Travel

You're bound to meet a few interesting people when you take a year-long hitchhiking trip across the country. Artist, traveler and self-proclaimed 'lover of people' Benjamin Jenks met exactly 930 when he and his raised thumb journeyed 5,000 miles from Los Angeles to Maine. Artist that he is, Ben put together a time-lapse video of his trip complete with photos of all 930 people he met along the way.

You've probably heard of the Smart Car but what about the Smart Train? Filmed near the Tokyu Ikegami Station in Ōta, Tokyo, this Japanese micro-train blazes through the frame so fast, you might miss it if you blink. Sure there may be some editing trickery going on in this clip (the YouTube comments indicate that Tokyo doesn't have much of a need for a single-axle train), but a commuter can dre

Anybody who's ever boarded an airplane knows that there is something terribly inefficient about the slow, agonizing process. Astrophysicist Jason Steffen decided to do something about the messy procedure, using science to develop a plane boarding method that cuts seating times in half.

Comedian Mark Malkoff already made a scene Stateside when he pulled a series of pranks in an Apple store, and now he's moved on to Holland, where he recently allowed pigeons in Amsterdam's Dam Square to feed from his prone body.

A 7am flight between Moscow and London is an unusual venue for an exotic dance, but that's exactly when and where a 39-year-old Russian woman busted out an interactive striptease.

Peter Shankman "had visions of steak in my head" when he waited for an airplane that was going to bring him from Tampa, Florida to Newark, New Jersey. So the investment guru sent out a sarcastic Tweet requesting the steak house chain Morton's meet him in the Newark airport in two hours with a porterhouse -- and to his surprise, they obliged!

You can get lobster from a vending machine in Japan, so why not a baguette from one in France? French baker Jean-Louis Hecht has developed a machine which dispenses warm, fresh bread any time of the day. The idea for the innovation came when customers would knock on the door of his apartment -- which was above his bakery -- off hours and ask if he had any left over baguettes he could sell them. Re

A British tourism campaign called 'VisitBritain,' in which English celebrities "invite" tourists to vacation in Great Britain, has been pulled from all overseas markets due to the rather uninviting rioting currently plaguing our cross-Atlantic cousins.

Trekkies will have the perfect place to enjoy a little fun in the sun, come 2014, when a 1.5 billion dollar Star Trek-themed resort is scheduled to open in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Jordan.

Forget snakes on plane -- now we've got bats invading our airlines. Last Friday, passengers on an Atlanta-bound Delta flight felt like they were in an airborne Gotham City when a bat emerged from the cabin, giving travelers quite a start.

If you're ever fortunate enough to have the free time (and extra cash) to spend 44 days traveling to 11 countries, pray that you also have a couple talented filmmakers with you -- because you could end up with an amazingly cool little trilogy like this one made by Rick Mereki, Tim White, and Andrew Lees.

Though her personal choices have been -- how do we put this lightly? -- questionable over the last few years, nobody can deny that Lindsay Lohan has a pretty good sense of humor. Which might be the reason why the 'Mean Girls' star agreed to sit down for an interview with Air New Zealand mascot, Rico, on the airline's series of web ads, 'On the Skycouch With Rico.'

Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten knows that flying is uncomfortable enough (strict carry-on rules, awkward TSA patdowns) without a rude invasion of space by your fellow passengers. Cramped quarters on most airplanes make it downright inhumane to recline your seat, minimizing the already-meager leg room of the person behind you. In an effort to avoid such problems, Weingarten created a pri

Who says airplane safety has to be a somber matter? These airlines have fun with the tired in-flight procedure, from rapping through oxygen mask instructions to demonstrating proper storage of overhead luggage in the buff. Check out our favorites below:

If you're a frequent flyer, you've probably zoned out during quite a few airplane safety demonstrations. Pegasus, a Turkish airline, brilliantly eschewed the usual bored flight attendants for some seriously adorable kids. The tots, dressed as attendants, passengers and even an aviator-clad pilot, walk us through proper seatbelt buckling and how to operate an oxygen mask with panache.