Last Night a DJ saved my Life in a Secret Bomb Shelter

So this weekend, I partied in an abandoned bomb shelter. Thirty meters below the streets of Paris, in a 1500 square meter labyrinth built to withstand an atomic blast of the Cold War era, awaited a night to remember… Thundering down the boulevard in WWII jeeps and tanks, our military escorts arrive at the secret…

The Forgotten Giant Arrows that Guide you Across America

If you’re ever really lost on a road trip across America, and I’m talking really lost (let’s say the battery on your smartphone just died along with that compass application you downloaded for situations just like this), perhaps you might be lucky enough to find yourself next to one of the giant 70 foot concrete…

Ghost Signs: Lost & Found

I known I’m not the only one who searches the streets for signs pointing to the past, so let’s go ghost sign hunting with a selection from the Lost & Found: A Photography Sign book by Derek Stenborg. “Lost and Found is not only about finding lost sign treasure, but it is also about honoring…

The Man who Quit Society to Live in his Cabin

Meet Jack English, a 93-year-old legend who lives in a cabin isolated deep in the Ventana Wilderness. While on a hunting trip he learned that an old homestead in the Ventana Wilderness was being put up for auction by the estate of a childless heiress. He put a bid on the property and won. On…

Inside America’s Secret Atomic City

Most of the 75,000 residents of Oak Ridge, Tennessee had no idea they were processing uranium until the bombs dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. They had settled in the mysterious town, a “secret city”, with very little knowledge of what they would do there, other than the promise that their work was going to help…

Pimping America’s Bank Buildings

Once upon a time, the American bank building was the biggest, baddest, strongest and shiniest building on the block. But New york city-based photographer Michael Yahrenwald has captured them at a rather unflattering moment in time. On the hustle, the once powerful and authoritative buildings have settled for new tenants; mostly drugstores, fast food restaurants, liquor…

Snapshots of a Soviet Ghost Town

Within a disputed territory on the Eastern coast of the Black Sea, spread across a valley often hidden in fog, lies the industrial town of Tkvarcheli, where the Soviet era still lives on like an evil spirit that haunts the streets. Photography by V Mulder Tkvarcheli was built in the early 1940’s Stalinist period to supply coal…

That Time Harvard and Yale Took Naked Photos of All Their Freshmen Students

Somewhere out there is a naked photograph of Hillary Clinton… Between the 1940s and the 1970s, several ivy league colleges had a very strange requirement for all their incoming freshmen students. Harvard, Yale, Wellesley College, Vassar as well as Brown University, were among the elite American colleges that asked all the young men and women…

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

1. London Underground: Then & Now Found on imgur 2. Doctored Art Closed Zombiescape Wonder Queen We Want $ The Art of Andrez Leipzig 3. A Ghost Town for Sale with a Liquor License – $225,000 In Seneca, California: Want to buy a ghost town with a bar and liquor license?…

The Circus Girls, 1949

There’s something about this photo story that I dug out of the LIFE archives that makes me want to pack up my website and join the circus. Shot by the acclaimed photographer Nina Leen in 1949, we find our sassy subculture of circus girls in Sarasota, Florida, dubbed “the home of the American circus”. You…