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.

The Crocker Land Expedition of 1913 set out from New York to conquer a newly discovered landmass at the top of the globe.