Welcome to Iowa…Or Is It Nebraska?
The weird story of Carter Lake, an Iowa city that’s actually in Nebraska.
Travel
3 Interesting Celebrity Museums
You’ve been to Graceland and you’ve visited the Roy Rogers Museum, but you’re still hungry for a celebrity fix? Here are some other destinations for your next road trip. The Ernest Hemingway Museum House Location: Key West, Florida Features: Hemingway, his wife Pauline, and their two sons lived in this two-story Spanish Colonial-style home from […]
The Theme Park That Cocaine Built
Pablo Escobar was one of Colombia’s most notorious drug lords, and made enough money to build himself an elaborate estate. It’s an amusement park now.
Let’s Go to Patriot Park!
If Walt Disney had been born in Russia and had been really into the military instead of animation, he might have built something like Patriot Park instead of Disneyland. Patriot Park, which glorifies Russia’s military might, opened in June in Kubinka, a town about an hour’s drive from Moscow. It should come as no surprise […]
6 Quick Facts About the Running of the Bulls
It’s one of the world’s craziest, and most dangerous, annual spectacles. Here are a few quick facts about this strange Spanish event.
3 of Thailand’s Weirdest Tourist Attractions
Thailand is a wonderful country with lots of gorgeous scenery, great food, and strange stuff.
The United States of…Belgium?
The United States pioneered a unique form of government—semi-autonomous states joined together under a central federal government. Plenty of other places around the world have since tried to emulate the idea, establishing their own “United States.” The United States of Belgium Between about 1500 and the early 1800s, Belgium was variously under the control of […]
3 Long-Gone Tourist Attractions
Here are some great places to go this summer…provided you have a time machine. Aquatarium (St. Petersburg, Florida) Housed in a 160-foot-tall transparent geodesic dome, the 17-acre Aquatarium opened in 1964. Tourists came from far and wide to visit this aquarium, which overlooked the Gulf of Mexico and was home to porpoises, sea lions, and […]
The World’s Fastest Train
Here’s one Japanese choo-choo that just set a speed record and may forever change the way that people ride the rails.
4 Tales From the Frontlines of the War on Wizz
Public urination is a big problem in many cities. Here’s how a few of them are fighting back….
3 Amazing Ice Hotels
Winter is when most of us to curl up indoors next to a toasty fire with a good book. However, others think it’s always nice on the ice. Here are some (literally!) super cool hotels
It’s Christmas in Japan!
Until recently, Christmas was obscure in Japan because, well, the country didn’t have a lot of Christians. It was only in the 1960s that the holiday became familiar by watching imported American and British TV sitcoms, many of which feature tradition-referencing Christmas episodes.
This presented the marketing department at Kentucky Fried Chicken with a great opportunity. KFC has had many restaurants in Japan for decades; the first opened in Nagoya in 1970. After learning
3 of the Coolest Bars in the World (That Are No Longer Open)
We recently told you about some of the world’s scariest bars. While those may remind you of the dead, these dearly departed watering holes around the world are, sadly, truly and completely dead.
Four Princely Public Potties
These fancy public restrooms are truly unique and even fit for a king. Keep them in mind the next time you need to take care of official “royal” business.
The Library of the Future
There’s no telling what libraries will look like a century from now…or if they’ll even exist. Nevertheless, a unique project currently underway in Norway is ensuring that they’ll have a least a few new books on their shelves.
Two of the World’s Most Famous (Unhaunted) Pet Cemeteries
Stephen King made animal graveyards super freaky when he published Pet Semetary in 1983. Many of them are really quite pleasant, however, and you’re unlikely to come across any resurrected corpses while strolling past their tombstones.
3 of the World’s Most Spooktacular Bars
Are you looking for a ghoulish watering hole to spend Halloween? Here are 3 spooktacular bars.
Fake It Until You Make It
Backpacking through foreign lands has long been a right-of-passage for graduates. But instead of doing that, a Dutch student pretended like she did…to see if anyone could tell.
