The Kiel Canal in Germany is a 61-mile-long freshwater canal that connects the North Sea to the Baltic Sea - and has been in ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...

long swimming pool inside the barge. He now reckons he has the world's shortest canal - with his boat able to travel a mere ...