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The Adeline Harris Sears Tumbling Block with Signatures quilt

The Metropolitan Museum of Art contains many marvels of history and art. The Adeline Harris Sears Tumbling Block with Signatures quilt...

How About a Monkey Pastry Chef Serving The Head of a Cat?

It's Christmas 1880, what do you get the child that has everything? How about nightmares delivered via an automated monkey pastry-chef...

Anthropodermic Bibliopegy – The Macabre Practice of Binding Books in Human Skin

Back in the 19th century, some books were bound in a particular type of leather. Human skin, sourced from unfortunate and unwilling souls...

The Glorious Yet Now Abandoned Constanța Casino

In 1903, local Romanian politicians agreed that it was time for the city of Constanța to have a modern casino, "...like those which...

Manoir Colimaçon: An Abandoned Beauty, Near Paris

Built in 1882, this superb building was originally a house with about twenty windows and a carriage entrance. Around 1920, this house was...

Map Sizes Proving I Have No Sense Of Scale

Maps, by their very nature, are big fat liars. Despite what the Flat-Earthers would have you believe, the world is indeed spherical,...

The Glorious Inside of a 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom

The car was commissioned by business baron Clarence Gasque for his wife Maude, a devotee of 18th-century French design, and it remains...

A Peek Inside The Orient Express

The "Orient Express" was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The...

The Victorian Mansion Perfect for Wes Anderson’s remake of the Addams Family

Meet the Victorian gem that rolled right out of our dreams, and into the little city of Abilene, Kansas. The yellow brick mansion –...

Meet Lonnie Johnson, The NASA Engineer And Inventor Of The Super Soaker

t’s easy to assume that the creators of the vast majority of children’s toys are likely boasting strong backgrounds in marketing,...

How You Could Buy Perfume In 1925

No, not a Chocolate Orange, this was manufactured in 1925 for Les Parfums de Marcy “L’Orange Variee” perfume. The scent comes packaged in...

Chez Armageddon: The 1970s Cold War Bunker Deep Below Las Vegas

The 15,200-square-foot basement on Spencer Street, Las Vegas features: two-bedrooms, three-bathrooms, a four-hole putting green, matching...

The Bees That Make Art

Whilst bees are better known for being colonial insects, outside of the hive a particular species of bee known as the osmia avosetta has...

The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Look Is Impossibly Amazing

There’s more than initially meets the eye to this exceptionally intricate lock, which was forged in iron by metalworker Frank Koralewsky...

The Roentgens' Berlin Secretary Cabinet

One of the finest achievements of European furniture making, this cabinet is the most important product from Abraham (1711--1793) and...

Debbie Harry Painted by H.R. Giger

In the spring of 1980, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie met H.R. Giger at a party at the Hansen Gallery in New York City, which...

The Chromatic Typewriter That Types in Colour

Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with colour pads...

When Bookshop Employees Get Bored.

If you've worked in retail you'll know how boredom can often kick in. These industrious bookshop employees have found a novel way to...

'Who’s She' Guessing Game Celebrates Accomplished Women Throughout History

Remember the classic guess who? game that originated from the 1970s? Well, Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska has created a far more...

The Glory of Sapeurism and the Congo Dandies

The Republic of Congo and its neighbor the Democratic Republic of Congo are not often associated with the latest international fashion...

Beautiful HandColoured Japanese Flowers Created by the Pioneering Photographer Ogawa Kazumasa (1896)

Ogawa Kazumasa lived from the 1860s to almost the 1930s, surely one of the most fascinating 70-year stretches in Japanese history....

The Magnificent 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe From The Ralph Lauren Collection

Designer Ralph Lauren is the proud owner of one of the world’s most handsome, interesting and fine specimens of car – the 1938 Bugatti...

Thomas Willson’s Metropolitan Sepulchre

Finding an affordable, respectable place to live in Georgian or Victorian London was ever a problem, and one which citizens could not ...

This Rare Vintage Typewriter From The 1950s Lets You Type Sheet Music

While most composers like to handwrite their sheet music, over the years there have been all types of machines invented to help print...

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