Wheel-y impressive! Inside the world’s largest bike garage – a vast three-storey subterranean facility with parking spots for 12,500 bicycles and 1,200-metres of lanes The world’s most enormous bike garage is located in the Dutch city of Utrecht below its major train station It’s an impressive three-storey structure with enough space for 12,500 bikes and … Read more
You can always bank on a river cruise. It’s one of the best ways of seeing the world, and here we reveal eight unmissable trips. Going Down Under Captain Cook Cruises operates a paddlewheeler between Murray Bridge and Blanchetown, an hour from Adelaide Mountains and outback, deserts and red gum tree forests; the River Murray … Read more
Height club: Incredible pictures show the mighty Mount Thor, which features the world’s greatest vertical drop – of 4,100ft (that’s three Empire State Buildings end to end) Mount Thor stands like a colossus in the snowy wilderness of the Auyuittuq National Park in Canada Its west face has a 4,101ft sheer drop, with an overhanging … Read more
Consider the mysterious mapped – thanks to the Atlas of Improbable Places and the Atlas of the Unexpected. They chart all manner of curious and quirky sights, from the secret Soviet city that didn’t even appear on maps to the lava-filled Mexican town and the bridge in America that was shipped over piece by piece from London. … Read more
Three professional female surfers have featured in a short film shot on the world’s most powerful artificial wave, as they reveal some of the key aspects of their training schedule that propelled them to the top of the sport. Leah Dawson, Stephanie Gilmore and Coco Ho are the stars of Electric Wave, shot on location … Read more
From a £145-a-night farm in Devon to a £50,000 underwater villa in the Maldives, the world’s most Instagrammed hotel bathrooms revealed Key bathroom-related hashtags and the hotel locations linked to them most often were studied Two UK hotels, Shangri-La Hotel at The Shard in London and The Old Piggery in Devon, make the list The … Read more
The world is full of inviting water-based wonders – as a stunning new book makes abundantly clear. Lonely Planet’s The Joy Of Water is a celebration of the world’s most jaw-dropping aquatic attractions, with spots featured including tropical beaches, lakes, geothermal spas, waterfalls and hidden bays. Here MailOnline Travel reveals a few of the locations … Read more
Three billion people – more than a third of the world’s 2.6billion population – are now thought to be under some kind of coronavirus lockdown in an attempt to control the spread of the disease. Cases of the highly-infectious virus have now been reported on every continent except Antarctica and in virtually every country as … Read more
Spain has today overtaken China to record the world’s second-highest death toll from coronavirus. Spanish officials reported 738 new deaths today, the country’s biggest daily jump so far, taking the total from 2,696 to 3,434. The figure is now higher than the 3,285 people who have died in mainland China, where the outbreak began in … Read more
Forget concrete and brick – it’s stone that’s the star of the show here. These incredible images show how stone is a building material of endless opportunity, that it can be formal, elegant, playful and energising. The photographs feature in a new book, simply called Stone, by architect William Hall, which showcases a spectacular selection of structures … Read more