The Potteries of Staffordshire
The art of pottery making has been known since ancient times. However, the first true porcelain was made in China only during the Han Dynast...
The art of pottery making has been known since ancient times. However, the first true porcelain was made in China only during the Han Dynast...
From the end of the Second World War until the fall of communism in 1990, Bulgaria was a communist state ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Pa...
For nearly half a century, Atlantic City, in New Jersey, United States, was home to an attraction almost too fantastical to believe—an appar...
In front of the City Hall of Athens, in Georgia, United States, stands an unusual cannon from the American Civil War. It’s a double-barreled...
In the early Middle Ages, books were made from animal hides known as parchment, rather than from paper. Preparing the parchment was a delica...
In a concealed room beneath the New Sacristy of the San Lorenzo Basilica in Florence, Italy, the great Italian sculptor and architect Michel...
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....
Sitting at the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains on the Spanish side of the French-Spanish border is an immense railway station. Built wit...
Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan spends hours hanging around museums looking for curious coincidences where visitors perfectly match t...
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,...