High in the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau, a powerful state emerged that would challenge the great empires of Asia.

For hundreds of years, a small territory on the border of Spain and Portugal functioned as an independent microstate without belonging to either country.

A man leaps from a ten-story building intending to end his life. On the way down, he’s struck mid-air by a shotgun blast through a ninth-floor window.

Long before waterproof cameras and scuba gear became standard tools for marine research, a French biologist named Louis Boutan descended into the ocean with a bulky, custom-built camera and captured what no one had seen before: a photograph taken beneath the sea.

In August 1996, a three-year-old boy fell 24 feet into the gorilla enclosure at Brookfield Zoo near Chicago.

In 1983, Australians watched in disbelief as a 61-year-old potato farmer in work boots outran a field of elite athletes in the 875-kilometre Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon.

This rare oceanic material, expelled by sperm whales and often called “floating gold,” has mystified and enriched humans for centuries.

In 1930s Chicago, Eliot Ness had made a name for himself resisting bribes and taking on organized crime.

In July 1518, in Strasbourg, a woman stepped into the street and began dancing uncontrollably. Within days, between 50 and 400 people joined her, dancing day and night.

There, in the gutter, he found a delirious man dressed in ragged clothes. It was Edgar Allan Poe.