Between the 11th and 20th centuries, Japanese monks embarked on a regimen so extreme it altered their biology.

Visiting a doctor who mapped the bumps on a skull to determine if a patient was an honest person, a skilled musician, or a potential criminal was a common occurrence in the 1800s.

When Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands announced her pregnancy in 1942, she triggered a strict constitutional dilemma.

When they started their family, an extraordinary genetic anomaly revealed itself. Some of their children were born with skin that was a striking shade of blue.

A British evangelist named Elizabeth Reid Cotton, better known as Lady Hope, claimed she had secured a private interview with Charles Darwin shortly before his death.

He eventually reached a staggering 251 centimeters (8 feet 2.8 inches) tall, earning him the Guinness World Record.

In 1880, a grieving widow visited a painter’s studio in Florence and requested a “picture to dream over.”

In 2013, a high-stakes business dispute in Guangxi, China, triggered an assassination plot that spiraled into a ridiculous chain of corporate outsourcing.

Under the cover of darkness on September 16, 1979, two families embarked on an astonishing journey.

Deep within forests around the world, a genus of sac fungi known as Cordyceps executes one of the most fascinating life cycles in the natural world.