The natural world is a stunning place. Every year, the best landscape photography shows off Earth’s beauty. The following photos are some of the winners from the 2017 International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest. They highlight powerful mountains, scenes of isolation, worlds of color and light, and the abstract loveliness found in landscapes all …

A talented artist has made a stunningly accurate to-scale model of Manhattan using nothing by trash. Zayd Menk’s incredibly intricate creation is made from materials including discarded computer chips, fans, broken mobile phones, and an array of batteries. The project took Menk, 17, more than three months to build, with each skyscraper created to a …

From a striking snake-shaped mansion to a sprawling villa with stacked swimming pools, these properties are the epitome of luxury living. And while many of us are unlikely to ever live in such breathtaking surroundings, the BBC’s The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes offers us a taste of what it might be like. Each episode focuses …

Americans refrigerate a lot of things that other countries don’t, like eggs and butter. Eggs you may have encountered before in your travels—in most European countries, eggs aren’t refrigerated. But butter? Most Americans keep their butter in the refrigerator. Heck, there’s even a compartment in many refrigerators explicitly for that purpose. If you’re like me, …

Kids mean many things, and one of those is ‘more cleaning’. They can’t help it. Under a certain age they have tiny little immune systems you need to mindful of. Above a certain age and, well, they just get really dirty sometimes. So many a parent will have a veritable arsenal of cleaning products to …