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Did You KnowDid you know the Eiffel Tower can be about 15 cm (6 inches) taller in summer? Iron expands…
Eiffel Tower, Paris
NatureDid you know parts of Chile's Atacama Desert have never recorded a single drop of rain? It…
Atacama Desert
Did You KnowDid you know you can watch the same sunset twice from the Burj Khalifa? Catch it at ground…
Burj Khalifa, Dubai
Did You KnowDid you know that in Panama you can watch the sun rise over the Pacific and set over the A…
Panama
HistoryDid you know Angkor Wat is the largest religious structure in the world? The 12th-century …
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Did You KnowDid you know Samoa once skipped an entire day? To line up its calendar with trading partne…
Apia, Samoa
ArchitectureDid you know the Sydney Opera House is covered in over a million tiles that shrug off dirt…
Sydney Opera House
NatureDid you know a small Canadian town is known as the Polar Bear Capital of the World? Each a…
Churchill, Manitoba
HistoryDid you know the oldest continuously operating university in the world is in Fez, Morocco?…
Al-Qarawiyyin, Fez
NatureDid you know Victoria Falls is the largest curtain of falling water in the world? Over a m…
Victoria FallsStay updated with our newest guides
Somewhere beneath the scrubby, cracked asphalt of what used to be Route 61 in Centralia, Pennsylvania, an underground coal seam has been on fire since 1962. Smoke still seeps through fissures in the ground. The earth radiates warmth underfoot. In win...
Puerto Rico has been growing coffee since the 18th century. At its peak in the late 19th century, Puerto Rican coffee was served at the Vatican and to the royal families of Europe. The island's mountainous interior, the Cordillera Central
Serbia is a country that operates almost entirely outside the standard Western European tourist experiences. While there is no Eiffel Tower, or Rick Steves itineraries, or queues at the ticket booth, Serbia can promise lower prices, genuine hospitality, and remarkable food.
In the south of Poland, the <strong>Tatra Mountains</strong> rise from the Carpathian foothills to form the only alpine landscape in Central Europe north of the Alps. The Polish Tatras are a national park with glacial valleys, granite peaks, and clear mountain lakes.
At 4:45am on 1 September 1939, the German warship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte, on the outskirts of Gdańsk. The 182 Polish defenders held for seven days against overwhelming German force. It was ...
Danish sounds, to many first-time visitors, like a language being spoken with a hot potato in the mouth. Even other Scandinavians joke about it. But behind that famously soft, swallowed pronunciation is one of the oldest continuously recorded languag...
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