Davos: A Health Resort That Became a Byword for Global Summits
Davos developed in the 19th century as a health resort specifically for tuberculosis patients, its high alpine altitude and clean, dry air…
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Venezuela: A Nation Holding the World’s Largest Oil Reserves
Venezuela holds the largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world, concentrated substantially in the Orinoco Belt, a resource that…
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Colombia: A Country That Rewrote Its Own Story One Decade at a Time
Colombia spent much of the late 20th century defined internationally by drug trafficking violence and armed conflict, a period that peaked through…
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Winnipeg: The Prairie City Built at a Meeting of Two Rivers
Winnipeg grew up at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, a meeting point known to Indigenous peoples and later fur…
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Tulum’s Mayan Ruins: The Only Maya City Built to Face the Sunrise Over the Sea
Tulum is one of the few Maya cities built directly on a coastline, its clifftop ruins overlooking the Caribbean Sea in a…
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El Castillo: A Pyramid Built to Track the Sun Twice a Year
El Castillo, the stepped pyramid at the heart of the Maya city of Chichen Itza in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, was built by…
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Vietnam: A Country Reunified Under a Single Name in 1976
Vietnam existed as two separate states, communist North Vietnam and the US-allied Republic of Vietnam in the south, from 1954 until the…
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Tokyo Skytree: A Broadcasting Tower Built to Beat Its Own City’s Skyline
Tokyo Skytree, completed in 2012, was built primarily to solve a practical broadcasting problem, Tokyo’s growing cluster of skyscrapers had begun interfering…
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Ho Chi Minh City: A Name Change That Never Fully Took Hold
Ho Chi Minh City was officially renamed in 1976, a year after the fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam…
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The Shropshire Hills: The English Landscape That Named a Poet’s Longing
The Shropshire Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the English West Midlands near the Welsh border, gained lasting literary…
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Ben Nevis: Britain’s Highest Peak, Once Home to an Observatory
Ben Nevis, at 1,345 metres, is the highest mountain in the British Isles, its summit formed from the remnants of an ancient…
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The London Eye: A Millennium Project That Was Only Meant to Stay Five Years
The London Eye was originally granted planning permission for just five years when it opened on the South Bank of the Thames…
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