The entrance is through a steel trapdoor a foot (30cm) thick, with concrete stairs descending five storeys into a gloomy labyrinth of tunnels and silos. It still sends a shiver up the spine, even if ...

Enjoying a creamy vanilla ice cream sundae in eastern Berlin’s Cafe Sibylle, I ponder the half a moustache carved in stone that hangs overhead. The sundae, which comes with a shot of liquor, was the ...

BATAVIA, Ohio — The Civil War wasn’t a good time to build a house, even in places where the fighting seemed far away. With the war going on, material and labor shortages were the order of the day, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

English Heritage is looking for enthusiastic people to help reveal the secret past of York's cold war bunker which is set to open this year. The bunker was intended as a nerve centre for monitoring ...