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The Iceland Most People Don’t See
By Brandon Withrow
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The Art of the Solo Stay

Traveling alone changes how you choose a city and hotel. Here are my favorite spots after 10 years of solo travel.

By Hayley Domin
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Pigs & Pinot: The Most Powerful Father-Son Food Weekend in Sonoma

Charlie Palmer's 19th annual Pig & Pinot event returns, with a couple twists this year.

By Cool Material
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This Is Alberta Before It Was a Postcard

My four-day Indigenous-led road trip through Jasper and Métis Nation territory, mapped.

By Brandon Withrow
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The Boeing Test Team Created Some Aerial Art

Boeing is consistently flying to test their planes, but these are flights that don't necessarily have a destination. It's more that the pilots are up in the air for long stretches until they land back where they started.  That might get boring, so it's up to the pilots to entertain…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Gemma Observatory

Anmahian Winton Architects is a Cambridge-based architecture firm with work all over the world that focuses on collaboration, innovation and sustainable design. More importantly, as is evidenced by the Gemma Observatory, their works are beautiful, functional, interesting and award-winning. The Gemma Observatory by Anmahian Winton Architects is a private astronomical…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Arctic Bath Is a Floating Hotel in Sweden

While it looks like a building modeled after the iron throne, the Arctic Bath has nothing to do with Game of Thrones and everything to do with enjoying the Northern Lights. Scheduled to open next year, the Swedish hotel floats on water and offers incredible views of the Aurora Borealis. Of course,…

By Mike Newman
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Betting on the Ponies

A day spent at the track can be a high energy thrill ride, a nice relaxed way to spend the day with family and friends, or even a date. You control how much you spend, so it’s as expensive as you make it, and you always have the chance to…

By Maxwell Barna
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The Off-Road Campers We’d Buy if Money Were No Object

Every time we have the “What if you could do anything you wanted?” conversation, it always ends with us saying we’d love to do more traveling. And when we say “traveling,” you know we’re not the “book a cruise and hang out in port all week” kind of people. We’re…

By Maxwell Barna
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