Scroll down for Bored Panda’s in-depth interview with Steve McCurry. stevemccurry.com | Facebook This post may include affiliate links. #1 Kathmandu, Nepal #2 Bamiyan, Afghanistan A second favorite, according to McCurry, was a photo he took in Thailand. “I photographed this novice monk studying Buddhist writings in the late afternoon at a monastery in Aranyaprathet, […]
Ah, the subway! The magical place where the laws of normality stop working. The moment you go underground to catch a train, you’d best be prepared to see hilarious, weird and, frankly, mind-blowing things. To keep you laughing all day long and to remind you that life is full of little surprises, Bored Panda compiled […]
It’s a pastime that evolved from my desire to track down locations of restaurant chains that had disappeared from my hometown during my childhood. It slowly grew to an obsession with experiencing and documenting the remaining survivors of restaurant chains that are struggling, endangered, or nearly completely defunct, even if I had never experienced them […]
Exciting and adventurous as it can be though, there are some downsides too. Travel writers rarely mention the delayed flights and buses, the cockroach-filled hotel rooms or the exotic kinds of illnesses that can strike unexpectedly. #2 #3 Writers and other creative people have been inspired to do some of their best works by travel. […]
We are a household of 3 from Austria that offered all of our personal belongings and transformed an old military truck into our brand-new house. Our very first snowboarding stops were spectacular Greece and Turkey This is a picture catching the minute we got in Stars Valley in the Middle East An euphoric trip through […]
It was the biggest hotel in Japan. It lies on a remote volcanic island, nearly 300 km from Tokyo. There are no beaches, just scuba divers will discover something to do. Unfortunately, it was not sustainable for such a big hotel to stay open. In spite of numerous efforts to bring it back to life, […]
There is something extraordinary magical about Japan and its culture and Japanese photographer Shin Noguchi proves that through his photographs of everyday life in Japan. He catches the peculiar, surreal and strangely beautiful shapes and situations that occur when people don’t think anyone is watching. Noguchi, himself, describes his street photography as an attempt to […]
It’s never boring scrolling through a vibrant Instagram food scene, and it seems like every café these days is trying to satisfy the need of a hungry eye. Of all the insta-worthy cafes, we raise you a café that will make you feel like you walked into a cartoon. From the moment you cross the […]
When you first find yourself standing in front of the temple, you are confronted with a cluster of desperate hands. This is hell – the endless pit of desires and human cravings, according to Buddhism. Once you cross the bridge above the “hell”, you are greeted by the statues of the heaven guardians. There’s no […]
Scroll down to learn more, and if you know other interesting places we’re not allowed to visit, make sure you tell us in the comments! #1 Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway Policy is invalid here – even North Korea has frozen its seeds there. The first withdrawal from the vault was recently made by Syria […]