Travel Guides
Curated articles and in-depth guides from Tripbase covering food, culture, dangerous destinations, curiosities, and more.
Food & Drink
The Accidental History of the World's Most Famous Street Foods (All of Which Were Invented Out of Desperation)The hot dog, pizza, fish and chips, pad thai, and the banh mi were all invented by poor people making do with what they had. Here's the embarrassing origin story of everything at that artisanal food market.11 Illegal and Controversial Foods From Around the WorldHorse meat, fugu, foie gras, casu marzu - 11 foods that are banned, illegal, or deeply controversial and why. From the mildly taboo to the outright criminal.10 Common Foods That Are Secretly Poisonous - How Much Can Kill You?Rhubarb leaves contain oxalic acid. Raw kidney beans have toxic lectin levels. Unripe elderberries produce cyanide. 10 foods already in your kitchen that can genuinely kill you - exact lethal doses and symptoms explained.The 15 Rarest Foods in the World - From $6,000 Watermelons to Gold-Leaf SushiDensuke watermelons sell for $6,000 each. Kopi Luwak coffee is harvested from civet droppings. Bird's nest soup comes from cliff-face saliva nests. The 15 rarest foods on earth, what they taste like, and where to try them.The World's Most Disgusting Foods (That People Actually Love)Live octopus, century eggs, lutefisk soaked in caustic lye, andouillette sausage - the foods that locals swear by and visitors struggle to stomach. A global tour of extreme acquired tastes.The World's Most Expensive Foods - Ingredients Worth More Than GoldWhite truffles at $6,000 per kilogram. Bluefin tuna at $3,000 per kilogram. Kopi Luwak coffee made from civet droppings. A guide to the most ludicrously expensive ingredients on earth - and why anyone pays for them.12 Famous Foods That Were Invented Completely By AccidentChocolate chip cookies, potato chips, corn flakes, the popsicle, Worcestershire sauce - some of the world's most beloved foods were discovered by mistake. Here are 12 happy accidents that changed what we eat.The Strangest National Dishes in the WorldFermented shark in Iceland. Duck embryo from the Philippines. Puffer fish that can kill you if the chef makes one mistake. A tour of the world's most unusual national dishes and why people love them.10 Foods That Look Like They Came From Another PlanetRomanesco broccoli with perfect fractal spirals. A citrus fruit shaped like a hand. A fruit covered in red tentacles. The world's most visually bizarre foods - all completely edible, and some of them delicious.Foods We Can Never Eat Again - A Guide to Extinct IngredientsThe Romans cooked with a herb so popular it was eaten into extinction. The passenger pigeon once numbered in the billions before vanishing in 60 years. The foods that are gone forever - and what they tasted like.The Most Insane Food World Records Ever SetThe world's hottest chili is 2.69 million Scoville units. The heaviest pumpkin weighed 1,226 kg. The most hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes is 76. A guide to the most extraordinary food world records.Foods You Can't Take on a Plane (And Why Airlines Actually Ban Them)Durian is banned on most Southeast Asian airlines. Surströmming can make entire cabin crew sections unusable. What you can't take on planes and the real reasons why.12 Foods You Should Never Eat Raw - And What Happens If You DoRaw kidney beans contain toxic lectins. Undercooked chicken harbors salmonella. Cassava produces cyanide if not processed. 12 foods that must be cooked - and the real medical consequences of eating them raw.Foods That Are Banned in Different Countries - A Global GuideKinder Surprise eggs are illegal in the US. Haggis is banned in America. Singapore outlawed chewing gum. A country-by-country guide to foods that are perfectly legal in one place and completely banned in another.The Most Dangerous Foods to Eat While Traveling (And How to Stay Safe)Street ice is the #1 cause of traveler's diarrhea. Buffet seafood in hot climates is a gamble. Bushmeat carries Ebola risk. A guide to the riskiest foods abroad - and the precautions that actually work.How to Eat Like a Local (And Stop Paying €22 for Carbonara Near the Colosseum)Stop eating at tourist traps. Here's how to find the restaurants locals actually eat at in Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Lisbon.7 Destinations Where Food IS the Itinerary (Museums Optional, Eating Mandatory)Tokyo, Oaxaca, Bologna, Seoul, Marrakech, Lima, and Crete - seven cities where the food is so good you won't need a sightseeing plan.15 Foods That Taste Nothing Like You'd ExpectDurian smells like a crime scene but tastes like custard. Dragon fruit looks otherworldly but tastes of absolutely nothing. Fifteen foods whose reality diverges spectacularly from expectation.Bangkok Street Food: A Field Guide to Eating Everything From Every StallYaowarat after dark, Victory Monument boat noodles, Or Tor Kor Market, and moo ping at 6 AM - a proper Bangkok street food guide from someone who's eaten it all.Foods That Are Completely Different in Every Country That Makes ThemPizza in Naples bears no resemblance to pizza in New York. Japanese curry tastes nothing like Indian curry. Here's how 9 iconic dishes mutated beyond recognition as they crossed borders - and which version is actually best.Street Food vs. Fine Dining: The Best Cities for BothFrom $2 noodles to $300 tasting menus - Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo, Lima, San Sebastián, Hong Kong, and New York are the cities that nail both ends of the food spectrum without apology.The Foods That Started Actual WarsNutmeg caused a massacre that nearly erased an entire island's population. Tea started the American Revolution. Cod almost sparked a shooting war between NATO allies. The mundane ingredients behind history's most dramatic conflicts.Foods Named After the Wrong Country (Or Nobody at All)French fries are Belgian. Caesar salad is Mexican. Chicken tikka masala was probably born in Glasgow. The most enduring culinary lies in modern history, calmly debunked.The World's Weirdest Drinks That People Actually Travel to TryMongolian fermented mare's milk. Nepalese millet beer drunk through a bamboo straw. Pre-Inca corn beer brewed with human saliva. The world's most genuinely strange drinks - and where to find them, if you must.The Most Bizarre Street Foods You'll Actually Encounter While TravelingFrom fertilised duck egg in Manila to live octopus in Seoul to deep-fried tarantulas in Skuon, the street foods that genuinely exist on the menu - and what they cost, taste like, and do to your digestive optimism.The World's Strangest Food Festivals (That You Should Probably Attend)La Tomatina throws 150,000kg of tomatoes. Cooper's Hill has people chasing cheese down a near-vertical hill. Lopburi feeds 4 tonnes of food to monkeys. These are the world's strangest food festivals - all completely real.The Most Controversial Foods in the WorldFrom foie gras to shark fin soup, ortolan to live octopus — 8 of the most controversial and ethically fraught foods on Earth, and exactly why they divide the dinner table.Foods That Used To Be Poor Man's Grub (But Cost a Fortune Now)Lobster was fertilizer. Oysters were Victorian street food. Caviar was given away free at bars. The market had other ideas, and now your wallet suffers the consequences.The World's Hottest Peppers, Ranked by Scoville Units (And What They Actually Do to You)From the ghost pepper that broke a million Scoville Units to Pepper X, the current Guinness record holder at 2.69 million, here is every pepper that has held the title of world's hottest, and what capsaicin actually does to your nervous system when you eat one.The Most Insane Competitive Eating World Records Ever SetJoey Chestnut ate 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Takeru Kobayashi doubled the world hot dog record overnight in 2001. A tour through competitive eating's biggest records, its oddly formal governing body, and the Netflix special born from a hot dog company beef.
Dangerous & Extreme Travel
A Traveler's Guide to Altitude Sickness (Or: Why Machu Picchu Is Trying to Murder You)At high altitude, your blood oxygen drops, your brain swells, and your lungs fill with fluid. Here's what happens when tourists ignore the warnings and visit Cusco, La Paz, and Everest Base Camp anyway.The Most Dangerous Bridges in the World (And the People Who Cross Them Anyway)Frayed planks over the Hunza River, a Siberian railway bridge with no railings, and the last grass rope bridge the Incas still rebuild by hand. Eleven bridges where getting to the other side is the entire achievement.The Most Isolated Places on Earth Where People Actually LiveOymyakon in Siberia reaches −67°C. Tristan da Cunha is 2,800km from the nearest inhabited land. These are the most extreme and remote places on earth where humans have chosen to make their permanent home.The Worst Travel Destinations in the World (2025 Edition)Yemen, South Sudan, Myanmar, Syria, Haiti - the countries at the bottom of the Global Peace Index and every travel advisory list. What's actually happening there now, and why these destinations are off-limits.10 Deadly Places and Why You Have to See ThemFrom Death Valley's lethal heat to Bolivia's 'Road of Death' - 10 of the most dangerous places on earth that thrill-seekers still visit. What makes them deadly, and why they're worth the risk.Bizarre Animals That Could Kill You - The World's Strangest CreaturesFrom blobfish to fangtooth vipers, meet the world's most freakish animals. Discover which bizarre creatures are surprisingly dangerous and where they live.Things You Don’t Want Inside You While On HolidayParasites, bacteria, and tropical bugs that can ruin your trip - the health hazards travelers actually encounter abroad, and how to avoid them.The World's Most Extreme and Terrifying AirportsA runway on a Hebridean beach used at low tide. A cliff-edge strip in Nepal where planes arrive 9 days out of 10 in cloud. A landing approach that passes 20 metres over sunbathers on St Maarten. The world's most extreme airports.The World's Most Dangerous Travel Destinations (And Whether You Should Go)Mogadishu. Kabul. Port Moresby. Kinshasa. The cities that appear at the top of every travel warning list - what makes them dangerous, what's changing, and whether independent travel is ever possible.The Most Remote and Isolated Inhabited Islands in the WorldTristan da Cunha has 251 residents and is 2,800km from the nearest inhabited land. Pitcairn Island has 45 people and no airport. A guide to the world's most isolated island communities and what life is actually like there.The Most Unusual and Extreme World Records Broken by TravelersThe first person to visit every country: 1,426 days without flying. The fastest circumnavigation by commercial aircraft: 49 hours. Records that redefined what travel means.The Most Dangerous Roads in the World (And the People Who Drive Them Daily)Bolivia's Death Road, Pakistan's Fairy Meadows, Alaska's Dalton Highway, and nine more roads where the scenery is spectacular and the survival rate is a matter of some discussion.15 Animals That Kill More People Than Sharks (And Where They Live)Sharks kill roughly 5 people per year. Mosquitoes kill 700,000. Here are 15 animals that are dramatically, statistically, embarrassingly more lethal than the fish everyone is afraid of.The World's Most Dangerous Train JourneysThe Death Railway was built by Allied POWs through malarial jungle. Ecuador's Devil's Nose descends a cliff face engineers called impossible. Argentina's Train to the Clouds carries an onboard doctor. The world's most extreme rail routes - and why people ride them anyway.The World's Most Extreme Roller Coasters (And the Ones That Got Shut Down for Killing People)From Formula Rossa's 240 km/h launch to the Verruckt water slide that decapitated a 10-year-old, the engineering extremes of theme park rides - and the disasters that ended them.The World's Most Famous Shipwrecks You Can Actually DiveFrom a WWII supply ship still loaded with motorbikes to a fleet nuked by atomic bombs, these are the world's most famous shipwrecks - and most of them you can actually dive.The World's Highest Bungee Jumps (Ranked by How Far You'll Fall)From a 1979 stunt off a bridge in England to Macau Tower's certified 233-metre drop, here are the highest bungee jumps on Earth, where to find them, and the surprisingly recent history of an extreme sport built on a Vanuatu coming-of-age ritual.
Travel Guides
The World's Most Bizarre Sports That Are Somehow RealFrom Afghanistan's headless-goat polo to Florence's legal-punching medieval football and Wales's bog snorkeling championship, these are the world's most legitimately bizarre sports - with governing bodies, world championships, and very serious athletes.The World's Strangest Spa Treatments (That Actual Humans Pay For)From live pythons slithering down your spine to fish eating your feet and beer baths in Czech spa towns, these are the world's most bizarre wellness treatments - all of which are real, available to book, and apparently beneficial.The World's Most Bizarre Currencies (And the Stranger Stories Behind Them)From Zimbabwe's 100-trillion-dollar note to the giant stone money of Yap, these are the world's strangest currencies - and the wild stories behind how they got that way.Lakes That Can Kill YouFrom Cameroon's exploding Lake Nyos to Indonesia's acid-turquoise Kawah Ijen - six real lakes that will kill you while you stand quietly on the shore, and the science behind each one.The Most Expensive Hotel Suites in the World (And What You Get)The Royal Penthouse Suite in Geneva costs $83,200 per night. The Mark Hotel Penthouse in New York spans 1,200 square metres. The world's most extravagant hotel suites - what they include and who actually stays in them.7 of the Worst Travel Nightmares Ever7 of the Worst Travel Nightmares Ever from TripbaseCommon Travel Scams Exposed and Explained: Don't fall victimCommon Travel Scams Exposed and Explained: Don't fall victim by Tripbase.com10 of the Most Expensive Private Islands in the WorldA $600 million island in the Bahamas. Richard Branson's Necker Island at $80,000 per night. The 10 most expensive private islands money can buy - or rent.Fancy Trying Something New For Dinner?The world's most unusual dining experiences - from underwater restaurants to meals served in total darkness. Restaurants that turn dinner into an adventure.Trainspotting for Beginners - How to Start, Best Locations & Essential Gear (2026)Clapham Junction sees 1 train every 13 seconds. Japan's Shinkansen network spans 3,000km. A complete beginner's guide to trainspotting: best locations worldwide, photography tips, essential equipment, and how to log your sightings.The Ultimate Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Vacation GuideThe ultimate LGBTQ+ travel guide - the best destinations, nightlife, pride events, singles travel, and tips for planning your perfect vacation.The 25 Cheapest Countries to Travel in 2026 - Full Budget BreakdownVietnam averages $30/day. Nepal costs $25/day. Georgia is $35/day for mid-range comfort. A ranked guide to the 25 cheapest travel destinations in the world with real daily budgets for backpackers and mid-range travelers.20 Best Travel Destinations for Couples - From Weekend Getaways to Epic AdventuresSantorini sunsets, Kyoto temples, Maldives overwater villas, Patagonia treks - the 20 best destinations for couples, from romantic city breaks to adventure honeymoons, with budgets and best months to visit.Tokyo on Less Than $100 a Day (Yes, Really)How to eat, sleep, and wander through Tokyo for under $100 a day. Konbini breakfasts, $5 ramen, capsule hotels, and the art of the depachika sample.Slow Travel in Portugal's Alentejo: The Region That Refuses to HurryPortugal's Alentejo region: cork oak plains, medieval villages, bread soup, and wines nobody's heard of. Slow travel for people who actually mean it.Lisbon Beyond Alfama: The Neighbourhoods Where Locals Actually LiveMouraria, Graça, Arroios, Marvila - Lisbon's real neighbourhoods where the fado is unscripted, the food is immigrant-run, and nobody's queueing for pastéis.Porto Beyond the Postcards: Where the City Actually LivesSkip the azulejo selfies. Porto's real soul lives in cliffside alleys, €8 tascas, gut-destroying sandwiches, and port lodges where the floor is slightly sticky.Tokyo's Kissaten: The Disappearing Coffee Shops That Deserve Your AttentionTokyo's kissaten are vintage coffee shops serving hand-dripped perfection, thick toast, and cream soda in rooms that haven't changed since 1965. They're vanishing fast.Why May Is the Best Time to Visit Iceland (And July Tourists Are Suckers)May in Iceland means 20 hours of daylight, empty waterfalls, arriving puffins, and prices 30-40% lower than peak summer. Here's why shoulder season wins.The Worst Tourist Traps in the World (And What to Do Instead)Times Square, the Mona Lisa, the Manneken Pis - the world's most overhyped attractions ranked by how comprehensively they will disappoint you. With actual alternatives.The Walkable Trip: How to Plan a Vacation You Can Do Entirely on FootThe best cities for walking holidays, a practical packing checklist, and a frank conversation about shoes - because your feet are the only transport that never breaks down, gets cancelled, or charges surge pricing.Spring 2026 Travel Calendar: What to See and WhenFrom cherry blossoms in April to midnight sun in June, a month-by-month guide to spring 2026 travel - so you can stop dithering and actually book something before the crowds get there first.The Most Unusual Hotels You Can Actually Book TonightIce hotels in Lapland, underwater rooms in the Maldives, converted prisons in Boston - 15 genuinely bookable bizarre hotels, which are worth it, and which are Instagram traps in expensive disguise.What Travel Newsletters Won't Tell You: How to Actually Compare DestinationsThe travel internet runs on vibes. Here is what to actually look at when choosing between two destinations - and why 'both sound amazing' is not a planning framework.Slow Travel by Train: 5 Routes That Are Better Than FlyingFive legendary rail journeys where the trip is the point - from the Glacier Express through the Swiss Alps to three days across the Australian outback. Schedules, booking tips, and why the window seat matters.Cherry Blossom Season Beyond Tokyo: 6 Unexpected Places to See the BloomTokyo gets all the cherry blossom love - and all the crowds. These six unexpected spots offer the same jaw-dropping bloom with significantly less elbow contact: from Hirosaki's floating petal moat to Bonn's accidental pink tunnel.Why Shoulder Season Is the Smartest Time to Visit Europe's Top CitiesSame Paris, half the tourists, 30% cheaper hotels. Europe's shoulder season - the sweet weeks on either side of peak summer - is when the continent is actually pleasant to be in. Here's the breakdown by city.Food, Transit, Weather: The 3 Factors That Actually Predict Whether You'll Love a CityThe Instagram spots are irrelevant. What actually determines whether you'll enjoy a city comes down to three things: food quality, transit infrastructure, and honest weather data - and none of them are as simple as they look.The Unwritten Rules of Travel That Nobody Tells YouFrom the left hand rule in South Asia to why you must sit in the front of taxis in Australia: the social codes, survival tactics, and etiquette that experienced travellers know and nobody ever writes down.Natural Wonders That Sound Completely Made Up (But Aren't)A gas crater that’s been on fire since 1971. A waterfall that runs red. Mountains striped like a color chart. The natural wonders that look completely fabricated — and the strange stories behind why they exist.Countries That Have Literally Banned Tourists (And Why You'd Want to Go Anyway)From an island where the inhabitants have killed people for approaching to a Brazilian rock with five vipers per square metre, the places that are working surprisingly hard to keep you out - and the legal, geographical, and occasionally fatal reasons they manage it.Overtourism: The Destinations Being Crushed by Their Own PopularityVenice charges day-trippers €5 to enter. Barcelona residents fight back with water pistols. Hallstatt built barriers around its most-photographed view. The places actively pushing back against the tourists who love them to death.Dark Tourism: The Disturbing Places People Pay Good Money to VisitAuschwitz pulled 1.9 million visitors in 2023. Six million Parisians sit stacked in the Catacombs. The dark tourism circuit, mapped - and what it says about the rest of us that we keep showing up.Underground Cities You Can Actually Visit (And Why Anyone Would Want To)From a 3,500-year-old city carved 18 levels deep in Turkey to a town in Australia where 60% of residents live underground to escape 50°C heat - the most astonishing underground cities tourists can actually explore.Famous Film Locations You Can Actually VisitFrom Dubrovnik's Game of Thrones walls to Hobbiton's permanent Shire — the real places behind cinema's most iconic scenes and what they look like without CGI.Literary Travel: The Real Places Behind Famous BooksFrom Rowling's Edinburgh graveyard to Christie's Istanbul hotel room — the real places that inspired literature's greatest works, and what happens when you visit them.The Most Haunted Places in the World (That You Can Actually Visit)From Italy's plague island to Japan's suicide forest, these are the world's most notoriously haunted places - and yes, you can visit most of them. Bring a torch.The World's Weirdest Annual Festivals (That People Actually Attend)From baby-jumping devil costumes in Spain to cheese-chasing in Gloucestershire and tomato warfare in Valencia, these are the world's most inexplicable recurring events - and they're all real.Beaches That Are the Wrong ColourPink sand made of dead sea creatures, green sand made of semi-precious gemstone, black sand made of shattered lava, and a beach in California made entirely of a town's rubbish. All real, all explicable, all deeply suspicious-looking.Places Where the Sun Refuses to SetAbove the Arctic Circle the sun stops setting for months - and then, to settle the account, stops rising. Where to find the midnight sun, exactly when, and what four months of daylight does to a person's sleep.Places You Can Visit Without a PassportUS territories, the closed-loop cruise rule, and the land-border loophole that died in 2009 - the real list of where you can travel without a passport, and the caveats everyone skips.7 Couples Retreats in Europe That Might Actually Fix Something (And One You Can Do From Your Sofa)A Swiss retreat where the homework happens in your own bedroom, a Greek spa under Byzantine ruins, an Umbrian hermitage with separate beds, a Polish ice river and the Dutch hotel where you check out divorced. Europe's couples retreats, with prices and the catch in each.
Culture & Curiosities
25 Bizarre Laws Still on the Books Around the WorldIn Switzerland you can't flush a toilet after 10pm. In the UK it's illegal to die in Parliament. These are real, currently-valid laws - the most absurd legal oddities still technically enforceable worldwide.Travel Superstitions From Around the World - What Brings Good and Bad LuckNever whistle on a boat in Norway. Leaving by the same door you entered is bad luck in Russia. Breaking a mirror gives you seven years of bad luck everywhere. A guide to the world's most widespread travel superstitions.Top 10 Fictional Travelers of All TimeMeet the greatest fictional travelers ever - from James Bond and Paddington Bear to Carmen Sandiego and Bilbo Baggins.Places You Can Never Visit Again - Destinations Lost to Time, War, and NatureFrom Palmyra before ISIS to the shrinking Aral Sea - 11 remarkable places that no longer exist as they were, why they're gone, and whether any version of them is still visitable.Laws Tourists Break Abroad Every Day Without KnowingThat gelato on the church steps? €500 fine. Feeding Venice’s pigeons? €700. Swimming in the Trevi Fountain? €450. The laws tourists routinely break abroad — and how to not be one of the 7% who get caught.Things That Are Illegal at the World's Most Famous Tourist SitesFrom the Trevi Fountain's 450 euro swim fee to the Eiffel Tower's bizarre night-photography copyright, the rules at famous landmarks that most tourists discover the expensive way.Countries Where Tipping Is Insulting (And One Where It's Mandatory)From Japan, where leaving a tip is genuinely embarrassing for the server, to Switzerland, where it implies the service was bad - the global minefield of gratuities, mapped.The Real History of the World's Most Famous Pirate PortsNassau, Tortuga, Port Royal, Ile Sainte-Marie - the actual pirate ports of the Golden Age of Piracy, what happened there, and what's left to visit today.The Lost Art of Travel Sketching (Or: Why Your 4,000 Photos Are Lying to You)Science says photographing everything makes you remember less of it. Here's why a $4 sketchbook beats a $1,400 camera, how to draw things that look like the things, and where in the world to sit down and try.
Aviation & Medical
10 Highest Bodycount Plane CrashesThe deadliest aviation disasters in history - from Tenerife (583 dead) to Japan Airlines Flight 123 (520 dead). What caused each crash and what changed in aviation safety because of them.Awesome Aircraft LandingsThe most spectacular and terrifying aircraft landings ever captured on video - crosswind touchdowns, short-field landings, and the pilots who pulled them off.How Much Does an Air Ambulance Cost? A Complete Price BreakdownAir ambulance flights cost $12,000–$300,000 depending on distance, aircraft type, and medical crew. A full breakdown of domestic and international pricing, what drives the cost, and how to avoid surprise bills.Does Travel Insurance Cover Air Ambulances? What Most Policies MissMost travel insurance policies cap medical evacuation at $50,000–$100,000 - often not enough for an international air ambulance. Learn what standard policies actually cover, the fine print that catches travelers off guard, and how to close the gap.Medical Evacuation While Traveling: What Happens When You Need an Air Ambulance OverseasA step-by-step guide to what actually happens during a medical evacuation abroad - from the initial emergency call to hospital transfer, air ambulance coordination, and repatriation home. Real timelines, real costs, and what you can prepare in advance.How Air Ambulances Work: Aircraft Types, Medical Equipment, and What to ExpectEverything you need to know about air ambulances - the difference between helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft, what medical equipment is on board, who the crew are, and what a typical mission looks like from takeoff to hospital handoff.The Worst Airline Meals Ever Inflicted on Paying CustomersMac and cheese topped with shrimp and slimy mushrooms. The hardest croissant known to science. Raw reindeer in business class. The worst airline meals in living memory, and why airline food costs about three dollars per economy passenger to produce - which explains everything.Bizarre Airline Rules That Are Completely RealFrom Ryanair's incomprehensible baggage labyrinth to the now-legendary age of the airline peacock, these real airline policies prove that bureaucracy has never met a problem it couldn't overregulate.
Pop Culture & Lists
Amphibious Vehicles Around the World - Roads, Rivers, and the Machines That Do BothDuck Tours in Boston, the Gibbs Aquada, Swiss DUKW military vehicles - the most interesting amphibious vehicles in use around the world, and where you can actually experience them.Strange And Exotic Materials From Faraway Lands (Part 1)Strange And Exotic Materials From Faraway Lands (Part 1) by Tripbase.comStrange And Exotic Materials From Faraway Lands (Part 2)Strange And Exotic Materials From Faraway Lands (Part 2) by Tripbase.comThe Greatest Fictional Metals Ranked - Adamantium vs Vibranium vs MithrilAdamantium, vibranium, mithril, Valyrian steel, beskar - the most iconic fictional metals from sci-fi and fantasy, ranked by strength, rarity, and sheer cool factor. Which would actually win?Stunning Videogame Locales - Exotic and Fantastic Locations That We Wish We Could Visit (And Some We'd Take Guns To)From the neon-lit streets of Kamurocho to the lush landscapes of Hyrule - the most beautiful and immersive video game locations ever created, and the real-world places that inspired them.Stunning Videogame Locales Redux – More Awesome Places To VisitPart 2 of our tour through the most breathtaking video game worlds - more exotic landscapes, impossible cities, and virtual destinations that deserve a real-world visit.
Lists & Curiosities
A Brief History of Animals Elected to Public Office (Our Most Consistent Performers)A cat governed Alaska for 20 years. A rhinoceros won a São Paulo city council seat with 100,000 votes. A Labrador became a pawn in Cold War propaganda. The case for animal politicians is stronger than it should be.10 Things That Have Washed Up On Beaches (That Have Absolutely No Business Being There)From 28,800 rubber ducks to a working Harley-Davidson swept by a tsunami, the world's oceans have been quietly holding onto humanity's lost property for centuries. Here's what the sea gave back.The Wildest Things TSA Has Ever ConfiscatedTSA finds 6,700+ firearms per year - and that's the boring part. Cannonballs, inert grenades, live snakes, and a human skull with flesh attached: the truly extraordinary things found at US airport checkpoints.Vacation Souvenirs That Could Actually Get You ArrestedThat bag of Italian beach sand or queen conch shell in your luggage could cost you thousands in fines or worse. The vacation souvenirs that customs agencies worldwide are surprisingly serious about.The World's Most Absurd International BordersA tour of geopolitical oddities that make cartographers cry: Belgian-Dutch towns split house by house, Russian cities surrounded by NATO countries, and a public library that runs an international border through its biography section.The World's Strangest Museums (And Why You Should Visit Them)From a dedicated toilet museum in New Delhi to Iceland's phallological collection, these are the world's most bizarre museums - and they're all real, verifiable, and open to visitors.