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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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Lifestyle
The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
Lifestyle
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
Home
Underground House Plan B

It's not uncommon to completely rethink life as we know it because of the COVID-19 pandemic. If you're thinking the way we are, it's time to cut ties to everything and move underground in a perfectly appointed bunker like the Underground House Plan B from Sergey Makhno Architects that you see…

By Cooper Fleishman
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New Zealand’s Boutique American Wild West Town Is for Sale

There are plenty or fabulous and well-designed architectural marvels we want to own, but few seem as lucrative as New Zealand’s Boutique American Wild West Town that's for sale right now. Situated on 900 acres in the Ruatiti Valley of New Zealand's North Island--that's about seven hours south of Auckland…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Eau de Space NASA Designed Space Cologne

It should come as absolutely no surprise that training to become an astronaut is a decades long affair that involves a lot of unique experiences you'd never think about on Earth. One of those unique situations is the smell of space that shuttle pilot Tony Antonelli describes as "strong, unique…

By Cooper Fleishman
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GM U.S. Army Infantry Squad Vehicle

There have been more than a few great vehicles produced for the military over the years, but few of them compare to the sheer utilitarianism that is the Hummer. That is until General Motors Defense dropped the details on the $214million contract they were just awarded by Uncle Sam to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Richard Petty’s 1971 Plymouth Road Runner

Richard Petty is an American racing legend with the most NASCAR series wins, a shocking 200, over a career that lasted 34 years. Now, one of The King's iconic race cars is up for auction, the very 1971 Plymouth Road Runner that he took to the #1 spot at the…

By Amos Kwon
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