Bankapura Peacock Sanctuary

A multi-dynasty fort at Bankapura layered by the Kadambas, Rashtrakutas, Chalukyas, Hoysalas and Adil Shahis and sacked by Ali Adil Shah I around 1565 — its grounds now hold the peacock sanctuary.

A 12th-century Western Chalukya temple at Bankapura known as the Aravattukambada Gudi, the "sixty-pillar temple", for its grey-stone hall of ornate lathe-turned columns; an ASI monument of national importance.

The former princely seat of the Savanur Nawabs, with surviving fort gates and walls — and, at the Doddahunase Matha nearby, ancient baobab trees of enormous girth, a rare botanical heritage of the town.

A roughly 50-acre open-air sculpture park near Gotagodi in Shiggaon taluk, opened in 2009 by the artist T. B. Solabakkanavar — thousands of life-size sculptures of rural Karnataka life, the district’s most-visited modern attraction.

An ornate Western Chalukya temple in Haveri town consecrated in the late 11th century, with dated inscriptions of 1087 and 1108 CE — unusually west-facing, and celebrated for the loose deity sculptures collected around it.

The marquee monument of Haveri — a large Kadamba-origin Shiva temple at Hangal elaborated by the Kalyani Chalukyas in the 11th–12th centuries, famed for the deeply carved bhuvaneshwari (domed) ceiling of its sabhamandapa; an ASI-listed temple in the old Kadamba capital of Panungal.

The fort of the Hangal Kadambas, capital of their branch between 1068 and 1203 CE — surviving walls enclose a decorated Jain basadi and a Veerabhadra temple, the remnants of the old citadel of Panungal.

The Adikeshava temple and Kanaka Guru Peetha at Kaginele in Byadgi taluk — the home shrine of the 16th-century saint-poet Kanakadasa, whose ankita (signature) was "Kaginele Adikeshava"; a major pilgrimage centre with the peetha built in 1992.

The trading town of Byadgi, home to the nationally famous GI-tagged Byadgi red chilli — its wholesale chilli market is one of the largest in India, a colourful sensory and agri-heritage draw rather than a monument.

A finely wrought single-cella Kalyani Chalukya temple (11th–12th century) at Chaudayyadanapura on the Tungabhadra — its inscriptions carry among the earliest references to Basavanna, making it a landmark in the history of Veerashaivism.

A riverside Western Chalukya Shiva temple at Galaganatha (old Palluni) on the Tungabhadra, with a pyramidal basement and a 1080 CE grant inscription naming Vikramaditya VI and the master sculptor Jakanachari.

The Someshwara and Veerabhadra temples of Abalur (Ablur) in Hirekerur taluk, site of the Ekantada Ramayya legend — their inscriptions are key sources on the medieval Shaiva–Jain conflict and the rise of early Veerashaivism.