Cultural attractions allow travellers to experience mankind's physical and intellectual creations. Culture in its broadest sense is everything made by humans; however, some feats make greater impressions than others. The UNESCO World Heritage List contains some of these sites, together with natural attractions.
Architecture
- Architecture
- Castles
- Chicago skyline guide
- Delta Works – flood protection structures in the Netherlands
- Developmental records – the longest, the tallest, the oldest etc.
- Fortifications
- Grand houses
- Le Corbusier World Heritage
- Lighthouses
- New Mexico Pueblos
Art and antiques
Curiosities and fringe phenomena
Ethnic groups
The world is populated by thousands of different ethnic and national groups, most of them without a sovereign country to call their own. An ethnicity is usually defined by language, religion and traditions, rather than geography or politics.
- Acadia<nowiki/>ns, the French-speakers of Canada's east coast and their cousins in Louisiana, the Cajuns
- Amish and Mennonites
- Celts
- Indigenous cultures of North America
- Indigenous cultures of South America
- Indigenous Australian culture
- Indigenous Taiwanese culture
- Indigenous Peoples Trail in Nepal
- Kanak culture in New Caledonia
- Maori culture
- Minority cultures of China
- Minority cultures of Japan
- Minority cultures of Russia
- Nordic folk culture
- Roma culture in Europe
- Sami culture in northern Scandinavia
Fiction
See also: Fiction tourism
- Assassin's Creed Tour
- Breaking Bad Tour
- Game of Thrones tourism
- Harry Potter tourism
- Horror fiction
- James Bond tourism
- Literary travel
- Lord of the Rings tourism
- The Wire Tour
- X-Files tourism
Games
Government and institutions
- Legislative buildings
- Military and police ceremonies
- Monarchies
- Official residences
- Spies and secrets
- United Nations
- Visiting company headquarters
History
Historical travel is a vast theme for tourism.
- Archaeological sites
- Ghost towns
- History of organized labor
- History of justice
- In the footsteps of explorers
- Living history museums
- Military tourism
- Old towns
- Organized crime tourism
- Philosophy tourism
- UNESCO World Heritage List
Holidays
- Carnival
- Chinese New Year, Golden Week holidays in China
- Christmas and New Year travel
- Day of the Dead
- Easter travel
- Golden Week in Japan
- Halloween
- Travelling during Ramadan
Performance
- Chinese performing arts
- Music
- Musical theatre
- Reenactment and live-action roleplaying
- Salsa dancing in Latin America
- Stand-up comedy
Religion
See also: Religion and spirituality
- Buddhism
- Cemeteries
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- Imperial tombs of the Ming and Qing dynasties, China
- Islam
- Judaism
- Places of worship in Singapore
- Sacred sites of China
- Sacred sites of the Indian sub-continent
- Sanamahism
- Sikhism
- Zoroastrianism
Science and technology
- Aviation history
- Hacker tourism
- Industrial tourism
- Mining tourism
- Nuclear tourism
- Royal Flying Doctor Service tourism, Australia (RFDS tourism)
- Science tourism
- Space flight sites
- Steam power
- Textiles
- Underground works
- Urban rail adventures
Sport
- American football
- Association football (soccer)
- Australian rules football
- Baseball in the United States
- Basketball in North America
- Cricket
- Handball in Europe
- Horse racing
- Ice hockey in North America
- Motor sport
- International multi-sport events:
- Polo in Manipur
- Rugby football
- Spectator sports
- Sport