From the late 19th century to the period between the World Wars, hundreds of airship hangars were built in Western Europe and the USA to house the massive lighter-than-air craft. Today, only a handful of these…

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…

We recently took a look at important Canadian battlefield locations from the War of 1812, as well as a number of memorials. As a follow-up, here is a collection of equally-important sites in the USA, where…

On the 15th April 1912, exactly 100 years ago this weekend, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York…

Every day around the world, millions of people gather in giant stadiums to watch their favourite sporting events and performance acts. But what happens when time inevitably catches up with these facilities? Today we begin our tour of abandoned stadiums from around the world with a look at old arenas in Europe, South America, and Africa.

Doing the rounds on the mainstream sites this week has been the story of Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, who has created a series of canals in the coastline of his own private…