Inscribed in 2021 as Al-Salt, The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality — yellow limestone houses with arched windows and frescoed ceilings, a 19th-century merchant city that worked because Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived on the same street.
Two of the best regional archaeology museums in Jordan are on a single university campus 70 km north of Amman — the Museum of Jordanian Heritage and the Jordan Natural History Museum, plus the still-occupied Tell Irbid downtown.
On the eastern foothills of the Jordan Valley, a tell with continuous occupation from 6,000 BCE to the Mamluk period — Bronze Age temple, Roman theatre, Byzantine basilica, Mamluk mosque, all on one site.
Three restored 1920s villas on Jabal al-Lweibdeh — gallery, library, café, and a Byzantine church ruin in the garden. Free entry. The best contemporary-Arab-art programme in the country.
The largest urban park in Amman, with the Royal Automobile Museum (Hashemite-era cars) and the Children's Museum on the same site — a deliberate counterweight to the Citadel/Roman-theatre tourist axis.
One of Amman's seven hills, never fortified, settled by the Hashemite-era elite from the 1920s. The deepest cluster of early-20th-century residential architecture in the city.
From the First Circle to Mango Street, the most-walked thoroughfare in Jabal Amman — old residences of King Talal and Zaid ibn Shaker, the Friday souk, and where to drink coffee.
On a 378-metre escarpment above the Yarmouk Gorge, the Greco-Roman city of Gadara survives — basalt columns, an underground mausoleum, and a view that takes in Israel, Syria, and Lebanon.
Built in 1184 by a commander in Saladin's army, the castle on Mount Ajloun guarded the Damascus–Egypt road and held the line against the Latin kingdoms.
Built in the 2nd century under Antoninus Pius and oriented north so the sun stays out of spectators' eyes — the largest surviving Roman theatre east of the Mediterranean.
A 6th-century Byzantine mosaic of two million tesserae depicting Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Holy Land — discovered in 1884 under the floor of a Greek Orthodox church and still there.
The candlelit walk through the Siq to the Treasury, three nights a week, with practical advice on whether it's worth the ticket and how to photograph it without ruining your eyes for the show.