On a cold Friday morning in January 2007, one of the most famous classical musicians on the planet stood next to a trash can inside a busy Washington, D.C. subway station.

In 1140, an army surrounded a German fortress with orders to crush the town and lock up every man inside.

On 25 January 2006, bailiffs forced entry into a bedsit flat above Wood Green Shopping City in North London to repossess the property over £2,400 in unpaid rent.

Human burial practices have evolved significantly over centuries, moving from traditional ground interments to modern innovations.

In eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe, wealthy landowners transformed their expansive estates by hiring real-life humans to serve as ornamental garden hermits.

On December 8, 1941, one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, an elected official in Washington, D.C., locked herself inside a Capitol cloakroom telephone booth to escape an angry mob of reporters and citizens.

On a crisp December morning in 1948, two people strolling along an Australian beach stumbled upon a sharply dressed corpse propped against a seawall.

Imagine surviving a train plunging into a freezing river, being sucked out of a crashing airplane, and escaping exploding cars, only to win a massive lottery jackpot decades later.

In 1801, a 26-year-old woman working on a floating brothel in southeastern China received a marriage proposal that would alter maritime history.

For over seven decades, an anonymous figure performed a solitary, secretive tribute at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.