One of the most opulent buildings in Paris, the Palais Garnier is a breathtaking 19th-century opera house and a monument to extravagance. Even if you never see a performance, you

Dominating the skyline of the Latin Quarter from the top of its hill, the Panthéon is a grand neoclassical monument that serves as the final resting place of France’s national

One of the best free attractions in Paris, the Petit Palais is a beautiful Belle Époque palace housing the City of Paris’s Museum of Fine Arts — and admission to

Some of Kyoto’s greatest pleasures are about the journey, not just the destination — and the Philosopher’s Path is the perfect example. This gentle, tree-lined stone walkway follows a cherry-tree-lined

For more than eight hundred years, people have been walking to Canterbury. In the Middle Ages they came in their thousands, by foot and on horseback, to pray at the

Source: Pixabay If Mecca is the city toward which Muslims pray, Medina is the city where the early Muslim community took shape. Lying a few hundred kilometres to the north,

A 16th-century brick citadel that never fell, crowning the bluff where the Oka pours into the Volga.

Source: Pixabay For many travellers, the Registan in Samarkand is the single most spectacular sight in all of Central Asia. Three vast theological colleges, their facades sheathed in turquoise and

With its great glass-and-iron dome rising above South Kensington, the Royal Albert Hall is one of the world’s most famous concert venues and a beloved London landmark. Since 1871 this

Source: Pixabay In the hills of central Portugal, the town of Fátima has grown around one of the most important Marian shrines in the Catholic world. Each year millions of