Minor Mosque

Water park 500 m south of TV tower with several pools, wave machine, water chutes and slides. There's a restaurant and bars within.

Oh-so-Seventies structure looking like the offspring of a triffid with a moon shot, this 375 m tower beams radio and TV to all parts of the country. The observation deck is at 97 m, and the restaurant at 110 m lurches part-way round then backtracks. Long lines at weekends, book online if feasible, and bring your passport.

Built in the 1880s, this is large and tranquil but fairly plain.

Concert hall in a modern Soviet confection, reasonable facilities, events inexpensive by western standards.

Ali-Shir Nava'i or Alisher Navoi (1441-1501) was an administrator, poet and prolific author who wrote in Turkic (predecessor to a family of languages that includes Uzbek) and proclaimed its superiority over Persian the official language. He lived mostly in Herat (now in Afghanistan) but became a cultural hero across the entire Turkic world, with dozens of statues, draughty boulevards and institutes nowadays named after him. This museum displays manuscripts and artworks.

Exhibitions of contemporary Uzbek artists in a modern building. Overpriced for what you get.