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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of April 2026: holidays, folklore and traditions

2 days ago randomcollabs

5 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Pink Moon 20026 – April’s Full Moon

2 days ago randomcollabs

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Pierre Loti Hill: have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul!

4 weeks ago Ivan

9 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of March 2026: holidays, folkore and traditions

1 month ago randomcollabs

2 min read

• Travel

Stuckey’s Bridge and the ghost of Old Man Stuckey

1 month ago Danijel90

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

United in Death: the linked headstones of Het Oude Kerkhof!

1 month ago Robin

2 min read

• Travel

A victorian secret London and urine deflectors of Fleet Street

1 month ago Danijel90

4 min read

• History

Via Port’Alba: the 17th-century passageway home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world!

2 months ago Danilo

3 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

How Croatia bans winter

2 months ago Danijel90

2 min read

• Travel

Carreró de les Bruixes: a signal indicates the entrance to this alley, rumored to be a meeting place for witches!

2 months ago Danilo

2 min read

• Travel

Needless Alley – a small alleyway with an unusual moniker!

2 months ago Danijel90

2 min read

• History

When groundhog was on the menu of Pennsylvania

2 months ago Nathan

13 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of February 2026: holidays, folklore and traditions

2 months ago randomcollabs

2 min read

• Abandoned Places

The Lion House: when humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.

2 months ago Ivan

1 min read

• Travel

The Finger: discover wooden middle fingers raised in protest

2 months ago Nathan

3 min read

• Travel

Bosco Verticale: a vertical forest in the middle of Milan’s urban jungle

3 months ago Danijel90

6 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Wolf Moon – first full moon of 2026!

3 months ago randomcollabs

12 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of January 2026: holidays, folklore and traditions

3 months ago randomcollabs

2 min read

• Travel

‘Arc Majeur’ by Bernard Venet, the work of art, which took 35 years to complete, that has a motorway running through it!

3 months ago Robin

2 min read

• Travel

Discover the Candy Cane mountains, swirling layers of white and red rock that earned them their festive nickname

3 months ago Ivan

4 min read

• History

Wire, house fires, feathers, toilet-cleaning brushes…with real (and fake) Christmas trees!

4 months ago Leo S

4 min read

• Travel

Discover Santa’s House…in Greenland!

4 months ago Robin

3 min read

• Travel

Lala’s Little Nugget: at this Austin dive bar, it’s been Christmas every day for more than 50 years!

4 months ago Leo S

2 min read

• Travel

Paul McCarthy’s Santa of Oslo: a controversial statue that stands year-round in a traffic circle.

4 months ago Nathan

3 min read

• Food

Discover Nobel Ice Cream, the world’s smartest dessert!

4 months ago Robin

2 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Cold Moon: December’s Full Moon

4 months ago Leo S

15 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The month of December 2025: holidays, folklore and traditions

4 months ago randomcollabs

3 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

What’s the real history of Black Friday?

4 months ago Leo S

3 min read

• Motors

Discover the shortest scheduled passenger flight in Italy, shorter than the metro ride to Linate Airport!

4 months ago Danilo

2 min read

• Art and Photography

Don Featherstone: meet the man who designed the iconic pink flamingo (and his gravestone adorned with his most famous creation!)

5 months ago Nathan

3 min read

• Food

Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard: discover sweetest graveyard in the world filled with headstones for dearly deceased ice cream flavors.

5 months ago Robin

10 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of November 2025: holidays, folklore and traditions

5 months ago randomcollabs

5 min read

• History

Struwwelpeter: the 19th-century book that scared mid-19th century German kids into behaving

5 months ago Anya

4 min read

• Food

Huesos de Santo – the bone-shaped sweets that honor the dead in Spain

5 months ago Danilo

2 min read

• Abandoned Places

Filanda di Forno: the crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

5 months ago Danilo

3 min read

• Food

Under – discover the world’s largest underwater restaurant submerged off the southern tip of Norway!

6 months ago Nathan

3 min read

• Abandoned Places

Fabbriche di Careggine, the submerged 13th century village that is still visible when the water recedes

6 months ago Danilo

12 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of October 2025: holidays, folklore and traditions

6 months ago randomcollabs

2 min read

• Food

Donut Hole: the drive-through tunnel that has attracted donut-lovers since 1968.

6 months ago Nathan

2 min read

• Travel

Library of Mistakes: a place where thousands of books explain how to avoid (another) Great Recession.

7 months ago Robin

4 min read

• Travel

French Toilets of Spikersuppa: a celebration of Norwegian independence, or public art gone wrong?

7 months ago Danijel90

6 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of September 2025: holidays, folklore and traditions

7 months ago randomcollabs