Every arrangement below is settled, uncontested and functioning perfectly well. What makes them remarkable is that the logic producing them was abandoned centuries ago and the lines were never tidied…
What makes these places worth visiting is not the spring itself but what a community does when free heat is available indefinitely. The answers are remarkably consistent. Here are ten.…
These are working burial grounds and should be treated as such. They are also, by design, significant works of landscape architecture and among the quietest and best-planted spaces in the…
The logic is consistent wherever it appears. Put the settlement on ground that is hard to attack, above the bad air of the valley floor, and on rock that would…
The technical term is an erg. What makes one worth travelling to is usually the dune form - linear, crescent, star or transverse - because the shape records the wind…
What these have in common is exposure. A headland projects into whatever the ocean is doing, which is why the weather on them is rarely the weather a few miles…