Lake Huron may not be a household name, but its ‘Thumb Coast’ – with its maritime drama, townships and lighthouses – is ...

In a few hours or so of churning across Lake Lucerne (Switzerland’s fourth largest), those aboard the venerable vessel, the ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

Skip the island ferries. These design-forward mainland hotels offer mountain-meets-sea views and a slower, more rooted kind ...

A rare 1931 oil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi by Clare Leighton sold for £152,800 at Bonhams’ Travel and Exploration Sale, ...

What makes this vista particularly special is how it captures the essence of Pennsylvania’s natural beauty in one sweeping glance – the rolling hills, the dense forests, the powerful river that has ...

Plans to convert a 19th century Rochdale pub into flats have been put back on the table. Royds Arms sits within a conservation area of Rochdale and has been vacant for more than a year. But when ...

On Wednesday, the Wisconsin supreme court ruled to overturn the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban, determining that a more recent law, criminalising abortions only when the fetus is viable ...

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the individual cell blocks that were ranged radially around the tower ...

A 19th Century workhouse, which has been described as a "bit of a blot", is being sold. The former Hexham Workhouse on Corbridge Road, which dates back to 1839, served as housing for the destitute ...

A rare 19th-century musical game - one of only three known to still be in existence and the only invention of any kind to be patented by a woman in that year - is to go on display to the public ...

Ever since the invention of the microscope, humanity has gained access to the world of the incredibly small. Scientists discovered that creatures never known to exist before are alive in an uncount… ...