Women of Yao ethnic group combed hair by a river. [Xinhua] Women from the Yao ethnic minority in Huangluo Yao Village, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, celebrated the first Long Hair Festival on April 9. The event attracted tens o…
Museum showcases canine neckwear spanning five centuries of doggie fashion and function Serving many purposes, from identification to functioning as a leash anchor to showcasing the latest in canine decor, dog collars are the tiny piece of cloth…
A street name that shares a slang meaning with a hole in the wall designed for sexual gratification keeps getting stolen. People who live on Glory Hole Drive in the El Dorado County mountains in Camino, California say their street sign keeps get…
The Heliotrope is an environmentally friendly house designed by the German architect Rolf Disch who also designed the Sonnenschiff (Sun Ship). Three such houses exist in Germany, the first experimental version having been built in 1994 as the a…
Photo credit: www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org In a quiet courtyard in the suburbs of New Delhi, inside a low-slung concrete building, the assistant curator and guides of Sulabh International Museum of Toilets eagerly awaits for visitors. The museum i…
La Canada-Flintridge, California's Graystone Manor was originally built in 1937, but in 1971, Disney theme park designer Robert F. McDonnell and his family started remodeling it and kept touching it up throughout the decades until it was sold i…
Photo credit Bus stops come in all shapes and sizes. In the small Japanese town of Konagai, in the outskirts of Isahaya, in Nagasaki Prefecture, they come in five different flavors — watermelon, strawberry, orange, muskmelon and tomato. These qu…
Norilsk (Russian: Норильск; IPA: [nɐˈrʲilʲsk]) is an industrial city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located above the Arctic Circle, east of the Yenisei River and south of the western Taymyr Peninsula. It has a permanent population of 175,000. Wi…
TAKE AN AMBIENT JOURNEY THROUGH Melanesia and Polynesia in this immersive video created by filmmakers Richard Sidey and Aliscia Young. Filmmakers: Richard Sidey and Aliscia Young Location: Western Papua, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Coo…
Started by a retired master plumber, Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum is an ever-growing collection of artfully decorated bathroom castoffs that show off the more whimsical side of a notoriously dirty fixture. Covering every inch of the mu…
