Not Safety For Work: 10 Comical Conical Traffic Cones
These traffic safety cones manage to rise above their innate urban utilitarian-ness by virtue of some – dare we say 'iconic' – conic characteristics. Wat Rong Khun (White Temple) in ...
Category: Travel
From wonders of the world to boutique hotels, parkour and free running to building jumping and rooftopping, these articles are pure inspirational fuel for the adventurous traveler seeking something off the beaten path.
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 ...
Fishing for Plastic: Amsterdam Puts Tourists to Work Cleaning its Canals
It’s not often that tourists line up to collect trash in the cities they're visiting, and pay for the privilege, too. But in Amsterdam, ‘plastic fishing’ is a surprisingly popular way for ...
Sleep in a Legend: Bauhaus School Opens Student Rooms to Public Guests
A pivotal institution in the early development of Modernism, the iconic Bauhuas school in Germany has been renovated to match its 1926 look and feel, complete with studios and sleeping spaces ...
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 ...
Bike Route 66: Historic Roadway Open to Two-Wheeled Adventurers
The loneliness of mostly-abandoned Route 66 is all the more cutting for the towns that once thrived along its 2,448-mile length, many of which declined or dried up altogether when it was ...
New York’s Newest Waterfront Park Revitalizes an Abandoned Industrial Site
In Long Island City, nearly 11 acres of continuous waterfront park have bloomed along a formerly abandoned industrial landscape, offering a buffet of recreational opportunities while protecting ...
Coralarium: Ocean’s First Intertidal Art Museum Doubles as Marine Habitat
A new first-of-its-kind underwater art museum in the Maldives features exhibits and sculptures at various levels, from the seabed through the intertidal waterline and up to the skyline, designed ...
Only in Dubai: 10 Wild, Dazzling & Absurd Record-Breaking Projects
Dubai is a city of innovation, imagination and virtually unlimited capital, with a habit of smashing world records for everything from the most expensive building to the first artificially ...
