The oldest footage of London dates back to June 18, 1890. 39-year-old Al Paton uploaded the 11-minute film with the help of the British Film Institute and British Pathé to YouTube, where we can now take a peek at London more than a hundred years ago.
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Although our lives may seem dull compared to the one on the movie screen, we can at least get a taste of the movie by visiting one of the 13 famous hotels that have appeared in famous movies. Live like Kevin McCallister (Home Alone), if only for a day and without the cameras and headlights.
Skyscrapers and other tall buildings have become the main symbols of modern cities. This also applies to New York, which is one of the most visited destinations in the world with the greatest architectural attractions in the world. Vasily Klyukin, however, went a step further in the design and imagined a slightly modified and even bolder image of Manhattan. Namely, he added a woman's leg in high heels to the fictional high-rise building "Top Sexy Tower", which looks out from the normally designed building, like Angelina Jolie's bare leg from the Versace dress at the Oscars in 2013.
Rides in the panoramic elevator are always something special. This is especially true if we rise above the city, as is the case with the 94-story skyscraper One World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower, located in New York's Manhattan district (it stands on the twin towers). Now its visitors will be treated to an even more special view. During the ascent, New York will "grow" in front of them from the year 1500 onwards.
The travel portal TripAdvisor once again invited its users to choose the most beautiful island in the world. Are you interested in how they decided?
The world's museum offer will soon be enriched by another excellent museum, as the Spaniards in Barcelona have decided to open a museum dedicated to the controversial Woody Allen, one of the most popular film artists of all time.
We are no stranger to complaining about paying taxes. And it doesn't pay to cheat. Well, at least not to "ordinary" us. And when we draw the line, the best thing to do is to move to a country that is more taxpayer-friendly with its more lax laws. Here are 15 of the friendliest tax havens.
After the Slovenian company GoOpti, which offers low-cost road transport, became our regular companion on the way to the airports, it is facing new challenges - how to conquer the Croatian market, how to realize its innovative business model in neighboring countries and its green mission, which they pledged it.
Exploring the world by ship is a very special experience that even the cruisers of long ago would have envied. It's comfortably relaxed, sunny and perfect for brain grazing. Do we know where to go on a cruise that we will never forget?
On the road trip from San Francisco, through the beautiful national parks of the American west coast to the California desert and Las Vegas, the journey also took me to the biggest musical spectacle of the year, the sixteenth Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, a small Californian town in the middle of Palm Desert.
The 34-year-old captain, Liz Clark, set sail for the world in 2005. Today, after ten years of adventures, she doesn't regret it at all, because she feels free, happy and fulfilled on her journey.
Let's make the search for idyllic and luxurious hotels on this year's vacation easier with the excellent suggestions of TripAdvisor users, who have chosen the ten best hotels in the world 2015. These offer much more than just a good night's sleep and rest while exploring the world... Oh, if only teleport really existed .