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The Paris Horror Show

Friday night at the theatre would never be quite the same again. Down a dark Parisian alleyway, sheer horror awaited on stage… The Theatre du Grand Guignol, the smallest in Paris, was a former chapel turned theatre tucked away in the small backstreets of Pigalle, the city’s old red light district. As discretely sized and located…

An 80s Replica of the Saved By the Bell Diner Opens Next Week

It feels like it was just yesterday that I was watching Saved by the Bell while munching a bowl of cereal … probably because it was just yesterday … on Youtube. Like an old familiar blanket, reliving Zack and Kelly’s high school drama at The Max cafeteria sometimes soothes me after a long day. So you can…

Inside the Shed of the Antlerman

I‘m slightly nervous about posting this article. Not only am I a little freaked out by this place myself, but I have a feeling I might get some flak for it. The problem is, I’m completely in awe of it, so here we go… I’m not entirely sure how I ended up on Antlerman.com, nor was I looking for…

When He Could Book a Men-Only Flight with United Airlines

It sounds like a plot line from an episode of Mad Men, but if you opened the Wall Street Journal in the 1950s and 60s, you were likely to have found an advertisement for United Airlines’ “club in the sky for men only”, offering complimentary cigars, cocktails, a steak dinner and special business amenities. The flights between…

America’s Pink Tower of Oz: A Mysterious Marble Marvel

If Oz had gone for a slightly more feminine touch of pink in its all-green colour scheme, you might very well mistake this for the end of the yellow brick road. Perched on one of the highest points of peninsular Florida, surrounded by hundreds of acres of orange groves, palm trees, ferns, great oaks and a 15…

Someone Documented the Smallest, Quirkiest Museums in Australia

I can’t understand why the most popular travel guides aren’t the ones that tell you where the smallest and quirkiest places are in every town and country around the world. The intimate and independent museums are always the most underrated and often the best way to get to know the locals and their story as an outsider. Small Museum, curated by…

Before the Eurostar: Remains of the Flying Rail Plane that Never Was

In a slight twist of fate, we might have been traveling between London and Paris in one of these thing-a-majigs– or more accurately, a propeller-driven ‘Flying Railplane‘. This fancy futurist contraption was invented by George Bennie and launched in 1930 as a prototype, designed for a more economical and rapid transport system between the two European capitals. The test track was…

A Compendium of Vintage Pool Parties

Some things just look like a lot more fun in vintage grainy photos. I found a ton of nostalgic of motel pool postcards on Flickr and couldn’t help but put together another little compendium of some fabulously kitsch “pool parties”. When I went road tripping in California last summer, I tried to stay in as many motels…

The Most Beautiful Car Race that Ever Was

It was the kind of race where if a car broke down, the driver would have been invited inside by locals for spaghetti. The track, littered with horseshoe nails, meandered through the tiny twisting streets of quaint Sicilian mountain towns while villagers watched Ferraris speed by at 100 miles an hour, perilously close to their doorsteps. The Targo Florio…

Lost Facades of the 1970s Anti-Walmart

Does anyone remember the American retail chain BEST Products? The last store disappeared in 1997 after forty years in business selling cheap home furnishings, consumer electronics, jewellery, housewares, toys from their catalog showrooms. Their retail concept might not have worked so well, but their architecture in the 1970s and early 80s made shopping trips to the strip…

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