After passing through the north gates of Chinatown on blvd St-Laurent you will enter a noticeably seedier part of the city. This is the part of Downtown is generally known as the Red Light District (I've also heard it referred to as the "tenderloin" for some reason, I'm sure the French probably have some good names for it too). The area is well known as a good place to get any sort of drug, prostitute, or poutine desired. Cheap import stores are also in high abundance slightly further...

Festival of the Steel Phallus

author: serlingrod : Kawasaki, Japan

The Kanamara Matsuri, also called Festival of the Steel Phallus, is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan each spring. The festival is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine, once popular among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Today, the festival is used to raise money for HIV research. There's also a legend of a demon that hid inside a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights before a blacksmith fashioned an iron phallus that was used to break the demon's teeth, leading to the enshrinement of the item.

Bushwick '77: The All Hands Fire

author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

The All Hands Fire was something that you remember. Prior to 9/11, it was the biggest fire ever fought by the modern FDNY. It took 55 units of firefighters from Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn to put out the fire started by three kids playing in an old abandoned knitting factory. When the fire was over, 23 buildings were destroyed across 7 blocks, leaving a flattened wasteland at this central intersection. But in Bushwick, they know how to make success from tragedy. CB4 chairwoman Chineda Carter, and CB4 district manager John Derezewski , seeing the open land, knew just what...

Bike Trail for Drunk Drivers

author: EvilGentleman : Montreal, QC

Next to the Charlevoix Bridge in the Point Saint Charles neighbourhood is this unusual bike trail. It shows up on satellite, too. maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=U . . . .001832,0.003616&t=k&z=18

Mr & Mrs Chimneystack

author: kathy archbold : London, UK

Painted on the end of terrace houses in Deptford, South-East London. Although its in a market street, its quite a run down area , so as well as providing some colour Its just great to think some council official must have given permission for this!

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