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Rosa Parks’ Detroit House Finds a Home in Berlin

Once abandoned and decrepit, the house has been restored overseas

“Get Your Kicks” at This Route 66 Museum

The Mill Restaurant, which once served hungry travelers, now hosts a shrine to the highway’s roadside attractions

Handprint from Maltravieso Cave in Caceres, Spain.

Cool Finds

Project Is Making 3D Scans of Ancient Handprints

The Handpas Project is looking to unlock who made the prehistoric art and why

UK Appoints First Woman as Official Artist of General Election

Cornelia Parker will create a piece for the Parliamentary Art Collection

China has yet to acknowledge the Tienanmen Square massacre, but a museum in Hong Kong still keeps the incident's memory alive.

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Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Square Museum Reopens

For some, the museum is the first time they confront information about the 1989 massacre

Hermann Nitsch pictured in front of one of his works at a 2006 retrospective.

Tasmanian Art Festival to Host Controversial Hermann Nitsch Performance

The festival has decided to proceed with the avant-garde artist’s work, despite public outrage

The Museum of Migration tells the stories of the UK's immigrants.

Cool Finds

Museum of Migration Opens in London

The ambitious museum brings new perspective to a city shaped by immigrants

The burial chamber containing the model looms

New Research

Model Looms Are Missing Link in China’s Textile History

Four miniature pattern looms found in a burial in Chengdu show how the Han Dynasty produced cloth to trade on the Silk Road

Charles Manson Leaping at Judge Charles H. Older, October 5, 1970.

New Exhibit Highlights the Art of the Courtroom Sketch

For decades, these drawings offered the public its only glimpse into high-profile court cases

A Nude Sculpture of George Washington Is Coming to New York

The work was made in preparation for a larger, clothed statue by the Italian artist Antonio Canova

"The first ascent of the Matterhorn," by Gustave Dore, who was not actually there.

The Tragic Story of the First Ascent of the Matterhorn

Edward Whymper had tried seven times to reach the top of the Matterhorn. He made it on the eighth try–at great cost

Emoji cover the facade of this Dutch building.

Cool Finds

This Building Is Covered in Emoji

-Person raising both hands in celebration-

The filmmaker is hosting what's sure to be a memorable weekend.

Cult Filmmaker John Waters Is Hosting a Summer Camp for Adults

It’s as kooky as you might imagine

This New Orleans monument to a white supremacist riot no longer exists.

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New Orleans Tears Down Controversial Confederate Monuments

A 35-foot obelisk in memory of a white supremacist uprising is no more

A surfer at Huntington Beach in Southern California

New Research

California May Lose Popular Surfing Spots to Rising Seas

A changing climate may make iconic breaks disappear

A spotter with binoculars at an anti-aircraft command post.

Cool Finds

Check Out These Rare Color Images of World War II

The photos are part of a new book from the Imperial War Museums which includes many images published for the first time

A TeleGuide terminal developed in the early 1990s by Swedish phone company Televerket, with IBM and Esselte.

A New Museum in Sweden Is All About Failure

Visit the many examples of products that were short-sighted, short-lived or just silly

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Bangkok Won’t Ban Street Food After All

The Tourism Authority of Thailand clarifies that vendors will be able to continue selling street food under new regulations

An African elephant bull in a freshwater marsh in Botswana's Okavango Delta.

Almost Half of Natural World Heritage Sites Are Threatened by Criminal Activity

A WWF report found that illegal poaching, logging, and fishing impacts 45 percent of the designated locations

A composite image of asteroid 2014 JO25 created with data from NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar.

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Watch a Large Asteroid Streak Through the Night Sky

Only a small telescope will be needed

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