Antiques Roadshow: ‘Remarkable’ Guest floored by huge valuation of ‘unique’ dollhouse

The guest brought along a charming looking old dollhouse, which was revealed to be a butcher’s shop on the BBC show. Antiques Roadshow expert Fergus Gambon took a look at the item in order to assess how much it was worth. It was clear he was taken by the piece as “unique” and that he’d […]

Intoxicating Photos of Remarkable Women and Their Tattoos

Body art is, when you get down to it, a form of storytelling — each piece of ink contributes to a narrative that can encompass a single tattoo, or an entire body. Photographer Reka Nyari explores and subverts traditional ideas of beauty and gender, recontextualizing the aesthetics of sexuality through a female gaze; her new […]

Tiger Woods WINS Tour Championship to end remarkable 2018 comeback at FedEx Cup

It’s been some journey for Woods over the past 12 months and he has marked his return to form by winning his first PGA Tour event since 2013. Woods was still recovering from spinal fusion surgery this time last year with even the most ardent fans pessimistic about seeing the golf legend return to his […]

Inside the remarkable story of how an American man was freed from jail in Venezuela with the help of a senator’s backchannel and a man known as ‘Dracula’

Alex Brandon/AP American Joshua Holt was released from a Venezuelan prison two years after arriving in South America to marry a Mormon he met online. He was surprisingly released after GOP Senator Bob Corker arrived in Caracas and newly reelected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro handed Holt over. Corker’s Latin American aide was assisted by a […]

In photos: One cyclist’s remarkable journey from London to Hong Kong

Joshua Cunningham May 16, 2018 Share this article In 2015, Joshua Cunningham rode his bike from London to Hong Kong. His journey took him some 12 months and 21,000 kilometers (13,000 miles), through 26 countries. Here, he shares some of the photographs and tales he collected along the way. “It is by riding a bicycle […]

15 of the most remarkable and memorable things Stephen Hawking ever said

Getty Images Stephen Hawking died early in the morning on March 14, 2018 — Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday — but left behind one of the most incredible legacies for a human being on Earth. Hawking was a theoretical physicist who pioneered new understandings of black holes and the cosmos at large. What’s more, he did […]

Remarkable before-and-after photos show New York City’s public space transformations over the past 80 years

Berenice Abbott/Google Over the past century, New York City’s streets have evolved dramatically. These changes are especially apparent in archive photos uncovered by the New York Public Library. The collection contains prints from 1935 to 1936 by Berenice Abbott, a photographer who documented NYC’s transformation over the previous century in her series “Changing New York.” Comparing her photos to […]