Is the iAMsterdam city card worth it? A review of Amsterdam’s city card

We tend to pass on most city cards for a few reasons: They rarely work at the offbeat / lesser-traveled places we’re going The list of exceptions is long It takes a lot of time / traveling to make it worth the while They only give discounts as opposed to free...

Where the hell you been, Chris? On making games, going to Essen Spiel, and what’s next

If we’re not Facebook friends or following me on Twitter. you might have wondered where I’ve been — it’s been a couple of months since I’ve written a new post. Where the hell you been, Chris? In short, Düsseldorf, Germany from mid-September to the end of October. As I...

Things I Wish I Knew Before Going on a Romanian Road Trip

So we recently took a pretty cool road trip through Romania — a full week’s worth of driving and destinations — and there’s plenty of awesome destinations to cover in another post. If you’re looking at taking a Romanian road trip for yourself, though, here are a few...

Review: Bucharest’s Tour of Communism and the Jewish Trail (Romania)

I don’t go on many guided tours. When we do, it’s because the information out there isn’t all that helpful or there’s more to the story that’s not on the internet. In other cases, there’s a personal story best told by someone that lived through the times or has seen...

Destination: the only garbage truck collection in the United States (Florida, USA)

Officially, it’s the Waste Pro Garbage Truck Museum. Unofficially, it’s probably the biggest collection of its type. I know, I know, you’re coming to Florida for beaches and all sorts of other places. Why on earth would I go out of my way to find a place that barely...

Destination: the eclectic ‘Smithsonian of the South’ (Florida, United States)

Go on, admire the stuffed alligator hanging above your head. Welcome to the Lightner Museum, the self-described ‘Smithsonian of the South’. While researching my next book, What The Florida, I came across this oddball in St. Augustine, and it ended up being one of my...

12 Things You Need To Know Before Traveling to Dubrovnik and Split (Croatia)

Dubrovnik and Split are two of Croatia’s most popular tourist destinations — and with the high season coming soon, there’s a good chance you’ll be planning a trip here.   (Much like other Need to Know posts, this one’s focused on the lessons we learned, in the...

Experience blindness and type some Braille at Zagreb’s Typhlological Museum (Zagreb, Croatia)

I thought it was a typo on the sign at first, to be honest. How ironic, I thought, that the sign for the Typological Museum would have a typo in it. It’s not a typo, though — derived from typhlos (‘blind’) and logos (‘thought’ or ‘reason’), the Typhlological Museum...

The 7 Weirdest Places in Florida

I spent months traveling through Florida to find the weirdest of the weird. Here are the ten weirdest places we came across. Want more? What The Florida is out now. Harvey’s Ford Truck Collection (Crawfordville) Thank Pat Harvey and his father for this post-modern...

At this museum of mushrooms, what can kill you is just a few centimeters away (Zagreb, Croatia)

Yep — you read that right, a mushroom museum. Call it Muzej gljiva if you prefer using the Croatian name, and think of it as an education center. This collection exists thanks to the hard work of Dr. Romano Božac. From starting a mushroom association in 1983, a...