Vilvaranyeswarar Temple, Thirukkollampudur

A district museum under the Tamil Nadu Department of Museums, housing temple bronzes, sculptures, and anthropology, geology and zoology specimens. Its galleries include Jain and Buddhist artefacts and a display of ancient musical instruments, fitting for a town celebrated as the birthplace of the Carnatic Music Trinity. It offers a secular counterpoint to the district's many temples.

Shiva temple at Alangudi (Tiru Irum Poolai) in Valangaiman taluk that is the Guru (Jupiter/Brihaspati) shrine of the Navagraha circuit, a Paadal Petra Sthalam drawing heavy crowds on Guru transit days.

One of very few temples in India dedicated to goddess Saraswathi, deity of learning, drawing students and scholars and associated with the Tamil poet Ottakoothar.

A Murugan temple on the Tiruvarur-Thanjavur road listed among the district's official places of interest. It is known for its sculpture of the deity mounted on a peacock and is a locally important shrine to Subramanya. It draws devotees on Murugan festival days in the delta.

Cauvery-delta market town at the junction of the Thiruvarur, Thanjavur and Nagapattinam roads, gateway to the Alangudi Guru temple and a traditional agrarian hub.

A popular Mariamman temple, also called Paadaikavadi Mariamman, on the Mannargudi road about 9 km from Kumbakonam and listed among the district's official places of interest. It is a folk-goddess shrine that draws large crowds during its annual festival. It represents the Amman (village-goddess) tradition alongside the district's Agamic temples.

A Paadal Petra Sthalam Shiva temple at the site of the Sangam-age Battle of Venni, where the Chola king Karikala defeated a Chera-Pandya confederacy around the 2nd century CE. The village was home to the Sangam poet Vennikkuyathiyar, who sang of that battle. The temple is popularly visited as a 'diabetes temple' where devotees pray for relief from blood-sugar ailments.

A Paadal Petra Sthalam Shiva temple counted among the Pancha Aranya Sthalams, its site once a dense forest of Vanni trees, which remain the sacred tree. The deity is worshipped as Padaleswarar with the goddess Alankaravalli. It is glorified in the Tevaram of Tirugnanasambandar and lies on the delta pilgrimage circuit near Avalivanallur.

A Shiva temple on the southern bank of the Cauvery, revered as the 70th Paadal Petra Sthalam in the 7th-century Tevaram hymns. It is one of very few temples with a separate shrine for Yama, the god of death, seated beside Chitragupta. Regarded as a Mukti (Moksha) Sthalam where those who die are believed to attain liberation, it draws pilgrims performing death and ancestral rites.

Vishnu temple counted among the 108 Divya Desams, praised by Thirumangai Alvar, where Vishnu is Bhaktavatsala Perumal with consort Kannamangai Nayagi, and a five-tier rajagopuram of Chola origins.

A Paadal Petra Sthalam Shiva temple whose deity Satchinathar signifies Shiva as the eternal witness (satchi) to truth. It is one of the Pancha Aranya Sthalams, five 'forest' temples of the delta, once set in a grove of trumpet-flower (Paadhiri) trees. Glorified in the Tevaram of Sambandar and Sundarar, it has the Chandra Pushkarini tank linked to lunar worship.

A Paadal Petra Sthalam Shiva temple in the Mannargudi region, revered in the Tevaram of the Saiva Nayanmars. The deity is worshipped as Parijatavaneswarar, the name linked to the celestial Parijata (coral) tree. It is one of the lesser-visited Tevara sthalams of the delta.