This notable route might not seem that scary at all – apart from rickety wooden bridges and tracks clinging on to cliffsides – but it's actually the history of it that makes for an unsettling journey.

The Laos-China Railway, which runs from Vientiane ... of the waterfall has replaced a series of decrepit and slippery wooden stairs. In 2024, major hotel brands, including Doubletree by Hilton ...

A century ago this May, a wooden roller coaster began rumbling ... she rode as a high schooler in the 1970s. “It was a big, rickety thing, and it was scary, not just because it kind of went ...

Tucked away in the rugged terrain of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the world’s largest wooden trestle bridge, a ...

"There's a lot of excitement," Andy Spinelli, president of the museum, said this week. "We still have a lot of work to do, ...

On Monday, the equipment manufacturer Senvion and Voodin Blade Technology announced plans to research and test turbine prototypes made using the world’s longest wooden blades. Wind farms are ...

A wooden boat carrying over 100 Rohingya muslims, mostly women and children, landed in Indonesia's Aceh province after its engine broke down. The refugees, fleeing persecution in Myanmar ...

This widespread use of wood set into motion a self-reinforcing cycle: craftsmen specialised in wooden construction, industries geared up to supply wooden materials, and building codes were ...

“It's not just about wood, it’s the whole concept.” Large-scale wooden building projects are growing in popularity globally. Two years ago, Singapore opened a 468,000 square-foot wooden ...

A star rating of 2 out of 5. Switzerland, 1307. With the Holy Roman Empire crumbling, the House of Habsburg tightens its grip on Europe, expanding its empire and terrorising the Swiss cantons ...

Dramatisation of one of the most ingenious escape bids of World War II, in which British soldiers use a wooden vaulting horse as cover when trying to get out of Stalag Luft III. Show more ...