Inside Japan’s New Luxury Suite Train That Departs From Ueno’s Platform 13½
Harry Potter fans got a little giddy when JR East announced that Ueno Station in Tokyo would open up a “Platform 13½” in order to accommodate the new Train Suite Shiki-Shima, a luxury train that features observation platforms, private suites, high class restaurants, and foot baths. Continue reading »
This Unicorn Cafe In Bangkok May Be The Happiest Place On Earth
Once you’re in Bangkok, Thailand, you must visit this fun and colorful cafe that looks like every 8-year-old girl’s dream. But that doesn’t mean that it’s for little girls only; anyone can come and enjoy going back to childhood for a day. Continue reading »
Japan Turns Competitive Pillow Fighting Into An Art Form
Welcome to the sport of competitive pillow fighting, known in Japanese as 枕投げ makura-nage
Since 2013, the All-Japan Pillow Fighting Championships have been held here. Competitive makura-nage was inspired by the kind of pillow fights Japanese children on extended school trips often have when teachers aren’t looking in the large tatami-matted communal rooms of the Japanese inn where they spend the night. Continue reading »
“Il Gigante”: The Statue Of The Giant Neptune In Italian Village
Monterosso del Mare is probably the largest of the Cinque Terre villages in Italy. Since its founding in early 13th century, the village functioned as a cultural and political centre of the region and its status required proper protection. Continue reading »
87-Year-Old Collector Gathered 110 Fighter Jets In His Chateau In France
The Château de Savigny-lès-Beaune, nestled in the rolling hills of Burgundy’s wine country, is the last place you’d expect to find a fighter plane which once had atomic bombs strapped expectantly under its wings. Continue reading »
Subterranean Amusement Park Located 400 Feet Underground In A 17th Century Salt Mine
This isn’t your average amusement park, not by a long shot. The Salina Turda Durgău is located an incredible 368 feet underground in Transylvania. Continue reading »
An 80-Foot Steel Kraken Will Create An Artificial Coral Reef Near The British Virgin Islands
One day, a young marine mechanic and photographer named Owen Buggy noticed a ship called the “Kodiak Queen” in a shipyard in Road Town, Tortola… rusting away amongst other ships waiting being scrapped for metal. Owen envisioned sinking the ship as an artificial reef and curious about the ship’s origins, started doing some research. He quickly discovered the Kodiak Queen wasn’t just a normal fishing trawler— but a missing piece of World War II history. Continue reading »
Here Are The Most Interesting Things This Geologist Found On Google Earth
Traveling can be expensive and there’s only so much places you can visit before you run out of money. However, there are still ways to explore the world without leaving the comfort of your seat – like, for example, using Google Earth. Continue reading »
Stunning Photographs From The Inside One Of The Oldest Bank Archives In Europe
The Banco di Napoli Historical Archives can be considered the largest archival collection of bank documents in the entire world. There are documents dating back to the middle of the 1500s to the present day. Continue reading »
Amazing Video Of Divers Swimming Through A Place Where One Continent Ends And Another Begins
Fascinating pictures have emerged of divers exploring the crystal clear waters located between two continents. The pictures were taken in Silfra which enables divers to explore both North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Continue reading »
Austrian Woman Used A Mix Of Concrete And Dish-Washing Detergent To Build This Amazing Dome House In Costa Rica
According to Katrin: “Hi, I am Katrin from Vienna, Austria. After visiting Montezuma many times, and falling in love with this little paradise, I finally moved here in 2017.” Continue reading »
Japan’s Abandoned Mines Hint At The Ruins We’ll Leave Behind
Matsuo mine, Japan. Photo by Michael Johngrist.
The mines in Osarizawa and Matsuo closed decades ago, leaving behind the ruins of industry and miners’ homes. The shattered landscape offers a foretaste of a not-too-distant apocalypse. Continue reading »
The World’s Most Unusual Beach Is A Glacier In Russia’s Kingdom Of Permafrost
Tired of summer beach recreation? We have something special to impress you! As an alternative to an ordinary hot sand beach try to laze on the ice beach of Yakutia. It is a permafrost region, but in fact summer in Yakutia is as hot as it is in Yalta. But it has snow. Continue reading »
This Resort Is Offering You The Chance To Sleep Under The Stars And Over The Ocean For $400 A Night On A Net
Imagine slowly drifting off to sleep while all you hear is the crashing ocean waves and wind. The most fun part of all is that the water is directly underneath you as you’re laying on a specifically designed net suspended directly above it. It may all sound like a distant dream, but it is possible for merely $400 a night. Continue reading »
Woman Parodies Perfect Instagram Travel Photos With Hilariously Unphotogenic Selfies
Michelle Liu is a passionate traveler documents her journeys in a less common way. With the help of her iPhone and selfie stick, Liu captures these “chinfies” as she likes to call them. Continue reading »
A Turquoise Lake In Siberia Where People Have Been Taking Selfies Is Actually A Toxic Power Plant’s Ash Dump
The lake, nicknamed the “Novosibirsk Maldives” because of how tropical it looks, has provided the perfect backdrop to people’s Instagram posts. But the reason for its colour is less appealing – calcium salts and other metal oxides from the plant. Continue reading »
“Big In Japan”: 30 Times People Traveled To Japan And Realized They’re Too Tall For It
“My 6’7″ Stepfather Is Visiting Japan This Week”
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Perhaps it’s the geography of the country; the wide-open spaces of the Prarie, the vast cornfields in the midwest and the deserts of Nevada, Arizona, and Utah – Americans are comfortable with big. Big cars, big meals, big houses. Continue reading »
“One Photo, Four Seasons”: This Is How 8 Different Locations Around The World Look Across The Four Seasons
Have you ever felt like you have all the energy in the world during the summer and could go without sleep and as soon as winter comes, you’d rather warp yourself in a warm blanket and conserve energy until it starts blooming? The annual cycle not only leaves fingerprints on scenery around us, it majorly affects our lifestyle, habits and moods. Continue reading »
Amazing Vintage Color Photos Of Trailer Parks In The United States From Between The 1950s And 1960s
The first examples of mobile homes can be traced back to the roaming bands of gypsies who traveled with their horse-drawn mobile homes as far back as the 1500s. Continue reading »
Guy Finds Abandoned Graveyard Of Supercars In UAE
They’d be most people’s pride and joy – but these supercars are sitting gathering dust in what must be the world’s most expensive car graveyard. Continue reading »
Inside The Abandoned Summer Camp In Chernobyl
Three days after the huge nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, the Soviets mandated that everyone living within 30-kilometers of the plant evacuate. People were told they’d only be gone for a few days, and packed as such. But 30 years later, the area — called the Exclusion Zone — remains uninhabited and has become a haunting time capsule of Soviet life in 1986. Here are photos of abandoned summer camp for children. Continue reading »
Handy Public Punching Bags Located Around Manhattan That Let New Yorkers Vent Their Frustrations
donttakethisthewrongway, a design studio based out of Savannah, Georgia, installed a series of “Public Punching Bags” around Manhattan during their visit to New York City Design Week 2019. The idea was to give people a way to momentarily express their frustrations in a public place before going on with their day, hopefully feeling a bit better than before. Continue reading »
Probably, You Should Stay Inside This Big Idaho Potato
An incredible potato-shaped hotel is now available for rent in Boise, Idaho. Idaho state also has its own commission on the starchy: The “Idaho Potato Commission”, and boasted potatoes on its license plates. The famous six-ton potato first spent seven years on the road behind a truck-trailer, scouring 48 US states to promote Idaho starch. Kristie Wolfe, tiny house specialist, then decided to add a silo to incorporate a bathtub and a fireplace, making the unusual place habitable! Continue reading »
Prague’s Narrowest Street is So Narrow it Has Traffic Lights For Pedestrians
In the heart of Prague’s oldest neighborhood, the historic Mala Strana or “Little Quarter”, there is a street so narrow that it’s impossible for two people to get past each other no matter how hard they try. Continue reading »
Please Don’t Step On The Fish! Vietnam’s Unique Flooded Cafe
Animal cafes where you can enjoy a hot cup of coffee and pet cute animals like cats, dogs or even sheep have been springing up all over the world, but Amix Coffee is the only cafe in the world where you can relax as dozens of decorative fish swim at your feet. Continue reading »
