Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Hobbit Motel
If you’re looking for truly off-the-wall accommodations, look no further than Woodlyn Park, in Waitomo, New Zealand, where three different motels thrill vacationers: a 1950s freighter plane (said to be one of the last Allied planes to leave Vietnam); a 1950s rail car that sleeps six; and a hobbit motel (allegedly the world’s first) dot [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Offbeat Hotels
There’s a hotel out there to satisfy most every curiosity—whether you’re into marine life, wildlife, or Eskimo life—but we’ve narrowed the choices down to ten stand-out properties ranging from low-cost to luxe. So say goodbye to so-so lodging and catch your zzz’s in one of our favorite offbeat hotels. Pick from a 1950s freighter jet, [...]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Soft as a pillow
Sweet Dreams: Sleeping on Cakes
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Bye-Bye Mini-Golf
A vanishing bit of Americana is disappearing from Tucson and Dianne Stevens of Airstream Life was able to record a bit of it before it was lost forever.
The Magic Carpet Golf, on East Speedway Boulevard will soon be razed to make way for a parking lot. The entire place was handmade with concrete sculptures, [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Strange Places by Marlow Harris
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Secret Rooms
Hidden passages have a long history of appearing in fictional novels and films but an even richer past in reality dating back to Egyptian tombs passages for Christians to worship in hiding from Romans. Over the years hidden passages have been used to arrest kings and evacuate popes, hide shogun warriors, facilitate guerrilla fighters, enable [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Eliphante
1979 Michael & Leda moved themselves and their paintings from Provincetown MA to rural land in Cornville Arizona. There they began the first mixed media structure which they later called Eliphante. They continued building and sculpting on the 3 acre environment.
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Dog Park Inn
Dog Bark Park Inn is a bed & breakfast guesthouse inside the World’s Biggest Beagle. Guests enter the body of the beagle from a private 2nd story deck. Some of the dog’s decorative furnishings are carvings by Dog Bark Park chainsaw artists Dennis & Frances. Inside and up another level to the head of the [...]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Building with bottles
Instead of throwing those glass bottles away, many folks have wondered how to recycle and build with these ubiquitous items.
This photo show walls being constructed on a build in New Mexico by Mike Reynolds at one of his “earthships”.
Apparently back in the 60’s Mr. Heineken came up with the idea of makeing the [...]
