Tourist attraction

A tourist attraction is a place where tourists, foreign and domestic, normally visit. Some examples include famous historical places, zoos, museums and art galleries, botanical gardens, buildings and structures (e.g. castles, skyscrapers, bridges), national parks, theme parks and carnivals, cultural events and rare oddities.

Tourist attractions are also created to capitalize on unusual and unexplained, perhaps sensational, phenomena such as a UFO crash site near Roswell, New Mexico and the alleged Loch Ness monster sighting near Inverness, Scotland.

Tourist attractions tend to overprice their goods and services (such as admission, food, and souvenirs) in order to exploit and profit from gullible tourists. They provide income to the locals. These places are known as tourist traps.

Very well-known tourist attractions

• Buildings and Structures
  • Great Wall of China
  • Space Needle
  • Eiffel Tower
  • Golden Gate Bridge

• Theme parks
  • Disneyland

• National Parks
  • Grand Canyon
  • Yellowstone National Park
  • Yosemite National Park