Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Victorian Skull optical illusions . Optical illusions often walk the line between cool and creepy – there's nothing quite like ...

On the fronts of 19th-century postcards displayed in Caribbean shops, women in traditional Indian styles portrayed the islands as lush and exotic tourist destinations. The models posed coyly, dressed ...

“May Christmas be Merry” (19th-century Christmas card) (via Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington) Anthropomorphic cats, murderous frogs, and insects dancing by the moonlight aren’t exactly ...

Postcard of the World’s Only Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota (1928) (all images courtesy the Newberry Library) In the 1950s, visitors to the IQ Zoo, an animal training facility and tourist ...

Row upon row, they stretch above easy reach, dark boxes on metal shelving, pushed against a side wall in Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum’s collections gallery. Twice a week for more than a decade, ...

Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Smell the salt air. Now...open. "This is a true picture of the ocean today," wrote S. Knipe in 1910, on the back of a postcard showing fierce waves crashing into ...