In the history of New York City, few events are as scientifically staggering as what happened on December 2, 1979.

On November 11, 1921, a casket containing the unidentified remains of an American soldier from World War I was lowered into the ground at Arlington National Cemetery.

A global organization was once led by an actual crocodile.

In August 2004, employees behind a Georgia fast-food restaurant found a sunburned, unconscious man with no clothes and no memories.

In February 1867, a band of hunters tracking through the jungles of the Bulandshahr district in India stumbled upon a cave guarded by a lone wolf.

Social media feeds are often flooded with images of a mustache-sporting Persian royal dubbed “Princess Qajar.”

In the early nineteenth century, an American medical trainee took scientific research to extreme lengths to prove a medical theory.

In the early twentieth century, Germany was a global center of scientific research. Within a few short years, the nation lost this intellectual standing, altering the trajectory of the atomic age.

Located just a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle, one remote settlement subjects its residents to average winter temperatures of -58°F (-50°C).

On the southern coast of Alaska, a mining tunnel, scattered rubble, and rusted canning equipment mark the spot where a village once stood.