Seagaia Ocean Dome: Japan’s Former Indoor Beach
Palm trees, an artificial shoreline and a huge roof overhead: Seagaia’s Ocean Dome once turned a beach day into an indoor spectacle. Its pho...
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Japan’s Former Gulliver’s Kingdom: A Theme-Park Photo Archive
A giant figure lies among faded paths, while Mount Fuji appears behind a row of colourful buildings. The old photographs of Japan’s Gulliver...
Taroko National Park: Marble Canyons and a Changing Landscape
Taroko’s appeal begins with a dramatic relationship between rock and water: pale cliffs, narrow passages and a river that makes the scale of...
MUSA and Jason deCaires Taylor: Underwater Art in Its Proper Setting
A figure sits in a familiar domestic pose, but fish and filtered light replace the room around it. Underwater sculpture makes you reconsider...
Bill Passman’s World-Map Tattoo: A Travel Record That Changes over Time
A world map can hang on a wall, sit inside a notebook or become a digital collection of saved places. Bill Passman chose a more personal sur...
Gaiola, Naples: Islets, Marine Life and Submerged History
Two little islets, a narrow bridge and clear coastal water make Gaiola look almost unreal. Yet the most interesting story here lies in the r...
Milan’s Bosco Verticale: How Trees Became Part of the Buildings
Milan’s Bosco Verticale makes you look up for an unusual reason: branches reach out from residential balconies, turning two tall buildings i...
Thousand Islands: Small Islands and Grand Houses on the St. Lawrence
Some islands hold a wooded shoreline, others a grand house, and a few seem barely large enough for the building on them. The Thousand Island...
Musha Cay, Bahamas: Understanding an Exclusive Island Stay
Musha Cay is the sort of place that makes a group holiday look wonderfully simple: clear water, a private setting and plenty of room to spen...
Twenty Landscape Photographs: Nineteen Places with Distinctive Natural Patterns
Some landscapes look almost designed: tall pillars repeating into the distance, stripes following a hillside or a field of rounded plants ch...
The Exuma Swimming Pigs: Pig Beach Beyond the Legend
A pig paddling through clear Caribbean water is an image that naturally makes you smile. The famous Exuma pigs have become one of the Bahama...
Dick Clark’s Flintstones-Nicknamed Retreat: Curved Rooms and a Hilltop View
Rounded walls and irregular openings gave Dick Clark’s former Malibu-area retreat a nickname that was easy to remember: the “Flintstones” ho...
MOVE, EAT and LEARN: The Team behind the Three Travel Films
Movement, food and learning are ordinary parts of a trip. Give each one a clear visual idea, and they can become three short films that make...
Ten Sacred Buildings: Temples, a Gurdwara, Churches and a Mosque
A sacred building can impress you before you understand much about it. Water frames a golden shrine, sculpted towers rise above a courtyard ...
Cenote Angelita: The Underwater Layer Behind the River Illusion
Branches rise from a pale underwater layer, while divers appear to hover above a submerged riverbank. Cenote Angelita’s famous photographs l...
Nido Cabin: Robin Falck’s Small Retreat and Its Large Window
Nido makes its strongest gesture with a window. The tall glazed opening brings the surrounding trees into a very small cabin, giving the vie...
Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho: Porto Alegre’s Tree-Lined Street
Seen from above, Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho appears as a green line running through the buildings of Porto Alegre. At street level, the effect ...
Aogashima: Life and Travel on Tokyo’s Volcanic Island
From above, Aogashima looks like an island holding another small mountain inside itself. Steep outer cliffs surround a green basin, with an ...
Caño Cristales: Colombia’s River of Colour and Its Living Plants
Red ribbons spread beneath clear water, interrupted by pale rock, small cascades and pools that catch the sky. Caño Cristales is often calle...