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People choose to live in some pretty baffling places, like those towns sitting at the base of volcanos or the precariously placed monasteries in the Himalayan mountains. Here’s one that looks like it might have been hit by a meteor and residents just decided to carry on as usual… Welcome to the town of Setenil [...]
If you’re stuck in the city on one of the warmest days of the year, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to miss out on the adventure of summer. Bivouac is unique project that brings together summer camping (tents and all) and a city’s most unused real estate; rooftops (panoramic views and all). The campsite/ [...]
Far from the gleaming multiplex cinemas most of us are accustomed to, there are places that can’t afford the printers needed for making movie posters, let alone the legal rights to actually screen blockbuster Hollywood films. As a result, locals will try their hand at drawing the posters for their bootleg screenings… First let’s take [...]
A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater hotel has become a bit of an institution with local fish who have been checking in since the 1960s. At 30 meters below sea level near a lighthouse called La Fourmigue, off the Cap d’Antibes, lies the remains [...]
I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and ahhing over what to do this summer, I might have an idea for you. Through the grapevine (mind the pun), I heard about France Passion, a society of more than 1,750 friendly private wine-growers and farmers across France that invite [...]
It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost the equivalent of US$6 per month in high rise buildings that belonged to no country. In this urban enclave, “a historical accident”, law had no place. Drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes lived and worked alongside kindergartens, [...]
“It’s not a symbol of harassment. It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely wonderful time! I clutched my shawl to me because that sheaths the body. It was my protection, my shield. I was walking through a sea of men. I was enjoying every minute of it.” In fact, the American girl, Ninalee “Jinx” Allen [...]
This is the story of a French postman who spent thirty years of his life building his dream home– a palace made of pebbles and stones he found along his postal route…. Ferdinand Cheval allegedly first began building his “Palais Ideale” in 1879 when he tripped over an unusual stone. Inspired by its shape, he [...]
Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky Cooper discovered she had a ‘thing’ for cartography after she was hired to help map all of Manhattan’s public art. Soon enough, she was inspired to embark on her own idea– to map Manhattan’s memories. Becky hand-printed a few [...]
Beachfront properties custom-built for movie stars and the Hollywood elite, panoramic views from the sand dunes stretching as far as Malibu, developed as “an isolated playground for the wealthy”– Surfridge, California was once one of the most coveted neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Today, it looks like this… (c) Eyetwist on Flickr (c) Houze on Flickr (c) [...]
Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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More abandoned p0rn to tie you over this Monday afternoon, this time, Victorian and Art Deco
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(c) El Toro Route 66; where all those wonderfully off-beat attractions of ‘Roadside
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The Rothschilds are known as one of the greatest European banking dynasties ever established,
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It was once known as the “Paris of the West”, the birthplace of the middle
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Thomas Jorion has been exploring abandoned buildings since he was a child and he’s one of
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Little do London tube passengers know as they travel through the maze of the underworld, what may
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In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a
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Image via here Before they are put to rest, airplanes undergo funeral-esque rituals known as
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