Elfreth’s Alley: America’s Oldest Residential Street

In Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood near the Delaware River, close to Interstate 95, is a historic cobblestoned street lined with thirty two houses built in the Georgian and Federal styles.

11 Secret European Towns You Must Visit

The secret is out for Milan, London, Paris or Barcelona, but Europe has a plethora of destinations that you may not have considered visiting before. Here are 11 lesser-known European towns you should visit… like, right now.

Colorful Doors in Aveiro, Portugal

In the streets of Aveiro in Portugal, Catarina Soares captures the typical architecture of the city. The neighborhood of Beir-Mar is especially famous for its similar houses which only differentiate through colors and materials.

Amazing Street Art Installations That Cleverly Interact With Nature

Street art is there to surprise and inspire us, to shake up the often dull urban environments in which it can usually be found in order to give us a fresh perspective on our otherwise familiar neighborhoods and streets.

Vintage Pictures Brought to Life After Colourisation

After a thrilling chase through the busiest streets of Washington, a couple of bootleggers and their car come to grief at the hands of the Capitol police, 21st January 1922

Rainy New York City

Artist Karen Woods painted hyperreal images of New York city though the window of a rainy car and all of them had us doing a double-take.

Semaphore: The World’s First Telegraph

A Chappe semaphore tower near Saverne, France. Photo credit: Hans-Peter Scholz/Wikimedia

Smoke signals and beacons have been used to relay messages over short distances since ancient times, but the only reliable way to send messages over long distances