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Clay

Çanakçı Heykeli

This giant work of Cappadocian pottery includes a memorial for the artisan who created it.

The heart of the factory is a tyre shaped brick oven.

Jokela, Finland

Jokelan Tiilitehdas Brick Factory

This once-mighty brick factory is now a unique museum experience.

The Celadon Terra Cotta building in its current location

Alfred, New York

Celadon Terra Cotta Building

A physical catalog of ceramics made by the now-defunct Celadon Terra Cotta company.

Día de Muertos Offering.

Metepec, Mexico

Museo del Barro (Museum of Clay)

A collection of incredible clay crafts, complete with earthen skeletons and mermaids.

Clay Tunnel in Dalat

Clay Tunnel in Dalat

A sculpture park that takes the use of clay to a whole new level.

The Brickyard's chimney.

Chilmark, Massachusetts

The Brickyard

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

Mike Weaver Drain Tile Museum.

Geneva, New York

Mike Weaver Drain Tile Museum

This museum pays homage to a device that precipitated a watershed moment in Finger Lakes food production.

The kiva at Chaco Canyon was the site of political meetings and spiritual gatherings.

native americans

Ancient Fingerprints Help Unravel Just Who Was Making Pots at Chaco Canyon

New research shows it wasn't as gendered as once thought.

Jonathan Carey June 5, 2019

Five of the seven moa footprints uncovered in the riverbank.

Found: 7 Ancient Footprints of a Giant, Flightless Bird

They could be up to 12 million years old.

Sabrina Imbler May 13, 2019

Researchers recreated Wari chicha.

How Breweries Helped Keep This Pre-Columbian Empire Together

Researchers recreated Wari chicha for science and happy hour.

Reina Gattuso April 18, 2019

Aquinnah, Massachusetts

Aquinnah Cliffs

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

Umm Bab Clay Quarry.

Umm Bab Clay Quarry

This unconventionally beautiful landscape possesses stunning scenery you won't easily forget.

Tanjia

This meat dish slow-cooks in the embers that heat Moroccan bathhouses.

The Henry Rokham House

Chicago, Illinois

Terra Cotta Row

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Western Han Dynasty Terracotta Warriors Museum

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

Hengifoss

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

The mermaid-like "tlanchana", a folkloric figure of Metepec is well-represented in the park.

Metepec, Mexico

Pino Suárez Linear Garden

This sculpture garden is a serene oasis wedged in the middle of a busy highway.

The architect calls the house the "world's largest piece of pottery."

Villa de Leyva, Colombia

Casa Terracota

This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.