Great to know that yet another formerly irrational travel nightmare is actually possible. During his journey from Louisiana to California via Houston, Tom Wagner, apparently one of the world’s soundest sleepers, decided to rest his eyes for a bit only to wake some time later in an abandoned United Express…

Yeah, it’s fair to say they kind of reinvented the wheel. MIT has developed a self-charging, electric hybrid wheel capable of producing up to 250 watts of power which, when added to the 75 watts an average cyclist generates, means mountains become virtual molehills. Dubbed the Copenhagen Wheel, after years…

Eskil Rønningsbakken is an extreme balance artist, stunt person, and certifiable lunatic from Stange, Norway. (That the town name is only one letter away from “strange” probably isn’t an accident.) He’s done a series of public attempted self-harming stunt videos, the latest of which is an admittedly captivating and gorgeous…

If there was any question, it turns out that riding the Pyongyang Metro, North Korea is as surreal and eerie as pretty much everything else in the country. The Pyongyang Metro, the city’s pride and joy, built in the 1970s and used by some 700,000 people daily, snakes under the…

  This is so disarmingly cool I can’t even summon the strength the be snarky. Per their website: “Skateistan is a non-profit organization using skateboarding as a tool for empowerment.” Opened in Kabul in 2009, the program is for youth ages 5-18, roughly 40% of whom are girls. They also…

Telling people about your exhilarating adventure swimming with pigs may not elicit the same coos as swimming with dolphins or seals, but there’s no arguing that it looks pretty fun. If you’re so inspired, journey to Great Exuma (or Big Major Cay, depending on what source you’re reading) in The…

[Image via] I believe in aviation circles they refer to situations like this a “wicked burn, dude.” After decades of suffering with an inadequate airport, private investors in San Diego have decided to circumvent the local government’s expansion inaction by taking matters into their own hands. They’re going to build…

Now that was a fun headline to write. The visual alone makes it. Alas, it’s totally true and a bit morbid. It’s estimated that 2 million brown tree snakes are on Guam. That’s roughly 13,000 snakes per square mile, a higher population density than even the Amazonian rainforest. And since…

Admittedly, in reality it probably doesn’t happen as often as we assume, but like most trauma, when it does happen the experience really sticks. Seemingly common, unforgivable situation: Parent(s) board flight with anywhere from one to four offspring and proceed to ignore offspring, act oblivious to offspring’s sociopath behavior, and/or…

This just in from Florida’s Department of Batshit Crazy, Wretched Excess: Put on hold during the recession, the plan is reportedly back on to build the “Freedom Ship,” a floating city that will circumnavigate the globe every two years. The idea is so impossibly ambitious, in fact, that even their…