Chess Masters
In the southern city of Be’ersheva in Israel, you can find the most chess grandmasters in the world per capita. The city is in the middle of the Negev desert, so maybe that has some contributing factor.
Mini Subway
Would you call a 4-cart train that runs all of 1.8 kilometers under the ground, a subway? Well in Haifa, Israel they do, and it is one of the smallest subway systems in the world.