A search for dark matter is performed by looking for events in pp collisions with large missing transverse momentum and a recoiling Higgs boson that decays to either a pair of photons or a pair of tau leptons. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9~\mathrm{fb}^{-1} collected in 2016 by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13~\mathrm{TeV}. No significant excess over the expected standard model background is observed. Results are interpreted in the context of two benchmark simplified models. Upper limits with $95\%$ confidence level are presented for the signal production cross section times branching fraction. Results are also interpreted in terms of $90\%$ confidence level limits on the spin-independent dark matter-nucleon cross section as a function of dark matter mass. This is the first search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs boson decaying to two tau leptons.

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