Troll Train: Brazil’s Steamy Mundo a Vapor Museum
The front facade of the Mundo a Vapor train museum in Canela, Brazil recreates a spectacular Parisian train wreck from 1895 in steamingly accurate detail. No doubt the worst – or at ...
Category: Culture & History
From food to art and history and architecture, traveling somewhere is one thing – experiencing that place is another. Skip the tourist stops and delve right into the local dive bar, kitsch cafe, modern culture, ancient ruins or other attraction to get a real sense of what it is like to live, breath, eat and sleep the history of a place.
Fairly Sore: The World’s 10 Most Dangerous Festivals
Festivals rank high among humankind's most cherished traditions but if you think these annual gatherings are all fun and games, you'd be VERY wrong. The poster child for "dangerous ...
Out-of-Place Artifacts: The Perpetual Puzzle of Reverse-Engineering Mysterious Objects
It can be hard to resist the allure of a mysterious object found in a context that doesn’t seem to make rational sense, suggesting that it’s proof of time travelers, lost civilizations or ...
Parked Outback: Robert Fielding’s Oz-Some Art Cars
Robert Fielding's Oz-some art cars once lit up desert highways; now they're being painted, illuminated and photographed in their final resting places. One does not simply drive across the ...
Architectural Anomalies: The Crooked Witch-Proofed Windows of Vermont
Why do so many houses in Vermont have these strange crooked windows tucked under their eaves? The fact that they’re called ‘witch windows’ should tell you a little something about their ...
Beetle Mania: 10 Groovy Volkswagen Bug Art Cars
The Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle, one of the 20th century's most iconic vehicles, also served as a rolling car canvas for artists just itching to bug society. Over 21 million Type 1 Beetles ...
War Games: 12 Kid-Friendly Park & Playground Tanks
Why scrap a decommissioned tank or self-propelled gun when it can easily be re-purposed as playground equipment, asked nobody ever. ALMOST nobody, that is. This pair of colorful ex-Soviet ...
Prints in Time: Ancient Pet Animals Accidentally Immortalized in Artifacts
When we think of ancient persons carefully laying the foundations of stone monuments, or hard at work writing out historical tomes, it's a bit hard to imagine them brushing away an interrupting ...
Occasion of Gravity: 400-Foot-High Wedding on Netting Over Moab Canyon
There wasn't much room for cold feet in this high-flying marriage ceremony, vows for which were exchanged over a gaping void (complete with BASE-jumping flower girls). Ryan Jenks and ...
Sunken City of Sin: Submerged Ruins of a Roman Playground for the Rich
Hidden at the bottom of Gulf of Naples in Italy for 1,700 years, the ancient Roman city of Baiae has been revealed to the world after divers were permitted to explore and photograph the site. ...
