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Cabinet of Chic Curiosities
Category / Don’t Be A Tourist
Francky Knapp

These are the Real-Life Gardens of Earthly Delights

These are also the places that will confuse the heck out of aliens if they ever do land on this planet. From the forests of Finland to the subtropical mountains of Mexico, we’ve come across some many magical gardens over the years and thought it was about time to put them in one place… The…
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Weekend Like a Local in London

Most people know me for my Paris secrets, but London is the city that raised me for 25 years and you don’t forget an old friend that easily.I still remember my hidden Sunday pubs, my mother’s little go-to markets and all the urban secrets first discovered on field trips with my favourite history teacher. London

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Behind the Curtain of New York’s Thriving Subculture of Fortune Tellers

Search “psychic” in New York City on Google Maps, and you’ll be flooded with addresses of not only psychics, but astrologers, tarot card readers, palm readers, and others invested in the business of the esoteric. This is a city where the supernatural thrives, where even in the midst of skyrocketing rent prices, a psychic –

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Built in the Clouds, they’re the Highest Villages Frozen in Time

Ushguli, Goergia © Richard When you’re looking to escape the tedium of modern and mainstream tourism, sometimes the only way is up. Today, our armchair travels will take us to some of the most remote (and highest) villages in the world, from middle America to roof of Egypt. But of course, we’re not just going

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Greetings, from New York’s Living Ghost Town

Main Street, Amsterdam There’s something a little off about some of the storefronts on Main Street in the town of Amsterdam in Upstate New York. There are mannequins dressed in the windows, but at a second glance, the store spaces behind them look eerily empty and dark. Another sign taped to the door of a

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Movie Pitches for Women the World Forgot

This might not be my profession– pitching movies, that is– but if it were, I’d file the result of today’s internet finds under “women to make movies about”. Their stories have been buried in the past, eclipsed by others who perhaps achieved more or possessed qualities the world deemed more important. But today, we’re meeting

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Oh, Just a New York Hippie Castle with Elephants

We thought we’d seen it all when it comes to unusual and unique hotels. Then, we found Wing’s Castle of New York. This storybook cottage had us rubbing our eyes– are those elephants? The castle began, as so many magical things did, as a 1969 reverie… We did a bit of digging on Wing’s history and current state,…
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New York’s Secret Caribbean Kingdom (and its Queen)

Peer inside and your senses inevitably tumble inside a place that’s more time capsule than bar. In the warm glow of a colour we’ll just call, “Yellow, 1979”, exists a world apart from the modern and fast-paced New York City we know. You’ll hear the salsa rhythm of a lively San Juan watering hole and

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5 of NYC’s Cosiest Corners to Curl up in this Winter

Baby, it’s cold outside!  We’re so nearly finished with the Don’t be a Tourist in New York book, and while its contents must remain top secret, with temperatures plummeting so low, I felt we owed this little teaser to out New Yawkers. So come on in and warm up at New York’s coziest spots this weekend…

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