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Titanic Dock and Pump House Belfast is where the Titanic actually stood before she ever touched water. Not a replica, not a museum built later on the site, but the real dry dock and pump machinery used to build and fit her out in 1911 and 1912.

You’ll find it in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter, a short walk from Titanic Belfast museum. The site’s pump room has recently be...

The world’s most beautiful cemeteries are not simply resting places. They are open-air galleries, quiet wildlife reserves and some of the most atmospheric travel destinations you’ll find anywhere. A Gothic angel in London, a moss-covered stone lantern in Japan and a Celtic cross worn smooth by Irish rain all tell the same story in different languages: that we mark death with ...

The lost cities of the world are not confined to the deserts of Jordan or the mountain ridges of Peru. Petra and Machu Picchu draw millions of visitors every year, and their stories of abandonment and rediscovery have shaped how most of us picture a civilisation reclaimed by time. Fewer people know that some of the most affecting lost places sit far closer to home, on the Atl...

Crawfordsburn Beach is the easiest stretch of the North Down Coastal Path to underestimate. Sandwiched between Helen’s Bay and Bangor, it looks like a simple stop on a map, yet the short walk through the country park and along the shore covers a coastal gun battery, a Victorian glen, and one of the oldest Christian settlements in Ireland. This guide treats it as what it actua...

Bushmills Town sits at the heart of County Antrim’s Causeway Coast, wedged neatly between two of Northern Ireland’s most visited landmarks: the Old Bushmills Distillery and the ruined clifftop fortress of Dunluce Castle. The village itself is small, but its location makes it one of the most convenient bases anywhere on the north coast.

This guide covers what the tow...