Atlas of China
Listed sites in Liaoning 辽宁
241 scenic areas and heritage sites from the official lists, by city. 53 have a page of their own; the rest open as cards on the map.
The A-level rating is the national grading of scenic areas, 5A being the top tier; national heritage sites are the buildings, ruins, tombs and carvings protected by the State Council. Both lists are on the lists page.
5A scenic areas in Liaoning
- Benxi Water Caves 本溪水洞 5A scenic area · on the map
The Benxi Water Caves are a karst cave system with an underground river, about 5.8 km long, of which roughly 2.8 km has been opened to visitors. - Dalian Laohutan Ocean Park 老虎滩海洋公园 5A scenic area
Laohutan Ocean Park is a marine-themed park on about 4 km of winding coastline in Dalian, with a core area of 118 hectares. - Jinshitan (Golden Pebble Beach) 金石滩 5A scenic area
Jinshitan is a coastal resort area in Jinzhou district, approved by the State Council as a national tourist resort in 1992. - Qianshan National Park 千山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A mountain scenic area of about 44 sq km, among the first national scenic areas named in 1982, with granite peaks, old pines and valleys where Buddhist and Daoist temples stand side by side. - Shenyang Botanical Garden 沈阳植物园 5A scenic area
A 246-hectare garden in the Qipanshan area on the north-eastern edge of Shenyang, founded in 1959 and the site of the 2006 China Shenyang International Horticultural Exposition, which is why it is also called the Shenyang Expo Garden. - Wunü Mountain 五女山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Wunü Mountain is a flat-topped massif with steep cliffs above the Hun River, crowned by the ruins of a Goguryeo hill fortress that is generally identified as the first capital of the Goguryeo kingdom (founded in 37 BC).
By city
Anshan (17) · Benxi (15) · Chaoyang (22) · Dalian (43) · Dandong (11) · Fushun (13) · Fuxin (10) · Huludao (18) · Jinzhou (20) · Liaoyang (11) · Panjin (9) · Shenyang (34) · Tieling (5) · Yingkou (13)
Anshan 17 sites
- Qianshan National Park 千山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A mountain scenic area of about 44 sq km, among the first national scenic areas named in 1982, with granite peaks, old pines and valleys where Buddhist and Daoist temples stand side by side. - Ansteel Museum and Early Steelworks Buildings 鞍钢博物馆（鞍山钢铁厂早期建筑） 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The Ansteel Group Museum fills the former No. 2 sintering shop of the Anshan steelworks, a 1950s building designed with Soviet help and one of eight early buildings listed together as a national heritage unit that runs from the Japanese-run works of the 1920s and 1930s to the Soviet-assisted rebuilding of the 1950s. - Jade Buddha Palace 玉佛苑 4A scenic area
A Buddhist temple complex on the west slope of Jade Buddha Hill in Anshan, opened in 1996 and built around a hall about 33 m high that houses a statue carved from a single block of Xiuyan jade weighing 260.76 tonnes, with Shakyamuni on the front and Guanyin crossing the sea on the back. - Jianing Happy Valley 佳宁欢乐谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure-farm resort of 340 mu (about 23 ha) in Yujiagou village near Tanggangzi, combining fishing, fruit picking, a zoo, a children's play area, a water park, sand and grass sliding, horse riding and live-action team shooting games. - Longquan Lake Resort, Xiuyan 龙泉湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake-and-hills leisure resort in Qianying, Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, begun in 2000 and covering nearly 10,000 mu, about 6.5 sq km. - Qianshan Old Courtyard Resort 千山老院子 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure resort in the village of Hanjiayu, in the Qianshan hills, laid out around courtyard-style buildings and gardens in a traditional manner. - Qingliangshan Scenic Area, Xiuyan 清凉山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area of about 30 sq km in the north-east of Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, with steep peaks, deep valleys, primary forest, streams, an underground lake and hot springs, according to the provincial tourism page. - Shanshui Manor Hot Spring Resort 山水庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring leisure resort at Gushouyu, in the Yuanbao hills at the foot of Qianshan. - Shitouji Qianshan Grand View Garden 石头记千山大观园 4A scenic area · on the map
A themed garden based on Dream of the Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone, Shitouji in Chinese), built at the foot of Qianshan in Anshan's high-tech zone and opened in 2023. - Tanggangzi Hot Spring Resort 汤岗子温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring spa district about 12 km south of Anshan, used for bathing since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 and developed as a spa by the South Manchuria Railway Company from 1920, and in that era counted as one of the 'three great hot springs of Manchuria'. - Tianyuan Agricultural Park, Haicheng 天源农业 4A scenic area · on the map
A commercial agri-tourism resort of 300 mu (20 ha) at Beigeng village in Gengzhuang town, built around a hot-spring water park with about 12,000 sq m indoors and 4,600 sq m outdoors. - Xianghe Holiday Manor 祥和度假庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
A family leisure resort of about 22 ha in Qianshan District, south-west of Anshan, built around an indoor children's play park modelled on a candy town and a flower valley with more than a hundred species of flowers. - Yutangquan Hot Spring Water World 御汤泉 4A scenic area · on the map
An indoor water park and hot-spring resort in the Tanggangzi new town, under an all-glass roof, with more than a hundred Southeast Asian plant species growing inside. - Jinta Pagoda, Haicheng 海城金塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda, 31.5 m high, on a hillside above Yangjiaoyu village, octagonal with 13 close-set storeys of eaves and named Jinta (Golden Pagoda) for its pale yellow colour. - Wolongshan Mountain Fortress 卧龙山山城遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A hill fortress of the late Goguryeo period, in the Sui and Tang era, which the provincial heritage page calls the largest and reasonably well preserved of several such forts in Xiuyan county; it was formerly known as Niangniang Cheng. - Ximucheng Dolmen 析木城石棚 National heritage site · on the map
A Bronze Age dolmen about 3,000 years old: six granite slabs form a chamber 2.8 m high under a capstone of about 6 m by 5 m, standing on a high terrace at the foot of a hill. - Yinta Pagoda, Haicheng 海城银塔 National heritage site · on the map
A white brick pagoda of nine close-set storeys of eaves on a hexagonal plan, about 15.6 m high, begun in the Liao or Jin period and rebuilt in the Ming, on a hillside north of West Tazigou village.
Benxi 15 sites
- Benxi Water Caves 本溪水洞 5A scenic area · on the map
The Benxi Water Caves are a karst cave system with an underground river, about 5.8 km long, of which roughly 2.8 km has been opened to visitors. - Wunü Mountain 五女山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Wunü Mountain is a flat-topped massif with steep cliffs above the Hun River, crowned by the ruins of a Goguryeo hill fortress that is generally identified as the first capital of the Goguryeo kingdom (founded in 37 BC). - Benxi Grand Canyon 本溪大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Benxi Grand Canyon is a gorge in Nanfen District, inside a national geological park, that has been developed as a thrill-oriented adventure park. - Dabinggou Forest Park 大冰沟森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Dabinggou is a forested valley in Nanfen District, with tree cover of about 97 percent and groundwater that stays near 4°C all year. - Dashi Lake and Laobiangou 大石湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Dashihu is a two-part mountain scenic area in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, made up of the Dashi Lake section and the Laobiangou valley, and noted for its autumn maples. - Dayahe Rafting and Longxi Valley 大雅河漂流 4A scenic area · on the map
Dayahe is a river and valley leisure area in Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, at the foot of Huaping Mountain, an area nicknamed the "little Guilin of the north". - Fenglin Valley Forest Park 枫林谷森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Fenglin Valley is a forest park in Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, known for the red maples of autumn; forest covers nearly 99 percent of the park and its highest peak, Bamianwei, reaches 1,305 m. - Green Stone Valley (Tangchigou) 汤池沟绿石谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Green Stone Valley is a forested valley in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, named for the moss-covered boulders that fill the valley and give the rocks a jade-green look. - Guanmenshan Forest Park 关门山森林公园 4A scenic area
Guanmenshan is a forested valley in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, named for two facing peaks that look like a gate, and is known above all for its autumn maples. - Guanshan Lake 关山湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Guanshan Lake is a reservoir in forested hills in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, developed as a national water-conservancy scenic area and known for its autumn colour. - Qingyunshan Scenic Area 青云山 4A scenic area · on the map
Qingyunshan is a hill scenic area on the southern edge of Benxi city, in Mingshan District, where visitors climb up for views out over the city. - Tieshashan 铁刹山 4A scenic area · on the map
Tieshashan, also called Jiuding Tieshashan ("nine-peak" Tieshashan), is a Daoist mountain in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County that is regarded as the birthplace of the Longmen school of Daoism in north-east China. - Wangtian Cave 望天洞 4A scenic area · on the map
Wangtian Cave is a karst cave in Huanren Manchu Autonomous County that the provincial tourism page dates to about 200,000 years ago. - Xiaoshi Yizhuang 小市一庄 4A scenic area · on the map
Xiaoshi Yizhuang is a rural tourism village at Tongjiangyu in Xiaoshi town, about 1 km from the Benxi Water Caves, developed around folk-custom experiences, local food, countryside stays and cultural shows. - Benxihu Industrial Heritage Complex 本溪湖工业遗产群 National heritage site · on the map
This group of mining, ironmaking and company buildings in Xihu District comes from the Benxihu Coal and Iron Company, which Japanese interests began developing in 1905 and which became part of the Benxi Iron and Steel works after 1949.
Chaoyang 22 sites
- Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geopark 朝阳鸟化石国家地质公园 4A scenic area · on the map
The geopark in Longcheng District centres on the Liaoning Chaoyang Palaeontological Fossil Museum, which reopened in April 2025 after an upgrade. - Daxuan Mountain, Beipiao 北票大玄山 4A scenic area · on the map
Daxuan Mountain, the name the provincial culture department now gives to the Dahei Shan scenic area, is a forested mountain in the north-west of Beipiao with rocky peaks and, by the department's figure, forest cover above 93%. - First Bend of the Daling River 凌河第一湾 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The Daling River makes a sharp S-shaped bend between hills in Kazuo county, and this scenic area links viewpoints along the river through four townships. - Fossil Valley, Chaoyang 朝阳化石谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Fossil Valley is a commercially run, fossil-themed attraction in Longcheng District on the north-west side of Chaoyang, covering about 1.7 hectares in three parts: an interactive 'legendary fossil' experience park, the Chaoyang Jurassic Palaeontological Fossil Museum (a privately owned museum, formerly the Jizantang museum) and a fossil-culture creative area. - Laohugou Eco-Tourism Area 老虎沟生态旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
Laohugou ('Tiger Gully') is a wooded valley scenic area in Dawangzhangzi township, south-west of Lingyuan, a township nicknamed the 'seventy-li apricot valley' and rich in Jehol Biota fossils. - Longfeng Mountain, Kazuo 喀左龙凤山 4A scenic area · on the map
Longfeng ('Dragon and Phoenix') Mountain is a hill scenic area east of Kazuo county town, with rock outcrops, old cypresses, an old temple, caves and springs. - Longyuan Tourism Area, Kazuo 龙源旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
The Longyuan tourism area is a lakeside leisure district at the edge of Kazuo county town, built around Longyuan Lake. - Niuheliang 牛河梁遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Niuheliang is a Hongshan-culture ritual and burial complex spread over ridges where Lingyuan meets Jianping, with a platform known as the Goddess Temple, a three-ring altar and clusters of stone-mound tombs. - Phoenix Mountain, Chaoyang 朝阳凤凰山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Phoenix Mountain is a wooded ridge on the eastern edge of Chaoyang that rises to about 660 m, was known as Dragon Mountain in earlier times, and carries a group of old temples and pagodas on its slopes. - Qianfodong Scenic Area, Chaoyang County 朝阳千佛洞 4A scenic area · on the map
Qianfodong ('Thousand Buddha Caves') is a hill scenic area in Nanshuangmiao township, south of Chaoyang, with odd-shaped rock formations, a Buddhist site that the provincial culture department traces back a thousand years and the remains of what it calls a Sui–Tang 'general-review platform'. - Yulonggu Hot Spring Resort 浴龙谷温泉度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
Yulonggu is a hot-spring and water-play resort with a Mongolian theme on the south-western side of Kazuo, with hot-spring pools, a large wave pool and a drifting river that runs partly underground. - Balengguan Pagoda 八棱观塔 National heritage site · on the map
Balengguan Pagoda is a Liao-period octagonal brick pagoda of thirteen tiers of dense eaves, about 34 m high, standing on a hilltop with the Daling River to its south. - Chaoyang North Tower 朝阳北塔 National heritage site
Chaoyang North Tower is a 42.6 m square brick pagoda with thirteen tiers of dense eaves, built up over several dynasties on the palace site of the Yan-state capital Longcheng, which is why it is nicknamed the 'Five Ages Pagoda'. - Chaoyang South Pagoda 朝阳南塔 National heritage site · on the map
Chaoyang South Pagoda is a square brick pagoda of thirteen eaves from the Liao period, standing at the south end of Murong Street as the counterpart to the North Tower. - Dongpingfang Pagoda 东平房塔 National heritage site · on the map
Dongpingfang Pagoda is a Liao-period brick pagoda on a hilltop above the Daling River, six-sided and originally nine tiers of dense eaves, of which eight survive. - Dongshanzui Site 东山嘴遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Dongshanzui is a ritual site of the late Hongshan culture, more than 5,000 years old, on a terrace above the west bank of the Daling River; it has a square stone-walled platform with standing stones and a small round altar paved with pebbles. - Huanghuatan Pagoda 黄花滩塔 National heritage site · on the map
Huanghuatan Pagoda is a Liao-period octagonal brick pagoda of thirteen tiers of dense eaves standing on an earth mound with the Daling River to its south, facing the site of the Liao city of New Jianzhou. - Qingfeng Pagoda 青峰塔 National heritage site · on the map
Qingfeng Pagoda is a square thirteen-tier brick pagoda of the Liao period on the summit of West Pagoda Hill at Wushijiazi village in Xiyingzi township, hollow inside, with a porch on its south face and the spire lost. - Taiji Mass Grave Site, Beipiao 台吉万人坑遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The Taiji mass grave site is a memorial on a hillside south of Taiji town in Beipiao, where miners who died at the local coal mine under Japanese occupation were buried; Chinese state media say tens of thousands of labourers died in the Beipiao coalfield after 1931 from overwork, hunger and disease. - Tombs of the Princes of Kharachin Right Banner 喀喇沁右翼旗蒙古王陵 National heritage site · on the map
This is the burial ground of the Qing-era princes (zasag) of the Kharachin Right Banner, a Mongol banner, set in a pine grove at the foot of Longdan Mountain in Sanjia township. - Twin Pagodas of Shuangta Temple 双塔寺双塔 National heritage site · on the map
Two small octagonal brick pagodas stand side by side on a hillside beneath a rock overhang in a gully north-west of Zhengzhangzi village, in Mutouchengzi town. - Youshun Temple 佑顺寺 National heritage site
Youshun Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist (Gelug) monastery built between 1698 and 1707 under the Kangxi emperor, laid out along a north-west to south-east axis of about 233 m, with a memorial archway, gate, Hall of Heavenly Kings, sutra hall and a main hall about 21 m high, flanked by monks' quarters, a Guandi hall and an opera stage.
Dalian 43 sites
- Dalian Laohutan Ocean Park 老虎滩海洋公园 5A scenic area
Laohutan Ocean Park is a marine-themed park on about 4 km of winding coastline in Dalian, with a core area of 118 hectares. - Jinshitan (Golden Pebble Beach) 金石滩 5A scenic area
Jinshitan is a coastal resort area in Jinzhou district, approved by the State Council as a national tourist resort in 1992. - Anbo Hot Spring Tourist Area 安波旅游景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Anbo is a hot-spring area in the hills of northern Pulandian District, and the listed scenic area spreads across five of the district's subdistricts. - Baiyushan Hill, Lüshun 白玉山 4A scenic area · on the map
Baiyushan is a hill in the old town of Lüshun that looks down on the naval harbour and the town. - Bangchuidao Guesthouse Scenic Area 棒棰岛宾馆景区 4A scenic area · on the map
This coastal scenic area on the eastern stretch of Dalian's Binhai Road takes its name from a small club-shaped islet about 600 m offshore. - Bingyu Valley 冰峪沟 4A scenic area
Bingyu Valley is a mountain gorge in the Xianrendong area of Zhuanghe, known for forested peaks of quartzite, deep side valleys and clear streams and pools, and promoted as the 'Guilin of southern Liaoning'. - Dahei Mountain 大黑山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A 663-metre mountain and forest park in Jinzhou, with Buddhist and Taoist temples and rock canyons, and azaleas that bloom on the slopes in mid-April. - Dalian Forest Zoo 大连森林动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
Dalian Forest Zoo covers 7.2 square kilometres of Baiyun Hill in the south of the city and opened in 1997, with a free-range area added in 2000. - Dalian Martial Arts Culture Museum 大连武术文化博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum of Chinese martial arts, with exhibits on the history of the martial arts in China and in Dalian over the past century. - Dalian Modern Museum 大连博物馆 4A scenic area
Dalian's city museum stands beside Xinghai Square and opened in 2002. - Dalian Natural History Museum 大连自然博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The museum, on the Heishijiao shore, covers geology, palaeontology, zoology and botany in 12 halls, among them earth sciences, dinosaurs, marine life, north-eastern forest animals, wetlands, biodiversity and western Liaoning fossils. - Dalian Sun Asia Ocean World 圣亚海洋世界 4A scenic area · on the map
This commercial aquarium park in Xinghai Park by Xinghai Bay has four venues: Ocean World with a 118 m underwater tunnel, Polar World with Antarctic penguins and a spotted-seal bay, Coral World, and a zone of sea, land and air animals. - Dongjiguan Mountain 东鸡冠山 4A scenic area
Dongjiguan ('East Cockscomb') Mountain, on the north-eastern edge of Lüshun, was a main battlefield of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, when Japanese forces took the Russian fort on its north side in December 1904. - Guan Xiangying Memorial Hall 关向应故居纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial museum at the birthplace of Guan Xiangying (1902–46), a Chinese Communist leader who served as a political commissar in the Red Army and the Eighth Route Army. - Haiwang Jiudao (Nine Islands of Haiwang) 海王九岛 4A scenic area · on the map
Haiwang Jiudao is a group of nine islands and dozens of reefs in the Yellow Sea off Wangjia town, Zhuanghe, including Dawangjia, Xiaowangjia and Shoulong Islands. - Hengshan Beipuduo Theme Culture Park 横山北普陀主题文化公园 4A scenic area · on the map
This Buddhist-themed culture park of about 45 hectares in wooded hills was begun in 2003 and rated 4A in 2014. - Jiangjunshi Seaside Resort 将军石旅游景区 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure resort at Bohai village on the Bohai coast of Wafangdian, centred on a hotel with villas, a hot-spring club and conference rooms. - Lüshun Russo-Japanese Prison 旅顺日俄监狱旧址博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Built by Russia from 1902 and enlarged by Japan from 1907, this former prison in Lüshun held mainly activists from Manchuria and Korea until 1945, and it opened as a museum in 1971. - Lüshun Submarine Museum 旅顺潜艇博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The museum stands on the seafront below Huangjin (Golden) Hill in Lüshun and shows a retired Type 033 submarine alongside more than 60 other retired naval, land and air equipment items. - Minghu Hot Spring and Ski Resort 铭湖国际温泉滑雪度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
A resort of more than 4,000 mu (about 270 hectares) in the hills of Paotai subdistrict, combining a hot-spring hotel, a ski area and a farm-style ranch. - Pingdao Sea Cucumber Town 平岛辽参小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A tourist island off the Yellow Sea coast of Pulandian District, themed on local sea-cucumber farming, for which the provincial tourism department lists 12 protection zones. - Qicai Nanshan Scenic Area 七彩南山 4A scenic area · on the map
Qicai Nanshan is a rural tourism park of about one square kilometre at Xiaonan village in Lüshun, opened in 2010. - Shiwai Jiantang Hot Spring 世外俭汤 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring scenic area of about 3.8 sq km in wooded hills at Jiantang, in Anbo subdistrict of Pulandian District. - Tianmenshan National Forest Park, Zhuanghe 天门山国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Tianmenshan National Forest Park lies in the mountains of northern Zhuanghe and borders Gaizhou, Yingkou and Xiuyan. - Xianyuwan Beach Resort 仙浴湾旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
A seaside resort on the west coast of Wafangdian, with about 11 km of shoreline of which 6.4 km is bathing beach, backed by woodland and a forest park. - Xiaoshuikou Forest Park 小水口森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded coastal park of about 1.2 sq km at the eastern tip of Xiaochangshan Island in the Changshan Islands. - Xijiao National Forest Park, Dalian 西郊国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large forest park of about 70 sq km on the north-western edge of Dalian, with some 85 per cent tree cover. - Yinggeshi Botanical Garden 英歌石植物园 4A scenic area · on the map
This privately run botanical garden of about 100 hectares in the hills of Dalian's high-tech zone was begun in 2003 and opened in April 2014. - Ziyun Huaxi Lavender Estate 紫云花汐薰衣草庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
A flower and herb farm of about 1,100 mu (roughly 73 hectares) in the hills of Xiangying subdistrict, planted mainly with lavender, verbena, sage and roses, plus fruit orchards and plum trees. - Delisi Mountain Fortress 得利寺山城 National heritage site · on the map
A Goguryeo-period stone hill fortress on Longtan Mountain, with a wall of about 2.5 km round the ridge, east and west gates, and a stone-lined pool inside that gives the mountain its name. - Former Dalny City Hall 达里尼市政厅旧址 National heritage site
Built in 1900 as the administrative office of Dalny, the port city the Russians began planning on the site of today's Dalian, this two-storey Russian-designed building with a basement later became Japan's Manchuria Resources Museum, then the north-eastern local gazetteer museum, and from 1959 the Dalian Natural History Museum. - Former Kwantung Army Headquarters 关东军司令部旧址 National heritage site
This two-storey European-style building was put up by Russia in 1903, served from 1906 as the army department of Japan's Kwantung Government-General, and from 1919 housed the Kwantung Army headquarters, where the Mukden Incident of September 1931 was planned; the headquarters moved to Shenyang on 19 September that year. - Former Kwantung Prefectural Office 关东州厅旧址 National heritage site
Russia built this two-storey European-style building in 1900 as Lüshun's municipal hotel; after the Russo-Japanese War it housed Japan's Kwantung Government-General and later the Kwantung Agency and the Kwantung Prefectural Office, which moved to Dalian in 1937. - Laotieshan Lighthouse 老铁山灯塔 National heritage site
A white iron lighthouse completed in 1893 by the Qing maritime customs service, standing on the Laotieshan headland at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, where the Yellow Sea meets the Bohai Sea. - Lüshun Museum 旅顺博物馆 National heritage site
Founded in 1915 under Japanese administration and housed since 1918 in an eclectic Renaissance-style building, the Lüshun Museum is a national first-grade museum whose collections include archaeology of the Dalian area, relics from Xinjiang, ceramics, snuff bottles, coins and a gallery of mummies gathered on early twentieth-century expeditions to Central Asia. - Modern Buildings on Zhongshan Square in Dalian 大连中山广场近代建筑群 National heritage site
Zhongshan Square is a round plaza 213 m across, with ten streets radiating from it, at the centre of old Dalian; the Russians laid it out around 1899 as Nikolayevskaya Square, and most of the buildings around it date from 1908 to 1936, when Japan administered the leased territory. - Shipenggou Dolmen 石棚沟石棚 National heritage site · on the map
A Bronze Age stone burial chamber on a low hill east of Shipengtun hamlet, one of six dolmens that once stood here. - Sino-Soviet Friendship Memorial Tower 中苏友谊纪念塔 National heritage site
The 22.2 m tower was built in 1955–57 in the square in front of the Lüshun Museum, around the time Soviet forces withdrew from Lüshun and the port was returned to China in May 1955. - Site of the Kwantung Governor-General's Office 关东州总督府旧址 National heritage site · on the map
This group of Russian-period buildings at 45 Gangwan Street in old Lüshun, dated 1899 in the official list, is listed as the site of the Japanese Kwantung governor-general's offices. - South Armory 南子弹库旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The South Armory was an ammunition depot built in 1884, according to the official heritage list, during the construction of the Qing government's naval port at Lüshun, on the coast east of Huangjin Hill. - Wanzhong Tomb 万忠墓 National heritage site · on the map
Wanzhong Tomb is the communal grave of people killed in Lüshun (Port Arthur) in the days after Japanese forces took the town in November 1894. - Weibashan Fortress and Qingquan Temple 巍霸山城 National heritage site · on the map
Weibashan, also called Wugu City, is a Goguryeo-period hill fortress whose stone wall follows the ridge around the mountain for about 3 km. - Yingchengzi Han Tombs 营城子汉墓群 National heritage site · on the map
The provincial heritage department describes this as the largest Han-dynasty cemetery found in north-east China, with nearly 300 tombs excavated since the 1930s.
Dandong 11 sites
- Dalishu Agricultural Tourism Area 大梨树生态农业观光旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
The Dalishu tourism area is a rural-tourism complex in and around Dalishu village, south-west of Fengcheng, which the provincial tourism department counts among the first national agricultural-tourism demonstration sites. - Dalu Island 大鹿岛 4A scenic area · on the map
Dalu Island lies at the mouth of the Yalu, about 4 km long, with a fishing and tourism village and a bathing beach. - Memorial of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea 抗美援朝纪念馆 4A scenic area
This national first-grade museum on Yinghua Mountain in Dandong is devoted to the Korean War, which China calls the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and to the campaign in China to support it. - Phoenix Mountain, Fengcheng 凤凰山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Phoenix Mountain is a rocky mountain area south-east of Fengcheng, divided into West Mountain, East Mountain and Ancient City sections, with cliff-side boardwalks, a glass-floored walkway, a glass suspension bridge and several temples. - Tianhuashan Forest Park 天华山森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Tianhuashan is a provincial scenic area and forest park in the mountains of Guanshui town in northern Kuandian County, made a provincial forest park in January 2001. - Tianqiaogou 天桥沟 4A scenic area · on the map
Tianqiaogou is a forest park in the mountains of northern Kuandian County, close to the boundaries with Huanren and Benxi counties, and is best known for its autumn maple colour. - Yalu River Scenic Area 鸭绿江风景名胜区 4A scenic area · on the map
The Yalu River Scenic Area is a national-level scenic and historic area that follows the river from the Hun River mouth, at the Liaoning–Jilin boundary, down to the sea; the provincial tourism department lists six sections: Jiangkou, Daqiao (the bridges at Dandong), Hushan, Taipingwan, Shuifeng and Lüjiang. - Zhangdao Island 獐岛 4A scenic area · on the map
Zhangdao, also called Xiaoludao (Little Deer Island), is a small island village in the Yellow Sea off Beijingzi town in Donggang. - Hekou Broken Bridge, Kuandian 河口断桥 National heritage site · on the map
The Hekou Broken Bridge is the surviving part of a road bridge across the Yalu built in 1942, originally about 700 m long with 23 spans. - Hushan Great Wall 虎山长城 National heritage site
Hushan Great Wall is a restored stretch of Ming-era wall, about 1.2 km long, that climbs Hushan hill (146 m) beside the Yalu where the Ai River joins it. - Yalu River Broken Bridge 鸭绿江断桥 National heritage site
The Broken Bridge is what remains of the first bridge built across the Yalu, a 12-span steel railway bridge that Japan began in 1909 to link Korea with the Eurasian rail network and that later carried road traffic.
Fushun 13 sites
- Fushun Lei Feng Memorial Hall 抚顺雷锋纪念馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Opened in 1965 near the former barracks of Lei Feng's army unit, this memorial park commemorates the soldier Lei Feng (1940–1962), who became the subject of a long-running national 'Learn from Lei Feng' campaign. - Hemu National Forest Park 和睦国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Hemu is a long, narrow forest park in the Longgang foothills of Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, about 7.5 km from end to end and covering some 20,300 mu (about 1,350 ha). - Hetu Ala 赫图阿拉城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Hetu Ala was the first capital of Nurhaci, the Jurchen leader who began building the city in 1603 and proclaimed himself khan here in 1616, founding the Later Jin state, the forerunner of the Qing dynasty. - Kuangzigou Scenic Area 筐子沟景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Kuangzigou is a forested river-valley scenic area in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County, with forest cover given as 95 percent by the local tourism bureaus. - Nantianmen Scenic Area 南天门景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Nantianmen is a mountain-and-water leisure resort in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County with a planned area of about 10 sq km. - Red River Gorge Rafting 红河峡谷漂流 4A scenic area · on the map
Red River Gorge is a 12.8 km river-rafting run through a forested, U-shaped valley in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County, known locally as the 'Little Three Gorges of the north-east' and promoted with the slogan 'the first rafting in the north'. - Sankuaishi National Forest Park 三块石国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Sankuaishi is a mountain forest park in Fushun County, named for three huge boulders that stand together on a high summit; its main peak reaches 1,131 m. - Shenxian Valley Eco-Resort 参仙谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Shenxian Valley ('Ginseng Immortal Valley') is a forest leisure resort of about 1,360 ha in the mountains of Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, developed over several years from the mid-2010s. - Tiannüshan Forest Park 天女山森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Tiannüshan is a forested mountain park in Fushun County whose main peak rises to 780 m, covering about 1,380 mu (some 92 ha). - Fushun War Criminals Management Centre 抚顺战犯管理所旧址 National heritage site
Built by the Japanese authorities in 1936 as a prison, the site was turned in 1950 into a detention and re-education centre for Japanese war-crimes suspects, officials of the Manchukuo regime including the last Qing emperor Puyi, and captured Nationalist officers. - Pingdingshan Massacre Memorial Hall 平顶山惨案纪念馆 National heritage site · on the map
Pingdingshan was a village beside Fushun's coal workings where, on 16 September 1932, Japanese troops killed villagers in reprisal for an attack by an anti-Japanese volunteer army the night before; the memorial gives a toll of more than 3,000. - Yongling Tomb, Xinbin 清永陵 National heritage site
Yongling is the burial ground of Nurhaci's forebears: his father Taksi, grandfather Giocangga, great-grandfather Fuman and the earlier ancestor Mengtemu, together with two of his uncles. - Yuanshuailin, Zhang Zuolin's Mausoleum 元帅林 National heritage site · on the map
Yuanshuailin ('Marshal's Grove') is a mausoleum begun in 1929 by Zhang Xueliang for his father, the warlord Zhang Zuolin, who was killed in 1928.
Fuxin 10 sites
- Baodi Spa Hot Spring Resort 宝地斯帕温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort town in Dongliang town, south-west of Fuxin, whose spring water is drawn from a well about 1,888 m deep at 82 °C and described by the provincial tourism page as a sodium bicarbonate spring. - Deligeer Grassland Scenic Area, Zhangwu 德力格尔草原 4A scenic area · on the map
A lakeshore leisure area of about 800 mu (53 ha) on Deligeer Lake in Zhangwu county, where the provincial tourism page says lake, island, wetland, grassland and sand lie side by side. - Fuxin Miners' Mass Graves Memorial Hall 阜新万人坑死难矿工纪念馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A memorial and museum on the site of the mass graves of miners who died in the Fuxin coalfield while it was run by Japanese-controlled companies, from the 1930s to 1945; official figures put the number buried in the city's graves at about 70,000. - Haitangshan Scenic Area 海棠山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain of old pines and rock outcrops in Daban town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, protected as a national nature reserve and forest park, with a main peak of 715.4 m. - Huangjiagou Resort, Fuxin 黄家沟 4A scenic area · on the map
A four-season leisure resort in Sihe town, Xihe District, which the provincial tourism page describes as set among a hill, two rivers, nine lakes and about 1,000 mu (67 ha) of pine woods. - Ruiying Temple 瑞应寺 4A scenic area · on the map
A working Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Fosi town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, founded in 1669 and named by the Kangxi emperor in 1703, and long the seat of the Chagan Diancheqi line of incarnate lamas. - Wulanmutu Mountain 乌兰木图山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area of about 30 sq km in Bajiazi town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, whose main peak, at 831.4 m, is the highest in Fuxin prefecture. - Chahai Neolithic Site and Museum 查海遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A Neolithic settlement about 8,000 years old (radiocarbon-dated), excavated in seven seasons between 1986 and 1994 over nearly 7,800 sq m, which revealed house foundations, storage pits, a ritual pit and a dragon-shaped arrangement of stones about 20 m long. - Dongtashan Pagoda 东塔山塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda standing on a wooded hillside in Hongmaozi town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, octagonal with close-set storeys of eaves and niches, imitation timber brackets and relief carving on its body. - Tayingzi Pagoda 塔营子塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda 32 m high, octagonal with 13 close-set storeys of eaves, standing near the middle of the old Yizhou city site at Tayingzi village, and also called the Baoyan Temple Pagoda.
Huludao 18 sites
- Huanle Longwan Hot Spring Water Park 欢乐龙湾 4A scenic area · on the map
Huanle Longwan is a water park on the Xingcheng seafront with wave pools, slides, a drifting river, a children's water zone and hot-spring bathing pools, plus restaurants and rest pavilions. - Hulu Ancient Town 葫芦古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Hulu Ancient Town is a leisure and farm-tourism complex on the northern edge of Huludao, begun in 2001 and themed on gourd culture (hulu, as in the city's name) and the folk customs of north-east China (Guandong). - Jiumenkou Great Wall 九门口长城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Jiumenkou is a stretch of Ming Great Wall that crosses a seasonal river on a stone gateway-bridge about 110 m long and 10 m high, with nine arched openings that carried heavy double wooden doors, shut at low water and opened to let floods through. - Juehua Island 觉华岛 4A scenic area · on the map
Juehua Island, renamed in 2009 from Juhua (Chrysanthemum) Island, is the largest island in Liaodong Bay, with about 13 km² of land, 27 km of coastline and a high point of 198 m. - Lingshan Scenic Area, Lianshan 灵山风景名胜区 4A scenic area · on the map
Lingshan is a hilly forest area in Lianshan District with crags, odd-shaped rocks, caves and cliffs, and an old temple complex that is a provincial heritage site. - Longtan Grand Canyon, Jianchang 龙潭大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Longtan Grand Canyon is a wooded gorge in the hills of western Jianchang County, close to the Hebei border, with cliffs, pools, waterfalls, caves and oddly shaped rocks; the tourism department also describes it as a national geopark. - Longwan Beach, Huludao 龙湾海滨 4A scenic area · on the map
Longwan Beach is a seafront resort strip on Liaodong Bay in Longgang District, with a sand beach more than 2 km long, a marble-paved central plaza flanked by European-style hotels, a coastal boardwalk, and shopping and amusement areas. - Xingcheng Old Town 兴城古城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Xingcheng Old Town is the former Ming garrison city of Ningyuan, founded in 1428 and enclosed by a roughly square circuit of brick-faced walls about 3 km round, with a gate in each side; it is counted among the best-preserved Ming city walls in China. - Xingcheng Seaside Scenic Area 兴城海滨 4A scenic area · on the map
Xingcheng Seaside is a 14 km sandy seafront on Liaodong Bay, divided into the Xinghai, Gangkou and Bingjia bays, with a gently shelving beach and no offshore reefs. - Yintai Shuixing Ocean Park, Dongdaihe 银泰水星海洋乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
Yintai Shuixing (Water Planet) Ocean Park is a beachfront leisure development in the Dongdaihe New Area, rated a 4A scenic area in 2017, with 4.6 km of sandy coastline. - Baitayu Pagoda 白塔峪塔 National heritage site · on the map
Baitayu Pagoda is a Liao-dynasty brick pagoda with eight sides and thirteen tiers of close-set eaves, standing on a hillock south of Jiulong Mountain. - Jiangnüshi Site 姜女石遗址 National heritage site
Jiangnüshi is a coastal complex of Qin and early Western Han palace remains on the Zhimao Bay shore, found in 1982 and excavated from 1984 to 2002; it was the first Qin-era travelling palace found outside the Guanzhong region. - Moshigou Pagoda 磨石沟塔 National heritage site · on the map
Moshigou Pagoda is a Liao-period brick pagoda 17.4 m high, with eight sides, nine tiers of close-set eaves and a hollow interior, standing on a hill beside Moshigou hamlet in Hongyazi Manchu township. - Shaguotun Cave Site 沙锅屯遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Shaguotun is a small cave on a wooded hillside that the Swedish scholar Johan Gunnar Andersson and the Canadian scholar Davidson Black dug in June 1921, in what is regarded as the first formal archaeological excavation in China. - Shaguotun Stone Pagoda 沙锅屯石塔 National heritage site · on the map
This small stone pagoda was built in 1206 under the Jin dynasty and is about 5 m high, hexagonal, with five tiers of close-set eaves and a solid core. - Shengshui Temple, Huludao 圣水寺 National heritage site · on the map
Shengshui Temple is a Qing-dynasty complex built in 1720 on the south slope of Zhenlianhua Mountain, combining Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist halls in one walled compound of about a hectare. - Twin Pagodas of Miaofeng Temple 妙峰寺双塔 National heritage site · on the map
Two Liao-dynasty brick pagodas stand about 50 m apart on Miaofeng Ridge, the only surviving parts of Miaofeng Temple, which was destroyed in the late Ming or early Qing. - Zhongqiansuo Garrison Town 中前所城 National heritage site · on the map
Zhongqiansuo is a Ming garrison town, one of the 'thousand-household battalions' under the Guangning Qiantun Garrison, founded in 1428 and later repaired under the Qianlong emperor.
Jinzhou 20 sites
- Beiputuo Mountain, Jinzhou 北普陀山 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill park of about 26 sq km on the north-western edge of Jinzhou, made up of six peaks and nine sights, with a Buddhist temple that holds Spring Festival prayer events. - Bijia Mountain 笔架山 4A scenic area
A small island of about 1 sq km in Liaodong Bay that a natural sand-and-gravel causeway about 1.6 km long links to the mainland; the tides expose it twice a day and cover it again. - Dachaoyang Hot Spring Resort, Beizhen 大朝阳温泉山城 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort and hotel complex at the foot of Yiwulü Mountain about 6.5 km west of Beizhen town, developed by a Liaoning company and next to the Yiwulü nature reserve. - Daluhua, Yiwulü Mountain 医巫闾山大芦花 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area in Baojia township on the middle-southern part of the Yiwulü range, a national geopark known for steep rock pinnacles, with a main peak of about 630 m. - Dongfang Huadicheng Wetland Hot Spring Resort 东方华地城湿地温泉旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
A resort of about 28,000 mu (roughly 1,900 ha) on the wetlands at the mouth of the Daling River on the Bohai coast, including about 10,000 mu of reed beds. - Fengguo Temple 奉国寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A Liao-dynasty temple founded in 1020 in the old town of Yixian, whose main hall, nine bays wide and raised on a 3 m platform, is one of the largest surviving timber Buddhist halls in China. - Guangji Temple Complex and Jinzhou Museum 广济寺古建筑群（锦州市博物馆） 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A walled group of old temple buildings in the middle of Jinzhou, centred on a 13-tier brick pagoda begun under the Liao dynasty in 1057 and a Buddhist temple rebuilt in the Qing dynasty, with a Mazu temple, a Guanyin pavilion and a shrine to soldiers killed in the 1894 Sino-Japanese War. - Jinzhou Oriental Happy Kingdom Water World 锦州东方欢乐王国水世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A seaside water park on the Bohai coast next to the Bijia Mountain scenic area, with more than ten water rides, a wave pool, a seawater cascade pool, an infinity pool facing the Bijia causeway and a sand beach. - Jinzhou World Garden Expo Park 锦州世博园 4A scenic area · on the map
The main site of the 2013 Jinzhou World Garden Expo, a landscaped park of about 7 sq km on the Bohai coast, of which 3.3 sq km is land and 3.7 sq km water. - Liaoshen Campaign Memorial Hall 辽沈战役纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum and memorial park about the Liaoshen Campaign, the autumn 1948 campaign of the Chinese Civil War in which the People's Liberation Army took Jinzhou, Changchun and Shenyang from Nationalist forces. - Liaoxi Jiuhua Mountain, Linghai 辽西九华山 4A scenic area · on the map
A privately developed theme park of about 3.5 sq km on a wooded hill at the edge of Linghai's town centre, built from 2013 and rated 4A in 2015, which became a social-media hit in 2023 as a 'compressed pack' of China's famous sights. - Qingyan Temple, Beizhen 青岩寺 4A scenic area · on the map
A temple complex in three courtyards, upper, middle and lower, set on steep ground at the southern end of the Yiwulü range in Changxingdian town, within a scenic area of about 13 sq km that the provincial tourism page also describes as a national geopark. - Yanjing Temple Scenic Area 岩井寺 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill park in Wendilou town north of Jinzhou, set between two peaks of about 436 m and 459 m and protected as a city-level nature reserve. - Yiwulü Mountain 医巫闾山 4A scenic area
A mountain range some 45 km long on the western edge of Beizhen, revered since ancient times as the guardian mountain of the north and, under the Liao dynasty, an imperial hunting ground; its highest peak, Wanghai Peak, is about 870 m. - Banji Pagoda 班吉塔 National heritage site · on the map
A small Liao-dynasty brick pagoda of 1058 at the foot of Pangu hill, about 0.5 km north of the Xiaoling River. - Beizhen Temple 北镇庙 National heritage site
The state temple to the spirit of Yiwulü Mountain, the northern one of China's five guardian mountains, founded in 594 and rebuilt under the Ming dynasty from 1370. - Guangning City, Beizhen (Drum Tower and Li Chengliang Arch) 广宁城（鼓楼与李成梁石坊） National heritage site
Guangning was the Ming-dynasty garrison city of Beizhen, and two of its landmarks stand on the main north–south street: the Drum Tower of 1563, a two-storey tower on a brick-and-stone base pierced by a gateway, and the stone memorial arch of 1580 to the Ming frontier commander Li Chengliang, about 9 m high. - Guangsheng Temple Pagoda, Yixian 广胜寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A 13-tier octagonal brick pagoda at the south-west corner of Yixian's old town, with seated Buddhas, bodhisattvas, flying figures and guardians carved in brick on every face. - Twin Pagodas of Chongxing Temple 崇兴寺双塔 National heritage site
Two octagonal, 13-storey solid brick pagodas stand 43 m apart in the north-east of Beizhen's old town, 44.46 m and 42.63 m high, with Buddha niches, guardian figures and flying figures carved in brick. - Wanfotang Grottoes 万佛堂石窟 National heritage site
A Buddhist cave temple cut into a cliff on the north bank of the Daling River, begun in 499 under the Northern Wei dynasty and among the oldest grottoes in north-east China.
Liaoyang 11 sites
- Ginseng Valley Forest Park 人参谷森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Ginseng Valley (Renshengu) Forest Park is a hill park in Anping Township, in the north of Gongchangling District, Liaoyang, set among rocky peaks and cliff faces. - Guangyou Temple and White Pagoda, Liaoyang 广佑寺·辽阳白塔 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The White Pagoda is an eight-sided brick pagoda with thirteen tiers of eaves, 70.4 m high, which the provincial heritage department calls the tallest ancient pagoda in Liaoning and which is usually dated to the middle or late Liao period. - Liaoyang Lei Feng Memorial Hall 辽阳雷锋纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The memorial hall in Gongchangling District covers the months from August 1959 to January 1960 that Lei Feng, a young soldier whose name is used in China's long-running 'learn from Lei Feng' campaigns, spent working here before he joined the army. - Liaoyang Museum 辽阳博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
Liaoyang Museum is a local-history museum in a Chinese-style building that opened in 2009, with two permanent exhibitions: one on ancient Liaoyang and one of highlights from the collection. - Longshi Scenic Area, Liaoyang 龙石风景旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
Longshi Scenic Area, in Hongwei district south-east of central Liaoyang, has two parts: the wooded Longding Mountain and the Shidonggou area. - Taizi River Scenic Belt, Liaoyang 太子河历史文化风光带 4A scenic area · on the map
This 4A listing covers the Taizi River as it runs through Liaoyang, where the provincial tourism page describes a riverside garden belt about 9 km long between the Yanshui and Xiangping bridges, laid out by the city for residents. - Tanghe International Hot Spring Resort 汤河国际温泉旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
Tanghe International Hot Spring Resort is a hot-spring resort area at Tanghe town in Gongchangling District, which the provincial tourism department describes as the province's first provincial-level hot-spring resort zone. - Tong'erbao Fur Shopping Area 佟二堡皮草购物旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
Tong'erbao is a fur and leather market town in Dengta, listed as a shopping tourism area. - Dongjing City Site, Liaoyang 东京城城址 National heritage site · on the map
Dongjing was the capital of the Later Jin state under Nurhaci in the early 1620s, built on the east bank of the Taizi River with a diamond-shaped wall and eight gates until the court moved to Shenyang in 1625. - Dongjing Mausoleums 东京陵 National heritage site · on the map
The Dongjing Mausoleums were built on Yanglu hill from 1624 to hold Nurhaci's relatives, moved from Hetu Ala, and three walled compounds survive: those of his brother Shurhaci, with a stele pavilion, of his brother Murhaci and nephew Darcha, with three stone steles, and of his eldest son Cuyen, with a gateway and walls about 4 m high. - Yanzhou Mountain Fortress 燕州城山城 National heritage site
Yanzhou, once called Baiyan City, is a Goguryeo mountain fortress begun in 403 on Shicheng Hill above the Taizi River, which the Tang army took in 645.
Panjin 9 sites
- Beilü Tianyuan Great Tang Cultural Tourism Area 北旅田园大唐文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
Beilü Tianyuan, also called Heifengguan Ancient Town, is a leisure complex in Xinli town, Dawa District, themed on Tang-dynasty culture, with a town in Tang style that has market streets, a 'granary' zone and costumed street performances. - Guangsha Art Street, Panjin 广厦艺术街 4A scenic area · on the map
Guangsha Art Street is a modern arts and leisure street at the centre of the Liaohe International Art Zone in Panjin's Xinglongtai District. - Jinbo Beach, Panjin 金帛滩 4A scenic area · on the map
Jinbo Beach is a 1.6 km sandy beach on the Liaodong Bay coast in Panjin's Liaobin coastal development zone, promoted as the northernmost beach in China. - Liaohe Stele Forest 辽河碑林 4A scenic area · on the map
Liaohe Stele Forest Park is an oval island of land and water of about 167 ha in the middle of Panjin, laid out from 1985 around a collection of carved stone steles and antique-style halls. - Panjin Specialty Products Museum Park 盘锦特产博物园 4A scenic area · on the map
The Panjin Specialty Products Museum Park combines four museums devoted to local products (rice, river crab, barbecue and reed weaving), in buildings that mix Chinese and foreign, old and modern styles. - Weihai Dingxiang Reed Sea Resort, Panjin 盘锦苇海●鼎翔生态旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
This 72 km² wetland resort on the western edge of Panjin, where the Liao and Raoyang rivers meet, has three areas: the Taiping River scenic belt, a 'reed sea and crab flat' reached by boat through the reed beds, and a bird park with an observation gallery. - Zhongyao Colourful Manor 中尧七彩庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
Zhongyao Colourful Manor is an agri-tourism park in Dawa District built around local farm produce, with a shopping street themed on Panjin's history, a modern-agriculture exhibition, an animal ranch park, fishing and herding experiences, a tomato theme park, defence-education and farm study programmes, and a water park. - Former Kwantung Army Panshan Railway Guard Detachment Site 侵华日本关东军护路守备队盘山分队旧址 National heritage site · on the map
This red-brick, blockhouse-style building was put up by the Japanese Kwantung Army in April 1932 as the headquarters and barracks of the Panshan detachment of its railway guard corps, in front of the old Panshan railway station. - Tianzhuangtai Site of the First Sino-Japanese War 甲午战争田庄台遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Tianzhuangtai was a river port on the lower Liao River where, from 7 to 9 March 1895, Qing and Japanese forces fought the last and largest land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War; the Qing side lost, and the Treaty of Shimonoseki followed in April.
Shenyang 34 sites
- Shenyang Botanical Garden 沈阳植物园 5A scenic area
A 246-hectare garden in the Qipanshan area on the north-eastern edge of Shenyang, founded in 1959 and the site of the 2006 China Shenyang International Horticultural Exposition, which is why it is also called the Shenyang Expo Garden. - 9.18 Historical Museum “九·一八”历史博物馆 4A scenic area
A museum in north-eastern Shenyang documenting the Mukden Incident of 18 September 1931, when Japanese forces attacked Shenyang, through photographs, objects and audio-visual displays. - BMW Brilliance Tiexi Plant 华晨宝马铁西工厂 4A scenic area · on the map
A car factory in Tiexi district, run by BMW Brilliance and opened in 2012, which in February 2017 became the first car plant in China to receive a national 4A tourist rating. - Fuling Mausoleum (Dongling Park) 清福陵（东陵公园） 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The tomb of Nurhaci, founder of the Later Jin state that preceded the Qing dynasty, and his wife Empress Xiaocigao, begun in 1629 on a wooded hillside and added to the UNESCO-listed Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in 2004. - Hot Go Park 丰远热高乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large resort of about five square kilometres in the Shenyang–Fushun (Shenfu) Reform and Innovation Demonstration Zone, between the two cities. - Industrial Museum of China 中国工业博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum in Tiexi, Shenyang's old heavy-industry district, built in and around the former casting workshop of the Shenyang Foundry, a hall of 1956 where giant ladles and furnaces still stand. - Liaoning Science and Technology Museum 辽宁省科学技术馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The provincial science and technology museum, in the cluster of new cultural buildings in Hunnan district beside the Liaoning Provincial Museum. - Marshal Zhang's Mansion 张学良旧居 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The former residence and offices of the Northeast warlord Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang, begun in 1914 in the old city of Shenyang. - Old North Market (Laobeishi) 老北市 4A scenic area · on the map
A pedestrian quarter on the site of the Beishichang market, a trading and street-entertainment district founded in 1921, which was redeveloped in the style of its earlier buildings, with the work completed on 1 October 2020. - Qipanshan Scenic Area 沈阳棋盘山 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill-and-lake recreation area in north-eastern Shenyang, on a spur of the Changbai mountains and named for a boulder on Mount Qipan that is said to be a chessboard on which two of the Eight Immortals once played. - Rice Dream Space 稻梦空间 4A scenic area · on the map
An agri-tourism park in the rice-growing countryside of Shenbei district, north of Shenyang, whose main feature is rice-field art: coloured rice varieties are planted to form large pictures that can be viewed from an observation platform. - Royal Ocean Park 皇家海洋乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
An ocean-themed leisure park of about 60 hectares in the Shenyang–Fushun (Shenfu) Reform and Innovation Demonstration Zone, between the two cities, laid out as six themed worlds. - SAC Aviation Expo Park 沈飞航空博览园 4A scenic area
An aviation museum run by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (AVIC Shenyang), on Lingbei Street beside the company's factory, which tells the story of the firm and the fighter aircraft it has built. - Sannong Expo Park, Xinmin 沈阳三农博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
An agriculture-themed cultural park of about 33 hectares in Daliutun town, north of Xinmin, begun in 1997 and designated a national agri-tourism demonstration site. - Shenyang Aisin-Gioro Royal Museum 沈阳爱新觉罗皇家博物院 4A scenic area · on the map
A Manchu-themed museum and liquor-making complex of about 80,000 square metres at Banlashan village in Faku county, north of Shenyang, run by the Aisin-Gioro Zujiafang liquor company. - Shenyang Fantawild Adventure 沈阳方特欢乐世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A theme park in Shenbei New District, on about 50 hectares, run by the Chinese theme-park chain Fantawild and opened in 2011. - Shenyang Forest Zoo 沈阳森林动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
A zoo in the forested Qipanshan hills on the eastern edge of Shenyang, which moved here from the old city-centre zoo and opened in 1999 as the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo. - Shenyang Guaipo (Strange Slope) 沈阳怪坡 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area in Shenbei New District best known for the Strange Slope, a short stretch of road about 80 m long where cars left in neutral appear to roll uphill by themselves. - Shenyang Korean War Martyrs' Cemetery 沈阳抗美援朝烈士陵园 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial cemetery east of Beiling Park, built in 1951 for soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers who died in the Korean War. - Shenyang Railway Museum 沈阳铁路陈列馆 4A scenic area
A railway museum on an 80,000-square-metre site in Sujiatun district, with some 800 pieces of railway equipment, including dozens of locomotives, and more than 1,500 historical photographs. - Shenyang Science Palace 沈阳科学宫 4A scenic area · on the map
A science education centre in south-eastern Shenyang (Shenhe district) that opened in June 2000. - Zhao Mausoleum (Beiling Park) 清昭陵（北陵公园） 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The tomb of Hong Taiji, the first Qing emperor, and Empress Xiaoduanwen, built between 1643 and 1651 and part of the UNESCO-listed Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. - Beidaying Barracks Site 北大营营房旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Beidaying ('North Barracks') was a Chinese army camp built in 1907 about 5 km north of the old city of Shenyang, and the first place attacked by the Japanese Kwantung Army on the night of 18 September 1931, the start of the Mukden Incident. - CPC Manchuria Provincial Committee Site 中共满洲省委旧址 National heritage site · on the map
From 1927 until the Japanese takeover of Shenyang in 1931, this single-storey grey-brick house in the old Beishichang district was the headquarters of the Communist Party's Manchuria Provincial Committee, its organisation for Northeast China. - Former Liaoning Main Station (Old North Station) 辽宁总站旧址 National heritage site
A station building completed in 1930 and opened in 1931, designed by the architect Yang Tingbao, which served as Shenyang North Station until a new station replaced it in 1988. - Hoten Camp (Allied POW Camp Site) 沈阳二战盟军战俘营旧址 National heritage site
Between 1942 and 1945 the Japanese army held more than 2,000 Allied prisoners of war at Mukden, now Shenyang, latterly in this purpose-built camp on the east side of the city; they came from the United States, Britain, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada and other countries, and were put to work in a nearby machinery factory. - Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Shenyang 沈阳天主堂 National heritage site
The Catholic cathedral of Shenyang, a brick Gothic Revival church with two towers about 40 m high and a large rose window above the entrance. - Shenyang Station and Former Mukden Railway Buildings 沈阳站（奉天驿旧址） National heritage site
Shenyang's main railway station still uses the red-brick east building that the South Manchuria Railway opened in 1910 as Mukden Station, with white mouldings and three green metal domes, designed by two pupils of the Japanese architect Tatsuno Kingo. - Shenyang War Crimes Tribunal Site (1956) 审判日本战犯特别军事法庭旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A two-storey Chinese-style building with a golden glazed-tile roof, where in 1956 a special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court tried Japanese war criminals; trials were held at Shenyang and at Taiyuan, with 45 defendants in all. - Tawan Sarira Pagoda (Wugou Jingguang Pagoda) 无垢净光舍利塔 National heritage site
A 13-tier octagonal brick pagoda more than 30 m high, built in 1044 in the Liao dynasty and repaired in the 1640s, with a Buddha niche on each face; it was the pagoda in 'Evening Glow at Tawan', one of the old Eight Views of Shenyang. - Xibe Ancestral Temple (Taiping Temple) 锡伯族家庙 National heritage site
A Tibetan Buddhist (Gelug) temple founded in 1707 as the family temple of the Xibe people stationed in Mukden, and the place where Xibe soldiers and their families gathered in 1764 before the move west to Ili, which the Xibe still mark as the Westward Migration Festival. - Xinle Site Museum 新乐遗址博物馆 National heritage site
A museum on the site of a Neolithic village of the Xinle culture, found in 1973 on a terrace of the old Hun River course in the north of Shenyang and dated to more than 7,000 years ago. - Yong'an Stone Bridge 永安石桥 National heritage site · on the map
A stone arch bridge 37 m long, built in 1641 in the Chongde reign of Hong Taiji, which spans an old course of the Pu River at Yong'an village on the north-western edge of Shenyang. - Zhongshan Square Historic Buildings, Shenyang 沈阳中山广场建筑群 National heritage site · on the map
A round civic square laid out in 1913 in the Japanese-run railway zone of old Mukden, surrounded by bank, hotel and office buildings put up by Japanese architects, mostly in the 1920s and 1930s.
Tieling 5 sites
- Chengzishan Mountain Fortress 城子山山城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A large stone-walled mountain fortress on Chengzishan in Liangquan town, which the provincial heritage department dates to the early Tang dynasty and describes as a major city of the late Goguryeo kingdom; the national list gives Tang to Liao–Jin. - Lotus Lake Wetland, Tieling 铁岭莲花湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
An urban wetland park of about 1,040 ha around Lotus Lake in Tieling's Fanhe New District, made up of constructed wetlands, a lake with a bird island, a lotus-variety garden, a hill and a children's park. - Tiemei Steam Locomotive Museum, Diaobingshan 铁煤蒸汽机车博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A railway museum and tourist site on the Tiefa coal railway at Xiaoming town in Diaobingshan, where a depot keeps 21 steam locomotives of several types that the provincial tourism page describes as still able to run. - Chongshou Temple Pagoda, Kaiyuan 开原崇寿寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
An octagonal, 13-tier solid brick pagoda about 46 m high, standing in the grounds of the Chongshou Chan temple in Kaiyuan's old town, begun in the late Liao dynasty and finished in the early Jin. - Yingang Academy 银冈书院 National heritage site · on the map
A Qing-period academy founded in 1658 by Hao Yu, a scholar exiled to Tieling, which later became a modern school; the compound has a gate, a two-courtyard layout with a lecture hall and a shrine to Hao Yu at the rear.
Yingkou 13 sites
- Baishawan Golden Coast 白沙湾黄金海岸 4A scenic area · on the map
Baishawan is a 14.7 km stretch of sandy Liaodong Bay coast in Guizhou town, Gaizhou, with a coastal road running along it and a reputation as a summer retreat. - Chishan Scenic Area, Wanfu 万福赤山 4A scenic area · on the map
Chishan ('Red Mountain') is a mountain national forest park in Wanfu town, south-east of Gaizhou, lying between Buyun Mountain to the east and the Yushi Reservoir to the north. - Hongxigu Hot Spring Resort 虹溪谷旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
Hongxigu is a hot-spring and leisure resort in Shuangtai town, Gaizhou, close to the Bayuquan district of Yingkou, with a planned area of about 12 sq km. - Moon Lake Park 月亮湖公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Moon Lake Park is a 91-hectare park around a seawater lake where two rivers reach the sea, in the south of the Yingkou Economic and Technological Development Zone at Bayuquan. - Tuanshan National Marine Park 团山国家级海洋公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Tuanshan is a stretch of Liaodong Bay shoreline on the western seafront of Yingkou's Beihai New Area in Gaizhou, developed as a coastal leisure and holiday area with sightseeing, entertainment and fitness facilities. - Wang'er Mountain 望儿山 4A scenic area · on the map
Wang'er Shan ('Mountain of Watching for the Son') is a small lone hill of about 82 m beside Xiongyue town, topped by a Tibetan-style brick pagoda of the late Ming or early Qing and named for a legend of a mother waiting for her son's return. - Former Russian Consulate, Yingkou 营口俄国领事馆旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Built in 1900 after Russian forces occupied Yingkou, this single-storey brick, stone and timber building was first the Russian civil administration office and later a consulate, until consular status ended in 1920. - Former Xiongyue Agricultural Experiment Station and Arboretum 满铁农事试验场熊岳城分场旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Founded in 1909 as a South Manchuria Railway Company tree nursery beside Xiongyue station, the site became an agricultural experiment station in 1913 and was among the earliest modern agricultural research institutions in northern China. - Gaolicheng Mountain Fortress 高丽城山城 National heritage site · on the map
Gaolicheng, also known as Qingshiling Mountain Fortress, is a Goguryeo-period hill fortress with a wall circuit of about 6.5 km on the hills north-east of Gaizhou, identified with Jian'an, a fortress fought over in the Tang–Goguryeo wars of the seventh century. - Jinniushan Site 金牛山遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Jinniushan is a low, isolated hill of about 69 m in Yong'an town, where excavations from the 1970s found Palaeolithic stone tools and fossils of 42 mammal species. - Shipengshan Dolmen 石棚山石棚 National heritage site · on the map
Shipengshan Dolmen is a Bronze Age stone chamber more than 3,000 years old, standing on a low mound in farmland near the village of Dashipeng. - Xipaotai Fort 西炮台遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Xipaotai ('West Fort') is a coastal artillery fort built in the 1880s at the mouth of the Liao River, made up of three earthen batteries, a moat, a rammed-earth wall and gates; Liaoning's heritage office calls it the largest well-preserved earth-built structure in north-east China. - Xuanzhen Temple, Gaizhou 玄贞观 National heritage site · on the map
Xuanzhen Temple, known locally as Shangdi Temple, is a Daoist temple in the old town of Gaizhou, founded in 1382 and dedicated to Xuanwu, the Daoist god of the north; of the original complex only the main hall, the gate and a few ancillary buildings remain.