Recreation & Sports
512 sites
Subcategories:
- Gardening (32)
- Hobbies (84)
- Sports (15)
- Travel (58)
- Outdoors (28)
- Collecting (161)
- Model Building (134)
http://attawaygems.com/NMFG
The New Mexico Faceters Guild is a club based in Albuquerque dedicated to bringing together enthusiasts of gemstone faceting, meeting bimonthly at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. The site includes selected newsletter articles and a gemstone education series by gemologist Edna Anthony, making it a useful resource for both beginners and experienced faceters.
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http://theminiaturespage.com/
The Miniatures Page is a long-running web magazine and community hub dedicated to miniature wargaming across all genres, from ancient historical battles to science fiction and fantasy. Founded by Bill Armintrout and active since 1994, it offers forums, hobby news, a marketplace, painting showcases, manufacturer directories, and rules references covering virtually every era and scale imaginable.
https://buttonmuseum.org/
The Busy Beaver Button Museum is an online and physical museum in Chicago dedicated to cataloguing over 9,000 pin-back buttons as windows into American cultural history, from political campaigns to advertising and pop culture. With collections browsable by category and decade, special exhibits, and even a Guinness World Record, it is a genuinely fascinating archive for anyone interested in ephemera and material history.
https://bets217.tripod.com/no-numbers.html
BJ's World maintains a curated directory of sites offering collectible cards that can be obtained without needing a pick-up number, making card collecting more accessible. The page links to card sites where visitors can click directly to receive cards, bypassing the usual in-store pickup requirement.
http://paulkilfoil.co.za/Leisure.aspx
Paul Kilfoil's sprawling personal site documents travelogues from 50+ countries since 1987, complete with photos, trip reports to destinations like Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, and the Trans-Siberian Railway. Beyond travel, Paul also shares blogs on science, politics, railways, and sports, plus a free downloadable software tool he built to track statistics for rugby, soccer, cricket, tennis, and Formula 1.
https://psgrs.org/
The Puget Sound Garden Railway Society is a Washington-state club founded in 1989 that brings together large-scale garden railway enthusiasts across the region. The site features member railroad profiles, annual activity listings, clinic archives dating back to 2011, and newsletters from garden railway clubs around the world.
https://wallace-online.neocities.org/
Wallace-online hosts a Beanie Baby collecting webring, connecting fans of the classic plush toys across the old web. The page is a simple webring hub celebrating 1000 views, with navigation links to explore other member sites in the Beanie Ring.
https://reisespuren.com/
ReiseSpuren is a German-language travel site featuring photo galleries, blog posts, and travel reports spanning 16 countries across 4 continents. Visitors can explore world travel photography and firsthand trip accounts from a globetrotting duo who document their adventures from destinations around the globe.
http://asiaphoto.de/
Bernhard Heiser's Asiaphoto chronicles backpacking adventures across Southeast Asia and South Asia, covering Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Indonesia, and India with detailed travelogues, travel tips, and extensive photo galleries. The site has been running since 2000 and offers both practical travel information and vivid photographic documentation of destinations like Phuket, Bangkok, Mandalay, and Rajasthan.
https://astrolabe-area.neocities.org/
A minimalist personal site by someone who lives in the woods, offering a simple and atmospheric entry point with a gentle eyestrain warning. The sparse structure hints at a nature-adjacent personal space, though content beyond the welcome page is yet to be explored.