- Sarajevo hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics
- It is one of the few places with mosque, church and synagogue side by side
- Bosnian coffee is a slow ritual, not a quick drink
- Mostar Old Bridge divers leap 24 m into the Neretva
- The country has Europe last primeval forests in Perućica
- Visegrad bridge inspired a Nobel Prize-winning novel
- Bosnia has thousands of mysterious medieval stećci tombstones
- Sarajevo was the first European city with a full-time electric tram
- The Una river water is famously turquoise and drinkable
- Ćevapi are a fierce point of local pride