Deep in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, a bustling lakeside resort town spent a quarter-century completely hidden beneath ten meters of corrosive saltwater.

In July 1934, a man with a fake noble title walked into the government offices of a small European nation and made an outrageous offer.

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.