The Ruling on Visiting Statues and Sculptures for the Purpose of Sightseeing and Entertainment

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on visiting statues and sculptures, such as the pyramids for example, or other images, for the purpose of sightseeing and entertainment?

Answer:
Visiting statues is not permissible; this is an abomination. A person should not visit places of abomination and be impressed by them. These are abominations, and it is not permissible for a person to go there as a spectator or to look at them out of admiration for their civilization. Yes, because it is all nonsense, all of it is nonsense. All right, your ability, your strength, and your money are spent on the same mountain that killed a person, and so on. What is the benefit of this?
But Satan makes these matters attractive to them, and this is proof that the disbeliever does not have a sound mind. He has a bestial, subsistence-oriented mind. Otherwise, how do they spend their sustenance, their energy, and their skill carving a mountain to make it in the shape of a human head, and what benefit do they derive from it? What is the benefit? Yes. More. This is the nonsense of man. Yes.