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Organic Visitor Center Rises from the Arctic Circle Like a Whale Tail

Looking much like the real whales this area is known for, a new visitor center will rise from the tip of a Norwegian island 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle. "The Whale" by architecture firm ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sick Transit: 10 of The World’s Germiest Tourist Attractions

Caught the travel bug? Visit the world's 10 filthiest, germiest tourist attractions and you could catch much, much more than you bargained for! ...

Freaky Florida: 12 of a Weird State’s Weirdest Attractions

There’s a lot more to America’s southernmost state than the headline-worthy misadventures of Florida Man and Florida Woman. Culturally distinct from the rest of the South, Florida has been ...

Rooftop Recreation: 12 Vertigo-Inducing Sky-High Hangouts

Test your tolerance for stomach-churning heights by dangling over the edge of the western hemisphere's tallest freestanding tower, zip lining high above the Las Vegas strip, swimming up to the ...

Stuck On You: Seattle’s Gum Wall Is Pretty, Gross

The "Gum Wall" takes the concept of sticktoitiveness to a new level - actually, 15 feet above Post Alley in Seattle's famous Pike Place Market. The wall's owners no longer bother scraping away the ...

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