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Brisbane is arguably one of Queensland’s hippest cities, a beautiful, undulating river town with a  fantastic food scene, pumping nightlife,  great cafes and parks scattered around the river. Though one of the most expensive cities (in particular, its parking...

The native people of Bequia island are one of the three populations in the world for whom whale hunting is tolerated by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). As is true for the Inuit people, whale hunting in Bequia is both a constitutive tradition and a survival need as...

The astronomical clock in the Lund Cathedral known as Horologium mirabile Lundense is a magnificent artistic structure, but also contains surprisingly precise and modern pieces of engineering that were hidden in storage for almost a hundred years.   The Lund Cathedral itself...

Taking 16 years to carve, the massive Buddhist canon known as the Tripitaka Koreana is a staggering collection of wooden printing blocks known as one of the most complete doctrinal texts in the entire religion and is said to not contain even one error across its tens of...

Lake Sørvágsvatn is 3.4 square kilometers in size, more than three times the size of the second biggest lake among the Faroe archipelago, Fajallavatn and when viewed from above it appears to be contained far above the surrounding ocean. When viewed from afar,...

Along an otherwise normal London street is an innocuous storefront for Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, the world’s only shop suppling monsters, bogey men, and creatures of the night with their everyday essentials, however this bizarre store is only a front for a sneaky...

As experienced budget travelers, we love to save money, but sometimes it’s just worth it to pay a bit more for something in Paris. After all, you probably flew from somewhere quite far away so why get the worst when a few cents more can get you something even better? Selective...