Abu Simbel - In 1964, the greatest archaeological rescue operation of all time commenced.
The complex temples of Pharaoh Ramses II, "The Great", were dismant... Read More...
Just off the northern coast of the mainland of Haiti is the rocky Caribbean island that is synonymous in fact, and fiction, with piracy, Tortuga.
Tortuga was... Read More...
On 6 September 2018, a large earthquake hit Japan, its epicentre in the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Region. Within four days, the region had restored power to almost... Read More...
If you've ever looked at paparazzi shots of A-listers on holiday, and suffered even a pang of envy, then a holiday that lets you enjoy the celebrity lifestyle c... Read More...
At the edge of the Sahara is the West African city of Timbuktu. It may sound like a made-up or mythical name, but this city was a world centre of Islamic learni... Read More...
This October, the 185th Oktoberfest descends on the streets of Munich.
The festival lasts almost three weeks and is the world's largest Volksfest, with milli... Read More...
For two and a half million years, glaciers carved U-shaped valleys into Norway's land beneath the sea. The result is a network of thousands of steep-walled chas... Read More...
Morocco is one of the most geo-diverse places in the world. Exposed rock full of minerals and fossils comprises vast areas of terrain containing matter that is ... Read More...
Amsterdam is a diamond in the list of European cities. It's been touched by wars, borne acclaimed artists among its sons and is famous for its tulips, many of w... Read More...
Nothing is quite what it seems in Xenses Park. This Mexican amusement park, in the coastal resort of Cancun, is full of unique activities and optical illusions ... Read More...
Scattered across the 63-square mile Easter Island are 887 intimidating human-like figures. The moai have stood on this isolated island, discovered by Europeans ... Read More...
Between 1892 and 1954, 12 million immigrants passed through the halls of Ellis Island in search of a better life.
Many had endured long, difficult and danger... Read More...
Alaska - Among more than three million acres of mountains, rainforest, and fjords within Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, are ever-decreasing remnants of the ... Read More...
For some people, Bangkok is a stop-over city, before they travel on to Phuket or Koh Samui. It takes more than a single evening to see everything this eclectic ... Read More...
Less than four miles from the Mississippi border, in the heart of Memphis Tennessee, is the mansion of Graceland. Once owned by Elvis Presley, who surely needs ... Read More...
Egypt is famed as an archaeological paradise. Temples, statues and tombs are scattered throughout the land, but the most famous are arguably to be found in on t... Read More...
Scattered throughout the north-central Indian Ocean are the 1200 sandbanks and coral reefs that comprise the Republic of Maldives. Grouped in clusters, or atoll... Read More...
The Terracotta Army | In March 1974, China was closed off to the world. A group of seven farmers digging in fields for water close to the city of Xi'an in China... Read More...
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