Czech Republic

After more than 230 years, the US has stopped minting the penny. But long before that, the first dollar was coined – in a sleepy town on another continent.

From paneer wraps in India to ski-through burgers in Sweden, photojournalist Gary He's new book McAtlas shows that the world's most global chain is also one of the most local.

For the last six years, the globe's top beer tourism destination has been quietly inviting brewers to the Czech Republic to teach the world how to drink properly.

From Manchester to Reykjavík, innovative tours are highlighting forgotten stories and re-incorporating female legacies into the popular tourist narrative.

The recently launched route from Prague to Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast takes travellers directly into Central Europe's most vibrant and less-touristed towns and cities.

Trdelník is nearly everywhere you look in Prague, but despite being billed as "traditionally Czech", it's from elsewhere.

Beer spas have recently opened in Iceland, Spain and the US – but they take their cue from an older tradition in a country with a long history as a beer bastion: the Czech Republic.

Czech Republic, Lithuania and Romania are all newly high on this year's World Happiness Report – and score especially high when it comes to happiness for people aged under 30.