Unfree Wheeling: Amusingly Surreal Vintage Soviet Auto Ads
The Soviet Union not only manufactured cars, they exported them to buyers charmed (or duped) by some amusingly and bemusingly photographed advertisements. Putin the pedal to the metal ...
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.
American Idle: 12 Weird & Wonderful Drive-Thru Businesses
Drive-thru is all about fast food, fast service & fast company though getting what you want without ever leaving your ride can get a little weird at times. ...
Living with the Dead: 12 Cemeteries with Surprising Alternate Uses
The living play karaoke among headstones, hang their laundry from mausoleums, put on plays in crypts and golf right on top of graves in multipurpose cemeteries around the world, where the dead ...
Time Travel in China: Photos Reveal A Century of Dramatic Growth
Few nations have experienced quite the explosive rate of growth over the last century as China, and a new photo series shows us just how dramatic those changes actually look on the ground. ...
Talking Points: 12 Odd Japanese Safety & Traffic Cones
Plastic safety cones have become so ubiquitous along Japan's roadways, unusual measures have been taken to ensure they stand out amongst the crowd. ...
LED Buddha Vaults & Smart Card Entry: High-Tech Cemetery in Tokyo
When visiting a deceased loved one at this Tokyo cemetery, you’ll swipe a smart card upon arrival at the door so that the particular LED Buddha statue representing the correct vault will light ...
Virtual Heist: 2 Artists Secretly 3D-Scan an Ancient Artifact
An usually high-tech form of pseudo-theft, executed by a pair of artists, has resulted in a high-resolution scan of the famous Queen Nefertiti statue at the heart of a dispute between Germany ...
Nazi Playground: Cult Compound Now a Twisted Tourist Trap
A former haven for Nazi war criminals, child molesters and their sympathizers, Villa Baviera is now a bizarrely whitewashed German-themed tourist attraction tucked into Chile’s Andean ...
Pigment Library: Harvard’s Collection of 2,500 Global Colors
Looking as much like a mad science laboratory as a conservator's dream workshop, this pigment library is populated with color samples from around the world, all helping preservationists maintain ...
Top Secret City: Oak Ridge, Birthplace of the Atomic Bomb
Thousands of people who lived and worked in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during the 1940s had no idea what they were actually doing every day, performing their tasks as directed without asking questions, ...
