To safeguard cultural heritage, a massive Smithsonian-led cultural rescue operation can now be mobilized to help countries recover from disaster
From Australia to Malaysia, these villages are prized for their abundance of bookstores
Roie Galitz considers himself an ambassador for the creatures he photographs, capturing their intimate moments in hopes of inspiring conservation
In a new book, historian Robert Grenville explores the haunting beauty of nature reclaiming some of history’s most notorious sites
Ivittuut held the world’s largest reserve of naturally occurring cryolite, a mineral that was used in the manufacturing of fighter planes
Since 1942, people have planted 91,000 signs from around the world
Common in England, the practice of toasting to the health of the orchard has hopped the pond
The 1966 Honda Super Hawk featured in Robert Pirsig’s book on values was recently acquired by the National Museum of American History
Bored of eggnog? Sick of cider? Here are nine scrumptious end-of-year beverages to sip on from across the globe
The rent of less than one Euro per year at the Fuggerei, located in Augsburg, Germany, hasn't changed either
A notorious quack peddled cures at an Arkansas resort in the 1930s. Nowadays the con game is all for show
A museum pays tribute to Friedrich Miescher, the Swiss chemist who isolated nucleic acid in the castle's former lab 150 years ago
The Freer Gallery—home to the largest collection of the popular Japanese artist’s paintings—unveils 120 rarely seen works
At Stadshuskällaren, in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall, diners eat like Nobel Prize winners
At the American Indian Museum in NYC, curators paint eight decades of American Indian artwork back into the picture
Art connoisseurs Aaron and Barbara Levine amassed a formidable body of the artist’s works; they'd like nothing better than for you to see it
The island’s ‘custodian of historic wrecks’ shares his favorite underwater sites for divers to experience
In our efforts to increase and diffuse knowledge, we highly recommend these 65 titles released this year
Experience Taiwan's tea culture through these museums, plantations and tea houses
While traveling in Venice for what would be his best-selling memoir, the author’s encounter with an African-American art expert forever changed his writing
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