Years before Toy Story convinced audiences that toys had secret lives, Jim Henson was already telling that story in his own ...

When discussing the best animated movie from each of the last 5 decades, it's inevitable to mention classics like Akira and ...

After a year filled with illness, loss and a fire, a Des Moines family found relief and renewed hope through The Salvation ...

Every December, they quietly appear everywhere. In storybooks, films, classroom decorations and Christmas cards, elves are shown hammering toys, checking lists ...

Every Christmas Day, after the kids are tucked into bed and my wife has drifted off on the couch, I turn off whatever holiday ...

The December holidays still can be a hectic time to travel. This year, 122.4 million Americans were expected to travel at ...

At the Plum Island Museum of Lost Toys and Curiosities, one-time treasures bring back memories and are a reminder of the eternal life of plastic waste.

Back in 1998, long before the United States stopped producing the penny, a little girl with spina bifida gave Dale Earnhardt a gift that raises the question: What if pennies are actually worth ...

Shortly after Herb Ryman and Walt Disney created the Disneyland prospectus, the site plan (shown here at Disneyland’s Main Street Opera House) included a different iteration of a “holiday” area.

Narine Karapetyan is one of the Armenians forcibly displaced from Artsakh. An Iranologist, photographer and mother of two ...

The complicated love triangle in Lost Girl forced its lead, Bo, to navigate complicated relationships with two of her closest ...

What started as a mechanism to keep equipment stable on board a Navy ship ended as one of the most recognizable toys of the ...