Subterranean canals (qanats), sewers and its famous fire-temple can be named as some pre-Islamic relics.

[citation needed] A family house in Khomeyn was the birthplace of former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

[5] The house was set on fire on 17 November 2022 during the Mahsa Amini protests; and days after the death of Kian Pirfalak, an Iranian child killed during the Izeh Bazaar Massacre.

Tasnim News Agency denied that a fire had occurred and stated that the house was "open to the public".

The house where former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was born is located in Khomein, and was made into a museum.