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The Owl Club is a historic neighborhood bar located in the heart of Old Roseville (CA) operating since 1934.

Don Pedro Motel [Salida, California]

Long Holiday Motel, located along U.S. Highway 50 in Gunnison, Colorado.

Arrow Motel sign, Espanola, New Mexico. The hotel is closed now, but fortunately they did not pull down this classic sign.

3 Sisters Motel Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia

Police Hall of Fame entrance sign Route 41, North Port, Florida, 1980 {📸 John Margolies}

The Trade Fair and Congress Center of Malaga in southern Spain designed by architect Ángel Asenjo. Celebrated for its striking, avant-garde architecture, which uses fluid metallic lines and sweeping shapes meant to mimic the movement of the Mediterranean Sea. {📸 Dámaso Ávila}

An escalator at an abandoned theme park in Japan reclaimed by thick green ivy.

The Sweepstakes, a historic 19th-century schooner resting in the shallow, crystal-clear waters of Big Tub Harbour in Tobermory, Ontario. It suffered damage near Cove Island while carrying coal and was towed to Big Tub Harbour, where it sank in 1885. It sits upright in only about 20 feet of water within Fathom Five National Marine Park, making the hull and bow remarkably visible from the surface.

Full Sturgeon Moon behind the Enfidha Airport Traffic Control Tower in Enfidha, Tunisia. {📸 Makrem Larnaout}

Striking black-and-white landscape photograph by Romanian photographer Cornel Pufan, capturing a moody, fog-shrouded rural scene.

Abstract art created by gasses bubbling up to surface in a mud geyser in Bolivia. {📸 Lynn Fergusson}

This aerial photo, titled "Coexistence" by photographer Dipanjan Pal, captures a bridge crossing a vibrant glacial braided river in Iceland.

Caño Cristales in La Macarena, Colombia is said to be the most beautiful river in the world. It is referred to as the "Liquid Rainbow." For most of the year, it looks like an ordinary clear river. However, during a specific seasonal window, its riverbed erupts into brilliant shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and black. This mesmerizing visual phenomenon is caused by the Macarenia clavigera, a delicate, endemic aquatic plant that shifts colors depending on sunlight exposure and water levels.

The ground in this Quebec forest looks like it’s breathing. This happens when the root system of the surrounding trees hold each other together while the wind whips the tops back and forth.

The runway at Princess Juliana International Airport on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten is famous for its low-altitude aircraft approaches directly over Maho Beach. Because the runway threshold sits just yards away from the shoreline, commercial jetliners swoop in mere meters above beachgoers.

#WordOfTheDay PUNKAH-WALLAH During British rule in India when electricity did not exist, the British still wanted to have fans to keep them cool at night. They opted to have workers (punkah-wallahs) whose job was to keep the ceiling fans (called punkahs) moving even at night.

Soundgarden released a quirky local Seattle TV commercial in 1987 to promote their debut EP, Screaming Life, on Sub Pop Records. The commercial features the band members acting goofy, with drummer Matt Cameron doing a funny imitation of Mick Jagger.

Bob Dylan + Liberace meet for the first time backstage on March 22, 1984, when they both appeared as guests on Late Night with David Letterman. Decades later, Dylan directly mentioned the pianist in his 2020 song, "My Own Version of You" — "I’m gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell. Like Liberace — like St. John the Apostle"

Eddie Van Halen played his iconic "Beat It" guitar solo live with Michael Jackson only once on July 14, 1984, at Texas Stadium in Dallas during the Jacksons' Victory Tour. Both Van Halen + the Jacksons were performing separate concerts in Dallas on the same weekend. Eddie surprised the crowd by walking on stage and played the solo unrehearsed.