The pub in Ireland that is also a hardware store
Ireland is famous for its pubs, and you’ll find few better than those in the southwestern town of Dingle. It only has 1,500 or so residents, yet o...
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Huangluo | Inside China’s village of real-life Rapunzels
The fairy tale of Rapunzel is usually remembered as just that – a fairy tale. But in the village of Huangluo, China, the Yao women have been m...
Meet the world’s final spinner of an ancient sea silk
For over a thousand years, Chiara Vigo’s family has been keeping up a rare tradition - spinning silk from the sea. The sea silk, or bysuss, is spun o...
The 107-year-old tattoo artist preserving an ancient art
This is Whang Od. At 107 years old, she is the oldest remaining mambabatok – a traditional master tattoo artist in the Philippines using hand-tap m...
Would you live in a plane? This man does
This is Bruce Campbell. He has lived in an airplane in the woods of Hillsboro, Oregon since he bought his very own Boeing 727 back in 1999. Some 25...
After 32 years alone in paradise, Mauro Morandi was forced back to civilization
In 2019, we went and met Mauro Morandi on the secluded Italian island of Budelli, found off the north of Sardinia. Morandi had lived on the island for...
Meet the woman who remembers everything
Plenty of us struggle to remember what we ate for dinner last night, let alone what we were doing on a random day over a decade ago. That is the...
The city where everyone lives under one roof
Almost the entire population of the city of Whittier, Alaska, lives under one roof....
Why do we change the clocks and how long have we done it for?
It's that time of year. Roughly 70 different countries now change their clocks, especially those further away from the equator. It means many of us...
The Museum of Broken Relationships
Maybe it's time to get rid of your ex's belongings?...
Alert | The northernmost inhabited place in the world
This is the aptly named town of Alert in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, in Canada. ...
Is this the world’s most expensive home?
Towering over the city of Mumbai, located on the aptly named street Billionaires Row, this house is called Antilia. Belonging to Indian business...
