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Famous Landmarks in Malaysia: 7 Sites Worth Seeing

Six days across Malay, Chinese, and Indian Malaysia in its two great eating cities, Kuala Lumpur’s skyline and street food, then George Town’s UNESCO shophouse streets, where hawker culture reaches its peak. See the full itinerary.

These are the 7 famous landmarks of Malaysia, from Petrel Voyage, a travel app that turns booking confirmations into a day-by-day plan. Each one says what it is and why it matters, grouped by city, and the free 6-day Malaysia itinerary fits 6 of them into a day-by-day plan with the transport between cities. One of 45 free landmark guides, readable without an account.

From the same hand-researched library as our Malaysia itinerary. Last reviewed 2026-07-29.

Kuala Lumpur

KL is three cultures sharing one table: mosques, Chinese temples, and Hindu shrines within blocks of each other, under a skyline that went from tin-mining town to twin towers in a century. You come here to eat your way across Asia without changing cities.

1
Petronas Twin Towers
The world’s tallest twin towers, 452 meters of steel and Islamic geometry. Book the Skybridge-and-observation-deck slot ahead; the free view from KLCC Park at dusk is nearly as good.
Kuala Lumpur
2
Batu Caves
A 272-step rainbow staircase climbs past a 42-meter golden statue of Lord Murugan into a vast limestone cathedral cave holding Hindu shrines. Thirty minutes by KTM Komuter train; watch the macaques.
Kuala Lumpur
3
Merdeka Square
Where the British flag came down in 1957, the Moorish-style Sultan Abdul Samad Building faces the green where independence was declared, at the confluence that named the city.
Kuala Lumpur
4
Thean Hou Temple
A six-tiered Chinese temple on a hill south of the center, strung with hundreds of lanterns, one of Southeast Asia’s largest, and glorious in late-afternoon light.
Kuala Lumpur

Penang (George Town)

George Town is Southeast Asia’s best-preserved colonial trading port, a UNESCO grid of shophouses where Chinese clan houses, Indian temples, and mosques share streets that smell of incense and frying noodles. Malaysians themselves call Penang the country’s food capital, which settles the argument.

5
Kek Lok Si Temple
Malaysia’s largest Buddhist temple climbs a hillside in Air Itam, a seven-story pagoda blending Chinese, Thai, and Burmese styles beneath a 30-meter bronze Kuan Yin.
Penang (George Town)
6
Clan Jetties
Century-old villages on stilts over the harbor, each jetty settled by a single Chinese clan, Chew Jetty is the most walkable. Residents still live here; go respectfully, morning is the quiet hour, sunset the classic shot.
Penang (George Town)
7
Khoo Kongsi
The most lavish clan house in Malaysia, a carved and gilded Chinese hall hidden in its own granite square, built by the Khoo family at the height of the trading era.
Penang (George Town)

Museums, parks, and neighborhoods are on the full Malaysia itinerary, sequenced into a realistic day-by-day plan with transport between cities.

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