During the 1960s, a construction crew restoring the roof timbers of a 17th-century farmhouse in southern Germany pulled a small wooden stick from the rafters.

Collecting a steady paycheck for six straight years without performing a single task sounds impossible inside a modern government office.

On November 25, 1970, five men armed with swords walked into a central Tokyo military base.

In 1851, visitors to London’s Great Exhibition encountered a weather prediction device unlike anything ever built.

On the evening of Sunday, October 8, 1871, a small fire sparked in a barn on DeKoven Street.

Visitors driving through Pickaway Township, Ohio, often brake in shock at the local street signs.

In the spring of 2003, Microsoft embarked on a project that would test the limits of corporate marketing and basic sanitation.

Deep beneath the streets of major cities, massive, rock-hard obstructions are choking sewer systems and causing millions of dollars in damage.

On January 22, 1941, a group of young Washington, D.C. residents drove out to a remote cabin in the Maryland woods armed with axes, nails, a dressmaker’s dummy, and plenty of Jamaica rum.

On August 19, 1951, a man measuring exactly 3 feet 7 inches (109 cm) stepped up to home plate during a Major League Baseball game.