Planet Curiosities

  In the winter of 1980, a young woman named Jean Hilliard was driving through rural Minnesota when her car

  In 1964, a young Welshman named Brian Robson found himself stranded in Australia. He had taken part in a

 In the shadowy corners of European history, the line between superstition and law was often blurred. People were tried for

  For centuries, King Richard III was a figure shrouded in controversy. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a twisted villain with

  In the spring of 1841, the United States was preparing to welcome its ninth president, William Henry Harrison. He

  In the annals of military history, few campaigns are as bizarre—or as humbling—as the Great Emu War of 1932.

  Some stories feel mythic. Too improbable to be real. And yet, they are. One such story belongs to Tsutomu

  In the summer of 2010, as vuvuzelas buzzed across South Africa and the world tuned in for the FIFA

In a bold move that blurred the line between marketing stunt and civic reinvention, a small village in southern Spain

In 2025, British endurance athlete William Goodge stunned the world by running across the entire Australian continent—from Perth’s Cottesloe Beach