On January 19, 2004, Vermont Governor Howard Dean stepped onto a stage at the Val-Air Ballroom in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Across the dry expanse of the Namib Desert, millions of barren patches dot the landscape like perfectly drawn polka dots.

After his athletic career concluded, he pursued an entirely different enterprise that resulted in his addition to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Sharing a home with a spouse who refuses to speak a single word for two decades is an extreme situation.

In 1952, a group of scientists and the whaling industry began harpooning fin whales off the coast of Norway for a highly unusual business venture.

In October 1959, a 36-year-old man calling himself John Allen Kuchar Zegrus arrived in Japan with his wife.

In 1963, a man in the Turkish region of Cappadocia took a sledgehammer to a wall in his home during a routine renovation.

A snow-white bovine weighing over 1,100 kilograms or 2,425 pounds rests under the watch of security cameras, a veterinarian, and an armed guard.

This structure, known as the Cape Romano Dome House, became a focal point of maritime curiosity as it stood isolated on a shifting coastal landscape

In 1969, a lone man stood outside the Tokyo Imperial Palace and fired metal pachinko pinballs from a slingshot directly at Emperor Shōwa.