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The abandoned prison on Alcatraz IslandRising from San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island is one of the world’s most recognisable prison sites. Its grey cellblocks, steep rocky shoreline and distant…
San Fernando’s Giant Lantern Festival Lights Up PampangaEvery December, San Fernando in Pampanga becomes a brilliant centre of Filipino Christmas culture. Enormous lanterns, known as parol, glow in changing colours…
The Sable Island Wild Horses of Nova ScotiaFar out in the Atlantic, a narrow crescent of sand rises from the sea southeast of Halifax. Sable Island is famous for its shifting dunes, shipwreck history,…
The Stonehenge of the North in CallanishOn the west coast of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, a remarkable group of standing stones rises from a broad, windswept landscape. The Callanish Stones,…
The crystal caves of Naica, MexicoDeep beneath the desert in Chihuahua, Mexico, a chamber contains gypsum crystals so large that they resemble beams, pillars and frozen tree trunks. The Cave of…
The Blue Lagoon: Iceland’s Geothermal EscapeThe Blue Lagoon of Iceland is one of those places that seems almost invented for a travel photograph: milky blue water surrounded by black lava fields, steam…
Trollstigen Mountain Road: Norway’s Dramatic Alpine DriveHigh in Norway’s Romsdalen valley, a ribbon of asphalt climbs through steep cliffs, waterfalls and jagged mountain scenery. Trollstigen, or the Troll’s Path,…
Drifting through Damnoen Saduak, Thailand's iconic floating marketA soft hush still clings to the water when the first long-tail boats glide away from the canal banks, their bows stacked with pyramids of rambutan, watermelon,…
Ronda's cliffside village where homes grip the gorge edgeThe town of Ronda rises from a knife-edge of rock in southern Spain, where homes and terraces have been carved into the limestone for centuries. Travellers…
Strokkur: Watching Iceland's Most Famous Erupting GeyserAbout 100 kilometres east of Reykjavik, in a wide geothermal valley called Haukadalur, the ground trembles quietly beneath your feet before a column of pale…