In the early 14th century, a deeply indebted European monarch found a ruthless solution to his financial ruin.

In 1968, a wealthy entrepreneur looked at a stretch of barren Arizona desert and decided it needed a bridge.

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, a tiny, uninhabited coral reef sits just above the water line.

In the summer of 2013, the streets of London’s financial district suddenly became dangerously hot.

Located about 180 kilometers (112 miles) from Bangalore in the dry landscape of Andhra Pradesh, India, a sprawling canopy stretches across 19,107 square meters (4.72 acres) of land.

In the late nineteenth century, a young deaf woman walked into the Harvard College Observatory and changed how scientists map the night sky.

In February 1896, a prominent French physicist locked a photographic plate and some uranium-heavy rocks inside a pitch-black desk drawer.

In 1894, a bizarre story swept across American newspapers about felines thriving in sub-zero temperatures.

During the height of the Cold War, Western intelligence analysts discovered something inexplicable on satellite imagery.

Deep within the wooden hulls of eighteenth-century warships, a highly volatile cargo waited below the waterline.