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Category / Wanderlust

Oh, to Have Ridden England’s Forgotten Post Bus

I never knew the post bus existed. I grew up in England’s capital, but never in my 25 years of living there did I ever see or hear of these delightful red buses that both delivered mail and served as the only public transport in some of the UK’s most remote areas. Then again, until the…

Watch this Best-selling Author confront the Real Haunted Houses from his Book

We look at a lot of photographs of abandoned places here but it can be a real treat to find beautifully shot and narrated film footage to really take us on a journey inside these forgotten time capsules. Author Ransom Riggs wanted to make sure the setting for his haunting upcoming novel was true to life, so…

Road Trip to Afghanistan: Snapshots From the Lost Hippie Trail

Before the trail grew cold, you could once catch a bus from London to Delhi with just $45, and for a little extra, you could take the scenic route into the Indian subcontinent via Turkey, Lebanon, Kashmir, Iran and Afghanistan, stopping at hotels, restaurants and cafés along the way that catered almost exclusively to cannabis-smoking Westerners. They…

These 1950s Jersey Shore Motels Sure Do Look Lonely in the Off Season

It never really occurred to me to visit the Jersey Shore, not until I saw it in the dead of winter, through the lens of American photographer Tyler Haughey. His serene series Ebb Tide makes me want to check into a room at one of the lonely mid-century motels, stay awhile in limbo, maybe write a short…

She Paints Tiny Masterpieces in Her Empty Altoids Tins

Two years ago, Heidi Annalise quit her government job in Washington DC and returned to her home state of Colorado to paint– out of handheld mint cans. She spends most of her days “frolicking in meadows” and painting the wilderness and has since managed to rack up an Instagram following of more than 50K with her adorable…

So There Is a Cruise Ship Where Residents Permanently Live as It Travels the World

As an advocate of trailblazing voyages into the unknown and generally all things off the beaten path, cruise ships probably aren’t my sort of thing. But then I can’t quite decide whether this concept is really terrible, or one that I want to secretly try out in another life. The World is a private residential cruise ship, a…

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…

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…

Time Capsules of Lake Como

It’s not often that you browse through real estate pages feeling a nostalgia rushing through your insides and tugging at your heart strings, but that’s exactly what happens when I find myself digging through the property inventory of Lionard (specialists in big empty Italian castles for sale). This can’t be right… I say to myself as I click through rooms with incredible art…

Wes Anderson could Probably Make his Next Movie in Singapore

When I put out my article “Location Scouting for Wes Anderson” a few weeks ago, I really didn’t expect it to echo across the internet like it did. And you know what? It’s kinda fantastic. For one, it gives more notoriety to an amazing filmmaker (you’ be surprised how many youngsters these days have never seen his movies). And two, I…

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