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• Archaeological Museum of Aruba
  Home to many of the marvelous discoveries made on the island, the museum showcases skulls and bones, shell and stone tools, burial urns, pottery and other Amerindian relics. The archaeology artifacts found on the island are a continuing source of study and interest, with many items to view and much of the history of this gorgeous island. Some of the stone tools have been date back to the time of Christ's birth, the pottery, burial artifacts and sling stones are from the era 500 A.D.

• Arikok National Park
  Comprising of almost one fifth of the island, this wonderful park includes 3 beautiful geological formations, limestone formation from the coast, a quartz diorite formation and the Aruba lava formation. Strangely or not, these unique configurations have had an effect on the development of the people and natural phenomenon. Two fascinating species of birds and snakes exist only on this small island in the Caribbean. The two snakes are cascabel (poisonous like rattler) and the cat-eyed Baker's or Aruban. The shoco or Aruban burrowing owl and prikichi or Aruban parakeet. Another species is the Aruban whiptail lizard. The rock outcroppings are the reasons these species exist so well here and support plant life. Arawak paintings have been discovered here and are the oldest ever found. This park is full of great hiking trails with varied country from hills to gold mines to plantation ruins.

• Fort Zoutman Museum and Willem III Tower
  The Historical museum of Aruba sits within the oldest structure in Aruba, formerly a Dutch fortress. Now it home to the many artifacts dating from prehistoric times through today with many of the items left over from the Dutch fort. In the 18th century when pirates began to raid the island for horses and anything else of value, the Dutch decided to erect a fort in 1796; which today is the oldest example of Dutch architecture. The Tower was added in 1878 and named after the Dutch king. As time went by, it has been an aloe garden, tax office, jail, junk room and courthouse

• The Numismatic Museum of Aruba
  Started in 1981, this originally was the private collection of the owner, J. Mario Odor; who passed away in 2001; after amassing 35,000 coins from over 400 countries. Within the collection itself is another 115 different types of coinage; primitive, medals, chips, proofs, food coupons, strange, wooden, counter stamped, dollars, crowns, chop coins, leprosiums, overstruck, mini, gold, ration, FAO, commemoratives and errors. German and Japanese occupation notes, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Egypt, ancient Greece, Chinese dynasties, and India. Also lining the walls are swords and spears of some of the great emperors, dictators and kings.

• Ayo and Casibari Rock Formations
  Most of the island of Aruba is formed from coral rock and other crustaceous types similar to these, however there are some strange boulders at the Ayo rock formation that attract rock hounds from all over. These same rocks would protect the Arawak people from the terrible storms that hit the island many years ago. Nearby are the Casibari Rock Formations that give a spectacular view of the island and many petroglyphs have been drawn on them and are preserved because of the government's intervention and protection. How these formations came to be here and the type of rocks in them is a mystery questioned by many even today.

• Bubali Bird Sanctuary
  In this amazing place, exotic birds of incredible colors, sizes and species thrive, live and hunt. Some of the wonderful types are: pied-billed Grebe, egrets, different types of herons, groove billed Ani, Neotropic Cormorant, Purple Gallinule, Caribbean Coot, common Moorhen, Caribbean parakeets, black-faced grassquits, bare-eyed pigeons, mangrove yellow warblers, tropical mockingbirds, blue-tailed Emeralds and srcub flycatchers. Northern Waterthrushes are numerous, Prothonotary Warbler and Magnolia Warblers have been seen and photographed here in the wild and it is exciting and amazing to see many of these marvelous birds during whatever they chose to do in this natural habitat that is just for them.