The Ise Grand Shrine, also known as Ise Jingu, located in the city of Ise, in Japan, is one of Shinto's holiest and most important sites...
In northern Romania, in a region historically known as Bukovina, are a collection of eight Byzantine-era churches renowned for their beautif...
Every year throughout summer many villages in Derbyshire and Staffordshire decorate their wells and water sources—a custom known as well dre...
Much of what we know about the human anatomy comes from dissecting human cadavers. The practice goes back to classical antiquity. The Greeks...
This crude fabric doll of a small child emerging out of a fabric womb was one of the first life-sized obstetrical manikin used by Angélique ...
The Church of St Mary and St David at Kilpeck in the English county of Herefordshire is famous for its Norman carvings of writhing snakes an...
In 1777, a certain Joseph Heely of Birmingham published a guide book to the three great West Midland gardens of the mid-18th century with a ...
Back in mediaeval times, when people didn’t have Kindles to carry a thousand books, some book binders bound two separate books together in a...
For many western countries, doorstep milk delivery is a thing of the past, but in Japan, millions of people still rely on the milkman for fr...
Telling stories through mosaics and murals is a tradition that goes back to antique times. During the Soviet era, murals were used extensive...
Once upon a time there was a young nobleman who, after the death of his beloved wife, became so distraught with grief and anguish that he de...
In the 1920s, the Soviet government began searching for an isolated place where they could build a military complex to test biological weapo...
About 200 km northeast of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in a valley known as Nubia, lies the remains of three ancient Kushite kingdoms. He...
You might not know this, but Mozambique is one of the fastest growing tourist destination in the world. Its wild beauty and untamed nature h...
The granite quarries located along the Nile, in the city of Aswan, supplied some of the finest quality stones for the construction of temple...
On the cliff face of a sandstone mountain, visible from the ancient Silk Road near the town of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, are two massive voids...
The Belvedere House and Gardens located on the shores of Lough Ennell near Mullingar, County Westmeath in Ireland, contains several architec...
In the sheltered coastal waters of the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, there are large fish farms whe...
Many theatrical set designers today follow the maxim of “less is more”, but in the old days when theaters had to compete with moving picture...
Most remember October 29th, 1929—also known as Black Tuesday—as the day when the New York stock market crashed. However, it was also the day...
