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Richmond Park
Richmond Park’s open grassland, veteran trees, and roaming deer make it feel far removed from central London, though it remains part of the capital. The park’s landscape is both ecological habitat and a designed royal hunting ground, a history still visible in its scale and managed boundaries.
Riga Art Nouveau Museum
Riga Art Nouveau Museum occupies architect Konstantīns Pēkšēns’s former apartment in a richly ornamented building on Alberta iela. Restored rooms and period objects reveal how the style shaped architecture and everyday life in the early twentieth century.
Riga Brethren Cemetery
Riga Brethren Cemetery is a burial ground and memorial to soldiers who died in the First World War and Latvia’s War of Independence. Its graves, avenues and sculptures form a carefully composed place of remembrance.
Riga Castle
Riga Castle has served as a fortified residence, an administrative centre and the home of Latvia’s presidency. Its medieval core was rebuilt after townspeople destroyed an earlier castle, and its later wings record centuries of changing rulers and uses.
Riga Cathedral
Riga Cathedral is a medieval church shaped by centuries of rebuilding, worship and music. Its cloister preserves the setting of the cathedral chapter, while a monumental nineteenth-century organ stands behind an older carved case.
Riga Central Market
Riga Central Market brings food sellers and shoppers together beneath five vast halls built using the upper structures of former Zeppelin hangars. Opened in 1930, the complex combines a striking architectural landmark with the city’s continuing market life.
Riga Choral Synagogue Memorial
The remains and symbolic walls of Riga’s Great Choral Synagogue commemorate a Jewish place of worship destroyed in 1941 and honour people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.
Riga Circus
Riga Circus occupies an 1888 building on Merķeļa iela, with a dome supported by columns made from railway rails. The historic arena has been renewed for contemporary circus, while the institution also runs education and artist residencies.
Riga Contemporary Art Space
Riga Contemporary Art Space is the city’s exhibition venue beneath Town Hall Square. Founded in 2008 and formerly known as Riga Art Space, it presents changing contemporary art exhibitions and public programmes.
Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum
Near the former Riga ghetto, this museum commemorates Jewish victims of the Holocaust and presents the history of Jewish life in Latvia. Its names, photographs and educational displays connect individual lives to the history of persecution and mass murder.
Riga Grebenshchikov Old Believers’ House of Prayer
The Grebenshchikov House of Prayer on Mazā Krasta iela is the centre of a Riga Old Believer community. Its tower and adjoining buildings speak of worship, social care and a religious tradition preserved through changing political conditions.
Riga Luther Church
Riga Luther Church, also called Torņakalns Church, is a Neo-Gothic Lutheran church on the Daugava’s left bank. Consecrated in 1891, it serves a neighbourhood congregation whose parish buildings reflect later community needs.
Riga Motor Museum
Riga Motor Museum grew from a club of enthusiasts who collected and restored historic vehicles. Its collection connects Latvian motoring with international engineering, racing and everyday transport in a purpose-built museum opened in 1989.
Riga Museum of World Freemasonry
The Riga Museum of World Freemasonry presents documents, books and ceremonial objects at Baznīcas iela 7. Opened in October 2026, it grew from collector Konstantīns Rubahins’s interest in the history of Freemasonry.
Riga Porcelain Museum
Riga Porcelain Museum preserves the city’s industrial porcelain heritage, from the Kuznetsov and Jessen factories to the Riga Porcelain Factory. Tableware, decorative objects and contemporary works connect local design with the people who made and used it.
Riga Rise Observation Wheel
Riga Rise is a 65-metre observation wheel in the Uzvaras Park area on the left bank of the Daugava. Opened in 2025, its enclosed cabins offer a changing view of Riga’s river, parks and skyline.
Riga Town Hall Square
Riga’s Town Hall Square was a centre of trade and civic government for centuries. Its present setting combines reconstructed buildings with newer architecture, making the square a place to read the city’s wartime destruction and subsequent rebuilding.
Riga Video Games Museum
Riga’s video games museum is reported above the Enjoy the Game shop on Krišjāņa Barona Street. Its collection of older consoles and computers has invited visitors to try games as well as inspect the hardware.
Riga Zoo
Riga Zoo in Mežaparks combines a wooded lakeside setting with a history of animal care, public education and conservation. Founded through donations, it reopened after the First World War and later helped reintroduce tree frogs to Latvia.
Rijksmuseum
Start with the Rijksmuseum’s red-brick gateway, where towers, arches, and carved details make the building itself part of the collection. Inside, the Gallery of Honour draws your eye toward Rembrandt’s immense Night Watch, while Vermeer and other Dutch masters reward a slower look.
Rikugien Gardens
Rikugien’s curving paths lead through a landscape built from poetry. Its original designer, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, arranged 88 scenic references from classical waka, turning a stroll around the pond into a sequence of literary allusions.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Orlando
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Orlando presents unusual artifacts, unusual artworks and curiosities inside a distinctive building on International Drive. The Odditorium format grew from Robert Ripley’s collecting and storytelling, inviting visitors to compare claims with objects and evidence.
Rixing Type Foundry
Ri Xing Type Foundry keeps the material work of Chinese letterpress visible: tiny metal characters are cast, sorted, repaired, and assembled for printing. A working craft survives here amid the shift from movable type to digital layout.
Rockaway Beach
Rockaway Beach stretches along the Atlantic edge of Queens, where a long boardwalk meets surf and neighbourhood streets. It is New York City’s only legal surfing beach, and its wide horizon makes the borough feel distinctly maritime.