All over the world, there are creepy doors that have been sealed shut for countless decades and for many different reasons. Some of these we know from history what they’re protecting and why but the others we don’t have a clue, we can only guess and they’re shrouded in mystery and conspiracy. These range from a gate that requires a sacred chant to open to another that’s hiding a haunted room in order to protect the guests at a hotel.
Recent scientific evidence demonstrates that the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, was NOT a tomb built for the Pharaohs, but is literally a massive technological structure that is beyond our current understanding.
An A-frame cabin built over a creek near Asheville, North Carolina, photographed by Tate Finley.
The 6th-7th century Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, by photographer Takeshi Ishizaki.
This is a five-image collage of abandoned cathedral St. Etienne in Bourges, France, by photographer Jurg Roessen.
This is Madain Salih, a palatial pre-Islamic tomb of the Nabataeans in Saudi Arabia, by photographer John Stanmeyer.
Light streaming through a Gothic cloister.
It’s a building site from another century. In Guédelon, in the French region of Burgundy, history enthusiasts have set themselves a unique challenge. For twenty years, they’ve been constructing a castle, using 13th century building techniques: no modern machinery or equipment. The site draws 300,000 visitors each year.
Pioneering NYC artist Gwyneth Leech enters her midtown art studio one day to find that her epic skyline view will soon be blocked by the construction of a high-rise hotel. But as the perspective out her window permanently shifts, so does the artist’s point of view.
The Monolith is directed by Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr. and Rosie Walunas adeptly employed the Adobe Creative Suite to bring over 200 pieces of Leech’s beautiful artwork to life using Animation, Motion Graphics and Compositing. Leech has exhibited her work across the United States and the UK in museums, commercial galleries, public art spaces, and alternative venues. For additional information on the artist, please visit: gwynethleech.com.
Moon and castle by photographer Ilhan Eroglu.
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World Without End
Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Readers everywhere hoped for a sequel.
World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas— about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race—the Black Death.
Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new life into this epic historical novel.
