Cool Websites To Use WHILE Traveling

Site-seeing while sightseeing

There are thousands of websites where you can research trip ideas (Spot Cool Stuff's own travel blog not least among them) and hundreds of websites where you make your trip reservations—from general booking engines like Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz to niche sites like Cruise Direct, Mr & Mrs ...

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5 Cool Buildings Made of Shipping Containers

Amazing structures built from packaging

Shipping containers. You've seen them on trains, on the back of trucks, at ports and piled onto cargo ships. There more than 20 million of those steel 40 by 8 feet (12 by 2.4 meter) boxes scattered around the world. That's more than were needed even before the ...

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iWaterproof Your iPod and iPhone

We review the best waterproof iPod cases

When Spot Cool Stuff travels with an iPod we always have it in a waterproof case, whether we plan to being near water or not. A case that protects an iPod from water also protects it from sand (which, we suspect, is a more common cause of iPod ...

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Yurt “Camping” on the California Coast

Central Asia meets Big Sur at the Treebones Yurt Resort

You like camping but your partner prefers more glamorous travel. The solution? Glamping. Glamorous camping. Like that on offer at the The Treebones Resort. Treebones, located on California's scenic Big Sur coast, is a resort that offers the perfect romantic getaway for you both. Accommodations here are in yurts, ...

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Two Nights Above Bangkok

The dizzying views from the world’s highest open-air restaurant

Bangkok's glamour set has no fear of heights. Two of the Thailand capital's most chic dining and drinking spots are well above the city: the Vertigo Grill & Moon Bar and the Sirocco.

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The Icelandic Phallological Museum

Freud favorite Iceland destination

Where would Freud go if he were alive and planning a vacation to Iceland? The Icelandic Phallological Museum.

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