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Completed in 1882 as the residence of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani, ʻIolani Palace is the only royal palace on U.S. soil, serving as the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi's seat of government until the 1893 overthrow of the monarchy and later as the territorial and state capitol before reopening as a museum in 1978.

Sculptor Marisol Escobar's bronze tribute to the Belgian priest who spent 16 years ministering to Hansen's disease patients exiled to Molokaʻi — and ultimately died of the disease himself in 1889 — has stood outside the Hawaii State Capitol since 1969; a duplicate cast represents Hawaii in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall.

Meaning "spouting water" for the freshwater springs that once fed it, Waikīkī was a retreat for Hawaiian royalty long before the 1901 opening of the Moana Hotel launched its tourism era; waterman Duke Kahanamoku helped popularize surfing from these same waves in the early 1900s.

Meaning "spouting water" for the freshwater springs that once fed it, Waikīkī was a retreat for Hawaiian royalty long before the 1901 opening of the Moana Hotel launched its tourism era; waterman Duke Kahanamoku helped popularize surfing from these same waves in the early 1900s.

Also called the Wizard Stones, this cluster of boulders is said to hold the spiritual power of four healers who traveled from Tahiti around AD 400 — the two largest weigh eight and ten tons, and after being buried under a 1941 bowling alley, the stones were rediscovered in the 1960s and given a place of honor on Kūhiō Beach.

Built in 1899 after two steamships ran aground when their captains misjudged Diamond Head's position in the dark, this lighthouse was rebuilt in stone and cement in 1917 and still operates today with a 1,000-watt automated lamp.