With less than 300 days before the start of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, fans can now apply to buy tickets on the FIFA website, so to get you in the mood, we'll be taking a look at…

It has been a pretty good summer here in Britain (by our standards at least), and people have been flocking to beaches along the coasts to play in the sand and sea. In select areas a lucky few can take…

Continuing our exploration of one of the world’s largest UNESCO World Heritage Sites, we'll visit some of the structures built to defend the Russian city of St Petersburg over the past few centuries, beginning with the area of the Baltic…

Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for a sinister late-1960s TV show called The Prisoner, which starred Patrick McGoohan as "Number Six". Portmeirion was created by Sir…

In southern New Mexico, the world's first commercial spaceport - Spaceport America - has been built as a launch facility for private space ventures, including Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism initiative. After a couple of decades of fundraising…

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, villages were constructed by English industrialists and landowners to provide housing close to factories or estates for the workers and their families. One of the most well known is Saltaire in West Yorkshire,…