Questioner:

Is it permissible to visit the pyramids in Egypt?

Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Luhaydān:

There is neither prohibition nor commandment reported from Allah ﷻ or His Messenger ﷺ in visiting these places. However, if a person visits these places with the intention of reflecting on how the non-believers were destroyed before Islam, then I hope that there is no problem in this. It is better for a person to visits the masājid and to see the different places that were built for the worship of Allah ﷻ when the Muslims conquered [different parts of the world]. This is better than visiting the graves of the disbelievers.