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In Victorian England, Sutherland Macdonald stands out as the country's first professional tattoo artist.

No nation can claim chess as its own. It is a truly global game. Yet as this map shows, it too has a history, and a geography.

For Haitians, untrained vendors are the main source of medicine. For the sellers, it's a way to survive.

Über Freaks’ follows Berlin’s extreme risk-taking graffiti artists.

Incredibly intricate animal and insect sculptures. Matsumoto doesn’t use markers, stickers or any other supplementary material. Ever. His multi-colored animal kingdom is made purely out of blowing and twisting balloons.

Sydney Trains is using a new technology named Mousetrap to sniff out graffiti vandals and alert the police. (2015)

Graffiti artists had begun covering the empty warehouse in elaborate murals, and in 2016, a partial vacate order was placed on the buildings next door for illegal dumping of asbestos and other hazardous waste. Several other major violations were also ...

Former monk Justo Gallego Martinez has been constructing his own cathedral in Mejorada del Campo, Spain, since 1961. He had no prior knowledge of architecture and hadn't laid a brick in his life, yet his project currently stands 131ft tall, and ...

We look at the development of stencil art and 10 street artists who helped innovate the technique, from Nick Walker to Blek le Rat.

A rare group of people whose genetics make them virtually impervious to heart disease is guiding researchers to new drugs that may help the rest of us.

Physically stronger men are less in favour of social and economic equality than weaker men, new research from Brunel University London indicates.

Three abandoned metro stations, two defunct underground nightclubs, a forgotten art nouveau shopping arcade, an old Renault garage, a disused water reservoir, and a post office, these are just a few of the 34 incredible hidden sites of Paris being pr ...

One man's trash (can) is another man's beautiful bouquet.

How New York city became a canvas for the graffiti artists of the 70s

Families that reported smoking cigarettes indoors had an average particle level almost double that of non-indoor-smoking families. These particles included nicotine and combustion byproducts, both linked to health issues. Surprisingly enough, marijua ...