Tinsel Towns: 10 International HOLLYWOOD Sign Homages
The iconic 'HOLLYWOOD' sign has loomed over La La Land for almost a century, inspiring overseas wannabes to “sign” up with homegrown copies. Hurray for HOLLYWOOD signs - may they be ...
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.
Dispersed Hotel: Distributed Urban Suites Inspire Exploration of Historic Kyoto
It's a simple but powerful idea, spreading out and embedding hotel rooms into the urban fabric to give visitors a space from which to explore as well as a place that feels like it's more part of ...
The Other Place: Surreal MC Escher-Inspired Hotel Interior in China
A maze of staircases leads absolutely nowhere within a series of new hotel rooms at 'The Other Place' in China, nodding to artist MC Escher’s famous lithograph print entitled 'Relativity.' ...
When Infrastructure Costs More Than Money: History’s Deadliest Projects
Construction is a deadly industry. Falls, electrocution, blunt force trauma and mishaps with heavy machinery are just a few of the hazards workers face on project sites around the world, whether ...
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 ...
The World’s First Underwater Hotel Villa is Officially Open in the Maldives
Sleep sixteen feet below the surface of the ocean at the new Conrad Muraka villa in the Maldives, nestled into bed with panoramic views of marine creatures to color your dreams. Officially the ...
Not Safety For Work: 10 Comical Conical Traffic Cones
These traffic safety cones manage to rise above their innate urban utility by virtue of some – dare we say 'iconic' – conic characteristics. Wat Rong Khun (White Temple) in Chiang Rai ...
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 ...
