Former Residence of Zhang Tianyou

The museum is housed inside a former British-owned power station that dates from 1905. At the time, it was one of the largest power-generating facilities in China.

The August 7th Meeting was an emergency meeting of the CCP Central Committee, which was secretly convened at this site in 1927, just a few days after the Communist uprising in Nanchang sparked the beginning of the Chinese Civil War. The meeting was a major turning point in the history of the Party. At this meeting, the Party decided to abandon the conservative urban-based approach to revolution being promoted by the Soviet Union and instead adopt the more radical ideas of Mao Zedong. The site of the August 7th meeting is now a museum.

Founded in 1876 to serve the local Russian community. In 1891, Russian prince Nicholas II (who would later become the last tsar of Russia) visited Wuhan and provided funding for the rebuilding of the church, which was completed in 1893. It is the oldest surviving Russian Orthodox church in China. As of late 2024, it hosts a photo exhibition summing up the history of Chinese–Russian tea trade, carefully explained in Mandarin and Russian (but no English).

A classic 19th-century Russian style residence dating from 1896. Song Qingling, the wife of Sun Yat-Sen, lived here from 1926 to 1927 while working for the Kuomintang government. The residence has been restored to appear as it was when Song Qingling was here, and there are some old photographs on display.

Note the tall monument which, from far away, appears to be a monument to Mao Zedong, but which actually commemorates Wuhan's complicated relationship with its great river. Erected in 1969, it's inscribed with Mao's poem "Swimming" (which not only celebrates the Yangtze in Wuhan, but also foresees the creation of the mighty hydro dams farther upstream), and decorated with reliefs depicting the citizens fighting the flood of 1954.

An ordinary-seeming street by day, becomes transformed by night into a bewildering maze of streetside restaurants and buskers performing music, dance, opera and stand-up comedy. It is a strongly-recommended experience. Food is plentiful and cheap, and it features a lot of unique local cuisine. The performances can be enjoyed by proxy as performers work other tables or they can be purchased. One can expect to pay about ¥10 per song performed. Other performances are more based on contributions—the more you contribute, the longer the performers will do their routines and the more daring/interesting/funny the routines will be.