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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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