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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture
By Lola Méndez
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

By Cool Material
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Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta

Come for the mountains, ocean, and adventure. Stay for the martinis, massages, and freshly cleaned sunglasses.

By Lanny Fuller
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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Bourbon has never been bigger. And somehow, it still has secrets.

By Lanny Fuller
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It Took Almost Four Decades to Make This Scale Model of Ancient Rome

For most of us, time travel is limited to works of fiction and the Wayback Machine. Italian architect Italo Gismondi is making it more of a reality with what we presume to be his life's work, Plastico di Roma Imperiale. Plastico di Roma Imperiale--aka Model of Imperial Rome--is a 1:250…

By Cooper Fleishman
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C-Space Mars Base 1 in the Gobi Desert

Echelons better than lead-filled kids’ toys and knockoff Land Rovers (Land Wind??), this Chinese-built Martian base in the Gobi Desert is something to behold. Created to simulate a base station on the planet Mars, Chinese company C-Space’s Mars Base 1 will eventually open up to the public. The idea behind…

By Amos Kwon
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This Korean Cafe Is Decked out like It’s 2D

We've seen quite a few interesting and far out interiors over the years, but nothing like what you'll find at Cafe 연남동223-14 그림2D in Seoul, Korea. The interior of the appropriately named 2D Cafe is decked out in monochrome line art that makes it feel as if you're a three-dimensional character…

By Cooper Fleishman
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“The Swimming Pool” by Leandro Erlich

You’d never guess this break from reality art installation has been around for 15 years because the idea seems totally fresh. Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich created “The Swimming Pool” in 2004 as a permanent art installation that’s also an optical illusion and an experiential work at the same time. In…

By Amos Kwon
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Dust Brush SEB39105216-001, Apollo, Training

It's typically the more dramatic aspects of space travel and exploration that nab the public's attention. Shuttles and rockets, spacesuits, Primary Life Support Subsystems, and hell, even portable drink bags in zero gravity. But the laundry list of NASA's gear haul is truly exhaustive when it comes to an astronaut's…

By Amos Kwon
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