MILES
On Sundays a lively Chinese street fair takes over a section of Jln Gaya. It's vividly chaotic, with stalls cheek by jowl hawking batik sarongs, puppies…
16.44 MILES
The modest timepiece at the foot of Signal Hill is one of the only structures to survive the Allied bombing of Jesselton in 1945. It's a square, 15.7m…
16.63 MILES
The Central Market is a bustling spot for people watching, with locals going about their daily business as they shop for fresh produce.