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
• Haciendas
• Le Corbusier World Heritage
• Lighthouses
• New Mexico Pueblos
• The Persian Caravanserai

Art and antiques

• Art and antiques shopping
• Arts in Japan
• Design
• European art
• Modern and contemporary art
• Murals and graffiti
• Sculpture
• Visual arts

Curiosities and fringe phenomena

• Cryptozoology
• Fringe phenomena
• Places with unusual names
• UFOs

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.

• Acadians, 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 Mesoamerica
  • Maya culture
  • Navajo Nation
  • New Mexico Pueblos
  • Ohio prehistoric sites
• 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 and Russia's Kola Peninsula

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
  • Literary London
• Lord of the Rings tourism
• The Wire Tour
• X-Files tourism

Games

• Board games in general, including newer ones
  • Chess
  • Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
  • Go (weiqi, baduk)
  • Shogi (Japanese chess)
  • Monopoly

Government and institutions

• Interesting borders
• Legislative buildings
• Local governments
• 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
  • New Orleans Mardi Gras
• Chinese New Year, Golden Week holidays in China
• Christmas and New Year travel
  • Christmas in the Philippines
  • Christmas markets
• Day of the Dead
• Easter travel
• Golden Week in Japan
• Halloween
• Holidays of the United States
• Spring break
• Travelling during Ramadan

Performance

• Chinese performing arts
• Music
  • European classical music
  • Indian classical music
  • Jazz
  • Music festivals
  • Music in Britain and Ireland
  • Musical instruments
  • Nordic music
  • Rock and roll
• Musical theatre
• Reenactment and live-action roleplaying
• Social dancing
  • Salsa dancing in Latin America
• Stand-up comedy

Religion

See also: Religion and spirituality

• Baha'i Faith
• Buddhism
• Cemeteries
• Christianity
  • Amish and Mennonites
  • Christian sites in Japan
  • Churches in Antarctica
  • Churches in Chicago
  • Churches in Ethiopia
  • Churches in South Australia
  • The Painted Monasteries, Romania
  • Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region
• 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
  • Aviation history in the United States
• Hacker tourism
• Industrial tourism
• Maritime tourism
• Mathematics 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)
  • Association football in Europe
• Australian rules football
• Baseball in the United States
• Basketball in North America
• Boxing
• Cricket
• Field hockey
• Handball in Europe
• Horse racing
• Ice hockey in North America
• Motor sport
  • Formula One
  • Motorcycle speedway
• International multi-sport events:
  • Olympic Games
  • Gay Games
• Polo in Manipur
• Rugby football
• Spectator sports
• Sport

Others

• Australia's big things
• Japan's Top 3
• Miniatures, dioramas and scale models
• The Most Beautiful Villages of France
• Museums
• Off the beaten track in Japan
• Pueblos Mágicos in Mexico
• Signs
• Touring prestigious and notable universities in the U.S.
• Trams in Melbourne
• UNESCO Creative Cities
• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage