Did You Know?

Tokyo Disneyland isn't owned by Disney. It's owned and operated by the Oriental Land Company under license - which is why its parks often look and feel different.

Tokyo DisneySea was built with a reported budget that made it one of the most expensive theme parks ever constructed, and it's routinely ranked the most beautiful park in the world.

Disneyland Paris opened in 1992 under the name Euro Disney and had a famously rocky start, with European critics openly hostile to it.

Disneyland Paris's castle was designed to look more storybook and fantastical than its American cousins partly because Europe is full of real castles that would have outclassed a realistic one.

Hong Kong Disneyland was designed with feng shui consultation. The entrance was angled, and buildings skip the number four, considered unlucky in Cantonese.

Shanghai Disneyland's Enchanted Storybook Castle is the largest Disney castle in the world and the only one not dedicated to a single princess.

Shanghai Disneyland was deliberately built without a Main Street, U.S.A. - the first Disney castle park designed without one.

Walt Disney is not cryogenically frozen. He was cremated, and the story appears to have started as a joke that outran the facts.

Pirates of the Caribbean originally used real human skeletons, because early artificial ones looked unconvincing. Disney says they were all returned to their origins - though fans still argue about one skull.