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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.

The Heron’s Tree: The World’s Largest Hanging Garden Since Ancient Babylon

An island in France populated by ‘living machines’ that seem to be torn straight from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Les Machines de L’ile has delighted visitors since 2007, and now ...

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 ...

ORIGIN Tree House: Modern Wooden Hotel Room in a French Forest Canopy

Encircling a 100-year-old oak - the tallest tree on the Château de Raray hotel property in France - the ORIGIN tree house by Atelier Lavit is envisioned as a tailored wooden ‘dress’ to make ...

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 ...

Full Steam Ahead: Japanese Capsule Hotel Offers Saunas, Showers & Sleep

Pronounced ‘do-shi,’ the °C Sauna + Sleep Ebisu capsule hotel in Tokyo might be light on sleeping space, but it’s heavy on steam, offering intimate enclosed sauna rooms shared with other ...

The Modern Colossal: 7 Lesser-Known Monumental Wonders of the World

Everyone knows about the Statue of Liberty, the Easter Island Moai heads, Mount Rushmore and the Sphinxes of Ancient Egypt, but not all monstrous monuments were built in centuries past. Colossal ...

Rollercoaster Railway: World’s Steepest Funicular Zooms Through the Swiss Snow

What if the entire journey on a rollercoaster consisted solely of the part where you’re slowly inching your way to a peak, holding your breath, waiting for the drop and speed that never comes? As ...

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. ...

Stairs to Nowhere: 25 Architectural Relics That No Longer Make Sense

Useless, defunct and more than a little surreal, 'thomassons' are the remnants of architecture and infrastructure left behind during demolition to leave behind a ghostly imprint of the past. ...

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