They are the veins that run through our cities and countryside – Britain’s rivers, canals and tributaries have kept the nation connected through the centuries. But aside from aiding transport, our waterways define both our urban and rural landscapes with their striking beauty. Many an artist and writer has found inspiration while walking along a … Read more
The Philippines’ ‘Chocolate Hills’ and a 19th-century Welsh lighthouse: More incredible images pour in for prestigious annual photography competition The Cewe annual ‘Photo Award’ competition invites amateur and professional photographers to enter images Catering to all interests, there are 10 subject categories including people, animals, nature and architecture Cewe has let MailOnline Travel offer a sneak … Read more
Christians have given the world some of its most beautiful buildings. As new book Amazing Churches Of The World, by Michael Kerrigan, shows, with 190 images of jaw-dropping places of worships, some of them in landscapes that are heavenly in their own right. Leaf through its pages and you’ll gaze upon churches that are ornate, immense, … Read more
Incredible before-and-after images show how abandoned buildings left to rack and ruin have been given new leases of life. They’ve been published in a brand new book called Ruin and Redemption in Architecture by Dan Barasch, which charts ruined spaces and the extraordinary designs that have totally transformed them. The scale and diversity of abandoned … Read more
The REAL-LIFE fairy-tale mountain landscape: Incredible images capture Switzerland’s impossibly beautiful Lauterbrunnen valley (though you might be forgiven for thinking it’s Hollywood CGI at work) Lauterbrunnen Valley is a ‘trough valley’ that contains no less than 72 waterfalls – one is 1,000ft high The valley town of Lauterbrunnen sits at an elevation of 795 metres … Read more
The ‘fantasy movie’ landscape of one of the most isolated and remote regions in the Himalayas has been revealed in a series of incredible pictures. They were taken by Lithuanian explorer Darius Radkevicius in Upper Mustang, a semi-autonomous region of Nepal that only opened to tourists in 1992. While there he took part in a … 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
These stunning images will allow you to take a walk on the wild side – even during lockdown. They all made the top 50 in a contest called #Wild2020, run by photo app Agora, which asked photographers to capture nature at its most jaw-dropping. More than 9,000 snaps from people across the globe were entered, … Read more
From a seahorse-shaped iceberg in Greenland to staggering cliff faces in the Faroes, an intrepid photographer’s incredible images of the Nordic islands, taken over 14 years Renowned photographer Stefan Forster has compiled a stunning collection of images of the Nordic islands He made more than 80 intrepid trips through Greenland, Iceland, Norway and the Faroe … Read more
NASA satellite images reveal the once bustling waterways of Venice are now empty during the coronavirus lockdown in Italy Italy was deemed the epicenter of the coronavirus in all of Europe Officials quickly implemented a lockdown on March 9 to limit the spread NASA shared images of Venice from this month and compared it with … Read more