Periyanayagi Madha Shrine (Avur Church)

A hilltop Murugan temple reached by about 210 steps, traditionally attributed to the Cholas and a well-known pilgrimage shrine in the district.

A protected peafowl habitat around Viralimalai hill where several hundred wild peacocks roam the temple hill and surrounding scrub. The birds are associated with the hilltop Murugan temple, whose vehicle is the peacock, and are locally protected. October to April is the best season to see them displaying.

A natural cavern in the Narthamalai hill group containing polished rock-cut stone beds where Jain ascetics practised austerities, similar to those at Sittanavasal's Ezhadippattam. The facade bears Tirthankara relief sculptures and early inscriptions, marking Narthamalai as a significant ancient Jain centre. Broken Jaina idols and further reliefs are found near the nearby Palli-k-kulam tank.

An early-medieval structural Shiva temple in the Narthamalai monument landscape, set on an exposed rock slope.

A cluster of temples at the foot of Kadambarmalai hill in the Narthamalai group, distinct from the better-known Vijayalaya Choleeswaram. It includes the Kadamba Nayanar (Shiva) shrine, a shrine to the goddess Mangalambikai and another called Nagarisvaram. The complex reflects the layered Chola and Pandya religious activity across the Narthamalai hills.

The ruined 'three-shrine' Chola-era temple built by the Irukkuvel chiefs, originally three vimanas of which two survive, prized for its refined early Chola sculpture.

An Early Chola Shiva temple built around 920 CE during the reign of Parantaka I by the local Irukkuvel chief. Its two-tier Nagara-style vimana over the sanctum is a fine example of early Chola architecture, and the shrine is counted among the Vaippu Sthalams of the Tevaram. Eleven inscriptions spanning the 10th to 16th centuries survive here, and the monument is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.

A natural cavern on the Sittanavasal hill with polished rock beds and Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions used by Jain ascetics, part of a Sramana pilgrimage centre active from the 1st century BCE to the 9th century CE.

A 2nd-century Jain rock-cut cave temple famed for its Pandya-era fresco murals of a lotus pond, dancers and animals, regarded as second only to Ajanta among Indian cave paintings.

A rock-cut Vishnu cave temple with a large reclining Anantapadmanabha figure, painted stucco reliefs and 10th-century inscriptions, cut into a granite hillock south of the village.

An 8th-century Pallava-era rock-cut Shiva cave temple on the same Malayadipatti hillock as the Vishnu shrine, the older of the two, with carved reliefs and early inscriptions.

An 8th-century Muttaraiyar rock-cut Shiva cave temple with a hundred-pillared mandapa and over 60 inscriptions, prized for its early bronze images.