Top ten geek holiday destinations

Location: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Reason to visit: World Wide Web was created here, among other things

This, ladies and gentlenerds, is CERN -- the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (the European Council for Nuclear Research).

Though CERN is a research centre that specialises in uncovering the secrets of the universe we live in using particle accelerators -- half the world's particle physics community works on experiments conducted there -- it was also the birth-place of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau created the foundations of the Web when Berners-Lee was working at CERN as an independent contractor, in the late 80s and early 90s.

Only certain parts of the complex are open to the public. But visiting the birth-place of one of the most important products of modern computer science should be a first port of call to anyone who appreciates the wonder of what is now the Internet.

Further Reading: here
Google Earth link: here
Google Maps link: here