Umaru Pulavar Memorial, Ettayapuram

This Shakti shrine about 6 km from Ettayapuram is regarded as the foremost among the district's Shakti Peedams. It is famous for a roughly 42-foot-tall open-air statue of Vekkali Amman, worshipped with no roof overhead. The peedam was established by Sri Ramamoorthy Swamigal and draws devotees for its towering goddess figure.

This Shiva-Shakti temple sits on an elevated spot called Kovilmedu in Kovilpatti and is dedicated to Poovananathar (Shiva) and Shenbagavalli (Parvati), with primacy given to the goddess. It houses a noted seven-foot-tall idol of Goddess Shenbagavalli. Its major festivals are the Aadi Pooram and Chithirai Theertham, which draw large crowds.

A memorial fort on the site of the stronghold of 18th-century Polygar chief Veerapandiya Kattabomman, an early rebel against British rule who was hanged in 1799; murals depict his life.

An unfinished 8th-century monolithic rock-cut Shiva temple carved top-down from a single granite hill by the early Pandyas, often called the 'Ellora of the South'.

A rock-cut Murugan cave temple set into the same Kalugumalai hill as the Vettuvan Koil and Jain beds, an active place of worship carved into the granite cliff.

A clean, relatively uncrowded coastal village beach on the Gulf of Mannar in the northern part of the district.

A major Catholic basilica in Tuticorin whose statue of Our Lady is paraded in the Golden Car festival; elevated to minor basilica status by Pope John Paul II in 1982.

The most popular beach in Tuticorin city, adjacent to the port, a favourite evening spot for locals and departure point for island boat trips.

Vast coastal salt-evaporation flats around Tuticorin, a major source of India's salt production and a distinctive photogenic landscape that defines the local economy.

A Christian heritage town founded in the 19th century and named after Mr. Sawyer, an East India Company layman who established a village exclusively for Christian converts. It became one of the key SPG mission fields of the district, developing schools and a Gothic-style church. It is associated with early printing and education in the Tirunelveli-Thoothukudi mission belt.

A cluster of nine Vishnu Divya Desam temples along the Thamirabarani river between Srivaikuntam and Tiruchendur, each associated with one of the nine planets (navagraha).

A village near Srivaikuntam whose Thamirabarani-valley urn-burial finds have been dated to roughly 3,200 years ago, cited as evidence of an ancient Tamil Iron Age civilisation.