Harry Porto? The bookshop in Porto, thought to inspire Harry Potter locations Interiors Lifestyle Strangeness
A 16th-century fortified Scottish castle was invaded and ransacked by a tiny masked marauder—a badger Archeology Interiors Lifestyle Strangeness
“Baby airing”: To make sure they had fresh air, new mothers put their infants into baby cages on the windowsills Interiors Lifestyle Strangeness
“Baby airing”: To boost their health, new mothers in the early 1900s put their infants in windowsill baby cages Interiors Lifestyle Strangeness
Salisbury Cathedral could possess the world’s oldest working mechanical clock, still capable of chiming the hour Self-Propelled Interiors News
St Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, praised for its architecture, wins special attention for a door that some believe inspired J. R. R. Tolkien Interiors Featured News
Steampunk triumphs in the Neverwas Haul, a Victorian house on wheels inspired by science fiction novels Strangeness Interiors
The fun but morbid “Struwwelpeter” is a 19th-century German children’s book in which the children suffer bizarre punishments News Interiors Lifestyle Strangeness
An explanation emerges for how the 12th century Paisley Abbey in Scotland could feature a gargoyle out of the film “Alien” Interiors