An E. 64th Street townhouse, designed by the Tiffany & Company architect, John W. Cross, is on sale for $19 million.
The townhouse spans 6,600 square feet, has five bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, and a total of 14 rooms.
The home was built in 1910 and is currently vacant.
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As a salty mist rolls in from the tidal river, you duck into Moran’s Oyster Cottage and settle by the peat fire.
Willie, a seventh-generation shucker, draws you a creamy headed pint of Guinness and a dozen local oysters with a thick slab of brown bread.
You’ve slurped a lot of bivalves in your life, but all—past and future—will be compared to these.
No matter how awe-inspiring you find the Cliffs of Moher, the cobblestoned streets of Galway, or any of the other attractions that brought you to Ireland, it’s likely that this meal or one like it—hearty, served by friendly folks in just the right setting—will be the memory you keep coming back to. Because, let’s be honest, often sightseeing is just something to fill the time between meals, right? So as part of T+L's bucket list of the 101 places every traveler should know, we’re serving up some of the world’s best foodie experiences.
We’ve got a few seafood places that could give Moran’s a run for its money, such as a harborside South African restaurant and an atmospheric little bistro in the French village of Sauzon. Closer to home, a gut-busting lunch stop along the Pacific Coast Highway and the finest comfort food Montreal cooks up may inspire you to book a quick getaway.
Then, of course, there are classic foodie favorites like Paris, Singapore with its street-food stalls, and the frozen-in-time local hangouts along the canals of Venice. You don’t have to take our word for it. In Oaxaca, Mexico, famous for its complex mole sauces, chef April Bloomfield shares her favorite regional Slow Food restaurant, while designer Anya Hindmarch names London’s best sausage toast.
There’s something for every taste. But every pick hits that sweet spot where food, company, and setting combine for a truly transporting—and delicious—experience. Find out where in the world to satisfy your cravings.
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Slurp oysters fresh from Tomales Bay at the Hog Island Oyster Bar ($$$), in the Ferry Terminal Market—or better yet, at its home base, 50 miles north.
Make a movable feast of a tapas crawl, from classic El Vaso de Oro ($) and modern Paco Meralgo ($) to the popular Bar Pinotxo ($) and locals-only Bomba Bar Cova Fumada ($).
“The food in Oaxaca, Mexico, is excellent: complex moles; chicken soups with different kinds of chiles; fresh street-side tacos. I love La Biznaga Restaurant ($$), which specializes in regional Slow Food dishes.” —April Bloomfield, chef
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With Halloween around the corner, ghost-hunters and thrill-seekers are looking for paranormal scares.
Sure there are the manufactured, artificial "haunted houses" where zombies and mummies pop out of dark corners. But those are fake.
If you're looking for a true heart-stopping scare, just examine history and you'll find plenty of terror.
We've compiled a list of the five creepiest historic haunted places in America. From prisons to battlefields, these places have dark pasts that may have left unfulfilled souls behind.
New Yorkers love to linger in the village's Washington Square Park, but most of them don't know the dark history behind it.
In the early 1800s, the site was a public cemetery where the poor, sick and undesirable were buried. Public executions also took place here until 1820; the convicted criminals were then buried in the same spot.
Several years later the bodies were exhumed, but many claim that the park is still haunted by the spirits of these ghosts.
New Orleans' LaLaurie House has a gruesome, disturbing history that dates back to the 1800s, when a wealthy Creole family moved into this French Quarter mansion with a trove of slaves.
Madame LaLaurie appeared to have a sadistic streak and rumors spread about the young slaves who would routinely disappear from the home.
But it wasn't until a fire broke out in the home and firefighters came to inspect the scene that her cruelty was truly exposed: in the rubble they found tortured, maimed and disembodied slaves—many of whom were dead—strapped to operating tables, chained to walls, and stuffed into cages.
Eastern State Penitentiary was the first prison in the U.S. to institute solitary confinement as a punishment. That practice is rumored to have caused mental illness among inmates—some of whom reportedly haunt the halls and cells today.
This prison, which dates back to 1829, was abandoned in 1971. Today it is a museum and Halloween haunted house.
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The luxury apartments at 18 Gramercy Park are stunning, which explains why the building is almost completely sold out before even opening.
But what we really found impressive were the bathrooms.
Each full-floor apartment has 5.5 bathrooms. So, there's a hallway bathroom, a full bathroom in three of the bedrooms, and a his and her bathroom in the master suite.
We found the "Her" bathroom in the master suite very impressive.
The features include:
Finding a floating tub in New York is incredibly rare, and even more elusive is separate showers for the Mr. and Mrs.
Overall, the massive amounts of space in the bathroom makes you feel as if you're in a mansion, not an apartment in New York City.
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Steve Jobs spent years designing his custom yacht. And now, a year after his death, the yacht has been completed, reports Dutch blog, One More Thing.
The yacht has been named Venus.
Perhaps the most unique thing about the ship is that it's controlled by a bunch of 27-inch iMacs from the control room, known as the wheelhouse. The roughly 250-foot long yacht has a large sun terrace, complete with a Jacuzzi, travels with its own speed boat and an aluminum hull and exterior, making it lighter (and presumably faster) than other yachts.
Everyone who worked on the yacht received a thank you letter and an iPod Shuffle as a gift from the Jobs family. We don't know what plans the Jobs family has for the yacht but we'd bet that Larry Ellison, one of Jobs best friends, would be proud of the yacht and, perhaps, would want to add it to his own collection.
Jobs worked with French designer Philippe Starck, according to his biography by Walter Isaacson. The yacht was built in the Netherlands by shipbuilder Koninklijke De Vries, One More Thing reports.
Here's some photos of the yacht by One More Thing and by Amsterdam Apple developer, Bas van der Ploeg. More photos of the yacht can be found here.
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Haunted Houses have been making America scream for nearly 40 years, and now Haunted Houses have gone global. The haunted house industry is an American export.
100 percent made in America as haunt vendors design, build and install haunted houses all over the WORLD! Halloween is extremely popular within the US. However, it was not as popular worldwide.
Trick-or-treating is an American tradition, and for years it was the primary way most American’s celebrated Halloween, but many things have changed over the last twenty years. Halloween has become the second largest retail holiday grossing more than $8 billion. The industry of making people scream is now a WORLD WIDE industry. Today, you can find haunted houses in most countries. People of all nations pay top dollar to enter a haunted house…to be SCARED.
So what makes a haunted house one of the best and scariest in America 2012? There are several things a paying customer might look for in a haunted attraction prior to buying a ticket. There are so many established haunted houses, plus so many more that open new each year, and a lot of over the top (potentially false) advertisements promoting them all in every city across America.
At Hauntworld, we suggest attending every haunt possible (of course), but for those of you on a budget, typically you’ll want to steer clear from the brand new haunted houses. New haunts have yet to establish themselves and build up an arsenal of experience to make people scream.
Rather, we suggest you visit the established haunted houses, the ones with years of experience, the ones who spend tens of thousands of dollars every year to renovate for each season, and the ones committed to making their haunted houses the best scream factories in America.
We look for many things when evaluating a haunt for our America’s best list. So many haunted attractions are quite different from each other. Many haunted houses like The Beast in Kansas City, Missouri are inside industrial buildings, while others like Headless Horseman in New York are outdoor haunts with massive hayrides, corn mazes and more.
How do you compare a scream park haunted attraction and an indoor haunted house? In most cases, the indoor haunted house will have the best attention to detail, sets and special FX. However, the scream park style attractions will offer more variety, longer attractions and typically more bang for the buck.
There are scary haunted houses, and then there are THE SCARIEST haunted houses in America. What’s the difference? Some haunts just want to make you scream, but some haunts go all out with over-the-top efforts trying to be the biggest, the baddest and the scariest haunted houses on the planet. The haunts that have that WOW factor can make their guests scream, PLUS they provide horrific atmosphere creating realism in every scare.
They provide a Hollywood movie quality punch to the gut! Who wants to watch horror movies anymore when you can visit a haunted house and be right in the middle of the action? Below is our list of the best haunted attractions in America.
These haunts will put you on stage inside a horror movie atmosphere and basically make YOU the scream queen! Before visiting a haunted house, use Hauntworld.com to find the best haunted houses in America, as we boast the largest and most informative database for finding haunted houses. Shop by city, state and zip to find a haunted house near you or around the World.
So which haunted houses are the best and scariest haunted houses in America 2012? Which haunts can make you scream more than any other, more than the best horror movie? Below you’ll read about the longest haunted houses, the oldest haunted houses, and even about the best rides with a Halloween theme? We have it all for you once again in our annual Top 13 best haunted houses in America List. Get ready, turn out the lights, and get ready to scream!
Located in the shadow of downtown Houston, TX next to Houston’s oldest graveyard, Nightmare on the Bayou is the name people think of when searching “HAUNTED TEXAS.” Nightmare on the Bayou is entering its 12th year in operation and has grown even bigger, even better, and even scarier with every passing year.
Featuring newly designed scenes, Hollywood quality props, professional animatronics and dozens upon dozens of the most well-trained and highly supervised actors, CRAZED ACTORS, whose sole purpose is to scare you to death. Nightmare on the Bayou boasts, “the only haunted house in Houston with REAL ghosts,” and with its location right next to the graveyard…I believe them!
Ghost sightings are frequent from both customers and employees alike. Additionally, Nightmare On The Bayou is one of the only haunted houses in America with a WORLD CLASS Halloween retail store on site for your ease and convenience.
What is the terrible secret hidden within the 13th Floor? Superstition? Conspiracy? Or something much, much worse? As legend has foretold, The 13th Floor Haunted House provides a gut wrenching ride to untold nightmares STRAIGHT DOWN!
The 13th Floor Haunted House is a franchise haunted attraction located in multiple locations. These attractions are a true testament to high action, in-your-face premium production value among all haunted houses. Each attraction offers a massive haunted event, one as big as 40,000 square feet and another as high as 3 floors up! Through the wickedness of its massive Gothic cemetery and into its horrifically fantastic haunted hotel, 13th Floor customers get to experience a barrage of special effects, animatronic monsters and impeccably detailed sets.
Add to that some of the most talented group of performers in the industry, and you’ve got a top notch, first rate haunted house that’s second to none.
For more than 20 years, The Bates Motel Haunted Hayride at Arasapha Farm has been making Philadelphia SCREAM!
This event is one of the biggest haunted house events in America featuring amazing props, digital FX, terrifying actors, professional makeup, pyrotechnics and multiple attractions in one location including a massive corn maze, an infamous hayride and a horrific haunted house.
The Bates Motel has been featured on multiple television shows and ranked as high as THE BEST haunted house in the nation by multiple media outlets including Hauntworld.com. The Bates Motel dominates the Philadelphia market as well as every surrounding area. People travel from miles away just to attend this haunting event.
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As Hurricane Sandy barrels along the East Coast, recovering online shopaholics like myself have something more to worry about than just battening down the hatches.
This is the perfect storm for a relapse.
In less than an hour of home confinement, I've already purchased a flat iron, a spa treatment, and a Groupon for a mani/pedi. Of course, none of these are things I need, and already that immediate rush I get from nailing a great deal has been smothered by the familiar crush of buyer's remorse.
And this is just day one of a four-day monster.
It's time for an intervention, and I'm taking no chances with my finances here. I've downloaded the Self Control app for macs, which is a site virtually guaranteed to keep distracting web browsing at bay.
Download the app, and you can "blacklist" certain sites, which will block access from your IP address for a certain period of time. That means until the timer runs out, you can't so much as look at a site without getting blocked. Restarting your computer won't even work, and you can block sites for up to 24 hours at a time.
The app was created by novelists who needed to find a way to get work down at their computers without getting sucked into the big wide world of the Web. Trust me. It is probably the most frustrating tool ever created, but it actually works.
Give it a try, or hope the power goes out before you go broke.
A few other apps like SelfControl: http://macfreedom.com/, and http://anti-social.cc/. Know of any good ones for PC users out there? Comment below.
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Ben Spalding wants you to lick his bricks. No, that isn't a euphemism. The ex-Roganic chef, a much-tipped rising star, is about to start cooking at a new Islington bar and restaurant, John Salt, where the menu will include his signature "chicken on a brick". The dish is an elaborate combination of chicken liver mousse and crispy chicken skin, served on - you guessed it - a caramel-glazed house brick. Forget slate. That's so 2010. Now, we're all about eating off other building materials. In fact, customers will be encouraged, says Spalding to, "actually lick the brick".
This outbreak of brick-licking started spontaneously, insists Spalding, with curious diners slurping at the caramel, which, when warm, releases bitter flavours that offset the liver's fattiness. Nonetheless, it's all a bit WTF, no? I'm all for a injecting a bit of fun into restaurants. I'm all for sensory adventure. But - and I suppose it depends on how much you have had to drink - I can't help but think that I'd feel a bit self-conscious, sat in a restaurant, licking a brick. I would be plagued by the nagging doubt that, behind the swing doors, the kitchen staff were sniggering into their Thermomix. "Look at that knobhead, he's actually licking the brick."
But perhaps this reflects the general trajectory of the modern restaurant. Increasingly chefs are playing with the customers' senses - in a way that often challenges people to step outside of their comfort zone - to heighten the dining experience. More and more we are asked entertain ideas which, 10 years ago, would have seemed ridiculous. The benign end of this spectrum is a waiter relaying how the chef suggests that a dish should be eaten or, as at Goodman, a pre-dinner, tableside preview of that night's meat cuts. Personally, I would find that butchery class unnecessary; an intrusion into what would ideally be a relaxing night out.
Sucking on an amuse bouche of "pebbles" at Mugaritz may be a hurdle for some, but Noma's sometime serving of live shrimps takes the whole process of forcing the diner to perceive, engage with and question what they are eating to a new and confrontational level. By contrast eating at the Fat Duck is more likely to make you feel a bit daft rather than guilty.
When I ate there, I'd promised that when it came to the Sound of the Sea (the dish where you're asked to pop in iPod headphones and listen to a shoreline soundscape), I was going start singing Live Forever, point at the headphones and shout at Mrs N: "I THINK THEY'VE GIVEN ME THE WRONG ONE."
I didn't, of course. And I'm glad I didn't, because while I can't say that the soundtrack transported me to the seaside or, so far as I could consciously tell, enhanced the fishiness of the dish, it's too easy for us Britons - with our admirable but occasionally debilitating fear of being seen as pretentious - to take the piss. Undoubtedly, there is something in that kind of sensory manipulation. Even if we don't fully understand it yet. For years, those blacked-out restaurants where you dine "blind" have insisted that it enhances your experience of taste and smell. If licking a brick adds a new dimension to a dish, why deny yourself that pleasure? Surely a kind of open, curious scepticism is the best approach to these things?
Licking a brick is certainly more enjoyable than what you might encounter elsewhere. From being told to sit up straight and chew your food properly, to having to cook your own steak on a volcanic rock, there are many things that you might be asked to do in restaurants, which, frankly, I don't want to. Not if I'm paying for the privilege.
What's the most ridiculous thing that you've ever been encouraged to do in a restaurant? And did you end up enjoying it?
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The penthouse inside 965 Fifth Avenue sold for $17.9 million, making it the most expensive sale of the week, according to The New York Times.
The penthouse has an eerie past.
The apartment, No. 18-19A, sold with its adjoining 1-bedroom pad, is where celebrity real estate broker Linda S. Stein was beaten to death in 2007 by her former assistant. Stein's clientele included Billy Joel, Michael Douglas, and Sting, among others.
The assistant received a prison sentence of 25 years to life.
The penthouse was purchased from Stein's estate for $1 million. The duplex penthouse has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a wine cellar.
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Before Steve Jobs died he began work on a yacht with French designer Philippe Starck. The yacht is now finished, and it looks pretty crazy. It looks sort of like a floating Apple store. Check out this video from One More Thing to see it:
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An apartment complex in Gramercy is using a fairy tale to sell its condos.
Known as The Story House, the E. 22nd Street building was transformed from the headquarters of British publishing house Frederick Warne & Company, most notably the publisher of Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit."
The apartment's sales office crafted a story about a fairy living inside The Story House.
"After all, without using my magic, I'm just a little person with wings," the fairy says in the story. So the fairy used her pixie dust to create eight magical residences inside The Story House, where she already lived.
"All those searching for the most wonderful home, look no further," the fairy says.
The apartment's website is designed like a fairy tale story book, with Gothic writing and illustrations.
Currently there are two residences for sale inside The Story House. Both are 3-bedroom units on sale for $4.5 million and $3.995 million, respectively.
All of the residences span a full floor, have ceilings ranging from 9'6'' to 13' and a chef's open kitchen.
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We Americans love our coffee. After all, the average adult guzzles around 70 gallons of coffee a year – and spends over $1,000 annually on morning doses of caffeine.
While the habit can be hard on your wallet, the health benefits of consuming coffee are numerous: Research shows it can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and heart disease.
And particularly for business travelers who need to work through the night and then impress clients the next morning – all while recovering from jet lag – a ready cup of Joe is essential.
We’ve found five of the best hotel coffee bars across the states so you can get that jolt you need without having to leave your hotel.
A popular business hotel – with amenities such as a full-service FedEx business center and modern meeting rooms – the Grand Hyatt San Antonio also features Perks Coffee, a cute coffee-bar-meets-convenience-store.
Along with coffee, Perks serves up tasty pastries and prepackaged sandwiches and salads, and best of all, it’s open around the clock so you can work through the night.
Le Parker Meridien’s coffee bar is about as sexy as they come.
The hotel’s website claims it would be “sacrilege” to venture anywhere else for coffee, and it has a point: The large space has a warm, upscale vibe with red velvet curtains, high, stained-glass ceilings, antique chandeliers, and plush chairs and couches that allow for a fluid shift from daytime coffee bar to afternoon cocktail lounge.
Clients will be impressed by the posh atmosphere, as well as the light menu which features pastries and paninis.
If eastside convenience is what you’re looking for, the Marriott Courtyard Seattle Bellevue is a solid choice.
And it delivers caffeine convenience as well: The hotel features an on-site Starbucks, so when you’re on-the-go you can simply head downstairs and order up your daily latte or buy a pre-wrapped sandwich.
Numerous other hotels are home to Starbucks cafes, such as the Eden Roc and the InterContinental in Miami.
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A 12,000 square foot beautiful estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., is on sale for $28.9 million.
The home looks like it's out of a storybook and has breathtaking views.
The house has eight bedrooms, four full bathrooms, and four half baths.
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This will be the best October on record in the luxury real estate market in New York City, according to the latest Olshan Realty report.
So far, a total of 87 contracts on properties over $ 4 million have been signed.
The best month ever in luxury real estate was this past May, when 107 proprieties went in to contract.
"Without question, 2012 is shaping up to be the best year in Luxury Sales ever recorded," Donna Olshan, of Olshan Realty, told Business Insider.
The market is up 153 percent from last October.
The highest sale of the week belongs to the eighth floor apartment at 823 Park Avenue, which sold at $15 million.
The No. 2 contract of the week was a 15th floor apartment at 212 West 18th Street, asking $13.25 million.
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This is the Meteorologist's Complete Weather Station from Hammacher Schlemmer.
Why We Love It: When apps or websites fail you, the weather-obsessed can turn to the live stream of data from this home weather center. The station includes three separate wireless sensors that can relay data up to 300 feet to record exact outside conditions. These sensors include an anemometer for wind speed and direction, a hygrometer-thermometer unit for humidity and temperature, and a rain gauge for precipitation levels.
The LCD base station displays all of the weather info from the sensors on a touchscreen. It also includes forecasts, wind chill, dew point, heat index ratings, UV index, and current moon phase, plus weather alerts from the National Weather Service and the precise time from the U.S. Atomic Clock.
Where To Buy: Available through Hammacher Schlemmer.
Cost: $399.95, not including shipping.
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The Holmby Hills mansion where pop legend Michael Jackson died is about to sell to investment banker Steven Mayer, TMZ is reporting.
The home is in escrow and closing this week.
Sources told TMZ the home is selling for between $17 million and $20 million. It was originally listed for $23.9 million.
The home is currently completely empty, where as all of Jackson's things were auctioned off last December.
Jackson passed away in the home in 2009.
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Tony Montana may have been living the American dream in Miami, but the real mansion that served as a backdrop for the 1983 movie "Scarface" is actually located in Santa Barbara, California.
It’s also available to rent for a cool $30,000 a month through Village Properties Realtors.
The 10,000-square-foot Roman Revival mansion is located on a 10-acre property with a swimming pool, two fountains (both indoor and outdoor), tiled murals, and a guesthouse. It also has four bedrooms, a rooftop terrace, and staggering views of the Pacific Ocean.
The house is known locally as "El Fureidis," or "little paradise." It was designed by American architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and built in 1906.
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Halloween is creeping up, and that means we’re all looking for a little extra spookiness in our lives.
While there are some locales that just ooze terror, you might not be totally sure which destinations are the very scariest on Earth—that is, which cities are the most haunted and which towns have the darkest histories.
Not knowing this for sure can put a real damper on your Halloween trip planning.
But never fear! (Get it?) At Hopper, we ran the numbers to objectively pinpoint the scariest places in the world. With our guide in hand, you should have no trouble picking out a frightful site to get your horror on this October.
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You might not think of Paris as a scary city, but the City of Light has always had a dark side. With 22 cemeteries filled to the brim with famous and anonymous corpses alike, Paris has just as much in store for ghost-hunters as it does for lovers.
Many claim to have seen the ghost of Marie Antoinette wandering the halls of the Chateau de Versailles. Additionally, the violent end to the brief Paris Commune government in 1871 resulted in what is known as La Semaine Sanglante, or the Bloody Week. Somewhere between 10,000 and 50,000 Parisians were slaughtered in just a few days, and many more exiled from the city. If that doesn’t spell ghosts, we’re not sure what does.
Should you visit Paris around Halloween, don’t miss the Catacombs of Paris, a subterranean ossuary holding the remains of an astounding six million people. Unsurprisingly, many have reported ghostly sightings in the underground caverns.
Another ornate European city not often associated with gore is Vienna. What began as a Roman military camp soon matured into a center of civilization and culture for Europe. A millennium-worth of inhabitants makes for high ghost potential!
An early target of the Barbarian invasions, there is also some evidence that Vienna suffered from a devastating fire around the beginning of the fifth century. The Napoleonic Wars brought even more violence to the area and the Battle of Wagram alone resulted in more than 20,000 casualties. Later, in the 1930s, Hitler’s army occupied and annexed Austria. The Allied bombings of the city in 1944 and 1945 also destroyed large portions of the city and killed many of its inhabitants.
If you manage to stop by Vienna this spooky season, check out the Ducal Crypt under the Stephansdom, which contains 78 receptacles filled with the bodies, hearts and viscera of several members of the Habsburg dynasty. Creepy!
Savannah has often been voted the most haunted city in the U.S. With a war-torn past and three historical cemeteries, this southern city has long been home to phantoms of all stripes. It’s no wonder, when you consider the city’s past. The Siege of Savannah in 1779 was a failed attempt by the joint French-American forces to overthrow British rule, and is considered to have been one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War, with 948 killed on the French-American side.
Savannah was also the site of the end of General Sherman’s famous March to the Sea (officially titled the Savannah Campaign) during the Civil War. The campaign devastated Georgia and the Confederacy, which surrendered to Sherman at Savannah. However, the city did manage to avoid being burned and ransacked, as most in Sherman’s path were.
This only adds to Savannah’s creepy old-world charm, with buildings that date back hundreds of years and are in nearly perfect condition. Later, Savannah was the site of various segregation conflicts. Six well-known haunted locations include: Mercer House, Marshall House, 17Hundred90, Wright Square, Pirate's House and Sorrel-Weed House.
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On a day when all the news focuses on the hurricane ravaging the East Coast, it's nice to see a photo of a gorgeous car on a sunny day.
This black Lamborghini Aventador was spotted parked amid palm trees in Miami earlier this month. The photo was posted to www.ExoticSpotter.com, which shared it with us.
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