Real-Life ‘Up’: Balloon Transports Entire Buildings
It's 500 feet across and can carry 700 times more weight than a heavy cargo helicopter – yet it's based on technology that was developed in the early 20th century. An Australian firm could make ...
Year: 2010
Bag This: 25 Wild & Weird Potato Chip Flavors of the World
When I walk down the grocery aisle looking for a snack, my gaze typically settles on a bag of sour cream and onion, or a ludicrously large pack of barbecue chips... but this isn't always the ...
Mexico’s Creepiest Tourist Destination: Island of the Dolls
On a dark and creepy island in the canals of Xochimico near Mexico City sits what might be the world's strangest and scariest tourist attraction ever. However, this sad island was never meant to ...
Sleeping Giants: 12 Sky-High Abandoned Buildings
Bangkok's skeletal ghosts of prosperity past aren't the only super-tall structures left vacant for decades on end to deteriorate until they're either heroically saved or razed to the ground. ...
Paint Your Wagons: The Many Colors Of Cadillac Ranch
Who's your Caddy? The 10 graffiti-encrusted art car Cadillacs that make up Cadillac Ranch, just outside of Amarillo, Texas, have left their highway cruising days far behind. In fact, their behinds ...
Silent Skyscrapers: The Eerie Ghost Towers of Bangkok
(image via: javier ortega figueiral) They stand like massive man-made skeletons, abandoned towers that were supposed to be luxurious high-rise residences, hotels and office buildings. The ghost ...
Skyscraper Interrupted: 12 Stalled Projects Around the World
They were supposed to be shining examples of super-tall architecture, towers that celebrate the prosperity of their respective urban locations. But after the economic meltdown began in 2008, ...
Geek Tattoo Designs: Wish Your Social Life Goodbye
There's geek, and then there's hardcore, plaster your favorite operating system's logo on your right forearm geek. The latter tends to be more interesting (at least on the internet), so I've ...
Sci-Fi Concept Redux: 20 Syd Mead Inspired Vehicles
Legendary concept artist Syd Mead can be credited with creating some of the most memorable sci-fi movie worlds ever. Tron, Aliens and Blade Runner were all Mead's work and all helped set new ...
The Highest Scoring Video Game Artworks & Decorations
Hardcore gamers have far outrun the geeky glasses and suspenders image, and become a proud and powerful trend-starting group of consumers. Gamers have been known to display their love for new ...
