Stories

In the 1860s London engineers built a floating dry dock so large that its U shaped walls reminded later viewers of a gigantic half pipe.

On August 5 1948 readers of The Vidette Messenger in Indiana opened their newspaper and saw a photograph that drew national attention.

In 1959, Gehlaur was a village boxed in by steep quartzite hills. It sat near Gaya in Bihar with no direct road to a hospital.

On July 19 1962 drivers on the Autobahn near Friedberg in Germany saw a cyclist riding behind a specially prepared Mercedes 300 SL.

Visitors who enter the Pantheon pass through a set of immense bronze doors.

If you have been to an Australian sporting event, you have likely seen the boxing kangaroo.

In early October 2025, volunteers working with the Dogs of Chernobyl program captured photos of something unusual.

High on cliff faces in parts of China, the Philippines, and Indonesia, wooden coffins sit in places where burials seem impossible.

On the morning of 21 July 1918 residents of Orleans, Massachusetts heard distant thumps beyond the shoreline.

In September 1987, a radiotherapy unit sat abandoned in a partially demolished building in Goiânia, Brazil.