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Unique & Creative Custom Home Designs

Custom homes come in all shapes and sizes, but few stand out so much as these unique examples of residential architecture. They are, however, anything but cheap.

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Dynamic Soarers: Brilliant Prototype & Concept Airplanes

These incredible concept aircraft may only lift our imaginations, but in that respect they succeed... brilliantly.

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Exposed: 15 Incredible Vehicle Cutaways for Undercover Lovers

Vehicle cutaways are a very special kind of art that lays bare a driving machine's inner workings for prying eyes to see... without all the messy prying with crowbars and such.

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20 Outstanding & Outrageous Concept Cars from Car-dom's Golden Age

These outstanding, outlandish and outrageous concept cars show what direction automotive design might have taken if automakers had followed their dreams instead of listening to the bean counters.

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Glassy Masterpieces: Where Art and Glass Intersect

Technically a liquid, glass can make a unique artistic medium. From vintage to modern, glass art is always classy.

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Retrofuturistic Ads: Selling a Brighter Tomorrow

These 15 retrofuturistic ads showcase one of advertising's most time-tested traits: convincing the target market a better, brighter future can be theirs TODAY.

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Retrofuture Rides: Never-Produced Vehicles

Concept cars, dream machines and technology-packed prototypes give us hints of what the future holds. Here are 15 that have not, though they live on in our imaginations.

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Traveling in Time: Evolution of the Suitcase

From buckskin packs to steamer trunks to carbon fiber carry-ons, the story of the suitcase parallels the explosion of travel and tourism..

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15 Amazing Monasteries, Sanctuaries and Abbies

Monastic architecture is often spectacular, an attribute seemingly at odds with the ascetic lifestyle of its adherents. Time is a harsh mistress and after centuries of war, religious strife and natural disasters, only the strongest - and strangest - have survived. For that at least, we may be thankful.

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Cycling into the Future: 15 Crazy Concept Bicycles

These wacky concept bicycles are adaptable, portable, amphibious and often strange but undeniably imaginative.

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10 Amazing Skate Parks from Around the World

From America's West Coast to France, skate parks come in all styles and each offers its own unique twist. Here are 10 of the craziest and most interesting!

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Immaculate Constructions: 15 Amazing Temples, Cathedrals and Churches

Temples, cathedrals and churches express mankind's eternal desire to create something heavenly on earth. These 15 immaculate constructions showcase the best of the best.

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7 Urban Wonders of the Modern World

Unbelievable as it may sound, there are those who track urban wonders of all kinds - from the narrowest to the most windy streets of the world and more.

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15 More Spectacular Castle & Palace Hotels

These 15 exquisite castle hotels offer us regular folks the chance to live like kings and queens; all it takes is a reservation and a few extra dollars.

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Creative, Innovative and Hilarious Parking

The number of cars keeps growing. Something's gotta give - as seen in these sometimes surprising and eminently enterprising parking solutions.

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