The mysterious disappearance of Lionel “Buster” Crabb inspired Ian Fleming’s “Thunderball”
Famous lawyer Clarence Darrow, opposed to the death penalty, lost only one client to execution
The Hanging Houses of Cuenca, a harmony between nature and architecture
Nietzsche “Supermen” who talk to teddy bears: The 1920s perpetrators of the “perfect crime”: Leopold and Loeb
Patty Hearst took the name “Tania” from a 1960s Communist revolutionary in Bolivia who mastered the art of disguise
The Giant Norias of Hama: 17 magnificently engineered water wheels believed to date to the 4th century BC
The life story of J. R. R. Tolkien will be told in not one but two films
A stingy member of British Parliament who ate moldy food and sat in the dark was inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge
The 3,200-year-old President Tree is so big it has rarely been captured in one photo
The Wieliczka Salt Mine: An astonishing underground city, dating from 13th century
