What Happens When Decrepit School Buses Race a Figure Eight Course? (Florida)

Sometimes, when it feels like the world is turning all ‘Mad Max’ around you, you just want to watch something crash and burn. Enter the Showtime Speedway in Clearwater (AKA Showtime Speedway Pinellas Park), home to professional racing on an oval paved track and a...

Destination: the Museum of Television (Toronto, Canada)

Why, yes, there’s a museum of televisions — why do you ask? There’s plenty of weird stuff to be seen in Toronto — and while not the weirdest place ever, it’s certainly a unique collection. Focusing on television sets, not television programming, the history of how...

How to take an epic road trip across Canada

EPIC ROAD TRIP! YEAH!…or something like that. Here’s how to make it happen north of the border. Ahh, the great open road. For decades, people of many nationalities and age groups have talked about, joked about, and often taken the Great Road Trip Across the Country....

Destination: Barcelona — your ultimate guide to 10 of the city’s weirdest places

Barcelona ended up being one of my favorite cities across our epic European trip. Here are 10 of the reasons why. Erotica Museum Plenty of adults-only stuff here, and plenty of cultures are represented here getting busy. The highlight involves some of the earliest...

A long time ago… in a desert far far away… Destination: Mos Espa, Darth Vader’s childhood home…

One of the sets from the Phantom Menace was left standing and open to the public — thanks to Indiegogo and a squadron of volunteers, it’s still here. Say what you will about the film — so much movie-making wizardry happens behind closed doors or distant places that...

Destination: the Personal Computing Museum (Brantford, Ontario, Canada)

Go on, admit it — you miss your Commodore 64 (or Tandy or old-school Apple). Established in 2005, this museum-in-a-garage is bound to bring back plenty of nostalgic feelings, and remains an opportunity to show the still-working tech to your kids. Although only open...

Destination: the Dienfenbunker — the Canadian nuclear bunker for the end of the world (Ontario, Canada)

It’s not everyday you come across some end-of-the-world planning. Everyone calls it the Diefenbunker, but when this Cold War nuclear bunker was built from 1959–1962, they were simply Emergency Government Headquarters. Several dozen of these bunkers were authorized by...

Where To Go Instead: 9 Famous Places and their Better Alternatives

Some well-known places are genuinely wonderful. Some just have a good marketing team. Here are nine lesser-known places to check out and have a better time for less money or hassle. Go on, admit it — part of the reason you might travel to a place is to say you’ve been...

Open once in a blue moon — places you really need to plan ahead to reach

Some places are so awesome that the world can’t handle them being open all the time. Plan ahead to see these places and you’ll be rewarded. I’ve collected a number of places from bloggers around the world, and added a couple from my own travels See the Buddhist temple...

A tale of three car museums: the Lamborghini, the Ferrari, and the… Trabi?!

While traveling across Europe, we took in three distinctive styles of cars and the museum dedicated to them each. Two are worthy, but there’s a clear winner in this blogger’s opinion. Which one? Go on, guess. First, the Lamborghinis… Officially called the Centre...