Discover
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The Discover page is an archive of about strange but true trivia about destinations around the world, previously featured in the Discover section on the main page. You can contribute and add or edit future facts to the list here. Previously displayed facts from this year are below. You can find older facts from previous years using the links at the bottom of the page.
January 2025
- At Hvar, imposing fortifications (pictured) hover above the fluid blend of grey stone and orange cascading roofs.
- Cuba Cheese Museum educates visitors on the history of cheesemaking in western New York state.
- The shrines of Ise are famously dismantled and rebuilt to exacting specifications every 20 years.
- The Botanic Gardens Saint Vincent (pictured) in Kingstown were established in 1765, making them the oldest botanic gardens in the Western Hemisphere and in the tropics.
- The Sigulda Walking Sticks have been popular local souvenirs in Sigulda for hundreds of years.
- It is said that when a child at Manickamangalam Temple in Kalady cried after noticing his milk offering was still there, the goddess Devi drank it out of pity.
- The view of Shirakawa-go from the Shiroyama Viewpoint during the Winter Light-up (pictured) is considered to be one of Japan's most iconic winter views.
- The Dhow Shipyard in Muharraq is one of the few remaining places where dhows are still built by hand.
- Back in the day, Ouarzazate was a crossing point for African traders seeking to reach northern cities in Morocco and Europe.
- Preston bus station (closeup pictured) is a concrete Brutalist creation of 1968, refurbished in 2019.
- Cemue is a local drink of Ngawi, made with coconut milk, ginger, lemongrass, coconut flesh, white bread, and peanut.
- Concepción, Paraguay, is distinguished by the beauty of its public buildings and aristocratic residences.
- The 14 Falls (pictured) outside Nairobi is made up of 14 small streams that merge to form the big waterfall at the foot of the Kilima Mbogo Hills.
- At the Comox Air Force Museum and Heritage Air Park you can see the planes that made the RCAF great.
- Tulu does not have a widely used script, though efforts are on to discover or construct one. Most writing in the language is in the Kannada script.
- Casa Botines (pictured) in León is one of the few buildings by Antoni Gaudí outside Barcelona.
- The region around Glen Innes is known as "The Land of The Beardies", after two 19th century livestock workers with long beards.
- Almost half of the plant species in Springbok are found nowhere else in the world.