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Shohada Museum
Diagonally opposite the US Den of Espionage is the Shohada Museum , which has rolling exhibitions of photographs, usually from the Iran–Iraq War or the 1979 revolution.
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Mausoleum of Kashef
The austere, grey Mausoleum of Kashef-ol-Saltaneh entombs the man who is credited with introducing tea cultivation to Iran. It houses an underwhelming museum of tea paraphernalia.
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Seh Gonbad
Tucked away in a quiet mini-park, the two-storey AD 1115 tomb tower may, like many Iranian Islamic religious buildings, have actually started out as a Sassanian fire temple.
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Ethnographic Museum
If you’re heading to Turkmenistan via Bajgiran, you’ll probably need to transit Quchan, where a sweet little Ethnographic Museum is on Azadi Sq on the main Mashhad–Bojnurd road.
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Khanegah Dervish Monastery
The 1330 Khanegah Dervish Monastery has restored cells around a courtyard leading to the Boqeh Chelabi-oglu Mausoleum behind the mihrab of a shattered-sided former mosque.
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Ali Qapu
The much more massive Ali Qapu was originally a 16th-century gateway to the royal precinct, a kind of forbidden inner city. Today it’s a police post so don’t take photographs.
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Sheikh Heydar Imamzadeh
The foremost attraction in Meshgin Shahr itself is the cylindrical brick tomb-tower of Sheikh Heydar Imamzadeh tucked behind the police station (bring your passport in case of questions).
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Taqavi House
This magnificent building houses the Golestan Miras cultural-tourist office. Ask to peep inside the ‘eight-wife’ harem building which is not your average bureaucrat’s photocopy cupboard.
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Gerdab
Gerdab-e-Sangi is a 1600-year-old Sassanian stone reservoir, 18m in diameter, said to be the world’s oldest. Spring water wells up within and once provided the proto-city’s water supply.
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People Museum
The local museum has rather lacklustre ethnographic displays in the partly restored Merdum Shenasi hammam ; the Ebrahimabad Hammam (at Sofrakhane Sonati Ebrahimabad restaurant) is much more impressive.
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Museum of Measurement
Measurement Museum hidden amid very ordinary apartment blocks. The brilliantly restored 160-year-old Qajar mansion is more interesting than its display of rococo German clocks and commercial scales.
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Gorgan Museum
It has limited, dusty ethnological exhibits, and displays sparse finds from local archaeological sites such as Jorjan (Gonbad-e Kavus) and Turang Tappeh (a large tumulus 22km northeast of Gorgan).
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Imamzadeh Jafar
The celebrated Imamzadeh Jafar has reopened but its unusual, conical spire remains scaffolded.
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Qajar Museum
The elegant Qajar Museum within the palatial 1881 Amir Nezam House, Tabriz’s most impressive Qajar mansion with a split-level façade. It’s oddly hidden between a school and a children’s hospital.
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Seyhoun Art Gallery
In its 4th decade as a sponsor of young Iranian contemporary artists, Seyhoun has regular exhibitions of painting, photography, sculpture and graphic art in its distinctive, black-fronted gallery.
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Amirieh Edifice
The densely packed wooden struts that overhang some of the narrow lanes are unique to Bushehr. Of particular interest are the door-knockers shaped like human hands in the northwestern quarter of town.
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Ashikhade Mosque
The once interesting area of older houses around the blue-domed, 20th-century Ashikhade Mosque has now been largely bulldozed, but some curiosities remain if you poke about in the back alleys.
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Edifice
This huge brick edifice , an unmissable landmark, is a chunky remnant of Tabriz’s early-14th- centurycitadel (known as ‘the Ark’). Criminals were once executed by being hurled from the top of the citadel walls.
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Shahzadeh
Built in 1894, this shrine boasts European-style painted ceilings, colourful tiles, tall minarets and a pretty courtyard. The conical tiled roof is distinctive to this area and is clearly visible from the main road to Fin.
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Moshir Divan
Several other historic buildings in town are only partially repaired. This trefoil-topped iconic mansion is still in dire need of renovation. It’s hidden in a walled garden off Shohada St: ring the speaker phone and hope.
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