Chris Leadbeater

From lofty European churches to colossal Asian towers, these edifices all held the title of the highest on Earth at one time or another

The history of the world's great passenger ships is littered with corpses. Every last detail has been wrung from the tale of the Titanic, but the disaster has lost none of its tragedy.

The city’s riverfront holds a powerful story – it’s where America’s fault lines ran deep and where, for many, freedom began

Leaving Motor City, the hubbub dissolves into forests, dunes and the peace of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

If you peer up at the side of the building which stands at the intersection of Main Street and 17th Street, you will notice a mural that pays tribute to Sporting Kansas City.

West. It is all you ever hear said of journeys in the United States Route 66 trades on it. Every pioneer, settler and gap-toothed gold-panner was utterly obsessed with it.

It is Mississippi, but it is not the Mississippi. The ripples rolling on the left side of the vehicle as I drive through the morning do not belong to the great river which flows south across the American landscape for 2,350 miles – that sacred silver ribbon, meandering down from Minnesota, with its echoes of history and music, of paddle-steamers churning.

Chris Leadbeater The sinking of the Titanic has entered folklore to such an extent that practically every other maritime disaster is measured against it.

A little more than 11 years ago, in the early summer of 2015, I found myself in Genoa . I was there to research a travel story on the art museums and the architectural grandeur of Italy's sixth-biggest city.

At first glance, Charwelton does not look like the sort of place where you might expect to find a significant piece of Britain’s industrial heritage. In fact, with its rows of genteel cottages, its lone pub (the Fox & Hounds) and its little parish church (Holy Trinity) tucked a short walk away across a patchwork of fields, this Northamptonshire village looks as if it has never even heard of the industrial revolution – let alone lived through it.