Berlin city guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels

It’s 25 years since the fall of the Wall and Berlin is celebrating with a vast light installation of white balloons, but there are dozens of other reasons to visit this autumn

Trekking to Choquequirao, Peru’s remote Inca ruins

Choquequirao is one of the most remote Inca ruins in the Peruvian Andes, but plans for a cable car could bring much change to Machu Picchu’s ‘little sister’

Top 10 music festivals for winter breaks

Brighten up your winter with a trip to a music festival, whether it’s in a hip European city, amid the crisp air of the ski slopes or long-haul to Australia and beyond

Five of the best UK winter music festivals

Memories of partying in fields may be fading, but there are plenty of winter music festivals in Britain to ward off the chill. Olivia Palamountain rounds up the best, from riotous disco to folk and baroque

Top 10 ghost towns and modern ruins you can visit

Fancy a creepy visit for Halloween week? Will Coldwell picks abandoned villages, factories and military bases that will send a shiver up the spine

Top 10 cool city tours around the world: guided walks with a twist

There’s nothing pedestrian about our list of walking tours for travellers who don’t like tours

A literary tour of Manchester

From Marx and Engels to John Cooper Clarke, Manchester has a radical literary history. Ahead of the city’s literature festival, David Atkinson discovers its bookish haunts on a walking tour

Holiday guide to Calabria, Italy: the best beaches, bars, restaurants and hotels

Italy’s heel has hogged Brits’ attention recently, but that leaves the coast, hills and pretty towns of Italy’s toe of Calabria just waiting to be discovered, says Mary Novakovich

Cheap city breaks – flights for under £50: Girona, Spain

Just over an hour’s drive from Barcelona, but with its own airport, the ancient city of Girona is like a bite-size version of the Catalan capital – bright and lively but also easy-going

Frank Gehry’s Paris museum is the first in a spate of exciting new gallery openings around the world

A cultural boom in the next year will see new galleries, many by celebrity architects, opening from Paris to Los Angeles

Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens to public in Winnipeg

Controversial multi-million dollar museum is world’s first dedicated to exploring the diverse issues of human rights worldwide, with exhibit topics ranging from genocide to school bullying

Boston: top 10 things to do in Fort Point and Seaport

Boston’s Fort Point and Seaport district is the city’s up and coming area, with a dynamic food scene, cutting-edge galleries and a decent line in craft beers

Athens city guide: where to stay, eat, drink and more

Dance till dawn in a bank, refuel with souvlaki, and refresh in a rooftop pool – Feargus O’Sullivan puts a new spin on a classic city

Just add SALT: Norway’s new Arctic arts and music festival

At a year-long arts festival in northern Norway, Will Coldwell finds that it’s nature that remains the headline act

Germany: Is Leipzig the new Berlin?

When the Wall came down 25 years ago Leipzig was falling to pieces. Today it’s Germany’s new cultural hot spot