Steam locomotives Jupiter and Union Pacific No. 119: Striking symbols of one of the most important periods in American history
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a space billboard that can be seen with the naked eye from the Earth
Wall Street is so named because an actual wall was built by Dutch settlers in the 17th century to keep out English Colonists and Native American tribes
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
