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Cocktails in a Collector’s Museum: Lisbon’s Most Curious Bar

You know what museums are missing? Cocktails. Calling all collectors and oddity enthusiasts (that includes you), I’d like to present one of the world’s most eccentric bars, a veritable cabinet of curiosities if I’ve ever seen one, containing tens of thousands of fascinating objects housed in a former exotic grocery store-turned-drinking den. Antique soldiers, war memorabilia and…

The Romeow Cat Bistrot, for the Coolest Cats in Town

I‘m not a huge cat person (dogs are more my sort of cuddle fix), but I couldn’t help but be utterly charmed by the latest European cat café to open in bella Roma… It’s not your average cat café, where you imagine the armchairs to smell a little musty. No, Romeow Cat Bistrot (gotta love…

Borrow an East London Time Capsule House

At number 4 Princelet Street in East London, there is an 18th century yellow brick Georgian time capsule behind the Old Spitalfields Market. The double fronted merchant’s house, conserved in its original condition from top to bottom, is one of the last of the original houses to be built on the street where dozens of…

A Prime Minister’s Abandoned Beirut Mansion

There’s one type of home you don’t really expect to find crumbling in an abandoned and decaying state– such as the ones that belonged to heads of state or government, for example. But when a country tears itself to shreds in a civil war, I suppose we can begin to understand how the upkeep of an exiled…

The Mysterious Trophy Room Found under a Boston Bridge

Past the construction signs on the Cambridge side of the Longfellow Bridge, a Boston landmark over the Charles River, an unexpected suprise awaits. A few perplexed passersby have snapped the display and posted it on the web, asking for more information about it… (c) City Owls Upon stumbling upon it, you might imagine a story of a…

Documenting the Giants of Roadside America

California native, Debra Jane Seltzer, must have the most sizeable independently-run website I’ve ever come across– and that’s not just because it’s full of the roadside giants she documents. Roadside Architecture is literally huge, containing more than 2,300 pages and over 60,000 photos. Banging away at her website for nearly 15 years now, Debra has…

NYC’s Secret Japanese Kitchen

Inside a nondescript Brooklyn building, there’s a door to an imaginary world with beautiful random objects, edible flowers, bicycles … and a secret Japanese restaurant. We’re not talking about just another social dining club and a have-a-go chef, but a seriously gifted host whose level of cooking is being whispered about as a talent which far surpasses anything…

Beat Boxing in a Condemned Paris Train Station

Where the smoke rises into the Paris night by the old sleeping railway tracks and crumbling walls blanketed in graffiti, the sound of music pumps from beneath us, luring our ears underground… Let’s slip behind the fence (the flimsy string is just begging to be untied). In a shivery and dark old storage facility, strange things await… Mysterious…

The Free Restaurants of Sikh Temples that serve guests of any Religion or Background

This is a Sikh Temple in San Jose, California. Here, and at any other Sikh place of worship in the world, they serve free meals for all visitors, regardless of religion, race, background, gender or social status. The temples are called gurdwara, where Sikhs pay their respect for the teachings and commandments of the Ten Gurus, and in every…

Halloween for Adults: Nocturnal Tours of the Cursed Carnival

Just another abandoned American amusement park? Not really, because this one gives tours … at night … on Halloween. Oh, and constant unexplained activity suggests the place is very much haunted, very much cursed and certainly, no place for children. (c) Robert Hogue (c) Tiffany Harckleroad In 1926, a man by the name of C.T Snidow purchased a plot…

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