145 history trips

Sunset over the Acropolis from a rooftop bar

A wooden pier, a Hanseatic front, and a sand spit

Almond blossom among Greek temples

Midnight mass, a hundred cribs, empty ruins

The world's largest winter carnival, at minus twenty

The market that every other Christkindlmarkt copies

Sixty brotherhoods and a procession all night

Christmas market, torchlight procession, street party

Via Crucis at the Colosseum, then Umbrian quiet

Azaleas out, humidity not yet arrived

Roman walls, island ferries, swimming off rocks

Nativity scenes, chestnuts, and no real winter

Empty ancient sites, and a warm October sea

Rebuilt old town, Chopin and Uprising history

Danish harbor towns, reefs and park beaches

Walled medieval capital on the Baltic

Fortress heritage, volcano trails and quiet beaches

Roman ruins, gilded domes and a mountain above

First European city in the Americas

Walled colonial capital, criollo food and bars

Baroque, Candomblé and drums above the bay

Seven medieval towns north-east of Moscow

Colonial capital at 2,850 metres

White City to the Colca canyon rim

Asunción to the Jesuit-Guaraní mission ruins

Kremlin, metro palaces and riverside parks

Four Volga cities from Kazan to Volgograd

Colonial old town, the Malecón and live music

Collieries, blast furnaces and gasometers of the Ruhr

Winter league ballparks across four Dominican cities

Walled colonial city, forts and Caribbean beaches

Gold-rush towns of the Estrada Real

Colonial quarter, gold museum and Monserrate ridge

Jesuit blocks, beer villages and mountain roads

Medieval walls, a Gothic minster, Viking history

Ardennes citadels, river towns and wartime history

Frescoed basilicas and truffle country in Italy's green heart

Byzantine churches, buzzing markets and waterfront tavernas.

Half-timbered canals, a Gothic cathedral, Alsatian cuisine

Moorish palaces and flamenco in Andalusia's capital.

Baroque city into sandstone cliffs along the Elbe

Mozart's city below an Alpine fortress

Wooden churches and painted monasteries

Baroque cities, medieval bridges and wild northern peaks

Hanseatic ports, a giant brick castle, and gingerbread streets

Norse history and wild northern isles

Roman forts, clifftop castles and a tide-locked island

Basalt coastline, rope bridges and walled-city history

Byzantine monasteries and wild mountain villages

Ottoman cities, ancient lakes, alpine peaks

Pizza, catacombs and Vesuvius views

Underground wine cellars and cave monasteries

Bouchons, Roman ruins and Renaissance traboules

Baroque capital, island castle, Baltic dunes

Baltic beaches, castle ruins and river-carved valley

Roman cities and fortress towns of Languedoc

Royal castle, grand square and Kazimierz

Royal Krakow to the High Tatra peaks

Monastic ruins, medieval towns and the Rock of Cashel

Amber-lined lanes, Gothic spires and a storied Baltic port

Imperial castles, smoked beer and baroque courts

Flemish masters, canals and medieval towns

Conquistador towns and Roman ruins

Italy's richest food region, city by city

Baroque Dresden reborn on the Elbe

Prehistoric caves and clifftop villages of the Dordogne

Copenhagen to Skagen through Denmark's design towns

Venetian harbours, Minoan palaces, mountain gorges

Honey-stone villages and dreaming spires

Fairy-tale canals and medieval architecture

Castles, cathedrals, and Small Carpathian wine country

Ottoman bridges, dervish tekkes and turquoise Herzegovina rivers

Grand spa colonnades and the fairytale bend of Cesky Krumlov

Castles, cliffs and coastline from Cardiff to Conwy

Empty calli, Roman opera, and then nothing

A walled capital of knights, harbours and Baroque gold.

Classical ruins and olive-oil villages down the Aegean coast.

Madrid plus four walled Castilian cities

Alpine trails, Gothic altars and a giant ruined castle

Nabataean tombs, desert dunes and a Red Sea old town

Ancient ruins, baroque squares, long lunches

Cathedrals, castles and wine from the Rhine to Alsace

Gdańsk to Kraków, Poland's history in four cities

Blue-tiled mosques, desert wind-catchers and ancient Persepolis

Ancient theatres, oracles and clifftop monasteries

Atlantic capital of music, markets and history

Pilsner roots to Moravian squares

Four capitals, one easy rail loop

Painted monasteries, mountain peaks, Black Sea coast

Cold War history meets underground club culture

Four Baltic old towns, one route

Cliffside monasteries, cave wineries and a highland lake

Bunker clubs, live rooms, fish market at dawn

Thundering falls, wild herds, ancient stone ruins

Colonial river ports, mangroves and kora music across two nations

Desert pyramids, royal tombs and a cloud-forest fortress.

Canal locks, colonial forts, cloud-forest coffee and Pacific surf

Colonial capital to dune islands and reefs

World-class ceviche meets colonial Lima on Pacific clifftops

Citadels, a Byzantine ghost city, a rock in the sea

Marble mausoleums, hilltop forts, and dawn on the ghats

Goethe, Bach and Dresden's rebuilt Baroque splendor

Hanseatic brick Gothic towns and Baltic beaches

Renaissance châteaux along a slow river

Lakes, fells, dales and a walled city

Castle rock, cobbled closes and whisky bars

Terracotta Army to Kashgar's bazaars across the Silk Road

Aurora skies, gold rush history, and Yukon wilderness road trip

Stilt villages, royal palaces and the roots of Vodun

Caspian modernism, ancient rock art and silk-road caravanserais

Ancient ruins by day, rooftop bars by night.

Buenos Aires to the falls along the Paraná

Roman ruins, the M'zab valley, and deep Sahara

Mountains to Ottoman towns to turquoise coves

Glaciers, totem poles and gold-rush ports by ferry

Turquoise domes along the old Silk Road

Aegean ruins and turquoise harbors from Izmir to Antalya

Medinas, Sahara dunes and Mediterranean beaches

Convict history and alpine wilderness loop

Eight stages of the French Way to Santiago

Temples, tombs and coastlines beyond the capital

Dravidian temple towers to India's southern tip

Greek temples, baroque towns and Etna's clifftop views

Saxon citadels, castles and Carpathian scenery

Forts, palaces and desert bazaars

Castles, cobblestones and cheap beer

Coastal forts, desert camps and mountain oases

D-Day beaches, a tidal abbey and corsair towns

Medinas, blue alleys and Gibraltar views across northern Morocco

Ger camps, ancient ruins and Gobi dunes

Cenotes, ruins and lagoon towns on one loop

Oaxacan mole, Chiapas highlands and Maya ruins at Palenque

Royal landmarks, world museums and buzzing markets

Monastery towns and Angkor's temples along the Mekong

Petra's canyons and a night in the desert

Colonial towns, Mayan ruins and a Caribbean reef island

Slave-castle history and Ashanti craft towns

Walled medieval towns and Neuschwanstein's castle

Castles, monasteries and rock-hewn churches of the north

Divided-city history, Venetian walls and Aphrodite's coast

Cuba end to end: classic cars, cigars and colonial plazas

Waterfalls, Roman ruins and island-hopping ferries

Great Wall to the Bund: warriors, pandas and karst rivers

Three countries between two seas

Nine cities, six countries, one bus route