Fantastic fossil find: a dinosaur with swan-like neck and crocodile teeth that walked like a duck and swam like a penguin
Amsterdam’s Museum of Bags and Purses owns an impressive collection of over 5,000 items from five centuries, including bags belonging to Margaret Thatcher and Madonna
Carrie Fisher, who joked about her mental illness, got in one last laugh at her own memorial service
Michelin Red Guide: How a tire company became the taste maker for the world’s best restaurants
Chopines: 16th century platform shoes a challenge even for the bravest fashionistas
Agatha Christie inspired by her own train delay to write “Murder on the Orient Express”
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa”
The Library of Trinity College in Dublin: A 300-year-old institution, home to over 200,000 books
Expert re-creates the shoes of 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman, down to the bearskin soles and hay-stuffed lining
Nan Madol: a mysterious city called Atlantis where underwater “platinum coffins” were supposedly discovered by the Japanese
