North Euston Hotel
North Euston Hotel, Fleetwood — Decimus Burton’s curved crescent of 1841, facing Morecambe Bay. Photo: Stevew2022 via Wikimedia Commons, CC […]
Duke of Cornwall Hotel
Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth — C. Forster Hayward’s Victorian Gothic hotel of 1865. Photo: Smalljim via Wikimedia Commons, CC
White Hart Hotel
White Hart Hotel, Harrogate — the rebuilt 1846 frontage in the Montpellier Quarter. Photo: Mtaylor848 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Hotel de Paris
Hotel de Paris, Cromer — George Skipper’s red-brick seaside hotel above the esplanade. Photo: stavros1 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Prague: 5 Day Trips Worth Taking
Within three hours of Prague, five UNESCO World Heritage Sites span Gothic silver-mining cathedrals, a plague-scarred Baroque village, a storybook Vltava castle, and an archbishop’s palace whose gardens hold a Titian masterpiece.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Vienna: 5 Sites Within 2 Hours
Within two hours of Vienna by rail, five UNESCO World Heritage Sites span Baroque palace gardens, a 36-kilometre Danube valley, Europe’s first mountain railway, and a Renaissance city built by the Habsburgs.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Paris: 6 Day Trips Worth Taking
From Versailles at 35 minutes to Mont-Saint-Michel at three and a half hours, six UNESCO World Heritage Sites lie within reach of Paris by public transport — royal palaces, Gothic cathedrals, medieval fair towns, and a tidal island abbey.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near London: 7 Day Trips Worth Taking
Within two hours of London by public transport or car, seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites span five thousand years of history — from a Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain to a Baroque palace built for a victorious general.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Threatened by Climate Change
Climate change is reshaping the conditions under which some of UNESCO’s most celebrated natural and cultural sites exist — from bleaching coral reefs and retreating glaciers to low-lying atolls threatened by rising seas.
DR Congo’s UNESCO Parks in Danger
The Democratic Republic of Congo holds five UNESCO World Heritage Sites, all natural parks — four remain on the danger list today, threatened by armed conflict, poaching, and resource extraction in one of the world’s most biodiverse regions.