The Čušek homestead is an ethnological memorial of local importance for the Dornava municipality. The homestead is a typical example of countryside ar­chitecture belonging to a major farmer. It consists of a residence, stable, and a threshing floor under one roof. Parallelto these buildings is a cesspit and toi­let, adjacent to a pigsty and a wheeler's workshop with basement. All the build­ings of the homestead are covered with a tiled pitched roof. The facade of the residential building is divided by small windows with simple window trims. The windows are double and decorated with steel crosses. In 2007 the home­stead was renovated. It is the registered seat of the Lukarji Dornava Tourist Eth­nographic Association.

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In the north-eastern edge of the Dor­nava settlement there is one of the most beautiful late Baroque manors in Slovenia. Dornava Castle is the most important secular building of the late Baroque period. It was first mentioned in 1435, when it was built on the site of the former hunting mansion. In 1446 the castle was demolished by the Hun­garian Regent-Governor Anos Hunyadi. After 1526 its owners were the Herbersteins and then the Sauers. During the years 1700 and 1708 the latter replaced the simple storeyed mansion with a building which is a present-day wing of the mansion. After 1730 the castle was owned by the Attems, then owners of tatemberg, Breiice and Slovenska Bistrica. Between 1739 and 1743 they made additions creating the present-day luxurious castle, and arranged a Ba­roque park with a main axis of 1.5 km. The main hall boasts beautiful fres­cos from 1708. The most important is a mythological scene with Hercules, showing his different works and his re­ception at Mount Olympus. Among the decorations in the park were twelve well-known dwarves and six antique figures from around 1730, which can now be found at Ptuj Castle. The rest of the artworks and statues outside the castle complex date from 1745 and are the work of the Filip Jakob Straub workshop from Graz. The entire manor complex was designed on a grand scale, reaching towards Pesnica with its English park. Unfortunately, the majority has been destroyed.

The last private owners of the castle were the Pongratz family from Sloven­ska Bistrica, after that it was utilised as a mental hospital, and later as a facil­ity of the Care and Education Institute, one of the largest institutes for handi­capped children and youth in Slovenia. Presently, the mansion is unfortunately without purpose.

The legend on the beginning of the St. Mary's Visitation Church says that brothers Cyril and Methodius accom panied by young men from Rome were travelling from Poland through the area. At the Mura River they had to stop when one of the brothers injured his leg. During the rest he carved an icon of the Divine Mother. He told his companions that he was going to hang it at the place where he would first see the walls of the Roman Poetovio (present-day Ptuj). When they came to a big lime tree, they saw Roman Poetovio. The brothers hung the image of Mary's Visitation that they were carrying with them on the lime tree. During the trip many a young man found himself a girl, married, formed a family and stayed in the area. The Polish origins of these settlers is retained in the village's name of Polenšak.

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