1. An Entire Old West Town for Sale in New Zealand
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A detailed replica of an 1860s Wyoming frontier town, set in the heart of a 900-acre ranch has gone up for sale with an asking price of $7.5 million. Found on Bloomberg.
2. French Revolutionary Frescoes Discovered behind the Walls of a Paris Apartment
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Parisian architect Agathe Mirambert was at the early stages of a renovation project on her clients’ apartment in the 3rd arrondissement when they discovered its hidden 18th century frescoes.
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The plan is to save what’s left of them and work them into the design with a matching patina.
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See more of the site & keep track via the architect’s Instagram.
3. The Great Sphinx of Giza from the back – and it has a tail!?
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Who knew!
There’s also a small cavity on the left side to the rear that leads to an underground room. In this room is a sand map with specific points, legend says if you get to these points you’ll unlock secret armour.
Found on Reddit.
4. A 2300-Year-Old Lady’s Boot Preserved in the Frozen Ground of the Altai Mountains
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In the age of fast fashion, when planned obsolescence, cheap materials, and shoddy construction have become the norm, how startling to encounter a stylish women’s boot that’s truly built to last…like, for 2300 years.
It helps to have landed in a Scythian burial mound in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, where the above boot was discovered along with a number of nomadic afterlife essentials—jewelry, food, weapons, and clothing.
More found on Open Culture.
5. Vintage Science Face Masks
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Found on Brain Pickings.
6. Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu performs to a Theatre full of Plants
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When the Spanish venue re-opened for a performance by UceLi Quartet, the opera house’s first concert since mid-March, its 2,292-seat capacity was filled with extremely handsome flora, which the theater will donate to health care professionals working at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. “After a strange, painful period, the creator, the Liceu’s artistic director and the curator Blanca de la Torre offer us a different perspective for our return to activity, a perspective that brings us closer to something as essential as our relationship with nature,” the theater said in a release. Photo by Lluis Gene via Getty Images, found on Vulture. Watch the performance:
7. Annual Water Lily Harvest in Vietnam
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Photographer Trung Huy Pham recently captured the annual harvest in a vivid series taken in the Long An and An Giang provinces in Vietnam. Found on This is Colossal.
8. A vintage hot air balloon make-up compact by Wadsworth
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Found on Tumblr.
9. Alphonse Mucha model reference photos and final artworks.
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Found on Pinterest. More about the artist (pioneer of a little movement called Art Nouveau) here.
10. Behind the Scenes at the Casting Agency for Hollywood Extras
11. Some Rare Photos of Prince, being his most Excellent Eccentric Self
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Found here.
12. This is actually a black and white photograph
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A grid of coloured lines has been added over this black & white image. Your brain uses that information to fill in the rest of the photo.
Found on PetaPixel.
13. A Movie about the small but fascinating world of Booksellers
Now available to watch on multiple platforms.