One of the six abodes of Murugan, standing on a hill about 160 metres above the town, where the deity is shown as a renunciate holding a staff. The image is traditionally held to be made of navapashanam, an amalgam of nine minerals, and pilgrims climb barefoot or take the winch railway.

A fall of about 180 feet on the ghat road, where the overflow from Kodaikanal lake drops off the edge of the plateau. For most people coming up from Batlagundu it is the first sight of the hills.

A star-shaped artificial lake of about 24 hectares, created in 1863 when Sir Vere Henry Levinge, the retired Collector of Madurai, dammed three streams in the hollow below the settlement. A five-kilometre path runs around it, and boats and hired bicycles are the usual way to see it.

A paved path about a kilometre long, cut along the edge of a steep slope in the 1870s and named for Lieutenant Coaker, who surveyed it. On a clear morning the view runs out over the plains as far as Dolphin's Nose, and now and then to Madurai.

A botanical garden of about twenty acres laid out in 1908 by Glenn Bryant, a forest officer, on the eastern side of the lake. It holds several hundred varieties of rose and a glasshouse, and a horticultural show is held here each May.

Three granite blocks about 120 metres high standing side by side on the edge of the plateau, seven kilometres from Kodaikanal town. A garden was laid out at the viewpoint; by afternoon the rocks are often lost in cloud.

A deep cleft between the Pillar Rocks, known earlier as Devil's Kitchen and renamed after the 1991 Tamil film Guna was shot here. The caves themselves are fenced off after several deaths; visitors look down into them from the platform above.

A reservoir at about 2,000 metres some 21 km from Kodaikanal, built on the site of an older lake and supplying water to Periyakulam. It lies inside reserve forest, so entry needs a permit from the forest office, and the road in runs through shola and grassland.