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Rest Areas for the Weary: 13 Thoughtful Travel Facilities Enhance the Journey

What happens to the world around us when designers and architects treat even the most humble structures with the same care they’d give to more prestigious buildings? Rest areas are certainly ...

Stay High: 3-Story Container Apartment Built into a Crane in Amsterdam

Transformed into a compact three-story apartment, a decommissioned 1957 crane overlooking Amsterdam’s IJ River from a former industrial harbor now offers tourists a highly unusual vantage point ...

Morpeth Arms: Historic London Bar with a Haunted Basement & Spying Room

Not every pub in London has a spying room complete with binoculars so patrons can gaze into the windows of the British Intelligence Service across the street - nor does just any old pub have a ...

Destination Design: 14 Stylish Hotels Infused with the Character of their Settings

While many hotels are so lacking in personality, they could be located pretty much anywhere, these 14 thoughtfully designed tourist accommodations are infused in the character of their respective ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oversized Down Under: Australia’s 10 Oddest Big Things

Unlike Australia's wildlife, the weird and wondrous 'Big Things' scattered across the Land Down Under aren't deadly... unless one falls on you. Some say the Big Things – which began ...

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 ...

Inflatable Luggage: Air-Framed ‘Zippelin’ Bags Made of Old Tarps & Bike Tubes

Lightweight, durable and compact, this new recycled Zippelin bag series features wheels for rolling like any good luggage. But instead of metal or plastic frames, these bags employ bicycle tire ...

Like a Music Festival, Minus the Dirt: Social Hostel Offers Indoor Camping

If you love the sense of community at multi-day outdoor music festivals like Glastonbury, Coachella and Bonnaroo but hate the mud, dust, noise and filthy porta-potties, this hostel was designed ...

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