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A rare surviving stone building from the Spanish colonial era.

This ambient art gallery and eatery housed in an old Filipino-style building serves local traditional food.

The only such mummy that remains accessible to the public.

The first building in the Philippines with an elevator.

Once an art-deco theater, now a supermarket.

Collection of paintings by the celebrated Blanco Family.

Student protesters used these bells as symbols of defiance in the early 1970s.

A vault used to safeguard documents that allowed Jewish refugees to immigrate to the Philippines during World War II.

An abandoned U.S. Navy aircraft is on display in the city that once held the biggest foreign U.S. military base in the world.

A century-old ancestral home was home to some of the key figures of the Philippine Revolution.

A series of murals cast in concrete decorate the walls where the famous artist Botong once lived.

A house and its fence that are entirely covered with sea shells and giant clams.

This centuries-old tree has been a witness to some of the most important events in the history of the Philippines.

A place where you can symbolically rid yourself of negative thoughts and attitudes.

This market built by German prisoners of war is made of local stones.

The largest Spanish artifact built in the Philippines and one of the oldest underground reservoirs in the world.

A monument dedicated in memory of the over 100,000 civilian deaths during the liberation of Manila in World War II.

An attack on this gunpowder depot led to the start of the Philippine Revolution.

A set of ancient rock engravings that date back to the Neolithic period.

The only remaining section of an aqueduct that used to supply water to Manila during the Spanish occupation.

This impressive gate is the only remaining remnant of a Spanish naval station.

This historic Art Deco building embellished with local tropical fruits had fallen into disrepair before a recent restoration.

The first religious structure on the island of Luzon and a survivor of World War II.

Known as Manila's "last lung," this park used to house a market, garrison, and various government buildings.