Known as Toru-Aygyr, this was once an important stopover on the Silk Road — until it was submerged during an earthquake in the 15th century.

The Humongous Fungus in Oregon's Malheur National Forest is 8,000 years old and covers an area of 2,000 acres, making it the largest living thing by area on planet Earth.

Journalist Ezio Gavazzeni has submitted 17 pages of evidence regarding "sniper tourism" during the Bosnian War, claiming that wealthy Italians paid to shoot innocent men, women, and children in Sarajevo in the 1990s.

While trekking through the Aurlandsfjellet mountains of western Norway, a hiker recently found an enormous reindeer trap that dates back 1,500 years.

Sylvia Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, began an affair with Assia Wevill not long before Plath took her own life — and then Wevill died in an eerily similar manner years later.

Officially known as Megachile lucifer, this black-and-white bee has two protuberances at the front of its head that may be used to access flowers, though their exact purpose remains a mystery.

Because the necklace was in the style of mourning jewelry, researchers suspect that its owner had likely just lost someone when the doomed ship went down on April 15, 1912.

Built by attorney Phillip Weidner, the Dr. Seuss House is 185 feet tall and has stunning views of the surrounding landscape — but it's still unfinished after more than 20 years.

On August 15, 1916, Private Malcolm Alexander Neville penned this two-page note to his mother, reporting on his voyage toward Europe and asking whoever found the bottle to deliver it to her.

Due to its small, pony-sized body and horn-less skull, researchers were initially baffled as to what Epiaceratherium itjilik was, calling the creature "a little bit of a weirdo."