The district is home to historic buildings such as the Bangka Lungshan Temple and the Red House Theater.

This is a grand religious fiesta and celebration that involves a procession within Wanhua District for three consecutive nights.

[citation needed] In the late Qing era, Hobe (modern-day Tamsui District) was the treaty port of northern Taiwan, whereas the trade was conducted at Bangka.

[5] Bangka was the largest and most important city of northern Formosa, thoroughly Chinese, and, in the initial experience of missionary George Leslie Mackay, intensely anti-foreign.

[citation needed] Wanhua District can be divided into three sections: northern, central, and southern.

The market contains stands that serve local snacks, and restaurants that serve traditional Taiwanese dishes and uncommon delicacies such as: snake blood and meat, turtle blood and meat and deer penis wine.

[9] Other tourist attractions include the Heritage and Culture Education Center of Taipei City, Qingyunge Art, Wanhua Lin's Mansion and Ximending Mazu Temple.