Stories

A major league sports team decided to sell practically free alcohol to an already angry crowd.

At the height of the Second Industrial Revolution, a leading German candy company gave consumers a glimpse into the distant future.

On August 29, 1911, a starving, soot-covered man walked out of the California wilderness and into the town of Oroville.

When an 81-year-old amateur artist tried to fix a flaking Spanish church painting, the result looked more like a hairy primate than Jesus Christ.

Inside an Austrian castle sits a room filled with mechanical toys, Japanese samurai armor, and a painting of a man who survived a lance driven straight through his head.

In the French village of Allouville-Bellefosse, a massive lightning strike changed the course of a tree’s life.

High above the Plain of Thessaly in central Greece, giant sandstone pillars pierce the clouds.

In 1964, the avant-garde art scene in Gothenburg, Sweden, was captivated by the arrival of a previously unknown French painter.

Created in sixteenth-century Germany, a mysterious manuscript surfaced with no title page, no author dedication, and no introductory explanation.

Beneath the busy streets of modern-day Budapest lie the ruins of Aquincum, a 2,000-year-old Roman capital that was once home to 15,000 people.