A tasting menu of the seven deadly sins, from the sandwich that undid Elvis to pineapple envy and a very lusty lamprey.

From the Acqua Alta bookshop to the Rialto fish market, we revel in the sublime beauty of Venice.

From a furniture maker's workshop to the Barmah National Park, we take a tour of these ancient wonders.

From the sweet Greek Easter bread tsoureki to chocolate eggs, simnel cake and gefilte fish we explore symbols, ritual and tradition.

A study of ruin, from renaissance paintings, littered with Greco-Roman ruins to contemporary photographs of dilapidated Detroit.

We don our black stretchy pants, get our 10,000 steps and try to make sense of our exercise fetish.

A series tracing the ancient places onto which our modern cities have been transplanted; this week a journey to Canberra.

From the Giant Sequoia to the Cathedral-like Mountain Ash forest, modern timber skyscrapers to the brutal death of a heritage Milkwood, we explore the world of trees.

From the Roman Pantheon to Peter Zumthor's field chapel, symbol of utopian socialism to todays online brutalist love affair, concrete continues to shape our world.

From hues of decay to golden autumnal light, denim jackets to slow braises, we bask in the most melancholy and beautiful of seasons.