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You Can Visit the World’s Largest Bird Statue in India

If India isn’t already on your list of must-visit countries, it should be. Between the delicious food, centuries old architecture and incredible culture, the country as a whole has a lot to offer when it…

Polydrop Trailer

Don’t call the Polydrop Trailer a camping trailer. It was never designed to be pigeonholed into that category. Instead, it’s a personal living space that’s meant to go with you and act as a place…

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StockX Is the Best Place to Buy and Sell Luxury Watches

If you're anything like us, you have quite a few quality watches in your collection. And yet, it still always feels like there's another Rolex, IWC, or Omega missing. Enter StockX, the best place to buy and sell luxury watches. Whether you're looking to pick up a new favorite, or sell one of your own pieces to make room, StockX has hundreds of different watches from all of your favorite brands. It's time to upgrade your watch game. Sign up today and they'll even give you $100 off your first watch purchase.

MIT and NASA Create a New Kind of Airplane Wing

Think of how a conventional airplane is shaped and how it flies, then throw all that out the aircraft canopy. A team of engineers from MIT and NASA have just created (and tested) a new…

Sculptor’s Unzipped Milan Building Facade

Painting an illusion is one thing, “peeling off” a building’s facade as an art installation takes a bit more, shall we say, commitment. British sculptor Alex Chinneck, who specializes in illusory sculptural and architectural displays…

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Spend a Night in the Louvre with This Airbnb Contest

At this point, everyone knows you can stay in some pretty sweet Airbnb rentals when you’re traveling. Treehouses. Game of Thrones locations. Castles. They also cornered the market on some incredible, once-in-a-lifetime stays through contests.…

Lime Out Is a Floating Taco and Cocktail Bar in the Virgin Islands

There’s almost nothing better than enjoying an alcoholic beverage on the open water wearing nothing but a pair of swim trunks. Except, maybe, a floating bar that serves cervezas, cocktails and even tacos off the…

Chicago’s Aon Center Is Getting an 82 Story Glass Elevator

There are so many things to do in Chicago that you could spend an entire week there and not even knock out the most popular options. In addition to trips to the Sears Tower, Hancock,…

MUJI Hotel Ginza

Creating a luxury hotel that’s pretty much the exact opposite of the quite overdone Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas isn’t an easy feat, but Japan’s MUJI hotels have nailed it. Having opened their Shenzen,…

House On An Island

A bit different from the similarly named Snakes on a Plane, House on an Island is more of a peaceful setting created by the award-winning architects at Atelier Oslo and built on a rock outcropping…

Layer Move Smart Airline Seats

We didn’t think the Marquis de Sade was still alive, but he apparently is responsible for the comfort levels of current coach airline seats. Now Layer Design, in collaboration with Airbus, comes to the rescue…

Hammerfest Hiking Cabins

The brilliance of nature’s designs inspires architecture like Calatrava’s bird-themed World Trade Center Oculus and the blooming floral Lotus temple in New Dehli. And now something as humble as a hikers’ shelter in northern Norway…

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The Swedish Solar Egg Sauna Is the Best Egg of 2019

The big news in eggs so far this year is the picture of an egg on Instagram that absolutely crushed Kylie Jenner’s previous record for most likes (18mil) with just shy of 48 million likes…

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The Azure Window from ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Being Rebuilt with Steel

The Azure Window, aka the Dwejra Window, aka the backdrop for the wedding of Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo way back in the first episode of Game of Thrones, was an almost hundred foot tall natural…

The $10,000 ‘Dumb and Dumber’ Luxury Ski Package

There’s no denying the fact that Dumb and Dumber is one of the best comedy movies of all time. It’s incredibly clever, infinitely quotable and downright hilarious. It’s too bad no one could figure out…

Shinola Opens Its First-Ever Hotel

Shinola is a big part of Detroit’s revival, and they’ve just opened their own branded hotel in partnership with Bedrock Detroit. Going way beyond watches, bicycles, and leather goods, the establishment is simply called the…

The Flying Nest Shipping Container Hotel Concept

There’s just something about the raw and industrial feel of a shipping container that makes it the perfect blank canvas for building projects. You could build one of your very own shipping container houses that…

Pan Treetop Cabins

Most getaway cabins rest on the forest floor, allowing you to look out at a small wooded section of land. The Pan Treetop Cabins, however, give you an entirely different view. The two cabins are…

This London Hotel Has a Whisky Vending Machine

Have a trip to London on the horizon? Cancel your hotel or Airbnb, because you’re going to want to stay at the Napoleon. Why? Because there’s a vending machine full of whisky, that’s why. The…

How to Travel Like Anthony Bourdain Did

We don’t think it’s a stretch to say Anthony Bourdain was one of the most interesting characters of our time. He effortlessly taught a generation of otherwise wet-behind-the-eared youths how to sex, drugs, and rock…

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9 Real-World Locations You Can Explore in Video Games

Video games have always been a form of vicarious travel. Halo takes you to alien planets. Alan Wake shows off the Pacific Northwest’s capacity for ghost stories. Tomb Raider takes you across the modern world and into…

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