Water fountains are a unique art form combining sculpture, engineering, and more than a little imagination. While the world's most famous fountains are a delight to the senses, others range from ...
Outhouses... before the advent of indoor plumbing, these permanent porta-potties were a necessary evil whose use wasn't an option. Though most outhouses in developed countries have been torn ...
Mechanical "nodding donkeys" have been grazing the surface of uninhabited oil fields for many decades but in urban settings they can look, well, crude. Making these horsehead pumps look ...
Laura Zindel's surreal ceramic creations combine high-quality home dishware with faux historical hand-drawn imagery inspired by Victorian Cabinets of Curiosity. Bugs, snakes and spiders on my ...
Bridges might not get the respect the world's tallest skyscrapers get but these horizontal architectural wonders push the engineering envelope just as hard. From "Galloping Gertie" to the Golden ...
Wax candles went retro when Edison invented the light bulb, but don't "bee" sad. We can still spark things up with some creative variations on the original long-lasting lighting source. These ...
Night lights banish the darkness for young (and old) sleepers who wouldn't dream of going to bed blindly. These 10 off the wall night lights, on the other hand, show what offbeat artists and geek ...
The Jantar Mantar - 5 sprawling astronomical observatories - was built by Maharaja Jai Singh II in the early years of the 18th century. Not one of these elaborate ancient observatories boasted a ...
Upside down houses: they're more common then you think... but why? Perhaps the artists and designers of these flipped out homes wanted to shake up the way we think of society's most pressing need, ...
Ghost ships are one of the most enduring legends of the sea, and tales of mysterious ships with missing crews have peppered the accounts of mariners both ancient and modern for hundreds of years. ...
