Four military helicopters fire up their engines, lifting off with a classical musician strapped inside each cockpit.

A standard chessboard has 64 squares and 32 pieces. In 17th-century Japan, scholars devised a variant with 1,296 squares and 804 pieces, featuring 207 distinct piece types.

Roughly 580 million years ago, strange biological structures appeared in the cold, deep-ocean environments of the Earth.

A seemingly mundane trip to a Romanian flea market in 2017 turned into a record-breaking historical discovery.

In the summer of 2011, a deep-sea treasure hunt in the Gulf of Bothnia yielded an image that immediately captured global attention.

At 2:00 AM on August 1, 2016, a figure dressed as a sinister clown was photographed wandering a vacant parking lot in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

During the Easter weekend of 1964, two hostile youth factions clashed on the beaches of southern England, sparking an intense nationwide panic.

In less than sixty seconds, a hurricane-speed cloud of superheated gas and ash incinerated the Caribbean port of Saint-Pierre.

In April 1980, an unknown runner named Rosie Ruiz crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon, seemingly shattering records.

The planet Venus spins so slowly that a single day lasts longer than its entire orbit around the sun.