Excitement, Adventure and Really Wild Things

The most viral images on the internet, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing. http://imgur.com/gallery/IxDXOWG?utm_content=buffer1ce3a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The lunar-crescent-shaped monument, which predates the Great Pyramids, has been identified near the Sea of Galilee. Archaeologists estimate it may have taken 200 ancient workers some five months to erect... http://m.livescience.com/47835-massive-5-000-year-old-stone-monument-revealed-in-israel.html?utm_content=buffer50e2f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Darul Aman Palace in Kabul was built to symbolise a modern and progressive Afghanistan but has been abandoned since the civil war of the 1990s http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2014/09/kabul-afghanistan-darul-aman-palace-abode-of-peace/?utm_content=buffer9cfb8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

542 points and 36 comments so far on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/2hm4sa/bora_bora_island_in_french_polynesia_1920_x_1080/?utm_content=buffer1a6f2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Food Duo shares their VeganMoFo 10-for-30 wish list of places they want to visit as vegans! http://getpocket.com/s/7EFn?utm_content=buffer18789&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Vimeo user Clemens Purner has created a beautiful video that shows what life is like in the largely isolated and little-known country of... http://designtaxi.com/news/369130/Beautiful-Video-Shows-A-Glimpse-Of-Life-In-The-Little-Known-Country-Of-Bhutan/?utm_content=buffer74b39&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Why does a flat pizza slice flop over unless you bend it into a curve? Thank Gaussian curvature, the 19th century mathematical principal that underpins everything from corrugated cardboard to eggshells... http://boingboing.net/2014/09/06/deep-math-of-the-folded-pizza.html?utm_content=buffere95d4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

"We're mostly dumpster diving for science." http://motherboard.vice.com/read/techno-archaeologists-used-an-abandoned-mcdonalds-to-hijack-a-satellite

The legacy of a Moroccan Jewish community is remembered at this little mouldering cemetery http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/abandoned-jewish-cemetery-of-asilah

Summer means spectacular sand sculpture season. Here we see an international team of sand sculptors work on various large and elaborate sections of the 2014 Yokohama Sand Art Exhibition in Yokohama, Japan. This year’s theme is ‘Culture City of East Asia’ and the exhibition producer, sand sculptor Ka… http://geyserofawesome.com/post/95460113502

Blending the real with the imagined, this video on Pyongyang embodies all of the fictions we've created about the city over the decades. http://all-that-is-interesting.com/enter-pyongyang

The iconic hotels of the Catskills today are not what they used to be. Places like Grossinger's and the Pines Hotel, which haven't operated in years, have literally decayed since their 1960s and 1970s heyday—and one photographer has the haunting photos that show the extent of the physical erosion ..… http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/183723/borscht-belt-ruins-on-display-in-new-york-city?utm_source=rss&utm_reader=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=borscht-belt-ruins-on-display-in-new-york-city

Are you married? In a relationship? A family man or woman? Are you a 100% non-solo traveler? Jenn Miller shares why solo travel is still important even when you're not a solo traveler. http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/14-08/solo-travel-for-non-solo-travelers.html

An exhibition of 30 oil paintings depicting the 25,000 Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during World War II is set to open in the city's Hongkou district, which has housed a Jewish community for many years.

The storied Bowery, today running from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, is a broad, crooked arc, first traversed on foot by Native Americans then enlarged as a wagon road by the Dutch in 1626. Incredibly, not only does it still retain most of its original footprint but there are still a surprising number of row […]

Redditor dakisking created the above map, which charts the nations with a smaller population than the New York metro area (including Long Island and parts of Jersey, Connecticut, and the Hudson Valley). Those areas, together with the five boroughs, make for 19.9 million people in total, and a surprising number of countries don’t measure up. I’m Read More »

I was not familiar with either app. HotelTonight for the US and HotelQuickly for Asia.