What are you missing out on in your own city by sticking to your established routes each day, or driving instead of walking? Sometimes it's easy to forget how close any number of interesting ...
There's nothing on earth like a genuine, bonafide, electrified six-car monorail. Or a one-car monorail with a propeller, or a high-speed rail plane, or even an amphibious monorail that can go ...
It started with a single person painting one public staircase, but when city workers of Istanbul, Turkey covered this brightly-colored street art with dull gray paint, citizen activists picked up ...
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH for short) has coined the term “vanity height” to describe the empty, unoccupied space atop the world's tallest towers. Here are the top ...
Drive around any mid-size to large city and you're destined to find a number of food trucks. In recent years they've become almost as ubiquitous as traditional stationary restaurants. A truck ...
Anyone peering into a disused F15 hangar at the Cold War-era Soesterberg airbase in The Netherlands might have spotted this bizarre black structure and imagined that it was some kind of secret, ...
Housing over 2,500 squatters on 28 of its 45 floors, the Tower of David is a half-finished structure in Caracas, Venezuela, populated with displaced people. Like the now-vanished Kowloon Walled ...
Science meets luxury in this levitating coffee table composed of hovering blocks that seem to magically shift back into formation when applied pressure is removed. Like an over-sized ...
A giant purple bubble will rise from a pile of plastic to bring music, workshops and performance to Japan's northeastern coast, which was devastated by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in ...
Far from the stereotype of a dark and grungy underground space where you don't want to touch anything with your bare hands, these 15 standout subway stations are practically art galleries. From the ...
