The feature that makes a fjord a fjord is the sill at its entrance - a shallow threshold of rock and debris left where the glacier terminated. Water inside is…
The single most useful realisation is that the famous view has been photographed by everyone who came before you, from the same place, and you cannot improve on it by…
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…