In 1828, Kaspar Hauser emerged from the woods outside Nuremberg, claiming to have grown up in a tiny, dark cell. But centuries later, it’s still not clear who he was or where he came from.

Long before he was Scotty on Star Trek, World War II hero James "Jimmy" Doohan was known as the "craziest pilot in the Canadian air force."

At more than 1,000 miles from civilization in all directions, Point Nemo is unlike any other place in the world.

James Dean's brief yet iconic time in the spotlight came to an abrupt end when he died in a tragic car accident on September 30, 1955 — and the details of his death remain both perplexing and disturbing to this day.

When two German hikers found Ötzi in the Alps in 1991, he was in such pristine condition that they thought he was a mountaineer who had died recently. Turns out, he was a 5,300-year-old murder victim.

Long before she was the heroine of an animated movie, Hua Mulan's story first began in 6th-century China.

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip fired two shots that would change the course of history, sentencing 40 million to die in war while leaving the entire continent in tatters.

One August morning in 1974, astounded Manhattan commuters stopped to watch as Philippe Petit strolled 1,300 feet above them between the Twin Towers.

Every day between 1925 and 1935, Hachikō the dog waited at Tokyo's Shibuya train station in hopes that his dead master would return.

After Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951, doctors at Johns Hopkins cultured her cells for use in medical research — without her permission.

The massive coelacanth was thought to have died off over 60-million-years ago, but its 1938 discovery in South Africa shocked the scientific world.