In the small village of Großpörthen, around five kilometres south-east of Zeitz in Saxony-Anhalt, there is a tree that has witnessed history over the centuries. The mighty winter lime tree next to the ...

Dive companies will no doubt try to sell you on a snorkeling excursion off the shores of Pillory Beach on Grand Turk's northwest coast. By all means, let them. Recent travelers advocate for the ...

Is there any evidence that the medieval practice of putting wrongdoers in the stocks and throwing rotten food at them actually worked as a deterrent to crime? Putting people in the pillory (the stocks ...

Up to 900 years old and nearly ten metres thick, the Prangerlinde in Großpörthen, Saxony-Anhalt, still bears an old iron collar on its trunk, a unique natural and historical monument. In the small ...