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I recently learned that Walt Disney decided to put the trash cans in Disneyland’s Magic Kingdom no more than 30 steps apart after observing guests in other parks and averaging out how many steps a person would take before dropping trash on the ground. ¹ The video you are about to watch is about an island, [...]
On an archipelago south of Tokyo, there is a lush paradise-like island where residents must carry gas masks on them at all times. Miyakejima, part of the Izu Islands, is part of an unrestful volcanic chain that has seen six eruptions in the last century, the last in the year 2000 when a mass evacuation [...]
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 [...]
This is the caribbean island of Montseratt in the West Indies. In the 17th century, Britain colonized the island and held on to it ever since. But the British didn’t consider the consequences of building their paradise around a volcano (probably because they were too busy benefiting from the sugar and rum economy they built [...]
Nearly forty years after people, the Japanese island of Hashima is lifeless, sagging and absolutely uninhabitable to man, unless of course you’re a crazed nemesis of James Bond, plotting to take down the British secret service. If you managed to get past the round-the-block queues outside of cinemas this weekend to catch a screening of [...]
When Mr. Escobar wasn’t bombing commercial airlines carrying over a hundred innocent passengers to eliminate one of his enemies on board, spending $2,500 a month worth of rubber bands to wrap up his billions in cash, offering to pay off Columbia’s national debt or engaging in gunfights with Columbian police squads, Pablo liked to kick [...]
If you’ve ever been to Venice, you’ll remember that it’s a chock-a-block city. Not just with with tourists but with houses, shops, palazzos and basilicas that seem to pile on top of each other, squeezed into every nook and cranny. In Venice and most of it’s surrounding islands of the lagoon, there is no more [...]
It seems we’re experiencing a universally crappy summer so far this year, so let’s take a moment to daydream about some of the most magnificent places on earth to take a dip with another edition of Travel P0rn©! Dona Ana Beach, Algarve, Portugal ::: Marble Caverns of Carrera Lake, [...]
Are you in the mood for a good ghost story? I always am. Doll collecting is a pretty spooky habit on its own. But when you start hanging them from trees on a remote island allegedly haunted by the spirit of a girl, well, things start to tip the scales. Deep in the canals of [...]
It’s that time of year when the easiest cure for an awkward silence goes something like: “so do you have any interesting plans for summer yet?” I’ve used it about three times in the last week already. Ah yes, the question that holds so much promise but strangely, is being met with more shoulder shrugs so [...]
Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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If you’re stuck in the city on one of the warmest days of the year, it doesn’t
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Late night shopping in Milan, a stroll down a Croatian beach or a romantic dinner in Venice? Those
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Is it a movie set? An art instillation? Nope, this is a real home (within a home) built by
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So it’s that time of year again when magazines do their crappy annual gift guides,
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I‘m the worst in bookstores. It’s kind of like witnessing someone choose the last book
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I say probably because I wouldn’t want to encourage being drunk in an environment surrounded
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I know it’s still a little early to be talking Christmas gifts, but if you’re one of
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