5 Secret Restaurants in Paris

Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s best-kept secret It just looks like an ordinary Italian deli (épicerie in French) on a bustling market street in Saint Germain … but it’s hiding a secret in a dark corner at the back. Indicated only by two blackboards nearly tucked out of…

Hidden Room Found in an Attic from WW2 is Sorta Cool, Mostly Creepy

If I ever find a hidden time capsule, there damn well better be some sort of pirate treasure inside it! But anyhoo, today we’ll be looking at a discovery courtesy of Reddit.com from a user who found a hidden room in the attic of their house in Norway, believed to have been there since World War II.…

An Underwater Fashion Show c.1947

So I went sniffing around the LIFE Archives again and this time found some rather unusual photographs from an underwater fashion show, taken by Sam Shere in 1947. There wasn’t much more information than that available on the quirky event, but in one of the photographs of a model standing around the pool, I spotted a…

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

1. An Abandoned Melting Ice Hotel Mental Floss photographer Arne Bergh visited the 23rd incarnation of the Ice Hotel both before and after it hosted around 60,000 guests for its annual season. Every year, Lapland builds a hotel entirely made of ice in Sweden on the banks of the Torne River. But when the warm weather arrives, another hotel must…

Guy Finds 1938 Superman Comic in Wall of his new Home, Can Now Buy 10 Homes

Average Joe contractor, David Gonzales paid $10,000 for an abandoned house he spotted in Elbow Lake, Minnesota with his wife last winter. The roof was in bad shape and a neighbouring restaurant had been hoping to buy it and turn it into a parking lot. Mr. Gonzales, a ‘humble working guy’ who remodels homes for a…

Remains of an Underwater Habitat left by 1960s Sea Dwellers

It was an ambitious, otherwordly idea, dreamt up by American military physician, Dr. Bond, deemed too risky and ultimately rejected by the US Navy. Bond then turned to French diving/ filmmaking pioneer Jacques Cousteau and his ‘Calypso’ diving team, who accepted the challenge, never before attempted by man, to build an underwater colony where divers…

10 of the Most Interesting Vintage Rides up for Auction Next Month

An impressive line-up of automobiles will be up for auction hosted by Bonhams next week on June 2 in Greenwich Connecticut. The 100 car-strong roster includes such names as Bugatti and Aston Martin, but it was the more unusual rides that caught my attention… 1. Lot 307: 1967 Volkswagen Type 2 Westfalia Deluxe Camper with matching…

The Man who makes the Neon Signs

In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon sign was secretly glowing and flickering since the Great Depression, until it was discovered after 62 years, having accumulated over $17,000 in electricity bills for the unwitting owners. The sign was purchased in 1935 but later stored out of…

Living in the Village at the End of the World

Welcome to Niaqornat, Northwest Greenland. Population: 59. Dogs outnumber people in this surreal and remote settlement with no more than 15 houses in total. If the population falls below 50, government ministers have talked about stopping the supply ships that pass through every few weeks between May and December and relocating the people of Niaqornat. When…

25 Swimsuits & Bikinis for Girls who aren’t into wearing Dental Floss

Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing that mattered was building sand castles and crashing into the sea– not how far your bikini bottoms were riding up your ass. So I’ve done some digging for you and here are my picks…