23 h. ago Top tips to avoid crowds when visiting Rome including where to find city’s best views

Our writer Abby Wells soaks up the culture on a wonderful weekend in the Italian capital, featuring incredible history, authentic cuisine and top tourist attractions

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37 h. ago UK city has Europe's 'spookiest' attraction in Europe—not London

One UK tourist attraction has been named the spookiest tourist attraction in Europe

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3 d. ago ‘Just extraordinary’: Louvre broken window now on tourist trail as museum reopens after jewel heist

Apollo gallery remains closed as police investigate €88m robbery and director faces questioning over securityIt is already, in a small way, Paris’s newest tourist attraction. “And on our right,” boomed the guide on the bateau mouche tour boat heading up the Seine, “the Louvre – and the window thieves smashed to steal France’s crown jewels.”The world’s most visited museum reopened on Wednesday for the first time since a gang of four men broke into its Apollo gallery on Sunday, making off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago 'Exhilarating' new London tourist attraction expected to bring in 60,000 visitors

Now, a London site might be set for a revamp - including the creation of a new tourist attraction. Plans say it would 'offer a unique and exhilarating experience'.

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8 d. ago Hope for redundant workers as Falkirk's Rosebank Distillery reveals winter opening plans

Workers who lost their jobs at Rosebank Distillery may be able to take on new roles as the owners revealed they would keep the Falkirk tourist attraction open over the winter.

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9 d. ago 'We visited Adam Henson's answer to Clarkson's Farm and one thing floored us'

Adam Henson's family farm is a popular tourist attraction in the Cotswolds, but some visitors haven't been happy with their experience

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9 d. ago The bizarre Chicago ‘rat hole’ tourist attraction may not be what it seems

The landmark gained widespread attention early last year after comedian Winslow Dumaine shared a photo

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1 week ago Ah, rats! Researchers say some other critter likely created Chicago's 'rat hole' sidewalk landmark

Ah, rats

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1 week ago Chicago ‘Splatatouille’ was probably a squirrel, say researchers

Scientists from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, look at 37 species to identify cause of ‘rat hole’ in pavementWith a front paw outstretched and its tail at an angle, the creature that fell on to wet concrete in Chicago left quite the memento mori.Now, researchers say they have unmasked the identity of the victim, revealing the famous “rat hole” was most probably made by a squirrel. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Aquarium asks Canadian government for money — or it’ll euthanise 30 whales

Marineland, the tourist attraction located near Niagara Falls, has reportedly asked the Canadian government for emergency funding to care for its remaining whales, warning that euthanasia may be the only option without support.

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2 w. ago Europe's 'most macabre tourist attraction' with 70,000 bones is just 3 hours from the UK

Sedlec Ossuary, or as it’s more commonly known, the Church of Bones, is an hour away from the capital of Czechia, Prague, and contains eight million individual bones

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2 w. ago Lake District tourist attraction forced to close after Storm Amy damage

Platforms were torn from their bases when a Go Ape venue was destroyed by Storm Amy

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3 w. ago 'I visited the crazy tourist attraction packed with Instagram models at 4am'

Trevi Fountain in the centre of Rome, Italy, is one of the busiest tourist attractions in the world. Milo Boyd visited during the small hours of a Tuesday morning in September for the Mirror's travel desk

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3 w. ago Namibia deploys army to fight wildfire burning third of Etosha game reserve

Vast tract of park that is home to 114 mammal species, including critically endangered black rhino, affectedNamibia has begun deploying hundreds of soldiers to fight a fire that has burned through a third of the vast Etosha national park, one of Africa’s largest game reserves, officials said.The park in the north of the largely desert country is home to 114 species of mammals, notably the critically endangered black rhinoceros, and is a major tourist attraction. Continue reading...

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