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.

In the 3rd century BCE, Archimedes designed a vessel so massive it defied the naval standards of the ancient world.

Amidst the chaos and exhaustion of the front lines, a strange report began to circulate among the troops and the public back home.

Instead, he was a veterinary student named Barry Larkin, carrying a homemade contraption that would go down in history as one of the most successful pranks ever executed.