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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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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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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 how to make another one that lived up to original, but now's your chance to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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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 Shinola Hotel. The brand new digs are located at 1400 Woodward, where a Singer Sewing…

By Amos Kwon
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