From ship stowaways to the rare airplane hitchhiker and even dirigible travelers, check out these fantastic stories of stowaways who somehow avoided tragedy.
To truly appreciate the world's most famous diaries, you need to understand them in context. Here's the stories behind some of the world's most famous journals.
The first atomic bomb was detonated in July 1945. Called "Gadget," it ushered in a new atomic age, and the fear that we'd all blow ourselves to smithereens.
George Washington was the father of a nation, and several stepchildren, grandkids, nephews, and nieces. But funnily enough, he never had children of his own.
The piece appears unspectacular at first glance, with a simple half-page of sheet music, but its composer added an impractical, ridiculous little caveat:
Did you know that we are not only looking for space creatures of celestial proportions, but have also sought to join them in their journeys through the stars?
Some witch-hunters were mercenaries, in it for the money. If it constituted a bona-fide profession, how much money was worth the suffering of thousands?
People get married every day but most people don't have a collective consciousness of all the laws pertaining to marriage — and some are particularly odd.
Grand Central is a well-known symbol of New York and the world's largest train terminal — but many don't know about its basement and the secrets it holds.
At around 11 p.m. on August 11, 1834, an angry mob of Protestants gathered and set fire to tar barrels outside the walls of the Ursuline Sisters' Convent.
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in his home early Wednesday morning. Moïse and his wife were both shot, though she is expected to survive.
Many of us think of technological progress as an endless upward march leading to a future where anything is possible. This was not the case for the Concorde.
In 1868, Leland and Jane Stanford welcomed their only child into the world. Though he would die before age 16, he nevertheless had a huge impact on the world.
Born in Ohio on February 11, 1847, Thomas Edison acquired over 1,000 patents, including for the light bulb, phonograph, and the first motion picture cameras.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a story inspired by a nightmare in just three days. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was released in January 1886.
Charles Dickens relationships with his ten children were complex. He was doting and patient in their childhoods but increasingly distant as they got older.
Aaron Burr became a successful attorney. He became vice-president in 1800, but would enter history as one of the most controversial political names in the U.S.
Anne Frank's diary wouldn't have been made public if it weren't for her father Otto. Of everyone who hid alongside Anne, her father was the only one to survive.
While Byron represented the dark, brooding, romantic figure of that era, he was also a real-life hero, and his tragic death was in the service of freedom.
A group described as "six masked men" held up a Union Pacific Flyer train. Two men threatened Engineer W.H. Jones with guns and demanded he stop the train.