He’s the P.T. Barnum of the Deep South, leading a One-Man Art Movement

Butch Anthony’s cabinet of curiosities, aka the Museum of Wonder, isn’t easy to find. Beyond the help of Google Maps down these sparse backroads of rural Seale, Alabama, you have to rely on Anthony’s hand-drawn map. There’s no sign, just an ordinary black mailbox. Your one clue that you’ve found the place is the address…

The Twelve Cozy Cabins of Christmas

Grab some hot cocoa, it’s time to dream about the cosiest of cabins you could be curling up in over the twelve days of Christmas. Speaking of which, have you found your nearest and dearest the perfect gift? How about the promise of a magical winter getaway…?! Just a thought. Shall we cue “Twelve Days…

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The Last Stagecoach Tavern of the Wild Wild West

Cold Spring Tavern isn’t your average bandit’s watering hole. In roughly 150 years, it’s housed everything from a baby leopard named Ricky, to a Frenchman’s failed ballet school, and it’s one of the last surviving stops of California’s perilous stagecoach days. To get there, your car will have to hug miles of winding road off the highway…

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So the Real Hobbits Vacation in Sweden

In a hole in the ground, there lived a seriously pampered Swedish Hobbit. He had a private sauna, and a nearby manor retreat; a charming staff to make him a charcoal-fired pancakes and take him on moose safaris. For the right price, you too live like a glamping Hobbit. Welcome, friends, to the Kolarbyn eco-lodges: the…

A Brief Compendium of Crazy Campers

By land or by sea, as big as a suburban house or as small as a tiki hut, nothing beats the charm of a kitschy caravan. We’ve whittled down a fresh compendium of our favourites, and if there’s one trend we’ve noticed amongst the winning lot, it’s that they bring the vacation to you. A…

Florida’s Tarzan Still Haunts His Old Camp

At 6’4” and 240 pounds, handsome, muscular Russian-American Vincent Natulkiewicz looked like he’d stepped out of a Tarzan movie. And like Tarzan, he lived in the jungle with his animals. Vince “Trapper” Nelson—or Tarzan of the Loxahatchee River—arrived in Hobe Sound, Florida, from New Jersey in 1930. He built a log cabin deep in the…

The Man who Quit Society to Live in his Cabin

Meet Jack English, a 93-year-old legend who lives in a cabin isolated deep in the Ventana Wilderness. While on a hunting trip he learned that an old homestead in the Ventana Wilderness was being put up for auction by the estate of a childless heiress. He put a bid on the property and won. On…

The Ice Age came early for this Winter Cabin

Suddenly, I’m feeling a little bit warmer in my chilly office this morning after considering this abandoned home hijacked and frozen in time by ice and snow; the homely floral tablecloth stiff as a board, reading glasses on a night table embedded in ice. This is the art installation of Chris Larson, a native of Minnesota, where of…