The Festival of Colors, sustainable post-apocalyptic cities and more awesome corners of the world are featured in this week's What We Love.

See Jane Perkins' stunning recreations of artistic masterworks using only recycled materials like buttons and beads.

This year's Sony World Photography Contest received over 140,000 entries. Here are some of our favorites.

Given its dynamic properties, the face has often been used as the subject--not the canvas--of a portrait. Alexander Khokhlov does both.

Everyone knows the biggies: Darwin, Newton, Mendeleev, Watson and Crick. But what about the lesser known scientific heroes?

Toxic, abandoned coal towns. Venomous snake-infested islands. Even more toxic coal towns. Don't ever visit these places. But do read about them.

Eco friendly villas, hilarious movie mashups and a photo summary of Carnival around the world make our short list of this week's things we love!

Satiate your appetite for knowledge with thirty incredible GIFs that explain the world around us.

Ending a season of glut and hedonism with a bang, Mardi Gras is a popular event for believers and nonbelievers alike.

The fruit of millions of years of sediment accumulation and volcanic muscle, Giant's Causeway beguiles visitors daily.

Though we're generally sick of winter, we still can't get Sochi out of our minds.