Arts & Culture

Be heard, be seen, walk on -- these are the stories of people who never back down from being themselves....

Very few of Mongolia’s Buddhist temples survived the Soviet era. But one particular temple in Erdenetsogt still stands thanks to the efforts of one m...

In 1969, a bunch of free-loving hippies got together in Bethel, New York, for a three-day music festival called Woodstock. The organizers expected...

In November 1970, an eight-ton sperm whale carcass washed up onto the beach in Florence, Oregon. Faced with a costly cleanup, local authorities...

The "turning of the bones," or famadihana, is a funerary ritual of the Malagasy people in Madagascar. On the fifth, seventh or ninth anniversary of a...

Dez Marshall is a barber at The Gamesman barbershop in Brooklyn, which has been serving the neighborhood for the last 50 years. Dez's clientele is...

When Somalian refugee Famo Musa came to the United States in 2004, she didn’t speak a word of English. Instead, she embraced her camera and used t...

Paris—without people? No, this isn't an apocalypse. This is Paris ... in China. The city of Tianducheng was created as a replica of the French c...

Martin Greenfield's story is extraordinary. He was liberated from Auschwitz as a 15 year old and immigrated to the United States in 1947. Grateful for...

Every summer, Queensferry, Scotland celebrates an ancient tradition called Burryman Day. Per the ritual, which dates back to pre-Christian times, a...

Actor Anthony Carrigan has been in some of your favorite T.V. shows, and it's usually as a villain. Carrigan has alopecia, an autoimmune disorder that...

Antoine Hunter just wants to be heard and understood. Born completely without hearing in his left ear and hard of hearing in his right, Hunter, who's...