Real Mojave Desert twenty minutes from the Strip — and from October to May the scenic drive now requires a timed-entry reservation booked in advance, without which visitors are turned away at the gate.
The most-taken day trip from Las Vegas, and the one most often got wrong: through traffic has not crossed the dam since the bypass bridge opened in 2010. What the tours cover, and why the dam was officially Boulder Dam for fourteen years.
The Summer Garden's marble statues came indoors in 2009 and what stands there now is polymer concrete. Behind that small correction lies the most contested restoration carried out in this city in thirty years.
Nuuksio National Park is in Espoo, not Helsinki. Getting there by train and bus, the Haltia nature centre, everyman's rights in a national park, and ticks.
Three aquariums, and they are not equivalent: the Steinhart is in Golden Gate Park and not downtown, the Pier 39 aquarium lost its accreditation in 2024, and Monterey is a two-hour drive away.
The Exploratorium left the Palace of Fine Arts for Pier 15 in 2013, the Academy of Sciences was rebuilt in Golden Gate Park in 2008, and the zoo now comes with caveats worth stating.
The gardens of a vanished royal palace: the Army Museum that left for Toledo, the Crystal Palace closed until 2027, the Fallen Angel folklore, and why the park now shuts in bad weather.
London Zoo's famous buildings are nearly all used for something other than their original purpose, and the aquarium under the Mappin Terraces closed for good in 2019.
West Carriage Drive is the boundary: the Serpentine and the granite Diana fountain are in Hyde Park, while the Long Water, the Albert Memorial and Peter Pan are in Kensington Gardens. The Queen's State Apartments are shut until spring 2027.
Charles I opened it to the public in 1637, which makes it the first of the royal parks to open rather than the oldest. The Serpentine, Speakers' Corner, the swimming club older than the sport's governing body, the memorials, the concert licence and the drought.
Kew is two organisations on one site: the Royal Botanic Gardens and Historic Royal Palaces. Samuel Fortrey was Flemish, not Dutch; the botanic garden was founded in 1759, not 1751; the Crystal Palace was never here; and the Palm House closes from 2027.
