Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency declared listing of Osaka tombs among the sites of World Cultural Heritage. On Tuesday a UNESCO warning board suggested the inclusion of the gathering of antiquated tombs from the Osaka Prefecture. The listing of the Mo…
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(photo by Michèle M Waite, courtesy the Art Department) LOS ANGELES — Across every metropolitan area, there are numerous electrical substations that keep power pulsing through the city. They’re home to steel behemoths that generate high-voltage ele…
From Baikonur, Earth (courtesy The Piranesi Experience) The camera pans across an architectural model of a city — a clean, uniform environment of repetitive gray rectangular buildings and light green trees. Everything appears to be new; it’s a pictu…
Cambodia is amazing and should definitely be on your travel to-do list. There’s Angkor Wat, the world heritage site made up of dozens and dozens of ancient temples, the bustling city of Phnom Penh and all the other breathtaking sites along the way. …
To have new experiences, tourists prefer to stay in hotels in new destinations that are totally different from those which they have previously stayed in. The more different, the more attractive the new residential centers will be to them. In foreign c…
“Be careful,” our guide warns as we set off to explore the passageways that form the collapsing arteries of the more than 1000-year-old village of Kharanaq, set to become Iran’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site. “And don’t…
In 1908 German-born American Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) went on a 6-month visit to Japan. Already a famous celebrity photographer based in San Francisco, Genthe took hundreds of photographs of the Asian country during what was called the Meiji era. A pe…
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] The reputedly haunted Nakagusuku Hotel in Okinawa, Japan freaked-out construction workers so much, they walked off the job before the hotel was even finished. Guest Lost The ruins of the Nakagusuku Ho…
It was like hell on earth; everything coated in red dust and rust. The noise was immense, with steam and chemicals belching from all over – at one point I walked into a cloud of ammonia without a respirator. It was a massive nickel refinery and I was …
Portraits and Windows Soomin Ham After discovering a lost box of photos made by her grandfather in the 1930s, this photographer constructed new visual composites by integrating her own contemporary images, printing everything on traditional handmade Kor…
In the places around the world where people live the longest, they don’t actually pursue health. They live longer because health ensues from the right environment. That is according to Dan Buettner, Blue Zones founder and National Geographic fellow, w…
Cecil Beaton is with out much doubt one of the great 20th Century photographers – famous for his images of society and fashionable subjects. Later in his life he turned just as successfully into film costumes (he won Oscars for My Fair Lady and Gigi) …
It’s an enduring irony of art history: artists whose work has come to define high culture are often characterized by various mental health issues. But the artwork of ordinary, anonymous people who struggle with those same issues is regarded as the…
The Tunisian shipping vessel sank off the coast of Libya (Photo courtesy of BARCA NOSTRA © BARCA NOSTRA) The majority of migrants who have died trying to reach Europe have drowned in the turbid waters of the Mediterranean Sea. In 2015, more than 2,900 …
Darjeeling: Are the motorists in Darjeeling risking their lives along the tracks of the famous Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR), also known as ‘Toy Train’? Over the course of the past few days, two photos involving the World Heritage Site have gon…
An Eastern city with a Western outlook, Baku is an exceptional combination of antiquity and novelty with several sites of interest. A constantly evolving tapestry of life and energy from bazaar to Jazz clubs, prepare to be mesmerised! For millennia, A…
Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick’s grave ‘found by author’ 5 May 2019 Image copyright PA Image caption Joseph Merrick surprised doctors with his intelligence and sensitive nature The unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick – who is better k…
“The visible image represents an invisible truth”– from a 10th century manuscript Grand Canyon, Arizona Martin Karplus (born March 15, 1930) is a chemist, Professor emeritus at Harvard University, and Nobel Laureate in 2013 who has spent the p…
Big Sky: Portraits from the Outback Adam Ferguson Though only amounting to a small percentage of the Australia’s population, the Outback is an important and diverse segment that defines the character of the country. These portraits attempt to build a …