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Lights On But Nobody Home: Behind the Fake Buildings that Power Chicago

Guest Article by Chicago Sun Times columnist, Neil Steinberg Chicago is justly famous for its architecture. Birthplace of the skyscraper, home to the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere (still, the emotion-driven claim by New York’s One World Trade Center, based on the dodge of calling an antenna a spire, is easily dismissed) Chicago offers…

The Guy Who Digs up Lost Cities Buried at Sea

For the last thirteen years, he’s been busy digging up a lost underwater civilization the size of Paris off the coast of Egypt. The remarkably well-preserved ruins that were discovered have been sitting at the bottom of the Mediterranean sea for the past 1,200 years, at long last solving the mystery of the lost city of…

The Secret Newspaper Published from inside a Prison

Doftana Prison sits abandoned near Romania’s Carpathian mountains. Its foundations have been rocked by earthquakes, its roofs have been brought down by heavy snow and storms, and every winter the building crumbles a little more. There is still enough remaining to show the scale of the place and a sense of how a prisoner’s life was,…

Oh, just a Miniature Global Village in China

Hey, you know what’s better than actually travelling the world and seeing its wonders and historic sights first hand? Hitting up a Chinese miniature theme park, of course … ‘Windows of the World’ is a 480,000 square-meter global village theme park in Shenzhen, China, accommodating over a hundred miniature replicas of world famous historical sights. A fantasy…

The National Christmas Museum is For Sale

Did you know there’s a National Christmas Centre? Neither did I! It’s nestled in a place called Paradise, Pennsylvania, the heart of Dutch Country, and it’s pretty much as magical as it sounds; a huge walk-through display of all things Christmas through the decades. And here’s the thing: the whole place is now for sale. And…

Gandalf’s London Pub that Launched a Thousand Ships

There’s something about mixing history, battered fish with chunky chips and a good ale that I can’t resist. I love English pubs and everything they stand for, but there are some that are particularly special; that have outlasted multiple eras, withstood wars and in one case … launched a thousand ships. Welcome to The Grapes,…

This Time Travelling Instagrammer got Stuck Somewhere in the 1950s

Diners, Cadillacs, neon signs and ice cream pastels– Leah Frances, eats, sleeps and breathes American nostalgia. She is the Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based photographer behind American Squares, my latest “where have you been all my life” instagram discovery. This is an account for bingeing on vintage Americana, predominantly stuck in the 1950s, sometimes jumping back to the…

The Secret Rooftop Views of Paris

This guy is definitely not insured for his line of work. There aren’t many Parisians that need to wear hiking shoes to work, but for Alain Cornu, when the sun fades behind the rooftops, the photographer packs up his gear, puts on his boots and heads to the nearest ladder that will lead him to…

House Hunting for the Ultimate Hideout

If you had the choice to plant your flag anywhere you wanted– would you choose to be stay with the pack or venture off on your own? I often wonder about people who live out in the middle of nowhere, isolated from the rest of the world. Did they choose this life? Are they truly…

Stop Everything and Check out this Perfectly Wes Anderson Parisian Apartment

I could see a Margaux Tenenbaum living here on her family-funded sabbatical in Paris, couldn’t you? In fact, I would encourage Mr. Anderson to consider this Parisian apartment that just hit to market, for a Francophile sequel to The Royal Tenenbaums. You may or may not be aware, that when the director is not off…

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