Michelangelo’s Hidden Drawings at Medici Chapels

Nov 10, 2017

In a concealed room beneath the New Sacristy of the San Lorenzo Basilica in Florence, Italy, the great Italian sculptor and architect Michel...

Lyon, The City of Murals

Nov 8, 2017

For the last four decades a group of muralists in the French city of Lyon has been transforming the city into a massive outdoor art gallery....

The Abandoned Canfranc Railway Station

Nov 7, 2017

Sitting at the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains on the Spanish side of the French-Spanish border is an immense railway station. Built wit...

People Matching Artworks

Nov 7, 2017

Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan spends hours hanging around museums looking for curious coincidences where visitors perfectly match t...

Puzzlewood: Tolkien's Inspiration For Middle Earth

Nov 6, 2017

The “The Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel of the same name were shot almost entirely in New Zealand,...

Newton's Apple Tree in Lincolnshire

Nov 6, 2017

The story of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple is one of the most famous anecdotes in science. The young Isaac Newton was sitting under...

Ise Jingu: The Japanese Shrine That’s Torn Down And Rebuilt Every 20 Years

Nov 3, 2017

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...

The Painted Monasteries of Romania

Nov 3, 2017

In northern Romania, in a region historically known as Bukovina, are a collection of eight Byzantine-era churches renowned for their beautif...

The Art of Well Dressing

Nov 2, 2017

Every year throughout summer many villages in Derbyshire and Staffordshire decorate their wells and water sources—a custom known as well dre...

The Udny Mort House

Nov 1, 2017

Much of what we know about the human anatomy comes from dissecting human cadavers. The practice goes back to classical antiquity. The Greeks...