Blog Posts - Cool Places

Japan already has Pokemon Centers in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, and Sapporo. However, we have yet to see too much outside of the merchandise. Perhaps we could see the monsters in their gym, where they train, socialize and teach us how to breathe fire?

The Polish Energy Group recently hired a team to create a mural that covers 4.9 thousand square meters of the Lake Solina Dam in Poland. The mural was created by the team as they used pressure washers to remove dirt from the side of the dam creating...

English graffiti artist Banksy just made a theme park and it’s the unhappiest place in the world. The theme park is called “Dismaland“. It's located in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, UK, in the town’s abandoned Tropicana swimming reso...

    An American artist has found roots in his agricultural upbringing. Award-winning contemporary artist and Syracuse University art professor Sam Van Aken has created a tree that bears 40 different types of fruit. Through a process called...

  Edmonton hosted the first annual Art in Bloom Festival earlier this month. The four day festival featured five art galleries and five flower shops collaborating in a fun and unique event.     Five talented flower shops teamed up wit...

How can you not like a planetarium? Gazing up at the stars and planets, even when they’re digital, is just a beautiful and calming thing, no? One Tokyo based planetarium aims to add to that comfort and realism of the experience, using new addit...

Here are perfect examples to show you different playgrounds in Rich and Poor Areas. There is a lot of different between Playgrounds in both areas.

Leave it to Japan to do something entirely new with a mall, which would be adding a giant running track atop of its store. Hooray! finally the boyfriends and husbands have something to do while their gf/wife shops because the man bench is always ful...

I used to think that walking or biking across bridges was a sightseeing experience, minus the tiring effects and dangers involved. But when looking at this bridge in Japan, I realize that I know nothing of tiring bridges. In the southwestern part of...

  The Museum of Experimental Science and Innovation in Tokyo is currently featuring an interactive flower installation, called Floating Flower Garden. A simple white space has been turned into a flower oasis; over 2,300 colourful and fragrant o...

There are many beautiful reasons to travel the globe, and The Hitachi Seaside Park is up on the list. Located just two hours outside of Tokyo in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan, the public park is currently in full bloom. Flowers blossom year round, &#...

Flower crowns are all the rage these days. Fresh flowers in your hair just simply put a pep in your step. Brides, festival goers, graduates, birthday celebrators- there are many reasons to sport little lovelies around your tête.     …...

Yep, the rumors are truer than ever, as Japan is working on creating a “strange hotel” that is primarily staffed by advanced robots, which will eventually be entirely robotic! This isn’t very surprising is it? This is somethin...

The second quarter of this year has been a whirlwind! And life changing as well! On June 1st, I officially joined Mod Mom Furniture as president, and a whole new journey had began. You can read some more details about the announcement at Furniture To...

A couple of years ago, I wrote a piece about things you could do to beat the heat on a budget. Now that summer’s here again, I’d like to take that list a step further and give you a list of places you can go to get out of the heat that wo...

We love hearing about local's insider tips, especially about one of our favourite cities. Our friend Abigail Ekue is a lifelong New York resident and founder of the very cool Native Creative Concierge, a flexible tour and travel planning company desi...

From food stalls to five star restaurants and everything in between, you could live your whole life in Bangkok and never be able to eat in every restaurant in the city. I gave it a shot during my six months living there, as exhibited by the five extr...

For me, this place is close to home! The Devonian Botanic Gardens, located just 15 minutes from Edmonton Alberta is 190 acres of natural areas, ecological preserves and display gardens. Open from May to October, this place is a haven … Continue...

Panagbenga Flower Festival held in Baguio City, Philippines has some of the most amazing & creative floral floats this bloom blogger has ever seen! Which really shouldn’t be much of a surprise considering Panagbenga means “season of b...

Held in late December to early January the city of Da Lat, Vietnam hosts a beautiful flower festival. Da Lat is known as “Little Paris” for it’s year round cool climate and french styled architectural works. During the festival more...

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