Drawn on gazelle skin parchment, the Piri Reis Map is based on about 20 other maps, some of which were created by Christopher Columbus.

The sun only has a finite amount of energy, and when it's gone, it's going out in a blaze of glory.

One year after being discovered, the Tapanuli orangutan is already on the brink of extinction.

Based on a 34-million-year-old skull, researchers have discovered that those gentle baleen whales likely used to be much more predatory.

The beer is made from yeast that's at least 220 years old, found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean.

After becoming the temporary home of Ernest Shackleton's fateful Endurance crew, Elephant Island became world-renowned.

Her book chronicles the life of Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving slave from the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States.

Peyote has been used for years by Native American Church members, but for the rest of the world, it's a Class 1 substance and illegal to use.

The station was the most opulent and beautiful that New York had to offer. It was also the most impractical.

Though they call themselves a Catholic sect, hardly any part of the Palmarian Church seems in line with Catholic values.