Destinations

Aviator Alfred Buckham created some of the earliest and most awe-inspiring bird's-eye images – to achieve them, he employed perilous, death-defying acts of ingenuity.

From candlelit mansions to ghostly art tours, the Big Apple is teeming with places that reveal its haunted history.

Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica with the strongest windspeeds the Caribbean nation has ever experienced. Here's how it compares to other record-breaking storms.

Two centuries after Washington Irving wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, North Tarrytown has rebranded itself around its most famous ghost – and discovered that the myth still sells.

Two hundred years ago, it helped spread people, ideas and goods across the US. Now, it's become a paddler's paradise with more than 700 miles of continuous, navigable waterways.

Elizabeth II's sister had to choose between ending her engagement and renouncing her title in 1955. Or did she? In 1978, the BBC talked to the war hero who almost married a princess.

The Nazi high command was put on trial 80 years ago in 1945. The new film Nuremberg draws on a little-known detail of the tribunal to ask enduring questions about the nature of evil.

In a world where a single point of failure can throw our machines into chaos, everything from sharks to authoritarian governments and old ladies have brought the web to its knees.