110 cm * 110 cm - Acrylic on canvas, mixed techniques

These are some of the best Japanese fireworks photos by photographer Keisuke during the summer "hanabi taikai" festivals in 2017.

Most of these momento mori scenes were shot at the beginning of the 1900s. Most are simple posed scenes of a nude or nearly-nude.

SHIPS spewing soot into the pristine ocean air are causing extra lightning strikes along busy maritime routes. It is a bizarre example of how human activities can change the weather. When Joel Thornton at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues looked at records of lightning strikes between 2005 and 2016 from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, they noticed there were significantly more strikes in certain regions of the east Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, compared with the surrounding areas.

Nestled upon the banks of the River Severn lies the Shropshire town of Ironbridge, a modest Victorian settlement with a world-changing history.

Located in the Thar Desert, the dynamic city of Jodhpur, India breaks the starkness of its surroundings with intense punches of color. The metropolis is cloaked in blue not just for aesthetic purposes; the hue historically demarcated the residence of the Brahmin, a caste of priests and protectors, and thus was meant to deter looters should the city ever come under siege.

We look at some of the finalists from the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest and learn the stories behind these breathtaking images.

We've all heard of a bed so comfortable you never want to leave, but what about a bed that's super functional? We've found the ultimate bed, one that not only looks cool, but is packed with ingenious design features.

75 cm * 115 cm -- Acrylic and spraycans on canvas

Sunrise through steam from thermal features along the shore of Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas -- 80 cm * 60 cm

A photo taken from above while the dragonfly was hovering.

I shot this a bit over a week ago during a trip to Rhode Island; I didn't realize that this picture came out quite so well until I came back home.

The results of the annual photo competition are now in.

Artist Okuda San Miguel recently transformed a 19th-century castle in Château, France in a work titled Skull in the Mirror. After stints as a school and holiday center for children, the castle was abandoned for nearly 30 years.

Ever Wondered What It Would Be Like To Take Photos In Space? Cinemagraph expert and space buff Armand Dijcks explains the challenges of capturing timelapses from the International Space Station and why NASA’s footage lends itself perfectly to cinemagraphs.

The funniest thing you will see today.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich, in association with Insight Investment and BBC Sky at Night Magazine, organized the ninth annual contest for the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year. They have recently published the shortlisted images for 2017, which will show you spectacular images of space taken from all corners of the world.

When putting your child inside an alligator enclosure was entertainment.

Mary Nohl (1914–2001) was a wood-carver, painter, sculptor, ceramist, printmaker, potter, writer, illustrator, and jeweler. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is restoring the Wisconsin art environment of Mary Nohl to what it looked like around 1998, when it was filled with art from floor to ceiling.

A ‘ghost building’ isn’t a haunted mansion or a spooky house.. in fact it isn’t a building at all. But rather, ghost buildings are the outlines of a demolished building that is no more, but you can still see their imprints preserved on a shared party wall.

LEGO-centric artists who are redefining a new era of creative artwork:

Werewolf tears Nazism a new one.

Good thing there are bridges. :-)

The edible frog is perhaps an appropriate name in some countries, but in Denmark it is called green frog and is on the list of conservation of species.

Few cities represent the remarkable 20th century trend of skyscraper-filled, obscenely dense cities better than Hong Kong. At its height, The Kowloon Walled City, which was demolished in 1993, was perhaps the most dystopian portrait of urban living.

Back in 1970, then-President Richard Nixon signed an executive order establishing the Environmental Protection Agency. Just after its creation, the EPA created a photo-documentary project called "Project Documerica." Its purpose? To "record the state of the environment and efforts to improve it."