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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina Green and moved across the bay to Belvedere– it’s safe to say it was no ordinary moving day for the Knowles-Moffitt Mansion on July 3rd, 1962. Sawn in half, the Victorian mansion sits on a barge waiting [...]
Nestled in a hidden location in midtown Manhattan, the Counjuring Arts Research Center is ground zero for illusionists and historians alike. Bill Kalush, the center’s founder and director, explains how he built the collection piece-by-piece and shows us some of its highlights…. Film by Cool Hunting, subscribe here. ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .
1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it was built once upon a time but the Hundertwasser Tower was actually completed in 2010. At thirty-five meters high and six meters in diameter, the observation tower in South Germany was originally intended to be three times its size but the [...]
Now let’s just get something straight. If you want a train in your basement, you’ll need two things, according to the guy with a train in his basement: 1) To be completely insane. 2) To have an amazing wife. This is the inconceivable DIY project of ‘train-obsessed nut’, model train manufacturer and father of three living [...]
1. French actor, Gerard Depardieu used to look very, very different. Here he is with Robert DeNiro in the 70s: 2. This 17th century Desk with Secret Compartments is mind-boggling: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is in its last few weeks of the ‘Extravagant Inventions’ exhibition. Don’t miss it if you’re in NYC! Showing until [...]
I‘ll admit, I enjoy the occasional Big Mac just as much as the next mass-consumerist, but you know what I enjoy more? Beautiful historic places that haven’t been given a McArchitecture make-over. 1. An Art Deco building in Victoria, Australia, formerly the ‘United Kingdom Hotel’ dating back to 1937. Photo credit here 2. Believe [...]
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 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is probably one of the most fascinating places on Earth, mostly because we know so little about what really goes on over there. What we do know is only what they want to show us. I’ve come across these rare archives of retro postcards and what looks like tourist [...]
Blind dates are bad enough but when your own parents take to the streets and advertise your eternal loneliness on public noticeboards, that’s when things probably start to get really bleak. In a sort of online dating nightmare come to life, every weekend in Shanghai at the north end of People’s Park, up to a [...]
When a group of Australian scientists went on a a voyage to study plate tectonics (?) in the Pacific Ocean, the world map indicated that they would be passing an uninhabited island on their way called Sandy Island. When the boat approached the island’s coordinates, the captain prepared all the safety stops to make sure [...]
Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky
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1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it
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Now let’s just get something straight. If you want a train in your basement, you’ll
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1. French actor, Gerard Depardieu used to look very, very different. Here he is with Robert DeNiro
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I‘ll admit, I enjoy the occasional Big Mac just as much as the next mass-consumerist, but you
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As bizarre, off-beat and kitsch as they come is the International Banana Museum, boasting the
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is probably one of the most fascinating places on
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Blind dates are bad enough but when your own parents take to the streets and advertise your eternal
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For many couples, the difference between being officially bound together and just sharing the same
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You’d have to see it to believe it, so before I explain anything, just take a look …
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This is the caribbean island of Montseratt in the West Indies. In the 17th century, Britain
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