Peter Hadley

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AT TOKYO'S STUDIO Ghibli Museum the giant robot gardener from Castle in the Sky guards a rooftop garden and is a favourite spot for photos.

Ghibli Museum in Tokyo features nostalgic Japanese animation

The museum itself is a single building in bright cartoon colours intended to be the antithesis to the average movie studio theme park

AT TOKYO'S STUDIO Ghibli Museum the giant robot gardener from Castle in the Sky guards a rooftop garden and is a favourite spot for photos.
LOCALS FROM THE small town of Cornwall while away a Saturday morning playing cricket. For visitors, watching is an experience just as lazy as lying on the nearby Negril beach, but culturally much richer.

Playing cricket, Jamaican style

Three centuries of British rule left the island with a passion for this amusingly archaic game

LOCALS FROM THE small town of Cornwall while away a Saturday morning playing cricket. For visitors, watching is an experience just as lazy as lying on the nearby Negril beach, but culturally much richer.
PHILADELPHIA'S DECAYING EASTERN State Penitentiary is creepy enough in daylight. Imagine walking down this corridor at Halloween, when it’s pitch black and you have only a tiny flashlight.

Philadelphia penitentiary scares more than 100,000 visitors a year

Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary is Gothic enough in daylight, but around Halloween, it is one of America’s largest haunted houses.

PHILADELPHIA'S DECAYING EASTERN State Penitentiary is creepy enough in daylight. Imagine walking down this corridor at Halloween, when it’s pitch black and you have only a tiny flashlight.
THE FUTURISTIC FALKIRK takes pleasure boats on a Ferris Wheel–like ride from the end of one canal to another, 35 metres below. The canals, built around 1800, were severed in 1933 when the 11 locks joining them were dismantled.

Scotland home to the world’s only rotating boat lift

Scotland has long been famous for engineering genius, its roving sons building the world’s bridges, railways and steamships from the Victorian era onwards. So it is perhaps only appropriate that a fine piece of 21st-century engineering has become one of Scotland’s most popular tourist attractions.

THE FUTURISTIC FALKIRK takes pleasure boats on a Ferris Wheel–like ride from the end of one canal to another, 35 metres below. The canals, built around 1800, were severed in 1933 when the 11 locks joining them were dismantled.