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Novi Vinodolski and the surrounding area are rich in cultural monuments dating back to the ancient history. Unfortunately, as the area was the center of the Venetian attacks from the west and the Turkish invasion from the east, it managed to preserve only a fraction of these attributes to its past days of fame.
A three-nave church of Sts. Phillip and Jacob (Sv. Filip i Jakov) with a 36 meter (108 feet) tall bell tower rises above the old section of the town. Inside the church the remains of Bishop Kristofor are buried. During the 1493 Battle of Krbavska he moved the center of the Modruska Diocese to Novi Vinodolski, making the church of Sts. Phillip and Jacob the diocese cathedral. The well-preserved Gothic church of St. Marina stands on an island that bears the same name.
Remains of the Roman fortress Lopsica (also known as Lopar), remains of the Ledenice structure, relics in the Franciscan Monastery of Pavlin in Novi Vinodolski, the church of the Mother of God (crkva Majke Božje) on Ospa are all rare, albeit damaged witnesses of the turbulent history of this region.
A special gem of the Novi Vinodolski cultural heritage has to be the Vinodolski Decree. It was written on January 6, 1288, using the Glagolic script (old Croatian script no longer in use) in the Croatian cakavstina dialect. The Decree is one of the most important documents of the Croatian medieval common law.
Cheerfully colored and decorated women and men traditional garments, oral tradition of hero poems, folklore dancing, as well as one of a kind wooden instrument called sopila have been a part of Novi Vinodolski heritage for centuries. They are all embedded in the every day life of the town, especially during the so-called Mesopusto or the time of winter carnival.

The birth house of brothers Mažuranić is a reminder of these important figures of the Croatian and Novi cultural past. Some of them include Croatian writer Ivan Mažuranić who was known as the People’s Duke, his brother and famous linguist, Antun Mažuranić, traveling writer Matija Mažuranić, and world traveler and essay writer Vladimir Fran Mažuranić.

The Library and Reading Room, both of which were founded in 1845 during the Illyrian and Croatian renaissance, bear witness to the cultural and historical heritage of this region that continues to the present day.

The Frankopan castle with a four-sided tower represents a stone monuments to the Croatian heroic knights. The renovated castle nowadays houses: the Town Administration, Town Museum and Gallery, Town Library and Reading Room, as well as the Turnac Gallery located in the Turnac Tower.