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During World War II American's at home devised a number of ways to drum up money for war bonds, but very few were…

Rising three-stories above the central study area on each wall, the book collection contained in the Royal…

Anyone wanting to talk with the animals, walk with the animals, or even climb on the animals will be well served at…

Straddling the Danube in the city of Bratislava, Most SNP (short for Most Slovenského národného povstania, which is…

Above the Armenian town of Areni in the Vayots Dzor province, the Areni-1 Cave Complex has proven to be a treasure…

Installed in 2000, the Neverbust Chain located in downtown Columbia, South Carolina, connects two large office…

Littering the field behind the workshop of giant-building firm Fiberglass Animals, Shapes, and Trademarks (FAST) is…

Rising up out of the Venezuelan slums, the eye-catching complex known as The Helix (El Helicoide) looks like…

Visible in an ominous flash from the train on the way to Herning, Denmark the huge sculpture known as Elia is a…

Located among the aging Tuscan stones of Florence's historic Palazzo Vecchio, the simple caricature known as the…

Italian anatomist Antonio Scarpa was known for his ruthless demeanor and masterful work in the field of biology, and…

The dream that would come to be the so-called Hemloft began from a playful sleeping competition between friends but…

Large Christian communities are not abundant in Muslim-dominated Egypt, but one of the more populous groups are the…

Someone had to be the first person to discover California's gold deposits and as the story goes it was a premonition…

While historic anti-semitism is well documented, there is a shockingly specific form of religious hate speech that…

The current Fukusai-ji Temple in Nagasaki, reconstructed after the original was destroyed by the atomic bomb, is…

While construction on the San Cataldo Cemetery, a high-minded architectural proof of concept, was never completed,…

Dedicated in 2010 the, massive African Renaissance Monument is a towering piece of brutal Stalinist machismo that is…

Originally a cheeky, if titanic, piece of art, the one-room Hotel Casanus is a giant intestinal model that allows…

With classic Dubai opulence, the Middle Eastern city has established what is possibly the largest flower garden in…