Petroleum Pets: Coalinga’s Vanishing Iron Zoo
Painted pump jacks with plenty of personality put the “pet” into petroleum at the venerable and vanishing Iron Zoo in and around Coalinga, California. Formerly known as “Coaling ...
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.
Optical Illusion Crosswalk Aims to Slow Down Speedy Iceland Drivers
If you were zooming down a familiar street and suddenly saw a bunch of concrete steps floating in the street in front of you, would you hit the brakes? The strange sight would likely be enough to ...
Eclipsing Belief: 8 Rare and Amazing Astronomic Objects & Events
We don’t even need to go searching for signs of aliens to find incredibly bizarre and unexplainable objects and events in outer space, from a ‘black widow’ pulsar that’s devouring its own ...
Avian Palaces: Traditional Ottoman Bird Houses are Miniature Masterpieces
Istanbul takes bird houses very seriously, and always has - seriously enough to attach palatial digs for feathered residents to their own human-sized buildings. In fact, the oldest known bird house ...
No Quarter: Parking Meters Pimped To Perfection
It's time to pay tribute to parking meters, those metal “trees” of the concrete jungle that have collected billions of coins over eight decades of service. Parking meters have been ...
Like A Rock Star: 12 Iconic Movie Corvettes
The Chevrolet Corvette's long list of silver screen starring roles turned America's first mass-produced sports car into an automotive pop culture icon. One of the Corvette's first ...
Heathen’s Gate: Ingenious Overlay Reveals History of Ancient Roman Ruin
A pane of glass overlaid with a simple line drawing brings crumbling ruins to life at one of Austria's most famous historical sites, reanimating the partial building near the Open Air Museum ...
Imperial Pomp: Strange Post-Soviet Skyscrapers in Remote Russia
Deep in the most remote reaches of the former Soviet Union, strange skyscrapers glitter against the sky, made all the more out of place by their sleepy rural settings and lack of similarly scaled ...
Memorable Memorials: 10 Extraordinary War Monuments
These extraordinary war monuments stand out from the crowd in commemorating those who have fallen while performing their duty in the service of their country. Memorial Day was formerly ...
Cookin’ With Gas: 12 Abandoned Food Trucks
Food trucks and snack vans are mobile kitchens that offer meals on wheels to busy folks on the go... until the day they break down and are left abandoned. Food trucks are specialized ...
