The Leaning Tower of Pisa has attracted tourists from all over the world, but what is the story behind it ?
Letters from an airliner that crashed on Mont Blanc 60 years ago have been found and reunited with their recipients.
Divers have found the world's oldest known drinkable champagne in a shipwreck from the 1780s in the Baltic Sea.
Vlad the Impaler wasn't bloodthirsty at all but simply a victim of propaganda, a new exhibition has claimed.
Antisa Khvichava is officially 130 today according to authorities in the Soviet republic of Georgia.
The undecipherable wording on a letter written by David Livingstone has been decoded for the first time.
An intricate formation of almost 200 crop circles has turned up in a field in Wiltshire.
A new tribe of hunter gatherers who live in trees has been discovered in the Papua New Guinea.
An airline worker made the gruesome discovery of up to 60 human heads during a routine security check.
A census in Indonesia has recorded a woman born in 1853 who is said to be a staggering 157 years old.
One of the panels in the Sistine Chapel may hold a hidden illustration of the human brain by Michelangelo.
New testimony from a top Russian general has revealed that Stalin blocked two assassination attempts on Hitler.
Its been a quiet year so far for crop circles but now the first has turned up in a Wiltshire field near an old fort.
A former member of the expedition who recently claimed to have found Noah's Ark in Turkey has stated that it was a hoax.
An intriguing photograph from the 1940s showing a man in modern clothing has been doing the rounds on the web.
In a new book it has been revealed that the Titanic waited 45 minutes after hitting the iceberg before calling for help.
The Turin Shroud was secretly hidden during World War 2 because Hitler allegedly wanted to steal it.
The cursed bread of Pont-Saint-Esprit 50 years ago has turned out to have been a CIA mind control experiment.
Experts in the UK are baffled after a flock of over 100 dying birds fell out of the sky on Sunday night.
In a classic case of "Lazarus Syndrome" a dead woman who was being prepared for burial suddenly started breathing again.