In Helsinki, we spent about five nights in one of the coolest hotels I've ever seen and as such, I decided it needed its own post. It was the Hotel Glo, and the building itself is the former Student Union building for the Technology University of Helsinki from 1903. The interior has been completely redone, however, and it is as modern and clean as you can imagine.

Over new year's, I was in Savannah with my friend Melissa and we stopped in to Urban Outfitters for a bit. The coolest thing in the store (to me), besides all the gag gifts, were the stairs.

From what I can tell, they took some of those grates you find as part of the sidewalk and filled them with concrete. How cool is that? You could add some pigment to the concrete to match any particular decor you might want to have. Red concrete stairs would be pretty impressive...

This is something that may or may not be in my future apartment or house. Heaviest stairs ever?