Behold, the first woman in recorded history to force a commercial flight into an emergency landing due to her horniness. Last week, a Delta flight from Baltimore-Washington to Salt Lake City was diverted to Minneapolis-St Paul after a passenger devolved into angry, screaming, cavewoman, procreation mode mid-flight. After her seatmate…

  The Pacific Crest Trail is a stupefying 2,663 mile slog of punishing desert terrain, mountain climbs, rocky crags, vertigo-inducing ridges and unpredictable weather-related liveliness that makes the “grueling and demanding” Appalachian Trail seem like a mellow stroll. Seriously, it’s a beast. The Pacific Crest Trail starts at the U.S….

I’ve written about 328,474 sleeping reviews in my years as a travel writer, but I must admit that I’m a bit stumped as to how I’d kick off a review about sleeping in a giant poop chute-shaped guesthouse. Probably some kind of reassurance about odor. The squeamish, vein-y triumph that…

Get a load of this old timey scene of historic San Francisco, shot on the Market Street streetcar on April 14, 1906, just four days before the earthquake and fire that destroyed about 80% of the city. One thing that immediately stands out is that driving at the time, whether…

Lots of funny things have endured or been revived in Italy. The Palio comes to mind. Also, galloping clowns being elected prime minister. But Calcio Storico (“Historic Football”) is on a completely different level of batshit crazy. One could argue that many popular sports are little more than glorified violence,…

This London video is Grade A travel/history/urban geek porn. Simon Smith got his hands on cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene’s restored color film footage from his UK tour in the 1920s, notably swinging past London’s top sites, and set to work reshooting identical scenes in 2013 using “modern equivalents of his camera…

Have you ever had the sudden need to know how to say “barf” in 17 languages RIGHT NOW? (I know I have.) What you need, my friend, is a word translator that renders the results in a handy map! I’m sure some bright and creative individual will find a productive…

You probably don’t wanna watch this if you even have a tiny fear of flying. BUT! In the plane crash video realm, this one is fairly tame. Also, repeated after me: “Air travel is the safest form of travel” 1,000 times. We good? OK. Ferdinand Puentes happened to have his…

[Don’t watch the video above if you find piles of bat corpses upsetting.] Leave it to Australia to make the Arctic Vortex seem like a pleasant alternative. It’s been literally raining bat carcasses this week in southeast Queensland, near the city of Brisbane, Australia. (Of course it’s Australia.) Officials are…

I’ve been to Norway eight times (Hello, my name is Leif!), but only once in winter which, I won’t sugarcoat it, kinda sucked. That said, if the idea of a shimmering, multi-colored light show the fills the whole sky has any appeal at all, this northern lights video might cause…