On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump snuck out of Trump Tower for dinner at the historic 21 Club.

The visit, first reported on Twitter by a reporter who happened to be dining at the same spot, surprised practically everyone. That's because Trump broke protocol by leaving his headquarters without alerting the pool of reporters meant to travel alongside him at all times. 

The 21 Club is a prestigious bar and restaurant just a few blocks from Trump Tower. It has hosted almost every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as Hollywood stars, since it opened in 1930 as a speakeasy. Take look inside the famous eatery.

SEE ALSO: Here's the favorite drink of every US president

The 21 Club is located in Midtown Manhattan, on 52nd St. near 5th Ave.

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The jockey statues that greet guests outside the restaurant date back to the 1930s. The first one was donated by patron Jay Van Urk, who had an affinity for horses.

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During the Prohibition Era, the 21 Club was a speakeasy.

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Having moved from Germany to Romania when she was 14, Daniela Tulai-Depner (who goes by Ela on her blog, Ela's Food) has seen plenty of Europe. 

She never thought she would see much of the United States. 

That is, until she decided to quit her job and spend three months driving around the US in a cargo van with her then-boyfriend.

Both musicians, they saved money from a concert tour in Holland and worked day jobs for a year to pay for the trip. Her travel visa gave them 90 days to see as much of the country as possible.

Altogether, they drove 32,000 miles and visited 28 states.

Daniela Tulai-Depner quit her job as a librarian for Germany's cultural institute in Romania and spent 90 days driving around the US.

"I quit everything," she said. "I was really in a very strange place in my life. I didn't know what I really wanted to do."

Her boyfriend at the time, Solomon Brezoi, found a job as a deliveryman.

"We were basically both in a very strange place in our life, so we decided, 'Let's travel together, let's do this together," she said.

They drove 32,000 miles in a Mercedes Sprinter cargo van as he made his deliveries, sleeping in the car or on beaches under the stars.

"I always dreamt about doing a road trip, in the sense of taking a guitar and just traveling around, like a hobo traveler, and it was really like that," she said. "We didn't buy any accommodation or hotels or anything. We slept in our car."

Earning a law degree was once a sure-fire path to a successful and lucrative career. Law school enrollment remains high, but an oversaturation of lawyers has left graduates struggling in the job market. Even the grads who find jobs aren't guaranteed a six-figure salary, leaving many stuck under a mountain of student debt. 

Which is why Business Insider's recently released list of the 50 best law schools in the country focused on the institutions that lead to top jobs in the legal world. The ranking primarily homed in on the percentage of graduates who land full-time, long-term, highly coveted jobs, which we narrowed down to two things: positions at big law firms and federal clerkships.

Landing a spot at a large firm all but guarantees financial success — big firms pay significantly more than small ones. And the mega firms tend to play follow-the-leader when it comes to compensation: After a prominent New York City firm raised its base starting salary to $180,000 last month, many other big names followed suit.

We culled data from the American Bar Association to find the schools that funnel the highest percentage of graduates into the largest law firms — those with more than 500 employees. We used overall rank on our main list as a tiebreaker. Read on to see which law schools send the most graduates these companies. 

Additional reporting by Kaitlyn Yarborough and Alexa Pipia.

SEE ALSO: The 50 best law schools in America

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25. Emory University

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Percent of graduates who secure jobs at law firms with over 500 employees: 17%

Bar passage rate: 89%

Median LSAT score: 165

Seventy-five percent of Emory Law’s more than 300 graduates secured long-term, full-time jobs requiring bar passage. The private school, which is known for its public service law program, costs $51,510 per year.

24. University of Notre Dame

Location: South Bend, Indiana

Percent of graduates who secure jobs at law firms with over 500 employees: 20%

Bar passage rate: 84%

Median LSAT score: 164

The University of Notre Dame law school encourages students to extend their education outside of the US and offers several opportunities to study abroad, including stays at Notre Dame’s programs in London, Chile, or Italy. Grads join the ranks of successful alumni, such as Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan and Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano.

23. Washington University in St. Louis

Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Percent of graduates with highly coveted positions: 32%

Bar passage rate: 86%

Median LSAT score: 167

Post-graduation, a full 100% of Wash U Law graduates who were seeking a job secured one last year, with 76% of those positions requiring a law degree. This can be chalked up in part to Wash U's myriad of opportunities for students to gain real-world experience, including a selection of nine externship opportunities, 18 clinical courses, and six trial teams and moot courts where students can put their skills to the test.

Ever since Nintendo unveiled its upcoming Switch console in October, the company's three-minute reveal video ultimately provided more questions than answers, so reporters have been diving deep into their wells of sources to dig up as much info as they can.

Nintendo Switch, in case you didn't know, is a hybrid home and handheld console. You can play all the same games on your TV or on the go. It launches in March 2017. But that's about all we know.

What you'll find here is a roundup of the most credible rumors about Switch, from the price of the console itself, to the games you can expect to find when it hits store shelves next year. Please note that absolutely none of this has been officially confirmed yet.

SEE ALSO: The biggest things we still don't know about Nintendo Switch

It should be cheaper than the Wii U at launch.

The Wii U launched with a $300 base model and a $350 deluxe edition that came with more storage memory back in 2012. That was way too much for a console that was heavily underpowered compared to the competition.

Luckily, it sounds like Nintendo Switch will avoid the same mistake.

Laura Kate Dale of Let's Play Video Games has been the most reliable reporter when it comes to verifying Switch rumors. Her sources have Switch launching with a $250 base model and a $300 deluxe bundle that comes with more storage space and an included game.

That would put Switch right in line with the base models of Xbox One and PS4 in terms of price.

It will allow you to use SD cards up to 128 GB in size.

This one also comes from Laura Kate Dale. There's not much to say here other than the easiest way to get more storage space on the console will be to buy SD cards. The biggest size it will reportedly support is 128 GB.

About that packed-in game...

In a bombshell report about the games available at the Switch's launch, Dale said the more expensive version of the console would come bundled with a new version of "Splatoon," the color-based classic shooter that debuted on Wii U.

The reveal video for Nintendo Switch featured footage of people playing Splatoon on the new console, with new in-game outfits and hairstyles. If this report is to be believed, that new version of the game will launch with Switch and be packed in with the deluxe bundle.

Photographer Seph Lawless is famous for documenting the slow, haunting decay of abandoned theme parks, schools, hospitals, and houses. 

His latest project brought him inside the Metro North Shopping Center in Kansas City, Missouri, which has been shut down for the past two years, according to the Kansas City Star.

Here's a never-before-seen look at the mall's crumbling, empty interior.

This is the exterior of the Metro North Shopping Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

It opened in 1976.

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It covers 1.2 million square feet and once housed more than 150 retailers.

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Starting a business is never easy or stress-free.

But there are places you can go to start your dream company with fewer restrictions than others.

The World Bank compiled a report on the best and worst places to be an entrepreneur, measuring regulations affecting 10 areas of a business.

These include access to electricity, registering property, and getting credit.

The study is huge, gathering data and analysing activity from entrepreneurs in more than 130,000 firms in 139 economies.

Here are the countries that came out top:

17. Belgium: 94.49 — While Belgium ranks highly for starting a business, the country suffers when it comes to registering property, where it ranks 131st. The process is time-consuming, taking an average of 56 days.

16. United Kingdom: 94.58 — The UK's tax regime for businesses comes in at number 10, while the country also has the sixth best protections for minority investors, according to the World Bank.

15. Sweden: 94.64 — Sweden got a boost when it made it easier to transfer a property and introduced a mechanism for reporting errors on maps.

Hell is other people — and few people know this better than Uber drivers.

The ride-hailing transportation company has transformed global taxi markets, and made it possible to get around with just the tap of a button. But that ease and simplicity comes with a cost — for its drivers.

Uber drivers will often see people at their very worst: Drunk, angry, late, and entitled. We asked Uber drivers to tell us about some of the worst passengers they've ever experienced, from intoxicated carnage to sexual harassment.

These are their stories.

"I'd rather drive 4 drunk college kids than 1 drunk middle-aged man any day."

One female driver recounted how a few weeks ago in the Bronx, a "drunken ahole" who "tried to grope me and lay on my lap while I was driving with his wife and two of her friends in the backseat before throwing up 4 times less than a block away from the drop-off point."

She added: "Thank God for rubber mats. Hope he enjoyed that 40 minute ride cause it ended up costing him over $200. You can take the trash out of the trailer but you can't take the trailer out of the trash."

"The $200 included the fine for the mess. The original fare was about $50 and then Uber charged the additional $150 cleaning fee. They don't play around with that. If somebody pukes in the car and you can prove it with pictures, then you're definitely getting that $150 cleaning fee.

"It's the first time I've had somebody throw up in the car. I've had one other person who needed me to stop twice on the way home so he could get out to throw up. I turned down another rider once because her friend was standing outside of my car puking on the sidewalk. I had a drunk man touch the back of my neck while I was driving too. 

"I will say that it's usually the 40+ men who tend to be the worst passengers. I'm a female driver and it's usually this demographic that gives me the worst trouble. They're the ones who tend to be sloppy drunks and who make me uncomfortable in the car. The drunk college kids just want to put music on and take selfies. I'd rather driver 4 drunk college kids than 1 drunk middle-aged man any day."

"I might be having an LSD flashback."

And then there's just the downright weird.

"I once picked up a man and woman who were both dressed and made up as Uncle Sam. Like, professional level costumes and latex facial features and all. Movie quality Uncle Sams. Other than size, they looked exactly alike," wrote a driver in St. Louis, Missouri.

"OK, I think, this should be fun...

"...nope.

"They then get into a raging argument because apparently female [Uncle Sam] was flirting with someone other than male [Uncle Sam]. Male [Uncle Sam] was apparently ignoring female [Uncle Sam], whom he claimed disappeared only to be found later at the back bar, seemingly with her her vengeful s--t gene fully activated.

"Screaming, followed by silence, followed by them trying to drag me into the argument as a third party observer who is thinking I might be having an LSD flashback, followed by screaming, and then it happened ... 10 minutes of watching Uncle Sam doing a let's make up - make out session with himself. Really?

Two old bearded men in tall hats throat tonguing each other. I still get shivers."

"I know I would be his next target if I didn't stay on my toes."

Rudeness and a huge sense of entitlement is a common theme.

"Last night I got a request from the Chatsworth [California] train station from this big older guy wearing a suit. He puts his luggage in the back without saying hello and once he enters my car, he immediately asks me to move the seat forward, adjust the [air conditioning], and turn the music off. tells me we're going to Beverly Hills and I start the ride.

"We don't talk at all for the first 10 minutes, and then he calls his hotel and asks the guy about the deposit for the reservation. I don't know what the hell this hotel clerk could have said to him but seconds later he says 'I don't like your tone, don't speak that way to me. let me talk to your manager, you're being a fugging &%$@!* and I want to cancel my reservation.' All in one breath. this was a very angry man and he made me uncomfortable and I know I would be his next target if I didn't stay on my toes. He hangs up right before we are going to get on the freeway and asks me to turn around and go towards Ventura BLVD which is the complete opposite direction across the valley.

"I say okay ... can you please update the destination? he says hold on, and proceeds to call the hotel again and chew out a different clerk, he says 'I need my reservation cancelled immediately or I will have you and the other asshole sued.' Hangs up and then tells me to drive back to the train station where I picked him up from. So instead of getting a nice ride to Beverly Hills where it would be busier than Chatsworth, I literally get 9 bucks to drive this guy in a big ass circle while listening to him make a scene."

The UK's technology scene is filled with some seriously creative people. Whether designers who have come up with innovative branding, inventors behind new hardware, or markets, we've collected them all together.

We ranked people by how creative their approach to technology is, the scale of the projects they're working on, and whether they're making or designing something new.

Scroll down to see our ranking of the most creative people in UK tech, sorted by just how innovative they are:

39. Claire Cockerton of Plexal

Claire Cockerton is the CEO and chairwoman of technology consultancy firm Entiq.

Having previously led the Level39 startup accelerator in Canary Wharf, Cockerton is now heading up a new project in London's Olympic Park.

The project involves turning the former press centre into what she claims will be Europe's largest innovation centre.

38. Sagi Shorrer of Peak

Former Googler Sagi Shorrer cofounded brain training app Peak in 2012 with ex-employees of Amazon and EA Games.

The mobile app, which uses a series of games to test your focus, memory, and problem solving abilities, has been downloaded over 15 million times.

This summer, Peak launched a "Coach," which it described as a personal trainer for your brain. Coach is an adaptive learning engine that analyses a user’s performance and tailors workouts with selected games to challenge a user further.

37. Nick Beighton of ASOS

Nick Beighton took over as the CEO of online fashion retailer ASOS last September, having previously been the company’s chief operating officer.  

The online fashion retailer stocks a wide variety of youth-focused fashion labels and is popular with 20-somethings on a budget.  

Beighton has a financial background and was an accountant at KPMG before joining ASOS.

Glassdoor, the jobs marketplace, has released a ranking of the UK jobs where workers can expect to see the biggest increase in their salaries as their career progresses.

The first report of its kind created by Glassdoor took into account 18,125 different UK salaries, and compared salaries for entry level workers in different jobs, with those employees with more than eight years experience.

Jobs included with the biggest increases spread across a variety of disciplines, including marketing, IT, and design.

Commenting on the findings, Diarmuid Russell, Glassdoor Head of International said: "When you’re thinking about a new career, it’s tempting to be drawn to the highest paying roles. But it’s even more important to understand how pay can progress in an industry throughout your career."

Check out the UK jobs with the biggest pay rises below:

9. Marketing Manager

Salary with less than three years experience:£28,000

Salary with more than eight years experience: £52,000

Increase: 86%

8. IT Executive

Salary with less than three years experience: £29,000

Salary with more than eight years experience: £55,000

Increase: 90%

7. Recruiter

Salary with less than three years experience: £22,000

Salary with more than eight years experience: £42,000

Increase: 91%

If there's one thing the stars of Shark Tank know, it's how to make money. 

Mark Cuban opened a bar before he was of legal drinking age. The brazen college campus venture lasted six short months. A scandalous snafu with a wet T-shirt contest led to the watering hole’s "sorry end." The former bartender's later business bets -- legal ones, of the tech-related kind -- fared exponentially better, eventually landing him in the millionaire club. Then, not long after, into the three commas club, the realm of billionaires.

Kevin O’Leary came into his first millions after spinning a $10,000 seed investment from his mother into an edtech startup. In not too long, Mattel scooped it up for $3.6 billion. Daymond John stitched a $100,000 seed investment from his mom (who mortgaged her house to give it to him) into FUBU. The fashion startup cleared hundreds of millions in sales within six years.

Chris Sacca’s path to millions -- and later to billions -- is tied to incredibly successful startups, too, though, interestingly, none of his own. He lucked out with some very early and very wise investments in Uber, Instagram, Twitter and Kickstarter, and that’s just the short list.

Lori Greiner spun her love of inventing solutions to everyday annoyances into a multi-million-dollar retail operation. Robert Herjavec, also a multi-millionaire entrepreneur, went from rags to astronomical riches within a few years of emigrating from Croatia to Canada in the pursuit of a better life. And, after failing at 22 jobs, former diner waitress Barbara Corcoran turned $1,000 she borrowed from a boyfriend into a $6 billion-dollar New York City real estate empire that's still going strong.

We recently caught up with all seven Shark Tank star investors on the Culver City, Calif., set of the hit show. There, from behind the scenes of Sony Pictures' Stage 30, they shared their advice on how to become a millionaire. Here’s what they told us:

SEE ALSO: 14 signs you have what it takes to become a millionaire

BARBARA CORCORAN: BE COMPETITIVE AND PIGHEADED

MARK CUBAN: WORK HARD AND DO WHATEVER IT TAKES

LORI GREINER: DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND DO IT WELL

"Find something you love to do, that you are passionate about and also good at. Don't have the goal to be a millionaire. Have the goal to be successful and plan to give it all you've got. Critically important, make sure you are hands-on and the one driving things because no one will care about your business like you do. Be involved in all details and be aggressive at attaining your goals, and know how to pivot when necessary."

The 2016-2017 North American auto show season opens this week in Los Angeles with the 2016 LA Auto Show. Carmakers from around the world will bring their latest and greatest design concepts and production cars to show off for the Southern California crowd.

Although the concepts exhibited at the show represent a glimpse into the future of the automotive industry, other, more production-ready vehicles will give the public a chance to see what's soon headed to their dealer's showrooms.

Here are just some of the hot cars automakers rolled out for this year's show.

The show opens to the public on Friday and will run until Nov. 27 at the Los Angeles Convention Center

SEE ALSO: Check out Donald Trump's $100 million personal Boeing airliner

Jaguar kicked off the LA Auto Show in style with the brand's stunning I-PACE electric SUV that's set to go on sale in 2018.

At the same time, Jaguar's Land Rover sister brand rolled out its next generation Discovery SUV for the first time in North America.

Fellow British automaker Aston Martin introduced a more powerful version of its flagship super GT called the Vanquish S.

The year is pretty much over, as far as the tech world is concerned. Just about every major product that's been announced is available to buy in time for the holidays.

But 2017 is almost here, and we're expecting a bunch of cool new products. Below you'll find the most important gadgets likely to launch next year.

Keep in mind this isn't a comprehensive list, and it doesn't account for the surprises we'll likely see in 2017. But these are the gadgets we think you should be the most excited about.

SEE ALSO: The MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review

Samsung Galaxy S8

Samsung's first opportunity to recover from the Galaxy Note 7 debacle will come with the launch of its new flagship phone, the Galaxy S8, in the spring of 2017.

While we don't know too much about the device, Samsung has announced that it will include a new digital assistant powered by Viv, the artificial intelligence startup Samsung bought earlier this year. Oh, and Viv was founded by the same people who built Siri.

A foldable Samsung phone?

Samsung has been working on bendable displays for years, but 2017 could be the first time we actually see it in a phone.

The company recently filed a patent for such a device, fueling speculation that it's coming soon.

Galaxy Note 8?

The future for Samsung's Note phones are uncertain, following the unprecedented recall of the Galaxy Note 7 this year.

There have been some scattered reports that Samsung may abandon the Note altogether in 2017. But if the Note does make its return, then expect to see it in the fall.

Although having a million bucks isn’t as impressive as it once was, it’s still nothing to sneeze at.

In fact, CNBC reports that in 2013 there were 13.2 million millionaires in the United States alone.

Heck, one of them might even be your neighbor. In fact, the odds are very good that it is your neighbor.

But, Len, you don’t know my neighbor. That guy doesn’t look anything like a millionaire.

Well, guess what? A millionaire who is truly financially savvy won't be easily recognizable.

SEE ALSO: 11 mistakes standing between you and your first million

1. He always spends less than he earns

In fact his mantra is, over the long run, you’re better off if you strive to be anonymously rich rather than deceptively poor.

2. He knows that patience is a virtue

The odds are you won’t become a millionaire overnight.  If you’re like him, your wealth will be accumulated gradually by diligently saving your money over multiple decades.

3.  When you go to his modest three-bed two-bath house ...

... you’re going to be drinking Folgers instead of Starbucks

And if you need a lift, well, you’re going to get a ride in his ten-year-old economy sedan.  And if you think that makes him cheap, ask him if he cares.  (He doesn’t.)

The remains of tens of thousands of ships litter the floor of the Black Sea, their wreckage telling the stories of war, trade, and the risks of crossing a massive body of water. There are ships on the cold sea floor there that have never been seen before: vessels from the Ottoman and Byzantine empires, from Venetian and Genoan merchant colonies, from slave traders coming out of Central Asia, and more.

A recent expedition using new technology to help map the sea floor has just revealed more than 40 previously unknown shipwrecks, nearly perfectly preserved, since they lie deep on the floor of the Black Sea in a region where there's no oxygen. For that reason, the wrecks have been kept safe from organisms that would normally chew through ropes and wood.

"The wrecks are a complete bonus, but a fascinating discovery, found during the course of our extensive geophysical surveys," says Jon Adams, a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton and principle investigator on the sea floor mapping project, in a press release.

The ships are a fascinating bonus historic discovery from a map of the sea floor — and researchers think there's incredible potential for more to be discovered.

Here's what they've found.

The expedition is focused on exploring Bulgarian waters, trying to study how the sea changed over time and how those changes affected people living nearby.

The researchers are using using two Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to survey and map the sea bed.

The flows between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea separate waters and create a zone below 500 feet that is anoxic, very low in oxygen, which helps preserve everything that lies below.

The INSIDER Summary:

• The Dead Sea, the lowest point on Earth bordered by Israel and Jordan, is receding due to mineral mining.
• A group of 28 swimmers swam across its salty waters to raise awareness of the issue.
• The waters are full of therapeutic minerals, but are toxic to ingest.

The Dead Sea is world-renowned for its extreme saltiness. Tourists from all over the globe flock to its shores to rub its mineral-rich mud on their skin and float in its buoyant water. But the Dead Sea has receded 80 feet in the past 30 years, and environmentalists are concerned that it might not be around much longer.

EcoPeace Middle East, an international environmental group, organized the first-ever Dead Sea Swim to raise awareness of the issue and call for government action.

Twenty-eight swimmers braved the harsh waters to swim from Jordan to Israel.

The Dead Sea is the lowest point on Earth at about 1,400 feet below sea level.

Its waters are 10 times saltier than regular sea water. While full of therapeutic minerals, the water is toxic to ingest.

That didn't stop 28 swimmers from swimming nine miles across it, from Jordan to Israel, in the first-ever Dead Sea Swim.

There's nothing quite like getting that awesome Instagram shot on vacation that will make all your friends jealous.

The 'likes' come easy when the destinations look this good.

Pamukkale, Turkey

A series of surreal, white travertine terraces and turquoise pools on the western rim of Turkey’s Anatolian plateau, Pamukkale is something of a geological wonder. During the day, the gleaming stalactites appear pure white; at night, the calcium-rich formations pick up the pinks and purples of the opalescent sky. Bring your cutest swimsuit and bathe, as the Romans once did, in a crystalline pool filled with warm, mineral-rich waters.

Hanging Gardens of Bali, Indonesia

One glance at this hillside hotel's bi-level infinity pool (the most photographed in the world, by the way), and it’s easy to see why Bali is nicknamed the Island of The Gods. Swim up to the pool’s edge and take in the sights and sounds in the forest’s lush foliage: bamboo and cocoa trees here, cloths, toucans, and monkeys there.

Book from $497/night

Reine Village, Norway

In this village, set above the Arctic Circle in Norway’s Lofoten archipelago, there are jaw-dropping sights at every turn. Keep your phone at the ready as you traverse the village's lush meadows, fjords, mountains and idyllic red-and-white cottages, but don't overcrowd your feed just yet: Your waterfront, rustic-chic digs at the Reine Fishing Huts are optimized for Insta envy.

In an effort to strengthen its direct-to-consumer business, Nike is reimagining its retail experience. New York City's Soho neighborhood is where the brand is making its stand, with a 55,000-square-foot store spread across five floors in a newly constructed building. But what makes this store different from Nike's other retail outlets in the city?

Chief among them are what Nike is calling "immersive experiences." If you ever wanted to do a layup in a pair of Jordans before dropping some cash on them, now you can. Cameras in the store track your movements and progress in these experiences and upload it to the Nike+ app. The store is completely connected, intended to bridge the gap between digital and brick and mortar. Not only will it know your stride and the last time you got on the store's treadmill, it will know which shoes you tried on last time, too.

A guided sales team will take time to be with you one-on-one for up to an hour, whether you're trying on running shoes or shooting baskets.

"We see [the store] as the global debut of the future of sport retail, and we see Soho as the start," Heidi O'Neill, Nike's president of direct to consumer initiatives, told Business Insider.

The store, which opens for business November 18, comes at a pivotal time for Nike, which is running into problems with select parts of its third-party retail business and is shifting focus to its steadily growing direct-to-consumer division. Nike is hoping that it can take this store concept and apply it, either as a whole or in part, to other areas around the country.

SEE ALSO: Nike, Under Armour, and Adidas are selling 'dad shoes' — and it seems to be a brilliant move

DON'T MISS: Nike's new science fiction-inspired, self-lacing sneakers will cost $720 a pair

The new Nike store is located in the heart of Soho, at the corner of Spring and Broadway. It's housed in a brand-new building at 529 Broadway, enabling it to take up a staggering 55,000 square feet across five floors.

As you enter the store, the largeness of the store is immediately apparent. To the left are the stands where Nike will hold community events like meet and greets with designers (both inside and outside of the company), athletes, and celebrities. It's also where the local Nike run club will meet. The center of the store will showcase Nike's latest innovations — in this case, the self-lacing HyperAdapt 1.0.

Next to that are a few desks where customers can meet one-on-one with a Nike expert to talk about their needs and concerns with whatever product they're interested in. You can make a one-on-one appointment with Nike's digital platform, Nike+, for up to an hour.

Gunnar Garfors visited all 198 countries in the world by the time he turned 37.

So when people ask him which country was his favorite, he has a hard time picking just one.

Luckily, he was able to narrow it down to 12 countries he thinks everyone should visit at some point in their lives.

Keep scrolling to see what those countries are, and why he thinks they're worth a trip.

Romania

"Transylvania, best known for its castles, mountains, and, of course, Dracula, will stun you. Not to forget the parties in the capital, Bucharest. And Romanians even know how to make great beer."

Madagascar

"There is no doubt about the French having 'visited.' The gourmet options in Antananarivo are world-class, until it comes to the bill.You will think they have forgotten most of what you ordered."

"The coastline, the lemurs, and the baobab trees will gobsmack you."

Iceland

"You know that big island in the middle of the Atlantic? It's been battered and beaten by winds and waves for a million years, and it is still there!"

"Just bring your swimming gear, and sit in 40-degrees hot natural springs while your hair will freeze and get covered by snow. Unreal."

Volkswagen unveiled the 2017 version of its e-Golf at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week and it comes with a suite of new features.

The all-electric hatchback was given a bigger battery, extra semi-autonomous features, and a refreshed design.

Scroll down for a closer look:

SEE ALSO: Jaguar's Tesla rival is coming in 2018 — here's everything we know about it

The 2017 e-Golf comes with a new look thanks to new LED headlights and taillights and a new bumper.

Volkswagen gave it a new 35.8 kWh battery that increases the range to 124 miles on a single charge — that's a 41-mile bump from its predecessor.

Pricing information hasn't been released yet, but the 2016 e-Golf starts at $28,995. Still, even if the e-Golf stays in that price range, that 124-mile range isn't great considering the Chevy Bolt is hitting markets in December with a 238-mile range. The Bolt will start at $36,620.

Denis Villeneuve’s much-anticipated sci-fi film Arrival has finally…err…arrived in theaters and is already generating the kind of buzz that we’ve come to associate with instant classics.

Viewers are praising the film’s stunning cinematography, the commanding performance of Amy Adams, and off-the-charts entertainment value, but mostly, they are praising the film’s intelligence.

What’s funny about most of the praise for the movie’s smarts is that it’s usually accompanied by just a hint of surprise. “A science fiction movie that has proven to be among the smartest films released this year?”, some skeptics say with shock in their eyes.“Who would have imagined that?”

Well, anyone who has been following the sci-fi film scene over the last 40 years or so would be the short answer to that question. If there was ever a stigma regarding the intelligence of sci-fi films, it has (or should have) disappeared years ago. While a movie like Arrival should be praised for its complex and brilliantly told narrative, we should no longer be surprised that the science fiction genre is capable of producing a movie of staggering intellect. In fact, it’s been happening for years.

Here are the 15 smartest Sci-Fi movies of all time:

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15. "Blade Runner" (1982)

Any discussion regarding the intelligence of Blade Runner must start with the film’s world design. Whether or not the world of Blade Runner is realistic in the sense that it will come to pass in the future is irrelevant. What is relevant is the way that Ridley Scott and crew created a world that feels so consistent. There is sci-fi spectacle in this world, but everything feels remarkably lived in. Everything is equally familiar and spectacular.

However, the true brilliance of Blade Runner does lie in the film’s themes. Blade Runner draws upon biblical passages, noir films, and scientific theories to find an answer to the question, “What is the value of the life of a sentient machine in the world of man?” In the process, it also tries to calculate the value of life itself. The film isn’t alone in asking that question, but it does stand alone for the way that it approaches the issues as dilemmas rather than an issue with a simple answer.

The long-delayed sequel has some huge shoes to fill, that's for sure. Good thing Arrival director Denis Villeneuve is at the helm, right?

14. "Under the Skin" (2013)

The 1995 film Species dealt with an alien disguised as an attractive human woman who seduced men as part of her mission. It was seen as cheap and exploitative. The 2013 film Under the Skin deals with an alien disguised as an attractive woman seducing men as part of her mission. It is absolutely brilliant. What’s the difference between the two? Execution.

Under the Skin is a complicated movie that is often paced similarly to how a high school student might pace a research paper that needs to fulfill a certain word count. Much of the movie is seemingly aimless and bizarre for the sake of bizarre. Certain revelations within the story structure, however, open the movie up to miles of interpretation.

Under the Skin has been praised for its commentary on such issues as rape culture, immigration, and the role of women in modern society. It’s difficult to say which of these issues the film was specifically designed to address, but it’s even harder to deny the brilliance of how it uses a far out premise to create  a strong emotional response regarding several issues affecting our world.

13. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951)

1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still is a uniquely intelligent sci-fi film. It’s not an intentionally misleading movie filled with strange visuals, and it’s not a movie that requires you to rewatch it several times in order to comprehend what is happening.  It is a movie that was released at a time when sci-fi flicks typically featured giant monsters causing large amounts of collateral damage. By comparison, The Day the Earth Stood Still addressed the possibility that an alien race might actually come in peace after all.

Even in the context of modern films, it’s still a brilliant piece of work. What sets this movie apart is the way that it presented the possibility that humans would be more hostile in the event of an alien arrival than the aliens would be. The Day the Earth Stood Still addressed the notion that humans were more likely to destroy themselves through fear and mistrust than be destroyed by an invading force. That notion seems more and more relevant with each passing year.