Category: Travel

If you’re interested in mining or historical ruins, this is a must-see. But don’t wait too long. The only structure still standing, the giant ore bin that once fed the stamp mill, looks like it’s barely holding together. From the area in front, where the old concrete foundations once held machinery, you’ll see five or […]

The Ortsspitze is a small park at the eastern end of Passau in Lower Bavaria. At its tip lies the Dreiflüsseeck, where Passau’s three rivers–Inn, Ilz, and Danube–conjoin. For the next twenty kilometers, the Danube straddles the German-Austrian border before it becomes a completely Austrian river at Engelhartszell. The rivers’ personalities are apparent from both […]

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, pieces of the infamous barricade were distributed by the newly united German government around the world as mementos and symbols of the end of the Cold War. In 1992, one such piece found its way to Montreal, given to the city to commemorate its 350th anniversary. […]

Burnside Skatepark was created in the early 1990s by local skaters seeking shelter from Portland’s relentless rain. Built without permission at first, it became one of the earliest and most iconic DIY skateparks in the world, later legitimized and embraced as part of the city’s culture. Its gritty concrete forms and unique location under the […]

On a quiet street in Homer, Alaska, an old phone booth stands stuffed with books—as if waiting for a call from your younger self, the version who swore you’d never grow old, who promised to keep seeking adventure. Follow the path past it and you’ll find one of Alaska’s most unusual bookstores: the Observance of […]

Suddenly, walking down from the Basilica you’re confronted by a restored Sherman tank, the Blindé Jeanne d’Arc, preserved on Place du Colonel Edon in Marseille. It commemorates the fierce fighting during the Liberation of Marseille in August 1944, particularly the assault on Notre-Dame de la Garde on August 25-26. After the landings on the Var […]