Salisbury Cathedral could possess the world’s oldest working mechanical clock, still capable of chiming the hour
The only one of its kind: Greek navy reconstructed an ancient Athenian trireme, the HS Olympias, in the 1980s
Bobby Leach, first man to survive Niagara Falls barrel plunge, died after slipping on orange peel 15 years later
A father kidnapped his two sons and boarded the Titanic, using false names, and when he died, confusion reigned
In 1903, two men and a dog made the first documented automobile journey from San Francisco to New York City
Windber Trolley Graveyard: An apocalyptic trolley graveyard sitting deep in the woods of Pennsylvania
After almost 80 years, 31 rolls of film discovered showing World War II through the lens of an unknown American soldier
The Oxford Electric Bell, one of the world’s oldest experiments, is powered by a battery working since the 19th century, but no one knows how