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The Great Winter Escape
By Hayley Domin
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The Bucket List of Remote Places to Kayak

Here's your guide to the coolest places to kayak.

By Brandon Withrow
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You Don’t Need Couture Cash to Live It Up in Paris

Your chic, sophisticated, and smart visitor’s guide to the City of Light.

By Blake Snow
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The Coolest Places To Travel In 2026

23 places for your consideration.

By Cool Material
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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 in Skåtøy, Norway. Designed as a serene getaway for two artists, this wood, glass, and…

By Amos Kwon
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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 with their Move airline seats that look visually welcoming and airy, as opposed to the…

By Amos Kwon
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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 is taking the angular tortoise-shell approach to keeping the elements out. The Hammerfest Hiking Cabins…

By Amos Kwon
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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 as of this writing. This particular egg is definitely not edible, but it's a whole…

By Cooper Fleishman
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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 arch on the island of Gozo in Malta that, unfortunately, was reclaimed by the sea…

By Cooper Fleishman
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