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Ferris Bueller House – The Ben Rose Home

Ferris Bueller House – The Ben Rose Home

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was pretty successful when it came out in 1986.  Since then, the movie has become a classic.  Even though Matthew Broderick’s title character was, well, the star, his movie house wasn’t exactly memorable.  Sure, that thing he rigged up to make it look like he was in bed asleep was pretty [...]

Living in Hell – Towns Called Hell

There are four notable towns we’re going to cover in this post – notable because they are all named Hell.  Welcome to Hell, Dear Readers.  We hope you enjoy the stay. Hell, Nord-Trøndelag This tiny village in Norway has a population of about 1500, and gets pretty darn cold.  Like, -4 Degrees Fahrenheit cold.  Gives [...]

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The North Pole – Where Santa Lives?

The North Pole is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where Earth’s surface meets Earth’s axis of rotation. It is the point farthest North on this Earth. It is as far North as you can get. It is smack dab in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic is full of ice burgs and [...]

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Ontario College Of Art And Design: Handcrafted For Artists

The Ontario College of Art and Design is Canada’s “university of the imagination” and it’s not hard to see why – the building itself defies the imagination – stacked atop colorful pixie-stick like pillars this lego-like structure seems to teeter above the roofline (it looks like a colorful version of those walking things in Star [...]

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The Most Haunted House in the United States – The Whaley House

The Whaley House was built in 1857 on land that formerly held gallows.  It is not only the most haunted house in America, it was even haunted before it was built.  The first ghost to roam the area where the rooms would be built was that of James “Yankee Jim” Robinson.  But we’ll get to [...]

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