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In late May, with months of shutdowns pushing boisterous crowds to the beach, Paige and I decided on a little inland retreat to the sparsely populated Virginia town of Star Tannery. We spent a long weekend at a lovely secluded cabin, hidden away with three of our closest friends and a sizable herd of sheep in the backyard. It was a delightful vacation - we worked our way through every board game we owned and purchased enough Nerf blasters to arm an uprising, spending hours to

Continuing our newfound fascination with abandoned places, Paige and I made the trek out to the seaside preserve of Sandy Hook. Despite what we eventually discovered hidden crumbling away on the beach, Sandy Hook did not initially give any indication of being abandoned. As we crossed the bridge over to the narrow peninsula, the sky became blotted out by a parade of parachutes. Dozens of people were paragliding just off the shore, all looking like they’d desperately lost contr

Green-Wood Cemetery is one of New York’s oldest attractions - in just shy of 200 years it has accumulated over 600,000 graves. Among these are a pyramid mausoleum, a hefty bear sculpture placidly straddling a gravestone and a tombstone shaped like a cookbook with an actual cookie recipe inscribed. Yet the quirkiest tomb of the lot features a unique twist: there’s nobody buried below. Paige and I spent a full day wandering the grounds of Green-Wood Cemetery, checking off the m

To learn more about this location and other hidden gems in NYC, check out our first travel video. The dense little island of Manhattan is packed with an almost frightening array of secrets - sometimes the best hidden gems may only be a few streets apart and you’ll still completely miss them. That’s what happened when Paige and I ventured north up the west side looking for the Sisyphus Stones, bizarre waterfront rock piles that seem to ignore basic gravity (read about that adv