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Of the 50 imperial Fabergé eggs made for the tsars, six vanished after the 1917 revolution and remain lost today.

The sprawling lore of the Backrooms, now a blockbuster film, flows from a single photo of an unsettlingly dingy office space. The pic captured the imagination of image-board users in ...

Stendhal syndrome sends art tourists to a Florence hospital with racing hearts and dizzy spells. One had a heart attack.

Help! What the heck is this? What is it made of? Why is it here? And why does it look just like a cursed, melted Donald Trump?

This video shared by Ballooning Noord on Instagram shows a hot air balloon shaped like a giant human head, drifting over a small farmhouse. The head's stoic expression makes the sight both peaceful and eerie as it crosses the sky and settles into a ...

Escherllate is a fun browser sketchbook built around tessellation. You draw on a central tile, and your lines instantly repeat across surrounding copies. The result is a living pattern that updates in real time as you sketch. The system makes ...

The Last Museum archives 5.8 million artworks housed in the world's museums, from old masters to obscure comic books. Its one of those websites where a couple of minutes turns into a couple of hours without you even realizing how deeply lost you are ...

"Don't judge a book by its cover," they say, but how can one not? The cover's right there. Uncovered is a website that forces the issue by presenting book excerpts without the cover--or the author, or the title!--to distract you. There's no account ...

Bob Ross taught us anyone could paint. He did not promise anyone could afford a Bob Ross.

Niall de Buitléar's found-footage piece Duplicate Content shows 1960s video artists and TikTokers making the same moves.