Walk through a French submarine parked on a Melaka beach
Sixty-seven metres, bow to stern
A decommissioned diesel-electric submarine on steel cradles on the shore at Klebang, about 5 km west of the city, open as a museum you walk through end to end.
Why it's unique
The Ouessant is an Agosta-70 class diesel-electric submarine built at Cherbourg in 1978, decommissioned by the French Navy in 2001 and used by the Royal Malaysian Navy to train its first submarine crews between 2005 and 2009. It now sits on steel cradles on the shore at Klebang, and you walk the full sixty-seven metres of the hull from bow to stern, through the control room, the torpedo room and the crew quarters.
Museum submarines exist worldwide. This is the country's only one, and it is beached rather than docked, which is the oddity: you approach it across sand, climb a staircase into the bow, and the corridors inside have not been widened for visitors.
Before you go
You enter by a staircase near the bow and exit near the stern, so it is one-way and there is no going back for a second look.
The corridors are genuinely narrow, because this is not a widened museum mock-up, and anyone with mobility or claustrophobia issues should know that before buying a ticket. Foreign adult entry is about RM20 and MyKad holders pay RM10. Combine it with the Klebang coconut shake stall and the beach sunset, all within a kilometre.