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

1. The Secret Entrance to one of New York’s Grandest Clubs Hidden in plain sight the whole time, this unassuming door once lead to a legendary watering hole. Deep in the subway system below Times Square and passed by thousands of commuters and tourists everyday …Tucked away on the north end of Platform 1 on…

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

1. Just a Double Decker bus re-purposed as a backyard Pool House This is the New Orleans home of artist Miranda Lake. The bus is a vintage Routemaster which she bought from a friend and describes as “one big shiny, giant happy pill you can actually get inside of.” And if you liked this, you gotta see the…

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

1. Bookstores of New York The New Yorker asked the cartoonist Bob Eckstein to walk around New York City and draw his favorite bookstores. See the full set of cartoons he sent them. Look for part two of this series in the next few weeks. 2. A Miniature Secret Book Available to buy on Etsy,…

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

1. A Chinese Cave Village Uphill from the giant Miao Room, 21 families from the Miao minority live under the roof of a cave. They first came, elders say, because of the reliable spring. The cave now contains a basketball court and a shuttered primary school. An entire village housed in a 600-foot-wide cave [under] roofless bamboo homes.…

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

1. Keith Richards riding a Horse Keith and Patti Hanson, photographed by Ken Regan, print available from the Morrison Gallery. 2. William Vanderbilt’s Abandoned Salt Water Pool On the North Shore of Long Island lies the stately home of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, known as the Eagles Nest, built between 1910 and 1936: Today, it…

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

1. Triplets get a Haircut, 1956 The Dees triplets, Megan, Christina and Katha, photographed in 1956 by Nina Leen for LIFE magazine. And here they are all grown up, modelling in the 1960s… 2. A Multi-Story VW Bus This multi-storey VW minibus comes from Berger Stadel Walsh of Basel, found on Boing Boing 3. Battery, Baghdad,…

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

1. The Last Brownstone “Construction in NYC, 1959, land being cleared for 20 story building in East 60s- still occupied brownstone is soon to go.” Changing New York photographed by Dmitri Kessel. 2. Flat Manhattan, 1883 The 1883 engraving by Captain Willard Glazier comes from his book “Peculiarities of American Cities“, found on Socks Studio.…

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

1. If Jeep had made a Hippie Bus… 1958 Jeep FC-150 Passenger Van prototype, one of only three ever built. Found on Curbside Classic. 2. Forgotten Billboard Signs Full series found on Cargo Collective 3. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle, early 1900s Found on Retronaut 4. The Brooks Brothers Needlepoint…

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

1. The Most Beautiful Abandoned Railway Station in the World This is an abandoned railway station in Abkhazia, former Russian territory. It stays untouched since the collapse of USSR – the railway connection of Abkhazia and Russia stopped and railway station left out of demand so nature could take over the left-overs of Soviet architecture.…

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

1. The Mysterious Tianzi Hotel, China I found a photograph of these giant buildings on Pinterest, labelled “The Tianzi Hotel, Beijing”. There’s very little up to date information on the internet (even in Chinese) but this account from Asia Obscura written in 2009 seems to be the best bet: An hour east of Beijing on…