Lucknow Zoo, officially Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Zoological Garden, sits in Banarasi Bagh near Hazratganj. It opened as the Prince of Wales Zoological Gardens in 1921, not under Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. Closed Mondays; check last entry at the gate.
In Gomti Nagar, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal is a sandstone and marble memorial to Babasaheb and other social reformers. Locals still call it Ambedkar Park. Walk slowly, keep your voice down, and confirm tickets at the gate.
Qaiserbagh’s Residency is a ruin kept as a ruin, scarred by the 1857 siege. Walk the Bailey Guard, the smashed house, the churchyard, and the small memorial museum. Tickets and hours are confirmed at the ASI window.
Ghantaghar on the Hussainabad maidan is a Victorian Gothic clock paid for by the Nawabi endowment after Awadh had already passed to British rule. Look from the road. There is no public climb, and no ticket for the tower itself.
This sixty-foot brick arch is a city gate on the Hussainabad road, inspired by Istanbul’s Sublime Porte. It is free to walk through, and it is not the entrance of either Imambara. Traffic still uses it every day.
West of the Turkish Gate, this smaller Hussainabad hall is still called the Palace of Lights for its chandeliers. Muhammad Ali Shah built it as his tomb and his mother’s. Satkhanda and Rumi Darwaza stand nearby, not inside the compound.
Hussainabad’s great mourning hall was raised in a famine so thousands could work with dignity. Walk the unsupported vault first, then climb the labyrinth above it. The sixty-foot Turkish Gate on the west road is a separate monument.