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U-Turn on an Impossibly Narrow Street Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:58 PM PST 🚗 Can this driver pull off a U-turn on a narrow road with rocky hill on one side and a drop off on the other? 💰 Expert predictions about 2022 turned into a bingo card. 🏠 How crazy hot is the real estate market in San Francisco? Take a look at what $2 million buys you: a "zero bedroom" unlivable house that should've been condemned for being hazardous. In other words, a charming fixer upper! 🐱 Cosplay is better with a cat, especially if said cat is very chill about dressing up in costumes. Amber Maureen Lu took over wonderful photos of her cat in more than 300 hand-made costumes (image: eatdrinkcat). ⚾ Wholesome: Grandfather has a collection of baseball caps from each university his grandchildren attended. 🎬 Quentin Tarantino was on the verge of scrapping his film Inglorious Basterds until he met a little known Austrian actor named Christoph Waltz, who played the Nazi villain named Hans Landa to perfection. Tarantino even considered Landa to be the greatest character he's ever written and many people think that he's one of the most terrifying villains in movie history. Find out why. More neat posts over at our new sites: Laughosaurus, Pictojam, Homes & Hues, Supa Fluffy, and Pop Culturista. Featured art: Dark Side of Impossible by indie artist Artstuff. Current special:Save up to 20% on all T-shirts in NeatoShop's limited-time sitewide special.

Spend a Night in Prison -on Purpose! Posted: 24 Jan 2022 07:45 PM PST When a prison is replaced or decommissioned for one reason or another, what do you do with the building? These are often very old and very solidly-built institutions, but hard to convert to offices on a government budget. So they are sold off to private interests. A surprising number of such buildings are converted into hotels, where the building's history is used to promote the business. After all, who wouldn't want to stay in a prison cell? Yeah, there have been extensive renovations, and many of these hotels are luxurious, despite the names. But there are a couple that cater to their history in their aesthetic, too. Pictured here is the HI Ottawa Jail Hostel in Ottowa, Ontario, which retains a lot of the flavor of being imprisoned. The brick-walled cells have been freshened with a lick of paint and modern furnishings but still have metal bars and iron doors. There are now handles on the inside, though, so there’s no risk of being locked up for good. Regular guided tours typically take visitors around the building, rated as one of the most haunted in North America. With the gallows, where death row prisoners were hanged, soberingly on display, that reputation is perhaps unsurprising. Whether it's your particular kink or you're just looking for some place different to stay during your travels, there's a prison hotel for you. Learn about 16 hotels that were once jails or prisons in a list at Love Exploring. -via Fark

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