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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis is being held. Quick history recap: Napoleon was exiled to the British island of St. Helena after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. It was on this island that he was poisoned with arsenic by his own [...]
Sheep hanging out in front of the Eiffel Tower? It’s not that unlikely. A group of sheep have already begun tending the lawns as the city’s newest lawnmowers in a field beside Paris’ Municipal Archives in the 19th arrondissement. Dubbed “eco-grazing”, if the project is a success, more sheep will be brought in to ”mow” the grass [...]
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: .
Yep, it’s that time again for me to open up my bag of treasures from the depths of the internet… 1. Hole n’ the Rock Roadside America is full of fascinatingly bizarre attractions, and Hole n’ the Rock is no exception. Carved out of 50,000 cubic feet of excavated sandstone in Utah’s Canyonlands country, Hole n’ the Rock [...]
You might have heard of the cupcake vending machine in Los Angeles, but did you know Paris has it’s very own baguette ATM? The future has finally arrived in France. On the Place Colonial in the 17th arrondissement, you can get your baguette round the clock from the Boulangerie D’Antan. The vending machine has its [...]
If you can’t accept the holidays are over, say I! Today was spent mostly getting lost on the internet and here is the result… 1. What Marilyn Monroe could have looked like as a brunette. Pretty smokin! Do blondes really have more fun?! Maybe she should have stuck with her natural color. via here [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
That’s it. Someone has done it. Someone has come up with the world’s most ingenious idea to crush all other ideas. A French essential and an instant classic, the baguette bag guarantees your trip home from the bakery will never be the same. “Be sure to get your crispy baguette warm and safe home through [...]
The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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I bet you never knew a tortilla joke could be this damn hilarious. Most of us know what it’s
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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What is more enchanting than an artist’s studio? When these painters, sculptors and creators
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The boulangerie, boucherie, the epicerie, the caviste, the chocolatier, la coiffure; everyday
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Yep, it’s that time again for me to open up my bag of treasures from the depths of the
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You might have heard of the cupcake vending machine in Los Angeles, but did you know Paris has
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If you can’t accept the holidays are over, say I! Today was spent mostly getting lost on the
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As bizarre, off-beat and kitsch as they come is the International Banana Museum, boasting the
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