Of all the well-recognized labels a monument, city or landscape can bear, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site designation is among the most prestigious. When a property is recognized as such, travel and tourism content creators are generally quick to highlight its vaunted status as a landmark that a highly respected international body has deemed to be of outstanding value to humanity and worthy of preservation.

Source: Cultural landscapes of UNESCO are products of man, nature

Frozen may be a Disney movie for children, but everyone – even people without children – are familiar with Frozen, or at the very least, Idina Menzel’s infamous song ‘Let It Go’. However, not everyone knows about the very real tiny town that is thought to have inspired Frozen, and the fictional town of Arendelle.

Source: This is the fairy tale village that inspired Disney’s ‘Frozen’

Hallstatt, a picturesque hamlet in the central European country, has been supplying salt from its mines since the Bronze Age.

Source: Here is a grain of Austrian history