Although the name really threw me off quite a bit, I must tell you about my visit to a restaurant during my trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina called Dirty Dick’s Crab House. To begin, this is the marketing slogan found on all the restau…
A Town called Dildo
Dildo is a town on the island of Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is located on the southeastern Dildo Arm of Trinity Bay about 60 kilometres west of St. John's. South Dildo is a neighbouring unincorporate…
It Is Almost Summer in Norilsk
Norilsk (Russian: Норильск; IPA: [nɐˈrʲilʲsk]) is an industrial city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located above the Arctic Circle, east of the Yenisei River and south of the western Taymyr Peninsula. It has a permanent population of 175,000. Wi…
Sulabh International Museum of Toilets
Photo credit: www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org In a quiet courtyard in the suburbs of New Delhi, inside a low-slung concrete building, the assistant curator and guides of Sulabh International Museum of Toilets eagerly awaits for visitors. The museum i…
Montreal Biosphere
Photo credit: leo gonzales/Flickr The Montreal Biosphere, located on Saint Helen's Island in Montreal, Canada, is a museum dedicated to the environment. It was designed and created by visionary architect Richard Buckminster Fuller originally as …
Hamilton Pool
Just 23 miles west of Austin, Texas, is a breathtaking natural oasis emerging out of the hill country chaparral.Hamilton Pool is a natural spring formed in the limestone bedrock and fed by an underground river, which also feeds the small tributa…
The smallest village
The village of Bourton-on-Water in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, is the smallest village by the size of its houses and not by the number of its people.It is literally a little village. All the houses and streets are built to scale of 1:9, nei…
