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Overnight inside a Polar Bear’s Den

I feel a certain way about the zoo. I don’t go to the zoo because I don’t want to look at wild animals in confined boxes looking back at me with the pained eyes of a creature in captivity. But then someone showed me this photograph of a polar bear sharing his backyard with a beautiful log cabin…

The Real Downtown LA Murder Hotel that Inspired Lady Gaga’s American Horror Story

You don’t need to have watched the new season premier of American Horror Story Hotel to be fascinated by the chilling real-life location that inspired it. I was instantly hooked on the setting for this season: a haunted Art Deco time capsule in Downtown, Los Angeles. The fictional Hotel Cortez is a budget hotel turned residence for transients where a…

Soaking in the Desert Bath Tubs of a Pioneer’s Hot Spring

Just when I think I have my next American road trip all mapped out, something like this comes along and throws the whole itinerary off course! Oh yes; hundred year-old bathtubs of warm healing mineral waters with sunset views over the red desert and a banjo player serenading me as I soak– Mystic Hot Springs had me…

The Last Inn on the Sea

This house might look just a tad precarious for a weekend escape to the beach, but it has quite the story to tell that I thought I might share with you. The photograph above was taken in 2009 when the house had been reluctantly declared a nuisance and condemned by the Rodanthe community on Hatteras…

The Grand Sugar Pink Clifftop Hotel

Not the usual Mexico Cancun or Acapulco destination, we are in the northwestern region of Chihuahua where a most eccentric and isolated Hotel Posada Mirador perches over cliffs that are four times greater in magnitude than that of the Grand Canyon. Nestled like an eagle’s nest at the edge of the canyon, coloured in “millennial pink,” otherwise known…

The Ultimate Gypsy Wonderland Motel

Paradise comes in many shapes and forms for different people, but give us a country ranch with 18th century barns, vintage neon signs, Frida Kahlo-influenced folk art and outdoor porches decorated with salvaged antiques and string lights? Let’s just say, we’d be making ourselves quite comfortable… Behold Rancho Pillow, a 20 acre compound that rests near the…

Elvis Presley’s Abandoned Tiki Paradise

The moment Elvis Presley floated down the lagoon at the Coco Palms Resort with Hawaiian flowers around his neck, serenading his new island bride in 1960s panavision technicolor, the hotel had solidified its place as one of the most desirable couples’ destinations on the planet. It would forever be the setting of the classic mid-century…

The Wonderful Lost World of Mr. Hendy

Number 36 High Street in Hastings, England, started out its very long life as a soda-bottling shop. During the restoration of this 18th century grade II listed Georgian town house, they unearthed bullet-shaped soda bottles under the floorboards. According to records, it was later a saddlers in the 19th century, then a tailor, a sweet shop, a…

Camping like an Alien

When NASA tests habitation on Mars, they do it at a station in the Mojave Desert. This is a landscape that was chosen to be most representative of another planet and it’s also where Andrea Zettler, American sculptor, installation artist, and investigator of social practice, set up her sci-fi campsite. Lead Image (c) Rich Combs One of Andrea’s…

The Italian Hotel built inside Abandoned Medieval Grottos

Okay come with me, we’re going to explore every inch of this hotel built inside the deserted grottos of an Italian mountain village from the Middle Ages. The cliffs of the Gravina River Valley in Matera Italy are believed to be the site of the first human settlements in the country. So let’s begin our…

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