44 Items Tagged

Shoes

Las Vegas, Nevada

Parking Lot Shoeprints

A bizarre example of collective behavior resulted in thousands of shoe prints in Vegas parking lots.

Bakersfield, California

Big Shoe Repair

Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.

Jose Contreras is one of only a handful of artisans who still make cowboy boots the old-fashioned way.

The Last Cowboy Boot Masters of El Paso

In West Texas, artisans known as "Golden Needles" preserve the craft of making boots by hand.

Ashley Stimpson January 15, 2025

Sønderborg, Denmark

'Støvlen' ('The Boot')

This colossal hiking boot, once built for a scout jamboree, serves as an observation tower and barbecue area.

Old Woman’s Shoe

A gigantic shoe, inspired by a nursery rhyme, sits in a park atop Mumbai’s Malabar Hill.

Podcast: Slowjamastan

Grab your passport—we're going to get our groove on.

The Podcast Team January 23, 2024

Blythe, California

Mojave Shoe Station

A collection of old shoes in the middle of nowhere.

Close-up view of the tree

Perryville, Missouri

Hadler Shoe Tree

An old tree that is the final resting place for many pair of shoes.

Darjeeling, India

Himalayan Mountaineering Institute

Inside this Darjeeling museum, you can see a pair of boots that once stood at the top of the world.

Henry Wilson Shoe Shop

Natick, Massachusetts

Henry Wilson Shoe Shop

A small, red building located along a state highway where the 18th Vice President made shoes in his youth.

Shop Window Today

Alkmaar, Netherlands

J. Boom

A museum-like shop that has been producing clogs, brushes, and ropes for nearly 200 years.

Owaraji (Giant Straw Sandals)

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

A gaudy shoe at the footwear musuem.

Mexico City, Mexico

Museo del Calzado (Footwear Museum)

This covert museum showcases booties worn by a rescue dog and slippers owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

Peter Scott's Shoes.

Woodhall Spa, England

Peter Scott's Shoes

This tiny shoe shop claims to be the smallest store of its kind in Britain.

World's Largest Boot

Red Wing, Minnesota

World's Largest Boot

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

Boot Hill

Upper Allyn, Australia

Boot Hill

Thousands of used shoes create a unique public art exhibit along this old paddock fence.

The entrance to the Northampton Museum.

Northampton, England

Northampton Museum and Gallery

The museum houses one of the world's largest shoe collections, boasting over 12,000 pairs.

This poulaine, uncovered on the Thames, features an ankle strap and a sexy, plunging front.

objects of intrigue

Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed With Long, Pointy Shoes?

Going to foolish lengths for fashion.

Sabrina Imbler May 22, 2019