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Centuries after he died while playing chess, scientists reconstructed the face of brutal tyrant Ivan the Terrible - showing that the cruel Russian leader indulged in a "disorderly life"

Siobhan McNally Czechs into Bond movie spa town Karlovy Vary and the capital Prague for a minibreak filled full of relaxation, beer and some UNESCO world heritage sights

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The Bernina Express is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site railway which runs between Chur or Davos/St. Moritz in Switzerland and Tirano in Italy, traversing the Bernina Pass

Aachen in west Germany can be reached from London St Pancras by Eurostar in a little over three hours and is the resting place of Charlemagne, who is buried in the cathedral there

Central to the concerns is the Acropolis, the biggest tourist attraction in Greece and arguably its most famous brick-and-mortar son. Each day close to 17,000 people visit the site, which is home to the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, and the Propylaea entrance

The 'too beautiful' city of Bath is suffering a hike in rental prices as tourists flock to the city in their thousands for a glimpse at the pavements Jane Austen used to walk

Ambitious plans to build a tunnel to help the amount of traffic regularly reported near Stonehenge could potentially cost the site its Unesco world heritage status

Wroclaw in the south west of Poland close to Czechia may not be as popular as Warsaw or Krakow, but it has plenty to offer including a UNESCO site and was the European Capital of Culture in 2016

Zanzibar, which sits in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania, is a crossroads of culture having long attracted sailors and occupiers from across the world who left behind Arab, Persian, Indian and European influences

Tourists flock to "Scottish Pompeii" to see prehistoric houses still furnished with stone "dressers" and box-beds as well as artefacts such as tools, gaming dice, and jewellery

Most visitors to Venice will have to start forking out to visit the Italian city from Spring next year as officials attempt to limit the impact of tourist to the canal heavy settlement

A colourful cemetery, situated in the centre of the town of Pomuch, Mexico, allows people to exhume their late loved ones as part of a special celebration for the Day of the Dead

A car park in Japan has now become a site of national significance - after a 1,400-year-old tomb once belonging to a member of the Japanese elite was discovered under a bush

Residents of the tiny Alpine settlement of Hallstatt in north Austria have had enough of thousands of visitors coming into the town every day and clogging up the roads

Unesco has warned that Venice faces "long-standing but urgent issues" that are not being solved, including flooding as sea levels rises and damage from over tourism

Soldiers, named only as A.J. Jr., 29, and B.M.E., 23, are accused of spray painting on the Palladian Basilica in Vicenza, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

A total of seven UK and overseas territories are being considered for UNESCO World Heritage statues. Important cultural and historical sites like York and the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland

The North West Highlands, Shetlands Geopark, the new and old towns of Edinburgh and the Sheltand Islands have all been highlighted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

A gold-leaf-covered mummy was discovered sealed inside a sarcophagus that had not been opened for 4,300 years which an archaeologist called the "most complete mummy found in Egypt to date"