Cultural attractions

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.


 * Acadia 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 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

 * 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
 * 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

 * 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