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10 Reasons Why Archeology is the Coolest Job Ever

Indiana Jones may have exaggerated a little bit about the job, but you still get to dress like Alan Grant from Jurassic Park, travel all over the world and uncover some mind-blowing relics of the past. Here’s 10 reminders of why this is the coolest career going. 1. That time they discovered the Easter Island Statues have Bodies There…

For Sale: Legendary Pre-Ban Absinthe Bottles of the Belle Epoque

When Parisians used to call it “la fée verte” (the green fairy), the custom of drinking absinthe had became so popular in bars, bistros, cafés, and cabarets that, by the 1860s, the hour of 5 p.m. was called l’heure verte (“the green hour”). It was a green and ghoulish drink traditionally served by placing a sugar cube on a…

The Sleazy 70s Game Show for Husbands Sleeping with their Secretaries

If you were watching American television between 1979 and 1980, you might have heard of a little game show called “Three’s a Crowd,” whose tagline was “Who knows a man better: his wife or his secretary?” The implication was always that the men were sleeping with their secretaries. Hosted by Jim Peck and packaged by Chuck Barris productions,…

Solving My Mystery of the Arkansaw Travelers Saloon

I found this picture on Pinterest a while ago and it’s always struck me as a little odd. Was it a real bar? First I searched “Arkansas Travelers Saloon” and began finding dozens of other photographs of people posing in front of the same backdrops. That’s bizarre, I thought with narrowed eyes… But then today I found my answer, along…

Dolce Vita Villas For Sale on the Forgotten Italian Riviera

Sprawling over several small bays with clear blue waters peppered with fishing boats, is a dormant paradise of the dolce vita years. A forgotten “St. Tropez”, where movie stars, artists and writers once flocked to the scenic beaches of Tuscany during summer. Whereas most of us think of Tuscany for its rolling hills, scenic countryside and…

The Crumbling Village of Temples Lost to the Myanmar Jungle

It’s a scene straight out of the Jungle Book, only accessible from the outside world by a narrow canal that weaves its way through a parting in the wild and tangled overgrowth, west of Myanmar’s Inle Lake… Lead image (c) James Charlick (c) PPana (c) J Charlick (c) Artano (c) A Thompson After an hour’s boat ride passing the bathing…

Meet the Family with the Secret Recipe for making London’s Iconic Blue Plaques

Jimi Hendrix has one. Virginia Woolf has one. So does Karl Marx. Since 1984 all the plaques have been hand made by just one family– and they’re pretty adorable… Via Huck Magazine.

Candlelight Cocktails in the “World’s Oldest Music Hall”

They say it’s the world’s oldest music hall, yet there’s no theatrical facade, just a faded red door set into a peeling wall cobbled together from five Victorian house fronts. Hidden half-way down a pedestrian alley in the heart of East London, an unforgettable evening awaits… It began as an alehouse dating from 1743 or earlier,…

Bonhams Found a Million Pound Private Collection of Rare Vintage Motorcycles to Sell

This weekend at a showground in Staffordshire, England, Bonhams is having the sale of the century for great British and American motorcycles. A £1 million pound single-owner collection of 60 incredible motorcycles from a private museum will go under the hammer on Saturday 17th October and an astounding collection of barn finds unearthed after more…

Liverpool has a Buried Underworld and No One Knows Why

For fifteen years, retired Liverpudlian locals and curious have-a-go volunteers have been digging up a vast network of 200 hundred-year old tunnels and cellar systems beneath their streets, not knowing how far they go, where they lead to and why they are even there. The only clue history has given, is that they were built…

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