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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXIII)

1. Inside America’s Largest Abandoned Mansion with over 110 rooms 2. What the Leaning Tower of Pisa looks like Inside Totally empty! More found here. 3. Sylvia Plath’s recipe cards for Sale Including Fish Chowder, Cherry & Cottage Cheese Cobbler, Drop Molasses Cookies, Carrot Cake, Beef Stew and a much-coveted recipe: ‘Ted’s Mother’s Scots Porridge…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXII)

1. East Brother Island, in the San Francisco Bay, is hiring an innkeeper It’s been called a “dream job”, earning $140,000 a year — housing and health benefits included — to live on your own private island in the San Francisco Bay, one of the most expensive and spectacularly beautiful places in the world. If…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXI)

1. Once upon a time, you could ride a train right through the orange groves in Southern California The Super Chief was one of the named passenger trains and the flagship of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The streamliner claimed to be “The Train of the Stars” because of the various celebrities it carried between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. Florida had one too:…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLIX)

1. Cano’s Castle “After first building an underground potato cellar on the site, the castle began in 1980 when Cano built a steam room above the cellar, and took improvised shape as found materials presented themselves over about twenty years.” Born in 1948, ‘Dominic “Cano” Espinoza’s enlisted in the US army in 1968 and, upon…

Ask Me Anything: An Internet Q&A with the Guy who was Swallowed by a Whale

You might have caught the story about a lobster diver from Provincetown who was swallowed by a humpback whale off Cape Cod last week – and lived to tell the tale. The idea of swirling around inside the jaws of the ocean’s most legendary creature conjures up all sorts of aquatic childhood fables, from Moby…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLVIII)

1. You can now Sleep at the Palace of Versailles Set within the gates of Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle was built in 1681 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Louis XIV’s favourite architect and an icon of French classicism. The grandiose building once played host to Europe’s political and cultural elite, from ambassadors and artists, to musicians, writers…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLVII)

1. Diaolou — multi-storey defensive watchtowers of China Found in rural Guangdong, generally made of reinforced concrete, diaolou structures are one of the most spectacular and eclectic examples of fusion between Chinese and Western architecture. Found on Urban Foxxxx via This isn’t Happiness. 2. A Secret garden of mini Italian buildings to be conserved Off…

An Insider Peep into Tokyo’s Secretive Red Light District: Then & Now

Watanabe Katsumi was the king of treading lightly. As a drifting photographer, his lens was a stealthy observer of Tokyo’s red light district, snapping hundreds of photos of its drag queens, gangsters, prostitutes, and other fringe society members in the 1960s and 70s. Few dared enter the underbelly of the city like him and the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLVI)

1. Wanted: Caretaker to look after uninhabited Scottish island A remote and uninhabited Scottish island near Ullapool with no full-time residents is looking for a resident caretaker to keep the island in shape for visitors this summer. Isle Martin has two beaches, just three properties to stay and in the summer, a micro museum (in…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLV)

1. Julie d’Aubigny, a French bisexual opera-singing sword fighter Julie d’Aubigny, aka “La Maupin” led a life so wild – complete with duels, grave-robbing and burning convents – that she had to be pardoned by the king not once, but twice. Known as one of history’s greatest rascals, she performed regularly with the Opéra, first singing as a soprano, and…

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