A creature born when George Washington was still president, surviving to witness the dawn of World War I. This was not a tortoise or a whale, but a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Cocky Bennett.

While the Dutch Golden Age was famous for its grand masters and global trade, the town of Edam produced a marvel of a different sort: Trijntje Cornelisdochter Keever.

Rather than remain in the United States under the new federal laws, an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Southerners packed their belongings and boarded steamships bound for a foreign empire.

In 2015, the city of Nanjing, China, acquired a $1.5 million fire apparatus that appeared to be two vehicles fused together.

A substance existed that was worth three times its weight in gold.

In 1972, two brothers hunting grouse in northwestern Greenland stumbled upon a rocky crevasse that held a find dating back to approximately 1475.

In Denmark, reaching the age of 25 is marked by a specific and public ritual for those who are not yet married.

In the town of Dartmouth, Devon, stands a Victorian building that has held the official status of a railway station for over 160 years.

In December 1980, the twin military bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, became the site of a documented encounter with unidentified lights.