Cool Finds

Shoppers walk down a corridor in Istanbul's fabled Grand Bazaar.

Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar Is Getting a Makeover

The bazaar has withstood at least seven fires and several major earthquakes

The Eleanor Roosevelt Monument in Riverside Park, New York, was dedicated at 72nd Street on October 5, 1996.

It's Way Too Hard to Find Statues of Notable Women in the U.S.

Only a handful of the country's sculptures honor women

This 1956 poster is just one of thousands of items of Rosa Parks' personal collection now digitized by the Library of Congress.

Rosa Parks' Papers Are Now Online

Read about everything from her meditations on the Civil Rights Movement to her recipe for "featherlite" peanut butter pancakes

The secretly-made 3D scan of Nefertiti's bust.

Thanks to Sneaky Scanners, Anyone Can 3D Print a Copy of Nefertiti’s Bust

Scans of the famous sculpture are free for the taking

Beijing's CCTV Tower has been compared to a pair of glorious pants.

These Are 10 of China’s Strangest Buildings

Chinese officials want to ditch the country's bizarre architecture

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (Mrs. Alexander Hamilton), 1787, Ralph Earl (1751-1801).

Elizabeth Hamilton Once Posed for a Portrait in a New York City Prison

There was a dire need for painters to immortalize America’s elites

Shackleton brought everything from trashy novels to accounts of Arctic rescues with him to Antarctica.

Historians Finally Figured Out What Was on Shackleton’s Bookshelf

The brave explorer likely found solace in his library

This Twitter Account Turns Emojis Into Gallery Art

Tiny pictures, high art?

Harper Lee didn't like publicity.

Listen to a Rare Interview With Harper Lee

“[A]ll I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama,” she told radio host Roy Newquist in 1964

NASA's OSIRIS-REx project will send a craft to a near-Earth asteroid and take a sample to study back on Earth.

NASA Wants You to Send Your Art to an Asteroid

The agency is looking for creative contributions as it readies its mission to study and sample a near-Earth asteroid

This French Town Is Covered in Citrus Sculptures

Ten-foot-tall lemon sculptures herald the Fête du Citron

This Stunning Dragon Dance Was All for the Sake of Tea

Your next cup could be filled with New Year's luck

The perfectly preserved Bronze Age wheels in the dig go round and round.

Archaeologists Uncovered a Perfect Bronze Age Wheel

Excavations at “Britain’s Pompeii” are on a roll

Mozart and Salieri—rivals or BFFs?

A German Composer Uncovered a Collaboration Between Mozart and Salieri

Their epic rivalry might not have been all that

For only $10, you can spend a night in a faithful recreation of van Gogh's "The Bedroom," wonky angles and all.

Rent a Recreation of Van Gogh’s Bedroom and Other Artistic Airbnbs

Odd houses and intricately designed bedrooms are a staple of short-term rentals

Watch a Stunning Time-Lapse of Cave-Bound Glowworms

These New Zealand sparklers aren’t stars—they’re insects

Happy 452nd Birthday, Galileo

The revolutionary who helped shape modern astronomy

This Unfinished Film Highlights the Daily Lives of Black Americans in the 1960s

'The American Negro' shares stories of black surgeons, mothers and workers

Chow Down on a Plastic-Eating Fungus

Plastic trash could have a delicious future

OK Go Shot Their Latest Music Video in Microgravity

Singing aboard the Vomit Comet

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