Tattooed Makeovers of 1950s Pin-Up Girls
I don’t think I’ll ever muster the courage to get a tattoo myself, but I…
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Paris Launched a Contest to Re-Design its Derelict, Disused and Defunct Spaces
Three abandoned metro stations, two defunct underground nightclubs, a forgotten art nouveau shopping arcade, an…
Obnoxious Antique Shopping
If you’re the kind of shopper that comes home from the flea market and gleefully…
A Janitor’s View of La Sorbonne University
I imagine that the school janitor of La Sorbonne University doesn’t have it so bad. When…
Inside Le Monocle, the Parisian Lesbian Nightclub of the 1930s
If you were to hang around Montmartre after sundown in the 1920s & 30s, it’s likely you were looking for…
How a 1960’s Band of Outsiders Wanted Us to Experience Paris
What if there were walkways over the Paris rooftops, if the metro was open after…
Dive into the Underwater Museum of the Black Sea
Free entry and no queues, this sounds like the ideal museum. However, this unique underwater…
Granny’s Old China Just got Really Cool
I realise that with this post about granny’s upcycled old china, some of you might…
Architecture on Steroids in a Post-Soviet World
We wrote about Frank Herfort and his Russian Fairytales photo series earlier this month, but we…
Postcards from Hobbiton
Fans of The Lord of the Rings: unite! Non-fans who just like film sets and…
Forgotten Splendour of Victorian Spa Shuttered for Decades
“We all stink. No one smells,” were the alleged words of patron Saint Bernard when speaking…
The Treehouse that Nobody Wanted
It could be the house of a pirate king who keeps his treasure buried in…