BEEN-SEEN.COM - A DIFFERENCE IN WHERE AND HOW WE TRAVEL

All over Britain, the beach hut is getting a stylish makeover. The most exciting place to find innovative huts right now is on the Lincolnshire coast, courtesy of the brilliant Bathing Beauties project. 

Pasta on the go? Check out this beautifully simple design for a spaghetti dozer by Serge Atallah. Whether you're staying a fabulous rental or camping under the stars, you'll be able to figure out exactly how much spaghetti you need to prepare.

Earlier this year, a classic mural by the late artist Keith Haring was recreated on Houston Street and Bowery in New York. The original had been created in 1982 and lasted just a few months before it was painted out. The new version, repainted by Gotham Scenic, was unveiled on what would have been Haring's 50th birthday (May 4th), but a few months later it underwent a dramatic transformation.

On a trip to Beijing two years ago, teenager Ben Gulak noticed the relationship between the city's lack of sunshine, crowded streets and motor vehicles. When he got back home, he set about designing something smaller and cleaner than a regular motorbike - a unicycle, but with a difference. The UnoCycle. 

Imagine getting one of these in your Christmas stocking. M-Velope is a transformable cabin designed by architectural pioneer Michael Jantzen, and it's available exclusively through Neiman Marcus' Christmas Book.   

One day every hotel will be eco-friendly, but until then Costa Rica seems to have the eco-travel market cornered. One hotel which is getting a lot of attention of late is El Silencio Lodge in Bajos del Toro, surrounded by 500 acres of tropical cloud forest in the island's central volcanic region.

Every great city needs day-trip destinations to complement its attractiveness. Like style-defining accessories, its true character shines in the details. For as great a city as San Francisco is – argue if you must – it is a rather smallish, big city, and at some point the limits of its seven-square-mile geography close in on you. Peninsula fever, maybe?

How often do we go away on holiday on come back with little more to show for it than a fading tan and a bunch of digital pictures? Visit Domaine de Boisbuchet, a country estate in southwest France, between Charente and Limousin,  and you're more likely to come back with a spidery chandelier and handwoven chair -- or at least the skills to make something inspirational when you get home.

Wander way out into the middle of Death Valley and you may come across some rocks. Not just any rocks (though there are certainly plenty of them around). Rocks that walk.

There's something so inspiring about this picture. OK, it's a cargo ship. Not very glamorous. But it's being pulled along by a sail, more specifically a SkySail. The implications for travel in general are fantastic, especially for those of us who worry about our carbon footprints.

Look closely at this picture. At first glance, it's not a pretty sight, a sprawling shanty town in Rio de Janeiro. On second glance, it's something else entirely. Art, to be precise, courtesy of French photographer and guerilla artist JR.

Denny's. McDonald's. Burger King. Some nameless diner with a sign hanging off its hinges. Eating on the road can be a lottery - or, even worse - far too predictable altogether. That's why Roadfood is such a clever idea.