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London, England

Seven Noses of Soho

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
Brooklyn, New York

The Carousel in Prospect Park

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.
floods

The Louvre is Closing as Flood Waters Threaten Paris

It's not looking good.
Erik Shilling June 2, 2016
art

Watch a Hypnotizing Machine Sort River Rocks by Age

The Jller uses a method that is just as much art as it is science.
Urvija Banerji May 31, 2016
space exploration

Meet the Father of Modern Space Art

Chesley Bonestell knew what he was doing.
Erik Shilling May 27, 2016
A MOMA visitor enjoys the new exhibit.
art

Everyone Thought It Was Art When These Clever Teens Put Glasses on a Museum Floor

Teens.
Cara Giaimo May 26, 2016
murals

These Artists Twist Thousands of Rubik's Cubes a Day to Create Massive Murals

Cube Works invokes childhood nostalgia and old toys to create its retro artwork.
Lauren Young May 25, 2016
caves

Found: 70 Hidden Cave Paintings From 14,500 Years Ago

There are horses, goats, deer and an impaled bison, among others.
Sarah Laskow May 25, 2016
Henrietta Hyde (Windsor Beauties)
art

What the Most Alluring Women of 17th-Century England Looked Like

Beauty was an asset, a weapon, and a curse for the ladies of the Restoration court.
Ella Morton May 24, 2016
Duane Flatmo's Extreme Makeover crosses the Bay during 2005's Grand Championship
Arcata, California

Kinetic Grand Championship

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.
Permanently Closed
Looking down one of the supermarket's aisles
Shanghai, China

Shanghart Supermarket

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.
Unfinished house with strange chimneys
González Catán, Argentina

Campanópolis

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.
A few of Gunderson's newest carvings.
art

The Woodcarver Drawing Secret Faces on Trees at This Canadian Park

"The Magic Man of Cottonwood Island."
Cara Giaimo May 16, 2016
maps

The Hidden History of America's 19th-Century Mania for Panoramic Prints

Itinerant artists made almost 5,000 views of 2,400 different places.
Sarah Laskow May 11, 2016
No one is sure who owns this now.
nazis

Mystery Person Buys $17.2 Million Kneeling Hitler

This sculpture is made of human hair and wax.
Cara Giaimo May 10, 2016
art

Court Rules Figurines Modeled on This Artist's Vagina Are Art

There's a lot going on here.
Erik Shilling May 9, 2016
The Fallen Star installation is now part of the permanent collection at UCSD
San Diego, California

Fallen Star

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.
The Devil's Heads
hidden

Curious and Compelling Statues in the Czech Republic

The country is home to the world's strangest and most thought-provoking statues.