Category: TRAVEL

April 10, 2015 at 3:02 pm

This Guy Spent the Last 40 Years Building His Own Human-Powered Theme Park

This Guy Spent the Last 40 Years Building His Own Human-Powered Theme Park

It began on June 15, 1969 with two jugs of wine, a bag of sausages and a grill. Two guys walked by and asked, “what is this?” Bruno replied, “it’s a restaurant”, and Ai Pioppi was born. Located in Battaglia, Italy, the family run restaurant still operates to this day, some 45 years later.…

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April 9, 2015 at 4:26 pm

This is as Close as it Gets to a Flying House

This is as Close as it Gets to a Flying House

In Kirkland, Washington there’s a company that has been customizing jumbo jet interiors for heads of state and high net worth clients for over 25 years. Established in 1988, Greenpoint Technologies is a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) Completion Center providing turnkey interior completions. To date, Greenpoint has completed a number of interiors to various…

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April 8, 2015 at 5:44 pm

Picture of the Day: Hiking With Your Best Friend

Picture of the Day: Hiking With Your Best Friend

Photograph by Vladimir Kudinov It doesn’t get much better than this! Great capture by Vladimir Kudinov via Unsplash

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April 7, 2015 at 11:14 am

The Top 25 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2015

The Top 25 'Pictures of the Day' for 2015

At the end of every quarter the Sifter highlights the top 25 “Pictures of the Day“, culminating in an epic Top 100 at the end of the year (check out the Top 100 POTDs for 2014!). It’s hard to believe we’re already 1/4 of the way through 2015. I can’t wait to see what…

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April 6, 2015 at 6:00 pm

Picture of the Day: Cologne Cathedral from the Top of a Spire

Picture of the Day: Cologne Cathedral from the Top of a Spire

Photograph by Vadim Makhorov | On the Roofs In this dizzying night time photo we see what Cologne Cathedral looks like from the top of one of the two massive spires. The photo was taken by Vadim Makhorov, one half of the rooftopping duo On the Roofs. Cologne Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral…

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April 2, 2015 at 4:31 pm

Picture of the Day: Diving Into the Abyss

Picture of the Day: Diving Into the Abyss

© Dean Treml/Red Bull Cliff Diving Seven divers perform a mass dive from 19 metres (62 ft) after the second training session of the seventh and final stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at the famous Ik Kil cenote in Yucatan, Mexico, on October 16th 2014. A cenote is a natural…

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April 1, 2015 at 2:08 pm

The 12th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest Winners

The 12th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest Winners

Smithsonian has just announced the winners of their 12th Annual Photo Contest. The winners were selected from over 26,500 entries by photographers from 93 different countries. Pham Ty was awarded the grand prize for his photo of seamstresses sewing a fishing net in a small Vietnamese village. Six category winners were also selected along…

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March 31, 2015 at 1:14 pm

The Lonely Castle in the Middle of the Desert

The Lonely Castle in the Middle of the Desert

In the desert landscape of northeastern Saudia Arabia you will find Qasr al-Farid aka “The Lonely Castle”. Built in the first century A.D. the Lonely Castle rises four stories; an unfinished tomb carved out of a solitary sandstone outcrop. Because the tomb was never completed, we can see how the façade was chiseled from…

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March 27, 2015 at 6:47 pm

Picture of the Day: Northern Guangxi Province, China

Picture of the Day: Northern Guangxi Province, China

Photograph by Trey Ratcliff | StuckinCustoms.com In this jaw-dropping panoramic by Trey Ratcliff, we see the incredible landscape of the northern region of Guangxi, just to the south of the Guizhou and Hunan provinces of China. In a post on Google+, Ratcliff explains: “It was a muggy day, the sort where you feel your…

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March 26, 2015 at 11:21 am

Rover Completes First Ever “Mars Marathon” with Time of 11 Years, 2 Months

Rover Completes First Ever "Mars Marathon" with Time of 11 Years, 2 Months

[NASA JPL] NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, working on Mars since January 2004, passed marathon distance in total driving on March 24, 2015, during the mission’s 3,968th Martian day, or sol. A drive of 153 feet (46.5 meters) on Sol 3968 brought Opportunity’s total odometry to 26.221 miles (42.198 kilometers). Olympic marathon distance is…

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