The Maltese Falcon, a clipper luxury yacht owned by U.S. venture capitalist Tom Perkins, sails out of Valletta’s Grand Harbour July 5, 2009.

The 88-metre yacht evokes the nostalgia of the old sailing clippers, but it is packed with technology, including sophisticated radar, navigation and steering equipment .

The Harbour Crane can lay claim to being one of the world’s most unusual hotels.

Bloomberg reports that the Crane Hotel was a functioning harbor crane used to unload timber until 12 years ago when a bigger industrial harbor was built nearby.

The machine room of the crane is now a luxurious bedroom for two that hangs 17 meters high between the sky full of seagulls and the roar of the Wadden Sea.