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The English countryside is studded with all manner of manors, castles and palaces. Many of these stately homes, as the English call them, were built in Victorian times by ridiculously rich aristocrats.

In 1952, when Charlie Chaplin and his family were mid-Atlantic, en route to England for his movie première of Limelight, his U.S. visa was suddenly revoked.

RIO DE JANEIRO With the Olympics just a few weeks away, Brazil faces a litany of problems: an economy in freefall, the Zika virus and a political crisis with an impeached president.

Europe is rich in history, but the splendid castles, antique churches and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig deeper in time, visit a cave.

It’s been called the American Riviera — a marriage of jagged rocks and pounding surf, where sheltered coves hug the coastline and wildflowers and vineyards carpet the valley floor.

River cruising is all the rage in Europe these days. It is, in fact, one of the fastest-growing segments of the entire travel industry.

Rome is a magnificent, tangled urban forest, rich in art, culture, and history. The city has many layers — modern, Baroque, Renaissance, Christian. But let’s face it: For most of us, Rome is Caesar, gladiators and chariots.

ROME Buongiorno, my hundreds of fellow tourists crowding the Trevi Fountain on this bright spring day.

At 51, Singapore is shrugging off all symptoms of a midlife crisis and embracing travellers with more and better things to see, taste and experience than ever before.

For much of its cold, damp, bitter prison life, Alcatraz was a place you’d kill to leave, and many an inmate tried.