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.
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.
Bronze Age fortress, Roman temple, Byzantine basilica, Umayyad palace — and the best view of downtown Amman. The Citadel is a lazy 90-minute walk that reads like a time-lapse.