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As bizarre, off-beat and kitsch as they come is the International Banana Museum, boasting the largest collection of banana paraphernalia in the world. Even more inexplicable than the museum itself (and Fred “Banana Mon” Garbutt’s obsession with bananas), is the location. Occupying a squat building along the toxic shores of the Salton Sea ‘riviera’, a [...]
The soundtrack of Flinstones cartoons broadcast continuously over the park’s tinny loudspeakers, echoing eerily between the dusty, dilapidating houses of Bedrock’s famous residents from a bygone era. Built over 40 years ago during the Route 66 roadside attraction craze, this lonely concrete replica of a cartoon town has seen better days. You can only wonder how [...]
An ambitious Detroit entrepreneur has launched a campaign to turn the abandoned neighborhoods and ruins of Detroit into ‘Z World’. Mark Siwak put forward his unusual proposals on the internet funding platform IndieGoGo.com hoping to raise $145,000 to transform a virtually neglected section of Detroit, Michigan into a zombie themed experience park by the summer of [...]
I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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For many years, these bizarre buildings on the isolated southern tip of Marco Island in Cape
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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When I was a kid, I was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz for my school musical. I was a very
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It was an ambitious, otherwordly idea, dreamt up by American military physician, Dr. Bond, deemed
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Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack
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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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Beachfront properties custom-built for movie stars and the Hollywood elite, panoramic views from
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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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