Awashima Jinja in Wakayama is a shrine filled with traditional Japanese dolls
The bizarre story of how a railroad worker survived an iron rod which went through his skull
The secret codex of a lost civilization: Mexican pictograms are revealed beneath a 16th Century manuscript after being hidden for 500 years
The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833
Things you might not know about Meyer Lansky, the Mafia financier and math genius
New discovery sheds light on Roman roads in Britain
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the world’s largest existing medieval map
One of the oldest lighthouses in South Africa, the Cape Agulhas Lighthouse, was built in the ancient Egyptian style and has stood for over 150 years
Bo-Kaap is a lively suburb in Cape Town, packed with colored houses which are national monuments and date back to the 1750s.
Robert Stroud “The Birdman of Alcatraz” – spent 54 years in prison where he became one of the best ornithologists in the world
