Vijaya Raghunatha Thondaman Palace (Pudukkottai Palace)

A major museum founded in 1910 with 18 galleries spanning archaeology, bronzes, sculpture, geology and anthropology, housing the former princely state's art collection.

A Pallava rock-cut Shiva temple carved around the mid-7th century by Mahendravarman I, with goddess Brihadambal as the tutelary deity of the Tondaiman kings of Pudukkottai.

A Shiva temple where the deity is worshipped as Arangulanathar with his consort Brahadambal (Periyanayaki). It is a Vaippu Sthalam praised in the Tevaram hymns of Sambandar and is traditionally linked to the Sangam-era Chola king Karikala. The temple has a large hundred-pillar hall, and a superb Nataraja bronze from here is now displayed at the National Museum, New Delhi.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

A seventeenth-century hill fort above Thirumayam, with a separate visitor route from the living temples below.

A Shiva rock-cut cave temple hewn from the same hill as the Vishnu shrine, dated to the 8th-9th century and noted for sculptures of Mahishasuramardini and the Sapta Matrikas.

A rock-cut Vishnu temple within Thirumayam Fort, home to one of the largest reclining-Vishnu (Anantasayana) rock-cut sculptures in India.

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