Are you looking for the best travel-related fact pictures you could ever imagine? You’re in the right location!
Here at The Fact Site, we’ve searched far and wide for hundreds of crazy facts about the weird & wonderful places on Earth.
From the quietest places across the globe to the most shocking travel destinations you didn’t even know existed, these travel facts may just give you the bug!
We regularly update this page with new travel facts, so please bookmark us to stay up to date with our favorite travel and tourism facts.
Travel & Tourism Facts
Certain parts of the Mariana Trench, the deepest ocean trench on earth, have been found to be more polluted than some of China’s most polluted rivers.
In 1840, German astronomers Wilhelm Beer and Johann Heinrich Mädler created the first comprehensive map of Mars.
Belarusians consume more potatoes per capita than anyone else in the world, with the average person in Belarus eating 341-375 pounds (155-170 kg) every year.
The longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386 and still stands today.
The entire world population could fit in Texas, with each person having over 900 square feet, given Texas’s area of about 268,597 square miles.
On January 10, 1992, a shipping crate containing 28,000 rubber ducks and bath toys fell into the Pacific. They washed up around the world for the next 20 years.
The British Cemetery on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, is leased as British land and flies the UK flag to honor four sailors from the HMT Bedfordshire who lost their lives in WWII.
The 1831 London Bridge couldn’t handle the amount of traffic it was getting, so in 1968, it was sold, dismantled, and rebuilt in Arizona as a tourist attraction in Lake Havasu City.
Nauru, a small island nation northeast of Australia, has one of the highest obesity rates globally, affecting 61% of men and 66% of women.
Since 1955, 50% of Niger’s population has consistently been under 16 years old. As of 2025, the population exceeds 28 million.
The world’s most remote ATMs are operated by Wells Fargo in Antarctica, serving over 1,000 residents at the U.S. McMurdo Station.
There is an unknown number of Nile crocodiles in Florida. They are the second-largest crocodile and are more dangerous than Florida’s native crocodiles and alligators.
The Venus flytrap is native to a small coastal region of North and South Carolina, centered around Wilmington, North Carolina.
In 2019, a state of emergency was declared in one of Russia’s Arctic regions due to a mass invasion of polar bears.
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn, which has been featured in Scottish heraldry since the 12th century.
Brazil may be in South America, but because it borders French Guiana, a French territory, it also shares a border with the European Union.
In Japan, some vending machines provide free drinking water and beverages during natural disasters, such as earthquakes or typhoons.
All the paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs the same as ten elephants. It gets repainted every seven years without closing to the public.
