Before they were featured on postcards and added to bucket lists, the world’s most famous landmarks started out like most other projects: Buried under a mountain of blueprints and permits, scaffolding ...

Tourists who fancy getting a top-down view of London may soon be able to book themselves a room in the city’s famous BT Tower. A much-loved part of the London skyline, the former communication tower ...

It was a brilliant idea, literally and figuratively. Awestruck residents admired it. Scientists praised it. Newspapers and magazines glorified it. The tower would come to symbolize the city. Paris and ...

The Castle Museum, just a short walk away from the Tower, also has something of a notorious past. Once the site of York’s prison, it housed hundreds of the city’s criminals – including ‘the Yorkshire ...