This starchitect-designed luxury apartment building was just crowned best new...
Manhattan's Via 57 West is a luxury residential building that just won the Emporis Skyscraper Award.It was designed by star Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.Built with sustainability in mind, the...
View ArticleThe most beautiful pictures of 2017
Photography helps people understand the world around them by sharing its stories beyond words. This year, photographers produced countless images of both newsworthy moments and sites of timeless...
View ArticleWe visited America's most famous 'breastaurant' for the first time — and what...
Hooters is the most famous "breastaurant" in America. As two Hooters dilettantes, we went in expecting to be disappointed. Instead, we found a pleasant atmosphere, good wings — and even some tasty...
View ArticleThe best photos of Europe that National Geographic has taken in its 125-year...
National Geographic revolutionized photography and the photo essay. The magazine's photographers, who are sometimes armed with up to nine different cameras and 500 rolls of film for a single...
View ArticleWe partied at the ‘Burning Man on a yacht’ party attended by the wildest part...
By 10:30 p.m., I was ready to collapse on the dance floor. Everyone else was heading to an afterparty at a far-off warehouse. That's the kind of party New York's Burlesquerade is.Now in its 7th year,...
View ArticleAmazing vintage photos show what it was like to go holiday shopping in New...
Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day in US history, with Americans spending an estimated $6.6 billion. But 100 years ago, locals of cities like New York would battle large crowds while...
View ArticleThe most expensive home for sale in Silicon Valley is this $48 million estate...
Three out of the five most expensive zip codes in America are located in the tony suburbs of Silicon Valley, where tech moguls pay all cash and bid well above asking price for mansions.Still, a...
View ArticleInside New York City's most festive bar, where they spend more than $60,000 a...
Rolf's German Restaurant is known for its over-the-top Christmas decorations.By December, lines wrap around the block, and the place gets packed with locals and tourists.They spend $60,000 on lights...
View ArticleA former nuclear test site in San Francisco is turning into an $8 billion...
In San Francisco, an influx of tech workers has driven up the cost of housing and pushed natives to the far reaches of the city. And in the remote waterfront neighborhood of Hunters Point, an entirely...
View ArticleI ate Trump's absurd, 2,430-calorie McDonald's order — and it was even worse...
President Donald Trump is a big fan of fast food.A new book outlines Trump's favorite McDonald's order: two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fishes, and a large chocolate milkshake.I ate that all in one sitting,...
View ArticlePhotos show what it's like for Silicon Valley's 'working homeless' who live...
In Silicon Valley — the home to tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Apple — tree-lined streets are filling with tents, cots, and dilapidated RVs.A photo series by the Associated Press shows what...
View ArticleInside the best public school in America — a charter school that feeds...
Basis Scottsdale, a charter school in Arizona, is the best public high school in America.It dates back nearly 20 years, to when two economists struggled to find a school that could provide a rigorous...
View ArticleOver half a dozen residents of this San Francisco 'castle' have become...
The Crypto Castle is a three-story home in San Francisco where young tech workers eat, sleep, party, and plot the future of money.A majority of the millennial tenants invest in bitcoin, a new kind of...
View ArticleImmigrant tech workers in Silicon Valley share how Trump's travel ban has...
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump's travel ban would be allowed to take effect.The ban imposes varying restrictions on residents of eight nations, six of which are...
View ArticleThese doomsday shelters for the 1% make up the largest private bunker...
Whether it's nuclear warfare or a zombie apocalypse that triggers the end of the world, Vivos Group wants you to be prepared. The California-based company builds and maintains massive fortified...
View Article34 of the weirdest photos taken in 2017
While Reuters' award-winning photographers are out capturing news events as they happen across the world, they also play witness to some pretty downright wacky stuff.Here, we've pulled together the...
View ArticleChipotle is struggling as it searches for a new CEO, but it doesn't matter...
The past few years haven't been too good for Chipotle, with E. coli scares, lackluster menu additions, and a weakened reputation.But there's something better than Chipotle: Qdoba.With a more...
View ArticleInside the New York City offices of $45 billion hedge-fund firm Two Sigma
What do you picture when you imagine a hedge-fund office? A noisy trading floor full of hedge-fund guys in fleece vests?Two Sigma, a $45 billion hedge-fund firm that uses advanced technologies to find...
View ArticleLake Erie can get extremely violent and these are the photos to prove it
Lake Erie may be the warmest and shallowest of North America's Great Lakes, but it's more beast than beauty. The world's 12th largest lake is notoriously stormy and has been known to pound boats, break...
View ArticleNew York City has a charming 4,000-person island that most people have never...
New Yorkers rarely explore the tourist destinations in their own city.I've never been to the Statue of Liberty, for example, and have visited the Empire State Building only once, when I was barely old...
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