Pavement Bowie: 20 Street Art Tributes to David Bowie
Ashes to ashes, Stardust to dust: having left life's stage, cultural icon David Bowie also leaves behind a global imprint through street art and graffiti. ...
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Under Cover: Secret Swiss Military Bunkers Hide in Plain Sight
Throughout the rolling hills of rural Switzerland, tucked inside idyllic works of regional vernacular architecture, lie disguised fortifications of a country always ready for war. Some of these ...
Save Ferris! 12 Abandoned & Overgrown Ferris Wheels
What goes around comes around, especially for these dozen abandoned Ferris Wheels whose former clockwork precision has spun down to a permanent turn off. ...
Unknown NYC: 12 Hidden Sights in America’s Cultural Hub
The hordes of tourists glomming onto New York City's most famous sights likely won't notice the wild acid-green parakeets of Brooklyn, the strange bricked-up prison window on the side of the NYPD ...
Color Me Patriotic: Ukraine’s Protestor-Painted Lenin Statues
As the Ukraine strives to break free from all things Russian, some unlikely allies – Soviet-era statues of Lenin – have been enlisted to wave the flag. ...
Neolithic Modernism: History Museum Appears Carved from Stone
A bold break from traditional closed-box museums, this gorgeous open Museum of Indigenous Knowledge design is as much an interactive rock-hewn landscape as a work of contemporary ...
The Language of Death: 15 Gravestone Symbols Explained
The symbols carved into stones commemorating the dead can reveal a lot about the deceased’s beliefs and philosophies, or at least those attributed to them by their families when they were ...
Subterranean Secrets: The Mystery of Liverpool’s Tunnels
Starting in the basement of a home owned by a wealthy philanthropist in the 1700s, a network of tunnels descends into the earth beneath the city of Liverpool, their full extent still undiscovered ...
World’s Littlest Skyscraper Scam: Con Man Used Inches, Not Feet
Perhaps the greatest cons of all time are those that manage to hold up in court, like the case of the world's smallest skyscraper, a building sold to investors at 480 inches tall on a blueprint ...
Twisting History: 40+ Surreal Altered Vintage Photographs
Many of us have picked up old black and white photographs and wondered what their backstories are, but these artists take history into their own hands, altering the images to produce new ...
