<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/feed.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Unique — #travel-and-places</title><description>Entries tagged #travel-and-places on Unique.</description><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/</link><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://unique.rzen.dev/tags/travel-and-places/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>No gate, no ticket, nobody guarding it</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-09-02-no-gate-no-ticket/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-09-02-no-gate-no-ticket/</guid><description>Five things standing in the open air with no entrance and no admission — a forest art trail, a birdhouse tree, a toppled blockhaus, a Cham tower in farmland, and a limestone gorge.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>design-and-art</category></item><item><title>One place living inside another</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-31-one-place-inside-another/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-31-one-place-inside-another/</guid><description>Five places that took up residence inside something built for another purpose — a hotel in a hotel&apos;s garden, a supermarket in an art museum, a gallery at a working airfield, a cemetery on eight house lots.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>design-and-art</category></item><item><title>Nobody in costume</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-27-nobody-in-costume/</link><guid 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Dubai.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>outdoors-and-nature</category></item><item><title>The decision was to leave it alone</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-22-left-it-alone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-22-left-it-alone/</guid><description>Four places that survive because somebody decided, on purpose, not to tidy them up.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>history-and-archives</category></item><item><title>Not a landmark, and people still come</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-22-not-a-landmark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-22-not-a-landmark/</guid><description>A lottery counter, a bike tunnel and 560 miles of hot springs — three places people travel to that no guidebook would call a sight.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>outdoors-and-nature</category></item><item><title>Roadside, and completely in earnest</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-22-roadside-and-in-earnest/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-22-roadside-and-in-earnest/</guid><description>Four American roadside stops made by people who took the idea entirely seriously: a monster museum, half a mile of murals, an eight-sided farmhouse and a Depression-era creamery.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>design-and-art</category></item><item><title>Built where it had no business being</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-11-no-business-being-there/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-11-no-business-being-there/</guid><description>Four things that work somewhere they shouldn&apos;t — a cash machine at 77°51′ south, a Game Boy Advance game on a $6 chip, a flock of birds played on a pre-synthesizer, and a concrete lotus raised out of an earthquake.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>history-and-archives</category><category>travel-and-places</category></item><item><title>Nothing standing in between</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-11-nothing-standing-in-between/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-11-nothing-standing-in-between/</guid><description>Four things that removed the middleman — the relay server, the script layer, the recommendation engine, and the phone itself.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>web-tools</category><category>travel-and-places</category></item><item><title>Out of the spare room, onto the street</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-11-out-of-the-spare-room/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-11-out-of-the-spare-room/</guid><description>Four private obsessions installed where strangers walk past them — a billboard typed by one man, a sci-fi collection hung in a coffee shop, seventy-six hand-cut buildings, and a screenwriter cast in bronze in his bathtub.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>design-and-art</category><category>travel-and-places</category></item><item><title>The colour is doing the structural work</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-11-the-colour-is-structural/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-11-the-colour-is-structural/</guid><description>Four things where the colour isn&apos;t decoration — a hotel built out of stripes, a lane of colour-washed cottages, a dive watch coloured after the fish that saves reefs, and palettes engineered to survive a screen going orange.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>design-and-art</category><category>travel-and-places</category></item><item><title>Go for the one strange fact</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-08-go-for-the-one-strange-fact/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-08-go-for-the-one-strange-fact/</guid><description>Five places where a single verifiable detail is the entire reason to make the trip — a thousand horse-god effigies, 6,000 pounds of sauna stones, and the only stretch of the Grand Canyon a car can reach.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>history-and-archives</category></item><item><title>The thing is gone; the shape stayed</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-08-the-thing-is-gone-the-shape-stayed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-08-the-thing-is-gone-the-shape-stayed/</guid><description>Six finds defined by an absence — a radar retired before it was used, the molds left behind by giant statues, a cave in the shape of a burned-away tree, and parts counters for machines nobody makes.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>history-and-archives</category><category>travel-and-places</category></item><item><title>Plotted on the actual ground</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-07-plotted-on-the-actual-ground/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-07-plotted-on-the-actual-ground/</guid><description>Five things that take what isn&apos;t normally mapped — the route of a novel, the shot list of a city, the footnotes under your feet, an eclipse over your own street, 30,000 people mowing the same lawn — and put it on real coordinates.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>web-tools</category></item><item><title>They only sell the one thing</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-07-they-only-sell-the-one-thing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-07-they-only-sell-the-one-thing/</guid><description>Four rooms that narrowed their inventory to a single subject and got better at it — a barrel of pickles, a counter of fungi, a matcha whisk, and a machine that sells one creamery&apos;s cheese.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>food-and-drink</category><category>travel-and-places</category></item><item><title>The smallest, the largest and the emptiest</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-01-the-smallest-the-largest-the-emptiest/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-01-the-smallest-the-largest-the-emptiest/</guid><description>Three superlatives you can walk up to: England&apos;s smallest active parish church, California&apos;s largest recorded lodgepole pine, and eleven-to-eighteen kilometres of almost empty beach.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>outdoors-and-nature</category></item><item><title>Worth going out of your way for</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-01-worth-going-out-of-your-way-for/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-08-01-worth-going-out-of-your-way-for/</guid><description>A lighthouse that takes overnight guests, a 1913 covered bridge, a resort where every trailer is an exhibit, and a map of meals under ten dollars worth the drive.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>food-and-drink</category></item><item><title>Packed for the part in between</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-27-packed-for-the-part-in-between/</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>design-and-art</category></item><item><title>Saved by somebody&apos;s stubbornness</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-25-saved-by-somebodys-stubbornness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-25-saved-by-somebodys-stubbornness/</guid><description>Five places that should have been flattened, dispersed or built over, and weren&apos;t, because somebody refused.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>history-and-archives</category></item><item><title>Kept because somebody decided to</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-21-kept-because-somebody-decided-to/</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>design-and-art</category></item><item><title>Buildings that outlived their first purpose</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-20-outlived-their-first-purpose/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-20-outlived-their-first-purpose/</guid><description>Four buildings still standing long after the job they were built for ended.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>history-and-archives</category></item><item><title>Landmarks with a punchline</title><link>https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-18-landmarks-with-a-punchline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unique.rzen.dev/bundles/2026-07-18-landmarks-with-a-punchline/</guid><description>Four landmarks that read as jokes — a trouser-shaped tower, a giant roadside cockatoo, a bridge of squatting figures, and the lone foot of a stolen statue.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bundles</category><category>daily-finds</category><category>travel-and-places</category><category>design-and-art</category></item></channel></rss>