In the late 1950s, the U.S. military unveiled one of the most powerful machines ever built for peacetime engineering: a 77-ton robotic vehicle known as the GE Beetle.

Perched on a remote isthmus battered by Atlantic storms, Corvo Airport serves Portugal’s smallest island with one of its most weather-challenged runways.

On a patch of Delta farmland in Mississippi, the sounds of a new American music took shape. In the early 20th century, Dockery Farms became a gathering place for sharecroppers, musicians, and laborers—and a base for some of the most influential blues musicians in history.

In May 1942, while thousands of Japanese Americans were being forcibly removed from their homes under wartime orders, a 17-year-old Mexican-Irish American student from Los Angeles did something few could have imagined—he voluntarily joined them.

In 1855, British Guiana’s postmaster faced a dilemma. Only 5,000 stamps had arrived from Britain instead of the expected 50,000.

Perched on a massive boulder known as “The Dumplings” in Narragansett Bay, Clingstone looks as if a stiff wind might carry it away.

In 1325, tensions between the Italian city-states of Bologna and Modena erupted into full-scale war. But this wasn’t just a local skirmish — it was one chapter in the larger Guelph and Ghibelline conflict, a power struggle that had divided northern Italy for generations.

During the early 19th century, a distinct breed of tailless domestic cats emerged on the Isle of Man. Known for their rounded appearance, long hind legs, and complete or partial absence of a tail, these cats came to be known as Manx.

In April 1941, during the height of the Blitz, an incendiary bomb pierced the roof of a British home. The device, designed to ignite and cause widespread fire, landed in the presence of a Great Dane named Juliana.

In 1993, Boston antique dealer Scott Wilson spotted a strange painting—Lucy in the Field with Flowers—protruding from a trash can. He intended to salvage only its frame.