Hutridurga

A large historic tank at Kunigal town, a birdlife-rich waterbody and a favourite evening spot of the taluk.

A major Veerashaiva samadhi-temple of Tontada Siddhalingeshwara at Yediyur on the Bengaluru–Hassan highway in Kunigal taluk, drawing heavy pilgrim footfall to the saint’s shrine.

A Hoysala temple about 10 km south of Tumakuru at Kaidala, the village of the legendary sculptor Amarashilpi Jakanachari, holding a fine Chennakeshava (Kesava) image; the Someshwara and Kodirameshwara shrines stand nearby. (Distinct from the Chennakeshava temples of Belur and Somanathapura.)

A rocky hill on the Tumakuru–Gubbi border, also called Basadi Betta, topped by old Jain basadis and the modern Sri 1008 Chandraprabha Digambar Jain complex, reached by a long stone stairway with wide plateau views.

The Veerashaiva monastery near Kyatsandra of the late Shivakumara Swami — the "walking god" — with a Siddhalingeshwara shrine on the rock and a vast free residential school; one of Karnataka’s most revered living maths.

The Chennabasaveshwara math-temple of the historic trading town of Gubbi on NH-206 west of Tumakuru, with the nearby Gadde Malleshwara shrine — an anchor of the town’s Veerashaiva heritage.

A perennial rock spring in the Devarayanadurga foothills, said in legend never to dry (Rama’s arrow), with an adjoining deer park and nursery — nearly always paired with the Devarayanadurga hill temples.

A forested granite hill about 16 km east of Tumakuru with the twin Yoganarasimha (base) and Bhoganarasimha (summit) temples built and renovated by the Mysore Wodeyars, plus a Sanjeevaraya (Hanuman) shrine — the district’s signature hill-temple climb.

One of the twin ASI-protected Hoysala temples at Nagalapura (with the Chennakeshava temple), the Kedareshwara temple is noted for its lathe-turned pillars and finely sculpted friezes.

A Hoysala temple in Turuvekere town famed for a single-stone Shivalinga with serpent hoods, a large monolithic Nandi and a bronze soapstone bell that rings when struck. (Distinct from the Gavi Gangadhareshwara of Bengaluru.)

A popular Mahalakshmi pilgrimage temple at Goravanahalli in Koratagere taluk, ~30 km north-east of Tumakuru, revered for its self-manifested idol and busiest at its Friday poojas.

An ASI-protected 13th-century Hoysala temple at Aralaguppe celebrated for its intricately carved lotus-and-Ashtadikpala ceiling and fine sculpture — among the district’s finest, near the older Nolamba Kalleshvara temple in the same village.