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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

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

Paige was confident that an early 1800’s war fort stood resolutely on the sloping hills of Morningside Park. “I’ve seen it!” she proclaimed with complete certainty, as we scaled the blistering terrain of the park. Eventually we arrived at the Google Maps location landmarked as Blockhouse Number 2, only to find a quaint green pasture - one that was definitively empty. “You’re confident that what you saw was definitely a totally real and not made up fort?” I pressed. After conf

Paige and I have long advocated that adventure does not have to stop when you check in to a room and unpack your bags. When we visit new towns, we will typically try to stay in the most obscure (and occasionally uninhabitable) types of rentals available. This has lead us to overnighting in a triple-decker treehouse, a converted prison and a school bus deep in the New Hampshire woods. There is something charming about all the comforts of home jumbled inside an impossible shell

We’d just had lunch at a local garlic knot themed restaurant (read more about that here) and were approached by some local youth, curious about our photography equipment. In a brief chat with them it was revealed that their area was famous for only two things: having a Wendy’s and being a hotspot for kidnapping. Determined that the town must have more than these two dismal qualities, we set out on a quest to find a third sight. What we discovered was a fascinating historic re