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the walled off hotel
from banksy posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
Banksy's Walled Off Hotel, (yes, an actual hotel where you can book an overnight stay) opened in Bethlehem in March of 2017 directly next to the wall separating the state of Israel from Palestine. Guests can occupy rooms decorated by Banksy and other artists, or the budget-conscious traveller can choose a room 'outfitted with surplus items from an Israeli military barracks.'
An art gallery and a piano bar featuring player piano compositions by Massive Attack, Trent Reznor and others are open daily to the public, and at the Wall-Mart next door you can buy graffiti supplies to add your own mark to the separating wall.
Find out more here about Banksy's Walled Off Hotel.
view full location details...wrangel island
from mammoths, extinction posted in history by pete_nice
Located in the Arctic Ocean off the Siberian coast, Wrangel Island is thought to be the last known location for wooly mammoths.
Research indicates that the mammoths were inhabiting the island as late as 2000 BC, which is nearly 5,000 years after they are thought to have gone extinct on the mainland.
Today, Wrangel Island is home to a weather station and to Chukchi (indigenous Arctic) fishing villages.
view full location details...dar al islam
from brother ali, tupac shakur posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
The video for Brother Ali’s 'Never Learn,' a single off his 2017 album All the Beauty in This Whole Life, is set at Dar al Islam, a Muslim retreat and resource center in New Mexico.
Watch Brother Ali hang out with a white horse in the video for 'Never Learn.'
Tupac's video for 'I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto,' released in 1997 as his first posthumous single, was also filmed at Dar al Islam (labeled in the video as located in Rukahs, New Mexico... Shakur spelled backward).
view full location details...recckio’s bowling center
from buffalo ‘66 posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
Billy and Layla span time as a couple at Recckio's Lanes in Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66.
view full location details...ryugyong hotel
from north korea, totalitarianism posted in history by pete_nice
From reddit: "The Ryugyong Hotel is an unfinished 105-story, 330 metres (1,080 ft) tall pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea. The building is also known as the 105 Building, a reference to its number of floors.
Construction began in 1987 but was halted in 1992 as North Korea entered a period of economic crisis after the fall of the Soviet Union. After 1992 the building stood topped out, but without any windows or interior fittings.
In 2008 construction resumed, and the exterior was completed in 2011. It was planned to open the hotel in 2012, the centenary of Kim Il-sung's birth, but this did not happen.
A partial opening was announced for 2013, but this was also cancelled. As of 2017, the building remains unopened."
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