The oldest Chinatown in North America, where the picturesque pagoda architecture is not ancient and not Cantonese but a deliberate strategy, after 1906, to stop the city evicting the community and taking the land.
Joseph Strauss took the credit, but Charles Ellis did the mathematics and was sacked for his trouble, Leon Moisseiff conceived the suspension design and Irving Morrow chose international orange over the Navy's black and yellow stripes.
Three fires and Villanueva's closing of the square, the autos-da-fe, the Casa de la Panaderia and its 1992 murals, the Philip III bronze, and what the square is like now.
The square rebuilt and pedestrianised in 2022 and 2023: what moved and where it is now, the false etymology of Madrid's name, the 1808 rising, and the New Year grapes.
The Bourbon palace built after the Alcazar burned in 1734: the Italian architects, the Royal Armoury and what it does not contain, the Royal Collections Gallery of 2023, and the Almudena next door.
The gardens of a vanished royal palace: the Army Museum that left for Toledo, the Crystal Palace closed until 2027, the Fallen Angel folklore, and why the park now shuts in bad weather.
Madrid practicalities: the heat that now decides when to go, the airport and transport tickets, the low-emission zones and the trap for a foreign car, and what has arrived since.
The 1,540-hectare Ramsar site is managed by the government's conservation department, while WWF-Hong Kong manages the 380-hectare reserve inside it. About 460 bird species have been recorded. Since 24 July 2026 the police closed-area permit is no longer required, though a conservation department permit still is.
Found in 1955 during work on a resettlement estate, the tomb has four chambers in a cross and is dated by the museum to the Eastern Han. Its bricks name Panyu county, not a province. Fifty-eight objects were recovered and no human remains. Declared a monument in 1988; the interior is closed and seen through glass.
The Hong Kong Story exhibition that older accounts describe closed on 19 October 2020. Its replacement, also called Hong Kong Story, opened on 1 April 2026 with ten galleries, over 2,800 exhibits and four stated themes. Admission is free and the museum closes on Tuesdays.
The wheel's name has changed five times and it is at present the lastminute.com London Eye; Merlin Entertainments has owned it outright since 2007, and Lambeth made its planning consent permanent in May 2024.
Harrods has been owned by the Qatar Investment Authority since 2010, not by the Fayed family. The pet department closed in 2014, the dress code has gone, and in 2025 the store applied to remove the Egyptian hall and the sixteen carvings of its former owner's face.
