In April 1980, an unknown runner named Rosie Ruiz crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon, seemingly shattering records.

The planet Venus spins so slowly that a single day lasts longer than its entire orbit around the sun.

Long before modern mountaineers tackled the European Alps, a group of Spanish conquistadores accomplished a staggering alpine feat in North America.

Off the rugged coast of Galicia in northwestern Spain sits a building that looks entirely pulled from the sea.

Following the American Civil War in the 1860s, thousands of newly homeless veterans and impoverished migrant workers took to the tracks.

Seventeen-year-old Genia Melzer survived a mass execution by lying still atop a pile of bodies.

In the 1920s, two mapmakers invented a town out of thin air, placing it onto an empty dirt road intersection in upstate New York.

On a pitch-black night in late nineteenth-century England, tens of thousands of livestock simultaneously crashed through their wooden enclosures and fled in absolute terror across hundreds of square miles.

Hundreds of thousands of children marched into the bloodiest conflict in United States history.

In 1856, a 23-year-old widow walked into the Pinkerton detective agency in Chicago and demanded to go undercover.