Montreal’s oldest chapel, known as “Sailors Church“, where small model ships hung from the ceiling, offered by sailors in gratitude
After being rejected by his fiancée and coming down with tuberculosis, Edward Leedskalnin spent 28 years building the Coral Castle, a colossal oolite limestone structure
English Civil War, Lady Mary Bankes defended a castle from over 200 attackers with only five men. Held out for three years before being betrayed
A trawler was caught in the fallout of a nuclear test, killing its radioman; his last words were “I pray that I am the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb