Several land speed world records were shattered at this Welsh beach.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

This former military airfield's claim to fame came from a lucky accident during the Second World War.

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

The remains of a 37,000-year-old prehistoric society were discovered in this mammoth cave, one of the largest in Asia.

According to Hindu belief, this shallow island chain was created by a god with an army of monkeys.