Den Gamle By’s open-air museum will make anyone feel as if they’re about to bump into Hans Christian Andersen
The Beatles and their entourage were threatened and attacked in the Philippines for declining a breakfast invitation from its First Lady
Favorite animals of Catherine the Great, cats have inhabited the Hermitage Museum for the last 250 years and some are believed to have healing powers
Aubrey Beardsley and his “morbid imagination” was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era
Jimi Hendrix chose the U.S. Army over a jail term for auto theft, played his guitar endlessly at Fort Campbell
Eugene Allen, who grew up in a segregated town, was a butler in the White House for 34 years and received VIP invite to Obama’s inauguration
Amsterdam’s Museum of Bags and Purses owns an impressive collection of over 5,000 items from five centuries, including bags belonging to Margaret Thatcher and Madonna
Remarkable invention: fore-edge, the “disappearing painting” on the edge of a book, now an endangered art form