Tag Archives: Urban Exploration

Film Off The Beaten path: Drake’s Passage

by Shop Keeper
July 20, 2011 - 10:45 am

Mexico City – Drake partakes in mezcal tasting, joins a mariachi band Plaza Garibaldi, forces down pulque at a pulquería, rides moto with Homero Diaz – Mexico’s top rider, explores witchcraft and gets a shamanic cleansing at Sonora Mercado and gets tossed around like a ragdoll in a lucha libre lesson. And this is just episode #1.

Drake’s Passage, a six-episode original travel series, premieres on Monday, August 15 at 10 p.m. ET/PT during FUEL TV’s “Raging Mondays” programming block. Produced by Red Bull Media House North America, Drake’s Passage takes viewers to iconic cities around the world and showcases them through the eyes of Drake McElroy, who is one of the most stylish, cultured and respected riders in the freestyle motocross world.

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Featured Gallery Urban Exploration 10 Things About Vegas That Don’t Totally Suck

by Lisa Johnson
June 30, 2011 - 10:38 am

Have a love/hate relationship with Sin City? I know I do. So this is a list of all the wonderful things that don’t totally suck about Las Vegas.

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Gallery Urban Exploration One Night In Bangkok: Khaosan Road

by Nicole Pajer
June 28, 2011 - 10:03 am

If you find yourself in Bangkok and looking to start your night out on the town at 2 a.m., you ask the locals where to go. After a 15-hour plane ride from LAX to Bangkok paired with a 15-hour time change, the jet lag makes you lose your mind. I took a “nap” upon my arrival that felt more like a coma. Attempting to sleep for an hour at 6 p.m. turned into me waking up at 2 a.m!

Panicking that I was missing out on the nightlife, I asked around if anything was still happening and received a unanimous response that I should head over to Khaosan Road. Like a careful little tourist, I got specific directions from my hotel concierge and jumped into my cab, prepared to give the driver a play-by-play of how to get from point A to point B. He looked at me with a grin and said “Khaosan Road! Everyone goes there. I don’t need the map” and we were off.

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Gallery Urban Exploration The Happiest Place on Earth: Pompeii

by Zoetica Ebb
May 12, 2011 - 12:27 pm

Three hours outside of Rome is Pompeii, the once-flourishing pleasure center which was famously destroyed [and preserved] by an eruption of the nearby Vesuvius volcano. Pompeii’s sudden, violent end by heat and rain of volcanic ash lent archeologists a unique perspective into life 5,000 years ago. Because the city was buried in under six hours, it became an archeological goldmine hundreds of years later, when it was first rediscovered in 1599. Amusingly, the frescoes that were first unearthed back then were considered so obscene in nature, that they were quickly buried again, to protect the strict moral codes of the time.

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Gallery Urban Exploration An Optional Blessing at No Extra Charge: The Vatican

by Zoetica Ebb
May 11, 2011 - 11:10 am

In the center of Rome looms the Vatican – the holy sovereign city within a city, world’s smallest state, heart of Catholicism, subject of media scrutiny, surrounded by a wall of speculation as thick as the actual stone wall surrounding it. Inside, museums filled with innumerable cultural treasures, St. Peter’s Basilica – arguably the most breathtaking Catholic church in existence, and, of course, more pope paraphernalia than you can shake a gilded staff at.

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Gallery Urban Exploration “Signs of the Times”- Detroit Edition

by Dustin Downing
July 2, 2010 - 12:19 pm

“The average American consumes a whopping 34GB of data and 100,000 words of information per day.”  Holy overload Batman!  Thankfully, some of that information I shot in Detroit Rock City was pretty easy on the eyes.

Photos by Dustin Downing

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Urban Exploration “scRatched”- Detroit Style

by Dustin Downing
June 25, 2010 - 1:03 pm

Detroit Rock City Urban Expolrer 2010

“Graffiti and graffito are from the Italian word graffiato (“scratched“)”

As I travel this diverse landscape of ours I oft notice the “gifts” given by the unknown artists of the streets.  I say this with a light tone as I know not all are in it for the progression of their respectful specialties(tagging, stencil, aerosol,etc.). Often there is undue property damage and defacing, but there will be no judging here. I hope to use “scRatched” as a way for you to tour the same “galleries” I am afforded in my travels. Enjoy.

I have utmost admiration for any artist, who understands that the creation of the piece itself, most likely assures it’s eventual destruction.

Words and photos by Dustin Downing

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Urban Exploration Frolic in the Fairfax Farmer’s Market

by Zoetica Ebb
September 16, 2009 - 10:06 am

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Fall has come to LA. Sort of. While we’re trying to shake the September gloom that visits SoCal every year there are plenty of delicious benefits to be reaped. Take the Farmers’ Market on Fairfax, for instance. Whether you plan to sticking to your raw/vegan/liquid diet or aim to search and destroy an assortment of baked delights under the season’s hazy sunshine, this is the place to be. Tons of international restaurants and a maze or produce are sure to offer something you can’t live without – last week I fell victim to an incredible batch of guacamole, cherries and a large jar of caramel sauce. Mmm.Visitors can sit down for a meal or browse the isles – shiny vegetables piled high, stacks of home-made chocolate-covered everything, spices and teas are just some of the treats available. The official Farmer’s Market event takes place on Fridays and Saturdays, but the restaurants are open daily. Resistance is futile.

Words and photos by Zoetica Ebb

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Gallery Urban Exploration Santa Monica Pier

by Zoetica Ebb
June 26, 2009 - 12:08 pm


At the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California, the Santa Monica pier stretches into the ocean. Though open daily, on weekends it overflows with humans and their young – mesmerized by shiny arcades, slightly overpriced restaurants and hobos trying to escape kamikaze flocks of shit-shooting seagulls. Smells of cheeseburgers, sea and teenage love mingle with radiating smiles of green plastic lizards exhibiting themselves on the side, price tags on their tails. A roller-coaster full of children roars through the air. The first and only solar powered Ferris Wheel towers above it all. The sun dips its lower end into the ocean, street performers and fishermen smile into the pink rays enveloping the beach before the onset of night.

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