Frankenstein Castle was the home of alchemist Johann Conrad Dippel, who was the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein
In 1898 Nikola Tesla tricked an entire crowd into believing they could control a boat by shouting commands – in fact he invented Radio Control and piloted the boat himself
The Jaquet-Droz Automata: mechanical wonders from the 18th century, considered by some to the ancestors of the modern computer
Frédéric Bourdin, also known as “The Chameleon”, was a serial impostor who claims to have had over 500 false identities over the course of his life