Armenia's sightseeing is structured around the Cascade outdoor staircase, the Soviet-era Republic Square institutions, and the Genocide Memorial that should precede rather than follow all other visits. The manuscript repository holds over 23,000 medieval manuscripts, including illuminated gospels of the highest artistic quality, in a building designed to honour the collection it holds. The monasteries of Geghard and Noravank, the ancient hilltop pagan temple, and the cave monastery complex of Geghard extend the religious heritage sightseeing across mountain terrain of unusual beauty. Lake Sevan and the Zangezur canyon landscape add natural registers. Tours by locals add the missing layer. Take it all in.