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.
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- In the Major Stone Forest (pictured) outside Shilin it's easy to lose the crowds as you wander around between the stones.
- Binondo in Manila is the oldest Chinatown in the world.
- Palacio Polentinos in Ávila is a museum of Spanish army logistics in a Renaissance palace.
- The Osogovo Monastery (pictured) in Kriva Palanka was to be destroyed by the Ottomans during the Austro-Ottoman War of 1690 - according to legend they spared it after becoming overpowered by some spiritual force.
- Salcajá has a great many shops selling traditional Maya textiles that are used to make the cortes (skirts) worn by Maya women.
- To make returning home more pleasant, there are some things that are worth doing before leaving for a voyage.
- St. Stephen is known as "Canada's Chocolate Town" and features a chocolate museum in a former candy factory (pictured).
- One of the holiest cities in India, Prayagraj is famous for the Hindu pilgrimage Kumbh Mela, attended by hundreds of millions of pilgrims.
- At noon, a trumpeter plays the Hejnał - a traditional bugle call closely bound to the history of Kraków - from the balcony of the Kraków Gate in Lublin.
- The Hill of the O'Neill (pictured) in Dungannon was the seat of power of that dynasty, lords of all they surveyed until Elizabethan England encroached.
- Fiji is relatively free of disease compared to most of the tropics.
- Calistoga was founded as a hot springs resort in the 1860s by Sam Brannan, California's first millionaire.
- Two interesting details at the Karakorum site are the two stone turtles (one pictured).
- Ranthambhore National Park is one of the most filmed wildlife reserves in the world.
- Cuenca translates to "basin", and Cuenca, Ecuador is indeed in a basin made by a confluence of four rivers.
- One of the highlights of the Santa Giulia monastery in Brescia, now a museum, is the Winged Victory of Brescia (pictured).
- The U.S. National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City is America's leading institution dedicated to the Great War.
- Andøya Space is Norway's only operational space centre with several VR games on-site.
- Bran Castle (pictured) is heavily marketed as "Dracula's Castle", though it has nothing to do with Vlad Țepeș who lately became identified with Dracula.
- The main attraction in the Taiwanese town of Yuli is the Walami trail, a historic hiking trail once used by the Japanese to keep an eye on aboriginal villages in the mountains.
- The Juan Fernández Islands are home to a high percentage of rare and endemic plants and animals, and are recognized as a distinct ecoregion.
- The main sight of the former mining town of Schefferville might be the huge Caniapiscau Reservoir (pictured), the largest body of water in Quebec.
- Studying abroad is also an opportunity for language learning.
- The Waterpocket Fold, a 100-mile long warp in the Earth's crust, defines the Capitol Reef National Park.
- The ruined Matosavank Monastery in Dilijan is not terribly interesting from the outside, but the inside (pictured) is a cool, moist, green, mossy world unto itself.
- First documented in 799, Martinskirche in Linz is regarded as the oldest original church still in existence in Austria.
- The Rason Special Economic area is in many ways a separate country from the rest of North Korea.
- Planes land and take off unusually close overhead to sunbathers (pictured) at Maho Beach on Saint Martin.
- Catedral Metropolitana Ortodoxa in South Central São Paulo is one of the few remarkable examples of Byzantine architecture in Brazil.
- The Jordan Pass provides free entrance to more than 40 sites in Jordan within a two-week period, and the cost of your tourist visa is waived if you stay at least 3 nights in the country.
- A speciality of Niger is kilishi (pictured): beef jerky that comes in three flavours: regular, peanut-spiced, and hot-pepper-spiced.