The most beautiful staircases in India, and around the world
Built in the mid-19th century as the Midland Grand Hotel, London’s St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is a love letter to the Golden Age of rail travel. Venture behind its imposing Gothic Revival facade and discover the piece de resistance of the hotel’s design
This ice-cool spiral staircase is not only a striking architectural feature, but a gateway to shoppers’ paradise. It is the centrepiece of the Barneys New York flagship department store, which occupies the same downtown address
Designed by world-renowned architect I.M Pei – the man behind the Louvre Museum’s glass pyramid in Paris, Doha’s waterfront Museum of Islamic Art holds 1,300 years’ worth of ceramics, textiles, woodwork and more
Game of Thrones fans may recognise this zigzagging stairway as the entrance to the fictional fortress of Dragonstone. But we assure you it is very real, located on the small island of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe in the Spanish Basque Country
Part of the UNESCO-inscribed Wachau Cultural Landscape, Melk Abbey was founded by Benedictine monks in the late 11th century. An impressive smudge of ochre and terracotta looming above its namesake city and the Danube Valley
Also known as the Devil’s Cauldron, this majestic waterfall almost appears to smoke as it crashes into a canyon among the cloud forests of central Ecuador. Visitors not afraid of getting a bit wet can brave a system of rock-hewn
Livraria Lello is often called the prettiest bookshop in the world, due in no small part to its crimson staircase. For over a century the neo-Gothic building has welcomed bookworms