Articles by Lizzie Philip

Bodybuilding, for real.

It's not as delicious as you might expect.

The Hunt-Lenox Globe is significant in so many ways.

It's hidden in the back of a laundromat.

A unique collection focused on what happens after love dies.

General Qi Jiguang's 500-year-old military tactic still makes a good breakfast.

Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski’s collection has grown to over 30,000 rabbit-related items.

This imaginative gadget was designed to get operatives out of difficult situations.

The German army's Operation Bernhard sought to flood the British economy with counterfeit bills.

The Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been serving up laughs and ice cream since 1963.

Kilwa Kisiwani ("Isle of the Fish") was once the heart of Swahili culture and commerce.

Metallic gravestones, as it turns out, don't age well.

Cambodia's first LGBTQ dance company has big dreams.

"It's not ours or theirs, it's for both of us."

It took almost three decades.

“The fear and hatred of insects is just the fear of the unknown,” says Aaron Rodriques.

Andreas Vesalius dissected the bodies of executed prisoners to better understand human anatomy.

The American television character is memorialized in an unlikely locale.

"The ghost was me!" says Giuseppe Negri, who grew up at Villa de Vecchi.

Step inside Karl De Smedt's singular collection of starters.

The Field Museum preserves its Komodo dragon specimens in Everclear, which they buy in 55 gallon drums.

Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have made a career of their never-ending hunt for oddball footage.

A close-up look at giant isopod specimens.

Meet the Kleemans and their vast collection of space-age toys and ephemera.